Fahrenheit 2004 - Alterman

[dArKeR]

We’re going to give Pierce the floor today, as we solve some computer issues.  Per usual, our boy comes through with more than most of us deserve.

Name: Charles Pierce
Hometown: Newton, MA
Hey Doc:
Because every day -- even the second day of my daughter's second decade -- is Slacker Friday, Part The XXXVII.

OK, so I went and saw Fahrenheit 9/11 on Friday night.  Bought the tickets two hours ahead of time and still had to wait in line in the rain.  Also brought my son, the Brandeis sophomore, because I needed to be with someone with some fresh book-larnin'.  The lights went down and the audience cheered.

Two immediate thoughts: 1) Even if that hellspawn slug David Bossie has his way with the FEC, this movie isn't going to NEED television ads by the end of July.  It's selling itself, and events are selling it even harder. 2) There is something in this movie to outrage just about everyone.  The Brandeis sophomore was mightily offended -- as was the Boston Globe's reviewer, BTW -- by the use of the Gold Star mother in Washington.  I thought it eloquently laid the whole sorry enterprise at the proper doorstep.  We argued on the way home about this which, I suspect, is what the director had in mind.

http://msnbc.msn.com/id/3449870/

[yellowcanine]

1. It was pretty clear the woman wanted to talk about her grief to Moore.

Maybe it was therapeutic for her. She obviously had to give her consent so the critics should respect her wishes on how she wants to deal with her grief and not blame Moore for that.

[JPZenger]

2. Excerpt from "House of Bush, House of Saud"

F911 has re-ignited interest in the ties between the Bush Family and the Saudi Royal Family. Here is an excerpt from a well-researched book on the topic "House of Bush, House of Saud":

http://www.palmdigitalmedia.com/product/book/excerpt/16550