Michael Moore is the perfect poster boy for liberalism and today's Democratic Party. To be a liberal one must be ignorant, dishonest, or both. Moore is both, therefore, the quintessential liberal. His propaganda piece, "Fahrenheit 9/11," incorrectly labeled a documentary, proves him to be both dishonest and ignorant.
A documentary is defined as "portraying an interpreting an actual event in factual, usually dramatic form." Both Christopher Hitchens of Vanity Fair and Michael Issikoff of Newsweek have shown to be false most of the premises of the film, removing the necessary factual requirement.
The myth that Bush went to Afghanistan to help UNOCAL build an oil pipeline was debunked in 1998. There neither was, nor is, such a pipeline.
Another known lie concerned Bush permitting the Bin Laden family leave the country after 9/11 while the air traffic system was shut down. Richard Clarke okayed the departure after checking out the passengers, and after the system was operating normally. Clarke said this in an interview prior to movie being made, so Moore knew this was a lie. Read the Newsweek article, and the commentary by Hitchens, and you will see that there is little factual material provided, and much of that is distorted.
This then, rather than being a documentary, is partisan propaganda (information or ideas methodically spread to promote or injure a cause, group or nation) hit piece by a seriously disturbed Bush hater. I hope to see Moore with the Kerry campaign.
Tony Moschetti
High Point
News & Record
July 10, 2004
