Ken already wrote about Fahrenheit 9/11. But I have a few dissenting points. One, while the "funny" clips of bush and co were already on comedy central, some of the stories the movie mentioned were kept out of the american press until this movie had its distribution deal.
The issues that come to mind are the financial conference by Microsoft and Haliburton and a few others. It was only a month ago or more that I saw mention of this in the media when the conference took place long enough ago the Moore was able to get it in his movie. Also the connections between bush and the Saudis has been popping up more recently in the news sources. I feel that this is a direct response to Mr. Moore's movie. The news sources didn't want to be entirely scooped.
I also appreciated some of the points Moore was making with his somewhat farcical interactions. It was very telling to know that only one member of congress had a child serving in Iraq. It was very telling that the Secret Service (a branch of the treasury, primarily given the role of body guard to government officials) showed up out side the Saudi embassy when Moore was filming.
One of the points I most appreciated was his clear separation of being against the war not the people who were being ordered to fight it. One of the things that conservatives love to hammer on is the vietnam era lack of separation between the war and the people fighting it. Personally, I feel that most of us learned that lesson from history and are strictly against the war, not the poor men and women fighting it.
Posted by pqbon at June 28, 2004 05:10 PMI've updated my entry in response.
Posted by: Ken at June 28, 2004 06:29 PM