Frank Rich: "Beautiful Minds and Ugly Truths", about Fahrenheit 9/11

[madfloridian]

http://www.iht.com/bin/print.php?file=521066.html

SNIP..."But why should we hear about body bags, and deaths, and how many, what day it's gonna happen, and how many this or what do you suppose? Or, I mean, it's, it's not relevant. So why should I waste my beautiful mind on something like that? And watch him suffer." - Barbara Bush on "Good Morning America," March 18, 2003.

SNIP...."She needn't have worried. Her son wasn't suffering. In one of the several pieces of startling video exhibited for the first time in Michael Moore's "Fahrenheit 9/11," we catch a candid glimpse of President George Bush about 36 hours after his mother's breakfast TV interview - minutes before he makes his own prime-time TV address to take the nation to war in Iraq. He is sitting at his desk in the Oval Office. A makeup woman is doing his face. And Bush is having a high old time. He darts his eyes about and grins, as if he were playing a peek-a-boo game with someone just off-camera. He could be a teenager goofing with his buds to relieve the passing tedium of a haircut...."
SNIP..."Whatever you think of Moore, there's no question he's detonating dynamite here. From a variety of sources - foreign journalists and broadcasters (like Britain's Channel Four), freelancers and sympathetic American TV workers who slipped him illicit video - he supplies war-time pictures that have been largely shielded from our view. Instead of recycling images of the planes hitting the World Trade Center on Sept. 11, 2001, once again, Moore can revel in extended new close-ups of the president continuing to read "My Pet Goat" to elementary school students in Florida for seven long minutes after learning of the attack. Just when Abu Ghraib and the savage beheading of Nicholas Berg make us think we've seen it all, here is yet another major escalation in the nation-jolting images that have become the battleground for the war about the war...."

SNIP...."No one would ever accuse Moore of having a beautiful mind. Subtleties and fine distinctions are not his thing. That matters very little, it turns out, when you have a story this ugly and this powerful to tell."END SNIP

And yet another Bush beautiful mind.

[xray s]

1. Well, now we know where Bush gets his incredible arrogance from

I guess his lack of brains come from Poppy's side of the DNA helix...

[mistertrickster]

2. This reporter is a jerk--it's like "who knew Michael Moore could have

something important to say."

No Mr. Rich the real question is "why doesn't the NY Times have something more important to say." After month after long month of Judith Miller screaming of attacks with WMD's, the Times continues to watch stories break on the internet.

Here's a sample--

"Moore settles for a brisk recap in the first of his film's two hours. And, predictably, he stirs it into an over-the-top, at times tendentious replay of a Bush hater's greatest hits: Katherine Harris, the Supreme Court, Harken Energy, AWOL in Alabama, the Carlyle Group, Halliburton, the lazy Crawford vacation of August 2001, the Patriot Act. But then the movie veers off in another direction entirely . . ."

yawn . . . Harken . . . Harris . . . stolen election--it's so turn of the century, isn't it Mr. Rich?

If Clinton had done ONE of these things, The Times would have been calling for a special prosecutor if not impeacement.

Liberal media, my ass . . .

[rumguy]

3. detonating dynamite

I can't wait to see this film.