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Christopher Hitchens brutalizes Fahrenheit 9/11.

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[blarglefiend.livejournal.com]

Then there's this (http://www.salon.com/ent/movies/review/2004/06/23/911_nay/index.html), from Salon. Not what I'd call a glowing endorsement.

from the article

[denshi.livejournal.com]

"However, I think we can agree that the film is so flat-out phony that "fact-checking" is beside the point."

So.... he didn't bother fact-checking?

That article is a collection of straw-man and ad hominem attacks while Hitchens masturbates with his thesaurus. Not very convincing.

[erikred.livejournal.com]

Here we glimpse a possible fusion between the turgid routines of MoveOn.org and the filmic standards, if not exactly the filmic skills, of Sergei Eisenstein or Leni Riefenstahl.

Leni Riefenstahl? This is the silliest attempt to invoke Godwin's Law (http://www.faqs.org/faqs/usenet/legends/godwin/) I've seen in print. Why bother with the director of Triumph of the Will (http://us.imdb.com/title/tt0025913/) when you can just say "Hitler! Hitler! Hitler!" and save us all the trouble of reading the rest of the article?

This is not a review. This is, as Randy noted, a continuation of a personal vendetta against Moore.

[vspope.livejournal.com]

Moore must've spilled Hitchens' liquor bottle or something.

[lots42.livejournal.com]

Out of the entire movie, the one bit they show in previews is Bush daring to talk about golf during a golf game

[mrbalihai.livejournal.com]

Christopher Hitchens' gig is tearing down figures that other people idolize (e.g. Mother Theresa), and he's widely considered to be a neo-con chickenhawk, so that's going to disqualify this article automatically in the minds of a lot of people.

Based on his previous films, I've come to expect Moore to contradict himself and play fast and loose with the facts, what bothers me more is the fraudulent way he has promoted this film, claiming censorship by Miramax and Disney when in fact, there was none.

Bottom line for me: I just think it's sad that someone as obnoxious, cheap, hysterical, and smug as Moore has become an elder spokesman for progressive politics.

[palecur.livejournal.com]

Chris Hitchens is the columnist you'd grow up to be if you had more cigarettes and booze and less sweet love in your life.

Heh

[arian1.livejournal.com]

Funny thing, the St Louis Dispatch, here in Ashcroft-central. Redneck Ground Zero. Hell on Earth, gave the movie a glowing review and four stars.

Wierd