Gregg Easterbrook (remember him?) takes some shots at “Fahrenheit,” using evidence from a previous Moore film, "Canadian Bacon." Elsewhere in TNR, Jason Zengerle takes a look at how Moore is running a “parallel presidential campaign” to Kerry’s, and echoes my prediction that if the Democrat wins, the “Michael Moore community” is likely to turn on him viciously, likely in the first 100 days.
The Zengerle piece also brings up the interesting question of how close the Democrats can get to Moore without his considerable stink rubbing off on them. Kerry himself is clear that he has not seen the film and does not plan to, but a veritable who’s-who of Democratic luminaries showed up at the movie’s DC premiere, including Tom Daschle, who Moore “hugged”- even though he’s lampooned in the film as a coward. Then again, when Moore hosted “TV Nation” in his pre-lunatic days, he once did a stunt in which he roamed the country in order to hug all 50 governors, so perhaps he's attempting a Congressional version.
And finally, my favorite Spinsanity headline ever: “Fahrenheit 9/11: The Temperature at Which Michael Moore’s Pants Burn.”
Posted by Stephen Silver at July 12, 2004 06:22 PM