Embrace Propaganda

I went to go see Farenheit 9/11 last week, and I want to highly recomend it to any conservative. It is quite simply so ludicrous as to be laugh out loud funny to anyone who is even marginally aware of the events the film "depicts".

For example, this sequence from the movie:

NARRATOR: ... It was election night 2000 and everything seemed to be going as planned.

Series of news clips: In New York, Al Gore is our projected winner. / The Garden State is green for Gore. / We project that Mr. Gore is the winner in Delaware. This state has voted with the winner in... / (Tom Brokaw interrupts) Mike, you know I wouldn't do this if it weren't big: Florida goes for Al Gore. / CNN announces that we call Florida in the Al Gore column.

NARRATOR: Then something called the Fox News Channel called the election in favor of the other guy.

BRIT HUME: Sorry to interrupt you; Fox News now projects George W. Bush the winner in Florida and thus it appears the winner of the Presidency of the United States.

NARRATOR: All of a sudden the other networks said, "Hey, if Fox said it, it must be true."

Moore, as any good conspiracy theorist, skips over a few details*, but his facts are basically right. Fox News called Florida for Bush first, by about a minute or so. The funny part is that Moore somehow thinks this proves this theory that all of the other networks election night coverage was dictated by Fox News and that all of the other channels made their decision to follow Fox in from less than 1 minute, in the one case, to less than 15 minutes in the cases of the other channels.

That's like saying Michael Moore wears a hat. Michael Moore is fat. Wearing a hat must cause obesity.

The whole movie is full of that kind of logic and I laughed my ass off, to the annoyance of many other movie patrons, whenever Moore would spin another one.

*such as other news channels retracting Florida for Gore call first or any explaination of how news channels determined their calls for either Gore or Bush.

Comments

[Paul M.]

I found the Marine recruiters to be pretty ludicrous, mainly because they didn't walk in step like real Marines do and they referred to "former Marines" -- but whatever happened to the motto, "Once a Marine, always a Marine"? The whole thing appeared to be staged.

That, and the last half of the movie was an incongruous hodgepodge of random thoughts spliced together to make a very incoherent point. Emotion was strong, but the writing sucked. I, for one, am glad I didn't pay to see it.

[Ruester]

If the movie were called, say, the
"9-11 Chronicles" and was about, say,
Bill Clinton, and there were, say,
allegations of rape, murder, and incest...
and it's producer was, say,
a crook-televangelist,... would we
be hearing this same righteous
indignation? I agree that conservatives
should see this movie, and I actually
encourage you to TRY and not believe your lying
eyes. When I was younger, I did you
guys the favor of watching
"The Clinton Chronicles."
I'm asking that you sit through "faranheit"
for me, you don't have to like it...
sneak in, like Paul, if you don't want
to pay... download a pirated copy or something...

[Blind Pig]

I suppose you missed the first sentence, where I said I went to go see Farenheit 9/11 last week.

I have the ticket stub if you want to see it.