Moore and Moore Propaganda

I was browsing through the IMDB comments on "Fahrenheit 9/11" by Michael Moore and I came upon a speciously eloquent review by a user who seems to think that Moore is God. While I haven't seen the movie, I know how Moore operates. That is, propaganda. Since the *glowing* review irritated me so greatly, I decided to refute it point by point.

Love him or hate him, Michael Moore presents facts and images in ways that we as Americans have never seen before.
I've seen propaganda before. Look to the pro-abortion crowd for semantical and propaganda gymnastics so deft that they convince some people to believe that ripping a baby limb from limb is hardly worse or immoral than getting a vaccination.

His latest endeavor, Fahrenheit 9/11, will go down in history as the film that helped to bring down a corrupt and dangerously inept administration.
I'm glad you're so confident that Kerry has it wrapped up. How is the administration supposedly "corrupt" and "dangerously inept," by the way? Corruption is having sex in the oval office and lying under oath about it. Dangerously inept is NOT dealing with terrorism until the very end of your administration when you essentially relay to the incoming President, "Since we didn't deal with Osama Bin Laden, I want you to know that he's a threat: Yes, I'm passing the buck to you! Gosh, I hope a massive terrorist attack doesn't occur early in your administration before you've had time to really take over the reigns of the CIA and FBI! By the way, I've neutered our intelligence capabilities. Have a good administration, sucker!"

The film's power lies not in it's statistics or it's director's obvious message but in it's ability to make one laugh, make one cry and make one think.
One obvious message: Even though I'm getting filthy rich off the little guy, I'm gonna pretend I'm a little guy and a champion FOR said little guy. Another one: a propangandistic non-documentary with cherry-picked scenes, phrases, and suppositions means that the President who is essentially saving us from terrorism is the devil incarnate. Emotion doesn't equal fact, by the way, and thinking is worthless if you're not thinking correctly, completely, and logically. And you aren't.

I did all three numerous times during the film and I will never be the same again.
Oh, it's so PROFOUND and LOGICAL for some to essentially put forth the thesis that George W. Bush's administration is worse than HITLER! I'LL never be the same after reading a bunch of reviews from liberal sheep being laudatory to propaganda films.

He managed to put a human face on our 'evil enemy', the men, women and children of Iraq who are suffering endlessly due to the prolonged occupation of a foreign power.
They're "suffering endlessly" now but not under Hussein? Seems to me they don't have to worry about being targeted by the government for their actions and beliefs. (Unless, of course, actions include killing others.) Is that not important? I suppose freedom isn't all that important to ultra-left-wingers unless it concerns bashing the current administration. You take it for granted, yet the irony is clear: if you were in Iraq you'd be power-dunked into acid for saying one ambiguously bad word about Hussein. "Prolonged occupation" = LESS than a year? Wow, irony and hyperbole all in the same sentence. Good job!

I, as an American, am shielded from images of Iraqi mothers crying and holding their dead babies.
Thought I'd throw out the fact that abortion isn't legal over there. We're accumulating a lot more dead babies over here. But you're oblivious to that, aren't you? You sanctimoniously talk of dead babies when we're killing more of them over here. Use your head.

Images of charred and battered bodies lying in groups on a roadside.
I don't honestly understand this view. Most, if not all, of these charred and battered bodies are of those fanatics who wanted (and tried--obviously unsuccessfully) to "kill the infidels." I'm not just talking those Coalition forces trying to stabilize their country. They'll kill their own people and not think twice about it: much like McVeigh did in Oklahoma City back in 1995. Many of those people, too, given half a chance, would come over to this country and detonate a dirty nuke in YOUR backyard. Even if you supported their cause, which you indirectly seem to, you'd be killed because you're 1)an American, and 2)you're not a Muslim. They'd have no qualms because 72 virgins are supposedly waiting for them in heaven, ready to pleasure them sexually because they committed cold-blooded murder. I realize you're a wishy-washy, unthinking person, but even you must have to intellect to see the reality of this.

Images of pre-Invasion Iraq that, while not perfect, had amusement parks and cafes and discos and shopping malls but now those things, along with their food, water, electricity and loved ones, is gone.
This is actually the sentence that got to me. "WHILE NOT PERFECT"?! Are you DAFT? The understatement of the YEAR. This was a country ruled by the iron fist of a lunatic who had no qualms about killing and torturing those who did something to gently annoy him, not to mention those slaughtered who believed or thought differently than he did! Ear amputations, acid baths, deaths by lions, gas attacks, etc. The list is endless. His now-thankfully-eradicated sons also committed innumerable acts of violence on essentially good Iraqi citizens. This all went unpunished, too, until the Coalition stepped in and put an end to the madness, literally. The UN didn't do it. Other Muslim countries didn't do it. The world didn't even really do it. Along with a select few countries, WE did it. And, good grief, of course there were parks, cafes, discos, and shopping malls disturbed. Wars aren't antiseptic! What's the alternative? Should we have not carpet-bombed parts of Germany or a-bombed Japan because we were worried about a damn disco and a mall? (Yes, I realize that's anachronistic.) Should we have allowed the Third Reich assisted by the Empire to take over all four hemispheres?

Mr. Moore highlighted the nefarious way George W. Bush came to power in this country, almost under the cover of night and how he has spent the most time on vacation than any American president in history despite presiding over one of the most tumultuous times ever.
Yeah, no one was paying attention to the election of 2000 and the subsequent recount fiasco in Florida. The media never touched it...absolutely no coverage. Unfortunately we don't have three 24-hour news channels and a media that covers every story in excruciating detail.

Nefarious? That's a nice big word, but how was it so nefarious? We had an election, and George W. Bush won the electoral vote. The Supreme Court essentially concurred with that result. HOW IS THAT NEFARIOUS?! Because it was close and your guy was (thankfully) the LOSER?

I don't know about you, but I want a president who works hard when he's working and takes frequent breaks. Our former President may have taken less official "vacations," but he had a much more relaxed attitude in office. He probably got less done. Also, consider this: would you rather be attended to by a physician who was at the end of an 80-hour shift or one that was at the beginning? I want a well-rested, well-vacationed President. Good grief, tumultuous times DEMAND frequent vacations. There's a lot of pressure on the President. Do you have the mental acuity to comprehend that?

The scope of the film touched on the poor, the elderly, the veterans who, when they come back to home, have their benefits cut off by the same president that claims to care so much about them.
This is another fine example of the "government-owes-me" mentality. I love this country and like George W. Bush as a President. I've been patriotic all my life and have paid taxes and obeyed the law. Where are my benefits? Why don't I get any benefits from the government? If care equals more money, it seems the President cares a lot by giving a tax cut. There's a lot of ways to look at the issue, and it's nothing but 2-dimensional thinking to portray it the way Moore (and you, one of his sheep) does.

I am neither democrat nor republican (both parties have their problems) but as an American I thank Michael Moore for opening my eyes and letting me see the truth for myself so that I may make up my own mind.
Blah, blah, blah...party labels mean nothing. I'm not a Republican, I'm a conservative. I vote Republican because they're the party I agree with. The party that doesn't support killing-unborn-babies on demand (a PUKE [People for the Unborn Killing Exemption] party), as well as other things.

I firmly believe that every single American should see this film.

Conservative. Liberal. It doesn't matter. If you claim to love this nation, you should bear witness to one of the most important American films ever made.
Possibly the only thing I have some agree with. If you love this nation, you might want to go see a film made by someone who DOESN'T love this nation. You might want to go see a film with nothing but propaganda, lies, and half-truths. You might want to go see a film made by probably one of the best living propagandists. Then, when Michael Moore Hates America comes out, you can compare the two. Cheers!

  posted by Stephen @ 8:17 PM