FAHRENHEIT 9/11 SNUB DISCUSSION
TKS
[ jim geraghty reporting ]
[01/25 05:16 PM]
Quite a few readers are offering their thoughts on my post noticing that lefty bloggers were pretty quiet about Fahrenheit: 9/11 not getting any Oscar nominations.
TKS reader Greg says let the silence continue. “Left and Right, everyone but you is giving Moore the anonymity he earned,” he writes.
Chip writes,
“I am a liberal and I can tell you that none of my liberal friends are up in arms about the so-called Moore snub. The fact of the matter is that F911 [stunk]. It was terrible — over the top, conspiratorial, shallow, you name it. Sure, sure, it had its moments of humor, Bush being Bush, but almost everyone I know acknowledged that the movie was sheer propaganda, an especially well made polemic that was designed to make rouse the faithful and make a bunch of money.
Now, one thing you must admit is that liberals, in the main, have far better taste than their conservative counterparts (look no further than the recent inauguration and the execrable "Let the Eagle Soar"), thus this movie was obviously not nominated. The contrast that you've set up is actually interesting. Liberals do not clamor for a bad movie like F911 to win the nation's highest cinematic award, yet conservatives are grumbling that a one trick pony of a movie like "The Passion" was excluded. Interesting.”
Tom, a Hollywood screenwriter and TKS fan, suggests,
“I think the reason no one is talking about Michael Moore - and I also think this is why he received no nominations — is that it finally sunk in to many on the left that the film did a lot more damage than good. Had Kerry won, Moore would have been very celebrated, and he for sure would have received a Best Pic nod, perhaps have even won Best Picture. He is now old news, however, and as people can often turn on those they love very quickly, I think Moore is now taking some heat (i.e. being ignored, which for Mr. Moore is anathema) because they realize he helped cost Kerry the election.”
One of my favorite liberal readers says, “The fact is, liberals feel not much more than a big yawn about F/911. It isn't even close to being good enough to get nominated for best movie. That has been more of a straw dog the conservative threw out there, suggesting liberals wanted it to win. I think it's a case of conservative framing gone wrong, nothing more.”
Well, liberals may or may not have been rooting for F:9/11 at the Oscars, but I think it’s fair to say Michael Moore wanted that Best Picture nomination pretty badly |
