Here’s media maven, 9/11 survivor, and self-described Kerry voter Jeff Jarvis:
: “The real problem with the film, the really offensive thing about it, is that in Fahrenheit 9/11, we -- Americans from the President on down -- are portrayed [as] the bad guys. If there's something wrong about bin Laden it's that his estranged family has ties with -- cue the uh-oh music -- the Bush family. Saddam? Nothing wrong with him. No mention of torture and terror and tyranny. Moore shows scenes of Baghdad before the invasion (read: liberation) and in his weltanschauung, it's a place filled with nothing but happy, smiling, giggly, overjoyed Baghdadis. No pain and suffering there. No rape, murder, gassing, imprisoning, silencing of the citizens in these scenes…Posted by Stephen Silver at June 25, 2004 08:24 AM
Michael Moore did not present bin Laden and the terrorists and religious fanatics (from other lands) as the enemy who did this. No, to him, our enemy is within. To him, our enemy is us. And that's worse than stupid and sad and it's most certainly not entertaining. It's disgusting.”
I read that, as well, and it is indeed disgusting. I also learned that Michael Moore didn't agree with going after Bin Laden in Afghanistan after 9/11 because he should be innocent until proven guilty.
Bin Laden. Innocent.
How anyone can take this guy seriously is beyond me.