USA Today: F 9/11 "will turn Bush-haters into bigger Bush-haters"

[Bush_Eats_Beef]

http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=676&e=1&u=/usatoday/20040625/ts_usatoday/fahrenheit911willitchangeanyvotersmind

White House communications director Dan Bartlett called the film's premise of softened U.S. responses to al-Qaeda because of Bush family interests "outrageously false." Former president George H.W. Bush labeled Moore a "slimeball" and the film "a vicious personal attack on my son."

In Moore's voice-over narration about Bush's three-year record, the president is depicted as clueless and deceitful. He is so in thrall to Bush family business ties with the clan of Osama Bin Laden and other wealthy Saudis that he misdirects American reprisals for the 2001 terror attacks from Saudi financiers of terrorism to Iraq's Saddam Hussein. Hoarding military resources for a long-intended war with Iraq, he botches the Afghanistan hunt for bin Laden. He has lost the confidence of U.S. troops.

The film "will turn Bush-haters into bigger Bush-haters," says Jack Pitney, a professor of government at California's Claremont McKenna College. "But swing voters may not even be interested in this subject, and Republicans don't want to turn any money over to Michael Moore."

Even just galvanizing the faithful would spell success to Moore: "Is this a movie for the choir? I don't run away from that. The choir needs a wake-up call. A large part of the choir isn't energized by John Kerry and is not voting. The White House needs ... those people to become cynical and sit on the sidelines."

[Sweetpea]

1. Exactly...the truth is powerful.

[Citizen Daryl]

2. Nothing could make me a bigger Bush-hater ...

... than the disgusting attempts on the part of the right-wing goon squad to keep this film from being seen.

[Maat]

4. I agree.

[Bush_Eats_Beef]

5. There were comparisons in the article to...

"outrage" over Mel Gibson's "Passion Of The Christ," and how it only drove patrons INTO the theaters...this movie will not be ignored, it will not go away...and I hope that the DVD is as packed with extras as "Bowling For Columbine" was.

[DBoon]

3. Claremont McKenna is a Repub stronghold

has been for ay least 25 years. Wonder why they selected soemone from THIS college to provide wise punditry? Damn librul media!

[prodigal_green]

6. Attack of the 50 foot Bush Hater!

Gargh! Must vote out Chimp!

(get it--bigger Bush Hater)

[jeff30997]

7. I just ate a 50 feet Bush!

Baaarff! :puke:

[armymom]

8. Join us in reviewing the movie, please!

I'm new to this site, but have been a "fixture" over on the Kerry and Clark blogs. I posted here earlier today after my husband & I had seen the movie, but it seems like all of the threads here are scattered. Over at the Clark blog, we have a topic where many dems are posting reviews of F/911. Please come post your reviews of the movie and read what many of us have said about the movie - if you don't have a Clark login, you can still post - please put your blog name from DU on your post so we recognize you. We are posting reviews at http://armymom.forclark.com/story/2004/6/25/171113/799 and suspect that MM will be seeing them, as he too was a Clarkie! Please pass this info along so we Dems can unite in support of our soldiers and in opposition to Bush and his assinine war!

Thank you! Armymom, a veteran and mom of 1st Cav soldier currently in Baghdad.

FWIW, my review of the movie is:
As many of you know, my husband and I are both Army veterans - and our oldest son, David, is an infantry soldier with the 1st Cav in Baghdad. Photos from Iraq online at http://tinyurl.com/2qalg

We just got home from seeing Farenheit 9/11, and it was an emotionally draining experience for us. It was a very well-done movie. Some of the Saudi-Bush stuff was a bit over the top, I thought, and there were some gory scenes of both civilian and military casualties, as well as a few vignettes that did not portay soldiers in a good light, but in toto, I felt like the movie was favorable to soldiers and their families. I wish that Moore hadn't included a few soldiers reveling in killing Iraqis and speaking in a dehumanizing way, but there were so many scenes and interviews with soldiers that depict things that our son has described to us, as well as many similar sentiments about the mission at present.

We went to a 130 p.m. showing in the Huntersville/Lake Norman, NC, area, which is fairly Republican. Not only was the theatre nearly sold out, there was an amazing cross-section of viewers - teens, middle aged, many elderly (a surprise to me), African Americans, grunge kids, college kids, you name it. There was much applause, laughter, and a few shouts at Bush throguhout the movie. At the end of the movie, a lady stood up and announced that she was handing out voter registration cards - and there were many takers, most of whom were young and/or African American.

There were several segments of the movie where we both covered or closed our eyes because it was hard not to imagine our son in place of the injured or dead soldiers depicted. It is for that very reason that I think everyone should see this film, because so many people don't have a clue what is really occurring in Iraq on a daily basis and how abandoned and betrayed many of our soldiers feel.

I know that our son will likely see this movie in Iraq this weekend, as pirated DVD's are available as soon as movies appear in theatres here. Ironically, we are apprehensive about David seeing it because of the political buffoonery it shows and the further demoralization that seeing the portayal of the Bush Administration in this light could cause.

We give the movie 4 thumbs up. Everyone should see this movie so that they can see the reality of the occupation of Iraq.

[Bush_Eats_Beef]

9. Welcome to DU, armymom!!!!

...I hope you will get settled in and become a "fixture" here too.

:party: