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Politics : Fahrenheit 9/11: Michael Moore's Masterpiece

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To: DOUG H who wrote (1398)	6/30/2004 3:37:16 PM
From: cosmicforce	Read Replies (1) of 2772

You know what? I used to believe as you do, but quite honestly, many people are simply unable to know the "TRUTH" when it is complicated or unpleasant. For them, they need to be spoon fed the essential facts (BUSH=bad), and really *propaganda* is a loaded term but really it's only persuasive speech or material to sell a point. dictionary.reference.com IT has such a rotten name because most people my age remember the times when the word "Communist" was in front of it and we were told that anything that didn't put America in a good light or agree with current policy was their fault and an attempt to undermine the US Constitution. That erosion of the Constitution is happening as we write. But historically, the US has repeatedly used propaganda to sell wars. Even our independence is replete with propaganda. The Bush machine has the entire apparatchik of government and newsmedia blasting us with propaganda. At the turn of the last century, it was done using Hearst's newspapers which incorrectly called the sinking of the U.S.S. Havana a "terrorist act" (actually, identical to a boiler/magazine explosion that happened to its sister ship while out at sea). The US conscripted Disney to make horrific Japanese stereotypes assaulting pretty women. These were shown as trailers in the cinema, and they got people to join up. Had the "truth" been laid out, it would have shown, that a) we knew the Japanese were going to attack us and b) we'd just provoked them with an oil embargo a few months earlier to precipitate it. That would have clouded the message though, which was that Europe needed us and that our isolation was going to cause their fall. So, vile disease sometimes involves a cure that is unpleasant. It would have been great to have a series of points made about the connections, and the BUSHites rebut them ineffectually. But that isn't very interesting to most people which is why Fox (or any station that is ratings driven) doesn't do it. Was this a film intended to produce a response? Yes. Is that intrinsically bad? No, not when the US government is at stake.

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