Framing Michael Moore -- In These Times
"Fahrenheit 9/11 is an amazingly powerful documentary. Moore collects skeins of archival footage-a young George W. driving across country, Paul Wolfowitz slicking his hair back with spit as he readies for the cameras, Bush addressing a fundraising dinner: 'This is an impressive crowd, the haves and the have mores. Some people call you the elite. I call you my base.'

Moore weaves historic documents together with his signature vignettes-two Air Force recruiters bamboozling youth into the military, the mourning mother whose soldier son was killed in Iraq, and members of Congress running away as he asks them to sign up and enlist their children in the war.
Through these, Moore constructs a penitential sackcloth for a president who has no clothes, and who, come November, will, electorate willing, be out of office. Thanks, significantly, to Michael Moore.

Yes, Fahrenheit 9/11 is propaganda, in the same way the nightly news is, or the front page of your daily paper. It's just that Moore is more upfront with the point he is trying to make. Critics contend that Moore is framing the president. Not quite. He builds his case with the president's own words, numerous damning facts and the testimony of those most affected by the war. "

Framing Michael Moore -- In These Times
- posted by liz @ 6/25/2004 01:40:00 PM