Except that the author of this anti-Moore rant is Christopher Hitchens, a Brit expat who often writes for Vanity Fair and The Nation. Not really a repub operative, expecially given his other recent Slate editorial "Not Even a Hedgehog: The stupidity of Ronald Reagan." I believe his criticisms are still somewhat valid: As I expected, Moore's criticism itself is segmented and has trouble creating a cohesive view. Not unlike my rants on memestreams.

oaknet wrote:
] ryan is the supernicety wrote:
] ] ] If Michael Moore had had his way, Slobodan Milosevic
] ] ] would still be the big man in a starved and tyrannical
] ] ] Serbia. Bosnia and Kosovo would have been cleansed and
] ] ] annexed. If Michael Moore had been listened to,
] ] ] Afghanistan would still be under Taliban rule, and Kuwait
] ] ] would have remained part of Iraq. And Iraq itself would
] ] ] still be the personal property of a psychopathic crime
] ] ] family, bargaining covertly with the slave state of North
] ] ] Korea for WMD. You might hope that a retrospective
] ] ] awareness of this kind would induce a little modesty. To
] ] ] the contrary, it is employed to pump air into one of the
] ] ] great sagging blimps of our sorry, mediocre, celeb-rotten
] ] ] culture. Rock the vote, indeed.
] ]
] ] Scathing review of Fahrenheit 9/11, admittedly a movie I
] will
] ] be seeing this weekend. For those of us *liberals* who want
]
] ] to challenge our more biased thoughts before we see the
] movie,
] ] here is a good review to do so.
]
] I'm not against informed criticism, even overheated informed
] criticism of populist documentaries like F 9/11, but is this
] article really anything more than a non-sequiturial rant? It
] reads more like a soap box preacher than an informed
] commentator. Oh well... this does seem to be the preferred
] form of defence for many Republicans in the USA. That ad
] hominem attacks are no substitute for honest debate is hard to
] get across, especially when some very senior Republican
] politicians would have no idea what it meant ... ;-)

RE: Unfairenheit 9/11 - The lies of Michael Moore. By Christopher Hitchens