The Socialist Pig Michael Moore's claptrap of a Goebbels type propaganda film, Fahrenheit 911 is getting rave reviews by the liberal likes of most film reviewers. But now New York Times economic columnist crackpot Paul Krugman is gooing over the film.
And for all its flaws, "Fahrenheit 9/11" performs an essential service. It would be a better movie if it didn't promote a few unproven conspiracy theories, but those theories aren't the reason why millions of people who aren't die-hard Bush-haters are flocking to see it. These people see the film to learn true stories they should have heard elsewhere, but didn't. Mr. Moore may not be considered respectable, but his film is a hit because the respectable media haven't been doing their job.
Even me with my liberal arts degree have an easy time debunking Kruggles. At the same time saying that the movie promotes unproven conspiracy theories, he says people see it to see truths. But the truths are so weakly laid out and implied that people who don't really follow the news will be lead down the path that the film maker muckadoo wants you to see. The one example that comes to mind is the implication that Bush himself let the Bin Laden family leave the US after 911. It was Richard Clark, not a Bush supporter. He even admits it in The Hill
The decision to approve the flights, Clarke admitted last week, had been his own. The request "didn't get any higher than me," he told The Hill.
"On 9-11, 9-12 and 9-13, many things didn't get any higher than me. I decided it in consultation with the FBI," Clarke said of the plane flight carrying bin Laden's relatives.
"I take responsibility for it. I don't think it was a mistake, and I'd do it again," he added. The Saudis and bin Laden's relatives were flown from the U.S. out of fear for their safety following the terror attacks.
Kruggles also makes note of the fact that President Bush sat in that classroom for 7 minutes while we were under attack and read "My Pet Goat".
For example, audiences are shocked by the now-famous seven minutes, when George Bush knew the nation was under attack but continued reading "My Pet Goat" with a group of children. Nobody had told them that the tales of Mr. Bush's decisiveness and bravery on that day were pure fiction.
What in the name of God was he supposed to do, run screaming out of the room? He was there with a bunch of elementary school children. It would have been irresponsible and would have frightened the children if a scene were made. How many times in our own lives do we keep up appearances in front of children during traumatic times to shield them from hardships. It was his responsibility as Commander-In-Chief to keep up appearances for a few minutes as not to upset the children. There would be enough of that in coming days. In probably the only time that these children would probably ever meet the President, he didn't want their memory to be of him saying "We're all gonna die!!!"
Here's the best part of Kruggle's orgasm over this piece of shit movie:
Mr. Moore's greatest strength is a real empathy with working-class Americans that most journalists lack. Having stripped away Mr. Bush's common-man mask, he uses his film to make the case, in a way statistics never could, that Mr. Bush's policies favor a narrow elite at the expense of less fortunate Americans — sometimes, indeed, at the cost of their lives.
Empathy for working folks? HAAH. Just read some of what he says (while overseas) about these hard working Americans whom Krugman claims Moore cares so much for.
''They are possibly the dumbest people on the planet,"
'You're stuck with being connected to this country of mine, which is known for bringing sadness and misery to places around the globe.''
''The Iraqis who have risen up against the occupation are not 'insurgents' or 'terrorists' or 'The Enemy.' They are the REVOLUTION, the Minutemen, and their numbers will grow -- and they will win.''
Checkmate Krugman. Sad thing is that they actually pay you for your shit.
