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Politics : PRESIDENT GEORGE W. BUSH -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: jlallen who wrote (586121)	6/28/2004 5:34:46 PM
From: Doren	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 769670

Good but lame try. Most of the disputed facts here are not about facts in the film but facts that surround the film. For instance: Fact no. 1 "Fahrenheit 9/11 is Distributed by Terrorists" Ha ha. "Hezbollah has offered" is different than Hezbollah being the distributor. No one can stop Hezbollah from offering. No one asked them to distribute. The linked article states The company distributing filmmaker Michael Moore's Bush-bashing movie "Fahrenheit 9/11" says it won't reject an offer of help from Middle East terrorist organization Hezbollah This doesn't mean they accepted the distribution of course. It just means they have not rejected it. Either way it has nothing to do with the facts presented in the film. --- Some "Facts" have nothing to do with the film: Michael Moore has called people like Nicholas Berg "War Profteers" 1) Just because Nicholas Berg seemed to be a good guy doesn't mean that Halliburton is full of nice people. Mr. Moore was not referring to honest contractors like Mr. Berg who after all was detained by the US forces. Everyone knows there are good guys in Iraq. What right wingers seem to ignore is that there are Bad guys making profits in a corrupt and dishonest way in Iraq. 2) This "fact" has nothing to do with facts in the film. --- When they do dispute the facts in the film their facts actually uphold the facts in the film. Fact no. 14 Fahrenheit Fact no. 14: Legislative sons in active service. They found one son of a congressman in active service, Brooks Johnson. The only other son they could find in "active service" was Beau Biden who is a judge advocate in the National guard. Pretty weak disputation of the facts. Possibly technically correct but hardly a discovery of massive "lies" that the site reputedly uncovers. -- Anyway just go on showing these lukewarm sites. The target audience, moderates and the undecided will see past the slant if they see the film. Those right wingers who "already know" the facts aren't going to be swayed by any actual facts so it doesn't really matter.