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To: aladin who wrote (51912)	6/28/2004 8:05:21 PM
From: JohnM	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 793895

It's wonderful to see just how much Michael Moore gets under folks skin. I guess George Lakoff is right after all: metaphors are far more important than arguments. And Moore works the metaphors to death. His great failure to my way of thinking in the past is to tell you a metaphor is coming, tell you what it is while the screen shows it, then tell you he's shown you a metaphor. In this one, he's much better than that. And, thus, I suspect, will be far more effective. As for the Hitler comparisons, enough already. You don't see me making them; I'm offended by folk on both sides who make them; evidently the Bush campaign team has one out that does just that. I think that stuff is all counter productive. And fervently hope I'm right. As it was can you imagine how hard it was to give the order to shoot down commercial airliners? And that was done, simply too late (given that the passengers on Flight 93 decided to take their destiny into their own hands). It's that "too late" that's the crux of the matter here. I have no idea, of course, if that could have been remedied. But friend George certainly didn't help by sitting, baffled, in that classroom.