Moore Ripped Surplus Sphincter
Written by: Beck
Christopher Hitchens, writing for Slate, has some
lovely things to say about Michael Moore's Fahrenheit 9/11.
To describe this film as dishonest and demagogic would almost be to promote those terms to the level of respectability. To describe this film as a piece of crap would be to run the risk of a discourse that would never again rise above the excremental. To describe it as an exercise in facile crowd-pleasing would be too obvious. Fahrenheit 9/11 is a sinister exercise in moral frivolity, crudely disguised as an exercise in seriousness. It is also a spectacle of abject political cowardice masking itself as a demonstration of "dissenting" bravery.
After that line follows eight solid pages of scathing criticism. The long and the short of it: Moore's facts are wrong, Moore contradicts himself repeatedly, and Moore deliberately seeks to deceive his audience in order to make Bush look bad. Oh, and one last thing: Hitchens is a liberal.
(Hat tip:
Protein-Wisdom)
