Reply #9: A Lying Right-wing Crock of Excrement; Moore Pro-American

[Vogon_Glory]

I'm perhaps one of the most right-wing of DU's regular posters but nevertheless took the trouble to see F911. I thought it was unfair (As persuasive pieces are meant to be), partisan, but very much pro-American.

Despite my objections to Moore's very minor distortions, I thought that F911 was far, far closer to the truth about what has happened in the last four years than the endless torrents of right-wing propaganda spewed out through right-wing "talk" radio, right-wing columnists, on-line tripe web-sites, the Wall Street Journal's op-ed page, and Faux news that is lapped up without either scrutiny or analysis by the lazy, arrogant, self-important place-sitters and mouthpieces who have the gall to call themselves American journalists.

Michael Moore is a media phenomenon we haven't seen that much of for sixty years--a pro-American writer and director who is pro-American without being obliged to be a paid apologist for lawless, heartless corporations, their creatures in the federal government, or the Republican Party. Unlike that small portion of the Vietnam-era left who did go out of their way not only to disparage the political establishment pushing the war, but also the sons of the proletariat who actually went and fought it, Moore's care and concern for his fellow citizens clearly shows.

This Young person is just another one of a long, shameful line of right-wing columnists who equates American patriotism ONLY with knee-jerk apologetics for jingoism and blind support of the Republican Party and love of country ONLY through parroting right-wing propaganda.