Posted on 06/25/2004 4:30:09 PM PDT by MplsSteve
MSNBC playing the Myers piece now.
You know how conservative talk radio hosts sometimes feel the need to disagree with President Bush to establish their claim to be balanced and independent? This is NBC's version of the same thing.
OK, just saw it. Overall pretty good report. However, what she said at the end was (paraphrase) "the misleading and deceptive information MAY lead to credibility problems for Moore's film". Not too bad, but not a definitive denunciation, either.
Let's hope not.
No. I think his tribe is on the increase, sorry to say. Facts don't matter to zealots on the far left.
Sort of like the DaVinci Code -- radicals don't let the facts stand in the way of a hate filled rant against the Church (or Conservatives). I heard a liberal friend say today that Clinton wrote a book, while Bush is to stupid to even spell 'book'.
A_R
He also slams Democrats who supported the war.
"Hatriots"
FACETIOUSHYPE - SWINE - ONE - SPUN
So what, I'm sure it was effective ...
For that reason, I almost wish the "Coalition of the Wild-Eyed" ad had been kept under wraps til after the Dem. convention. Let's not do them the favor of showing them how they look -- let em go as over the top as they want to - then unleash the ad when the real campaign starts.
I firmly believe that, if I am going to have an opinion about something, it should be informed. Googling for other people's opinions wouldn't be sufficient. I needed to see it for myself.
Its basic premise was its most fundamental flaw -- that Bush was malicious and/or incompetant. Moore makes a big deal out of the alleged financial interests the Bin Laden family and the Bush family, and the admittedly baffling blindness the Bush administration has for the Saudis. The images of the 9/11 devastation were perhaps the most powerful cinematic images I've seen since The Passion.
That said, it was unadulterated propeganda. I found myself doubting Bush in the theatre (I'd still like an explanation for his friendliness with the Saudis). But, as I walked out of the theatre, I talked with probably the only other conservatives in the group -- and we recounted precisely why Afghanistan AND Iraq were just causes. Much to the chagrin of the liberals of the throngs of lemmings there, we didnt agree with the gal who shouted "Down with Bush" in the parking lot. When I replied I'd vote for Bush -- even after seeing the movie -- she concluded I was a f---head.
I saw it, and Lisa Myers discredited just about everything in the movie, including the "bin-Laden/Bush family ties", "mysterious private plane flights" horse manure the Left-winged conspiracy theorist whackos like Moore have been spewing since 9/11. While she didn't deny the private plane flights never existed, she did say that what Moore said about it in his "movie" was absolutely untrue.
I think we may have found our 2004 Wellstone 'funeral' rally...
The DNC won't listen.
What a week... NY Times calls Clinton's book a big bore, and now the alphabet news networks put down Michael Moore's movie!
-- Joe
Yep, by Sunday morning, every media organ will be praising this movie again and dumping on Bush again, because they know the average viewer's attention span doesn't go beyond one news cycle.
I don't find it ironic, the left has been in an altered universe for decades, most of the DU'ers don't like John F. Kennedy.
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