Klarinet Archive - Posting 000498.txt from 2004/06

From: Jeremy A Schiffer <schiffer@-----.edu>
Subj: RE: [kl] The Bush Junta
Date: Tue, 29 Jun 2004 17:12:10 -0400


On Tue, 29 Jun 2004, Ormondtoby Montoya wrote:

> I caught a few minutes of a CNN program about "Fahrenheit 9/11" during
> which the commentator described significant errors of fact in Moore's
> previous docu-dramas; but if I remember correctly, CNN included a clip
> of Moore basically shrugging his shoulders about such things. Such
> inaccuracies make good fiction. After all, King Arthur is still read
> and enjoyed today, and the King Arthur legends influence philosophy and
> politics even today.
>
> ....but keep in mind what it is.....

And keep in mind that he hired an entire team of fact-checkers (from the
New Yorker magazine and others) to make sure that _this_ movie got
everything right. Thus far, despite all the hype and hysteria, no one is
pointing to actual scenes from _this_ film and saying 'this is wrong.'
Talk all you want about his style (arrogant, grating, patronizing...), but
he apparently dotted his i's and crossed his t's for Fahrenheit 9/11. The
movie's been out seven days in New York, and that's more than enough time
for critics to assail any errors. Once you get past the partisan furor,
though, there's been almost nothing to call the facts presented in the
movie to question.

-jeremy

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