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Fahrenheit 911 is Fair and Balanced
by Bob Fitrakis and Harvey Wasserman / Common Dreams
We've come to expect poisonous and unbalanced attacks from the paid far right propagandists denouncing Michael Moore's documentary "Fahrenheit 911." But more disturbing are the scolds from tepid moderate mainstream journalists who often fail to read their own newspapers. New York Times columnist Nicholas D. Kristof attacks the film because "Moore hints that the real reason Bush invaded Afghanistan was to give his cronies a chance to profit by building an oil pipeline there." Kristof attacks Moore for even raising this issue,. But he conveniently ignores volumes of information readily available to back up Moore's claim.
Perhaps Kristof, like President Bush, refuses to read. At least that would explain why he missed the raging international debate surrounding the Bush administration's well-documented, then-secret oil negotiations with the Taliban in the summer of 2001.
The book FORBIDDEN TRUTH: U.S.-TALIBAN SECRET OIL DIPLOMACY AND THE FAILED HUNT FOR BIN LADEN was an international bestseller. Written by French Intelligence experts Jean-Charles Brisard and Guillaume Dasquié, the book asserts that the Bush administration threatened the Taliban with the now- infamous words: "Either you accept our carpet of gold or we'll carpet you with bombs." The threat was made about a month before the attack on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon.
Kristof and his ilk prefer the simple-minded version offered by President Bush: the Taliban and Al Qaeda hate our freedom and liberty. That the world's largest military power in search of new oil supplies for the 21st century would threaten carpet bombing is something the mainstream corporate media simply refuses to consider. Kristof also ignores the fact that the U.S. government installed Unocal advisor Harmid Karzai as the President of Afghanistan and provided him U.S. Special Forces as his praetorian guard. Moore mentions this in the film, but Kristof leaves it out of his column, saying the "Administration's huge errors aren't because of deceit." But that statement itself is very deceitful.
Kristof also fails to acknowledge National Security Advisor Zbigniew Brzezinski's THE GRAND CHESSBOARD. Brzezinski calmly outlines a thesis that U.S. domination of the globe in the 21st century depends on its control of Central Asian oilfields. He also says the American public would not back an attack unless there was a terrorist attack that galvanized public opinion to seize the foreign oil.
Tom Teepen, syndicated columnist for the Cox New Service suggests that "Fahrenheit 911 is a polemic, not a documentary." Teepen says Moore "weaves conspiracy theories in part by conveniently leaving out key information." Teepen belongs to that most despicable class of columnists known as "coincidence theorists." He also doesn't understand the true meaning of "polemic."
F9/11 opens with the 2000 election debacle in Florida. Moore could have recited from the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights, which documented that 54% of the rejected ballots in Florida were cast by black voters and 93% of African-Americans voted for Gore nationwide. The government report singled out George's brother Governor Jeb Bush, and the Bush brothers' close friend and Republican ally, Katherine Harris, for blame. Moore could have presented investigative journalist Gregory Palast's reports for the BBC documenting that at least 58,000 eligible voters in Florida were denied the right to vote because their names were the same or similar to a felon.
Moore could have shown footage of a roadblock and told how Florida law enforcement officers turned black drivers of vans and buses away from the polls for failure to provide limousine or chauffer licenses. Moore could have detailed how 20,000 Gore votes mysteriously disappeared in Volusia County and were later reinstated. That gap allowed Fox News analyst John Ellis to project his first cousin, G. W. Bush, to be the winner.
What else did Moore leave out?:
In his AMERICAN DYNASTY, Republican theorist Kevin Philips documents four generations of Bush family war profiteers dating back to World War I. This includes Samuel Bush's dual role as entrepreneur with Buckeye Steel Casting and government official on the Armaments Board. George W. Bush's grandfather, Prescott Bush, was a key operative in the Union Banking Corporation that was seized by the U.S. government in 1942 and liquidated under the Trading with the Enemy Act for helping fund the Nazi war effort. Granddaddy Bush joined the Board of Directors of Union Bank in 1934 and stayed there as the bank aided Hitler's rise to power. The government liquidation yielded a reported $750,000 apiece for Prescott Bush and his father-in-law, George Herbert Walker.
The Bush family is close friends of the self-proclaimed Messiah and creepy cult leader Reverend Sun Myung Moon. In January 1995, Moon's Women's Federation for World Peace paid Bush the Elder at least one million dollars for a speech. Former President Bush was also the principal speaker in the November 1996 opening dinner for Moon's new weekly newspaper "Tiempos del Mundo" of Argentina.
Pulitzer Prize winner Seymour Hersh reported in February 2002's New Yorker that the Bush administration authorized U.S. cooperation with Pakistan in the December 2001 "Kunduz airlift" that sent airplanes and helicopters to rescue Pakistanis fighting with the Taliban and Al Qaeda. Note that the Unocal pipeline from Central Asia goes through Afghanistan into Pakistan. A coincidence?
Article VI of the Nuremberg Charter defines "Crimes Against Peace" as "planning, preparation, initiation or waging of war of aggression or war in violation of international treaties . . . or participation in a common plan or conspiracy . . . to wage an aggressive war." The Bush doctrine of "pre-emption" really had nothing to do with pre-empting an Iraqi attack on the U.S. It is simply the widely discredited Nazi doctrine of "preventive war" established by Hitler to claim the right to attack any country that may pose some possible threat at an unspecific time in the future.
FALSE PROFITS: THE INSIDE STORY OF BCCI, THE WORLD'S MOST CORRUPT FINANCIAL EMPIRE, by award-winning journalists Peter Truell and Larry Gurwin, documents in detail that Bush brothers Jeb and George both had close links to the drug-running Bank of Credit and Commerce International (aka "Bank of Crooks and Criminals International," according to the CIA).
Criminal and civil suits against BCCI establish that Bush's good buddy James R. Bath, was a close business associate of Osama bin Laden's brother-in-law, terrorist financier Khalid bin Mahfouz. Moore correctly shows that Bath and Bush were both disciplined by the Air National Guard at the same time.
Professor Katherine Van Wormer, co-author of the authoritative text ADDICTION TREATMENT, suggests that "George W. Bush manifests all the classic patterns of what alcoholics in recovery call 'the dry drunk.' His behavior fits a pattern of years of heavy drinking and possible cocaine use."
These are just a few facts that Michael Moore left out of his fair and balanced documentary Fahrenheit 9/11. Those who hate this moderate, well-documented film may be most bothered by the actual footage of President Bush. Key scenes include: Bush's infamous, endless study of My Pet Goat in an elementary school class while the World Trade Center burned; Bush's legendary banquet speech referring to "the haves and have- mores" as "my base"; Bush's bumbling, malapropic final warning to "don't be fooled again." What most bugs F911 critics is clearly not the material Michael Moore presents. It's the fair and balanced footage of George W. Bush revealing who he truly is.
I've read Harry Potter and Lord of the Rings, I guess that stuff must be true too since it is published in a book by award winning authors
Liberal Wiener!!!
Azdon,
Moore's standard M.O. is to use half facts, lies, inuendo and his very slanted opinion to pass off as documentation. The truth about this man is that he hates his country and he is prepared to say anything for money! He is a ***** in the first and best meaning of the word. You should be ashamed of yourself for heralding his movie! But I have come to expect nothing less from dem-orats of your kind!
:yuk: :yuk:
Hmmm. Florida, eh Don? Do you REALLY wanna go there? Do you want to explain why Democratic pollsters were found with voting machines and stacks of ballots in their cars? Explain to me why Al Gore went to court to get the votes of overseas military servicemen thrown out? And please enlighten us why he went to all the trouble to demand a rcount, but not demand a FULL recount. Turns out he only wanted a recount in the counties favorable to him.
Wake up, Don. Al Gore LOST, fair and square. He at no time EVER led the ballot counts in Florida, and multiple recounts by multiple sources since 2000 have confirmed that GW Bush did indeed win Florida by almost 10,000 votes. Al Gore was the first one to run to the Supreme Court to protest the legitimate outcome, so if anyone is guilty of stealing an election(or trying), it's Gore.
As far as Michael Moore, this guy is a lying piece of trash and a fraud. He represents himself as an "independant" person just trying to expose the truth for the good of the people. Strangely, his friends are all left wing wackos, and he's so far left his car doesn't even have a right turn signal. I thought the leftists in this country were the arbitors of tolerance, and did not engage in hate speech? Well, Fraudandhate 911 is nothing but hate speech from beginning to end. This guy hates Bush, period. He's trying to manipulate facts into half truths that look bad for Bush, and even worse he presents his slanderous piece of work as a documentary. Why hasn't he ever done a movie about Clinton, The Kennedys, or maybe even Sandy Bergler? He is an independant after all, and there is plenty of good material inside BJBill's administration that would make GW look like a priest!
Your schtick is old, Don, and I feel sorry for your son if you told him this movie is the truth. Again, I'll ask you to buy your son John Kerry's book. I dare you to, as a matter of fact. If you're going to support the man you better find out how bad it is ahead of time. LURCH/WHEELCHAIR 2004!!
Sorry, can't take anything seriously from France... Where else would pussy's boo and spit on Lance Armstrong during a race simply because he is American and kicking some serious ass...
Vive la resistance!!! Go get 'em Lance.... Oh, and fart in their general direction too....
go post that here (http://www.vdriveboat.com)
Isn't Harvey Wasserman so liberal hollywood puke? The best retort to this article is the one that I think Dave C posted a few backs that was written by a liberal reporter for the liberal Washington Post who flat out said the movie was fantasy. Put that in your pipe and smoke it.
Isn't Michael "Fat FU CK" Moore Canadian??
No offense to Canadians but, take care of your sh it
mirvin
Originally posted by BUSTI
Azdon,
Moore's standard M.O. is to use half facts, lies, inuendo and his very slanted opinion to pass off as documentation. :yuk: :yuk:
That has been his MO all throughout his career. Not only is there half facts etc. but selective use of facts... some have been simply omitted in his work.
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