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

To: J_F_Shepard who wrote (594373)	7/23/2004 4:55:30 PM
From: DizzyG	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 769670

Yes but... I don't expect answers from you, only your opinion...the answers have not been forthcoming from the principal parties. You'll never hear Bush talk about it... But we'll hear plenty of negative speculation from you, eh? You weren't impressed with the film or with Bush's Seven Minutes of Fear......?? Nope. I thought it was a cheap shot. He used the same technique to ridicule Charlton Heston in Bowling for Columbine (I saw that screed too. I also saw Roger and Me.) Although I do find it interesting that Moore is making a HUGE amount of money from this film off of the tragedy of others. Kind of makes him an opportunist and a war profiteer IMO. Diz-

To: J_F_Shepard who wrote (594373)	8/16/2004 1:27:58 AM
From: Toni Wheeler	Respond to of 769670

Cheap Shot.... You weren't impressed with the film or with Bush's Seven Minutes of Fear......?? "Bush on September 11 Cheap Shot Fahrenheit mocks President Bush for continuing to read the book My Pet Goat to a classroom of elementary school children after he was told about the September 11 attacks. Actually, as reported in The New Yorker, the book was Reading Mastery 2, which contains an exercise called "The Pet Goat." The title of the book is not very important in itself, but the invented title of My Pet Goat makes it easier to ridicule Bush. What Moore did not tell you: Gwendolyn Tose’-Rigell, the principal of Emma E. Booker Elementary School, praised Bush’s action: "I don’t think anyone could have handled it better." "What would it have served if he had jumped out of his chair and ran out of the room?"… She said the video doesn’t convey all that was going on in the classroom, but Bush’s presence had a calming effect and "helped us get through a very difficult day." "Sarasota principal defends Bush from ‘Fahrenheit 9/11’ portrayal," Associated Press, June 24, 2004. Also, since the President knew he was on camera, it was reasonable to expect that if he had suddenly sped out of the room, his hasty movement would have been replayed incessantly on television; leaving the room quickly might have exacerbated the national mood of panic, even if Bush had excused himself calmly. Moore does not offer any suggestion about what the President should have done during those seven minutes, rather than staying calm for the sake of the classroom and of the public. Nor does Moore point to any way that the September 11 events might have turned out better in even the slightest way if the President had acted differently. I agree with Lee Hamilton, the Vice-Chair of the September11 Commission and a former Democratic Representative from Indiana: "Bush made the right decision in remaining calm, in not rushing out of the classroom." [Moore response: Defends the factual accuracy of the segment, which no one has ever disputed, except regarding the book's title.]" excerpt from: davekopel.com