The truth about Michael Moore
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.
Christopher Hitchens
Read Hitchens’ entire article, written for Slate, here.
I’m glad that there’s at least one person who is examining Michael Moore’s films critically. I have yet to see Fahrenheit 9/11, but if it’s anything like Bowling for Columbine, then the criticism is deserved. Moore dishes out the same type of propoganda that he claims to despise. Bowling for Columbine was incredibly manipulative. Moore likes to make his point by creating artificial situations, taking the results of those situations out of context and then assembling them together using some creative editing to suit his end.
That being said, I still find the poster for his new movie entertaining:
