Moore Goes Easy on Dubya

Part of the critical (and I shouldn’t have to point out to PTS readers that criticism is evaluation, not automatic negativity) response to Fahrenheit 9-11 is that, while it is very good, it is a polemic. It argues a case and therefore makes things look as bad as possible for Dubya.

Polemic, yes. Argues a case, yes. But “bad as possible”?

Actually, there are aspects of the reality that Moore—whether through intention or lack of time—glosses over. I was surprised that, while he uses the footage of Dubya calling the elite “his base,” he does not use the far more damning footage of the man joking about not find any WMD. One of the stranger criticisms of Fahrenheit 9-11 has been that Moore "lets" Dubya sit in a classroom on the fateful morning-- as if Moore was there and had anything to do with it. Um, well, Dubya actually sat in that classroom. In reality. Really, the 9-11 classroom footage looks bad—but not nearly as bad as the actual minute-by-minute journal widely available on the internet.

Bad as Fahrenheit 9-11 makes Dubya look, the truth is—amazingly—even worse.

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