Unfairenheit 9/11
The lies of Michael Moore.
By Christopher Hitchens
Posted Monday, June 21, 2004, at 12:26 PM PT
http://slate.msn.com/id/2102723/
"...speaking here in my capacity as a polished, sophisticated European...
it seems to me the laugh here is on the polished, sophisticated
Europeans.
They think Americans are fat, vulgar, greedy, stupid, ambitious and
ignorant and so on. And they've taken as their own, as their representative
American...
someone who actually embodies all of those qualities."
- Christopher Hitchens
http://www.rumormillnews.com/cgi-bin...mes;read=49290
The lies of Michael Moore.
By Christopher Hitchens
Posted Monday, June 21, 2004, at 12:26 PM PT
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.
http://slate.msn.com/id/2102723/
"...speaking here in my capacity as a polished, sophisticated European...
it seems to me the laugh here is on the polished, sophisticated
Europeans.
They think Americans are fat, vulgar, greedy, stupid, ambitious and
ignorant and so on. And they've taken as their own, as their representative
American...
someone who actually embodies all of those qualities."
- Christopher Hitchens
http://www.rumormillnews.com/cgi-bin...mes;read=49290
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