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Wednesday, June 30, 2004 The Other Michael MooreI'm afraid Fahrenheit 9/11 was everything I expected it to be: a long and sometimes funny anti-Bush commercial, which I paid to watch. Since I loathe Bush, and since he's so good at damning himself with his own words, the satirical stuff was hilarious; but "documentary" is the wrong word for it. Even the most substantial and coherent part of the film, early on, about the Saudi and Bush families, falls short of journalism. Moore built up to his point with the fury of a hurricane and all the honest force of waves on a lake: the Saudi royals, he revealed, have complex oil-money connections to the Bushes!Yes, we know that. I'm glad it's on a big screen for everyone to see, because it probably did influence the administration's response to September 11, and no one this November should mistake Bush for a president who's "strong on terror." But what, exactly, went on? Sullivan is right that Moore "has no actual evidence that [these connections] corrupted any political decisions at all." Which didn't stop a San Francisco audience from clapping and groaning on cue. American political debate is turning into a spectator sport. Instead of reasoned arguments we look for our favorite gladiators to go all armored up into the coliseum and splatter some rhetorical blood. Bill O'Reilly, Ann Coulter, Michael Moore (and it hurts me to type those names in a row): What's the difference? May they hack each other to bits. posted by Michael Scott Moore | 12:59 AM
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