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Politics : Michael Moore Is a Big Fat Idiot -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Knighty Tin who wrote (781)	7/2/2004 3:49:25 PM
From: Lazarus_Long	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1409

Good thing. Back then JFK couldn't have rubbed two thin dimes together if he had to buy his degree. He would have had to wait until he married the money. Let's see, so your theory is that stupidity is a requirement for a Masters from Harvard Business. Did I get that right?

To: Knighty Tin who wrote (781)	7/2/2004 9:49:32 PM
From: American Spirit	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1409

`Fahrenheit 9/11' is a wake-up call As a lifetime Republican, I was skeptical of Michael Moore's Fahrenheit 911, but went to see it anyway, expecting a healthy dose of over-the-top banter between Mr. Moore and hapless interviewees in government, the popular press, and at large. What I saw, however, was a compelling assembly of facts and testimony taken directly from our nation's collective experiences and a clear indictment of our government's behavior before and since the 9/11 tragedy. And when you consider all of it, you cannot come to any other conclusion than this: The Bush administration and its benefactors have clearly manipulated the fears of the American people for the benefit of their own private interests. When history is written, we will look back at this presidency, and we will be ashamed as Americans for what has happened, and that we were too complacent and trusting to notice. Thank you, Michael Moore, for waking us up. Robert White, Tracy ****************************************** Denver Post 7/1 Did the news media go along for the ride? Now that every columnist in the country has opined about "Fahrenheit 9/11's" portrayal of the Bush administration, I would like to see at least one editorial about its secondary target: the media. The film's most effective tactic is the use of self-incriminating archival footage - such as clips of Colin Powell and Condoleezza Rice declaring Iraq militarily impotent before September 2001. But if news outlets had such footage, why didn't they vehemently challenge our leaders on the glaring discrepancies between these and later assertions before we launched a pre-emptive war? Either the media has been derelict in its constitutional duty as guardian of the public's trust or it is fully complicit in the Bush administration's misinformation campaign. Love or hate it, the movie's stunning box-office numbers are representative of just how disillusioned the public is with mainstream news' increasingly disreputable homogeneousness. Mark Schiff, Denver ************************************************