Michael Moore: The Dems' David Duke: Hugh Hewitt reviews film 'that gives propagandists a bad name'

WorldNetDaily.com ^ | Wednesday, June 30, 2004 | Hugh Hewitt

[JohnHuang2]

Wednesday, June 30, 2004

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Michael Moore: The Dems' David Duke

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Posted: June 30, 2004
1:00 a.m. Eastern

By Hugh Hewitt

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© 2004 WorldNetDaily.com

Michael Medved advised me Monday morning that I could not possibly grasp how lousy a film is "Fahrenheit 9/11" unless I had seen it. So I went that afternoon, and Michael was right.

The movie gives propagandists a bad name. At least it could have been well-made anti-American tripe. Instead it is a crudely made and insufferably dull march through the fever swamps of the unhinged left. It is pulling in big bucks, which is a testament to the disposable income of the swamp residents, but put me down as one in favor of even broader distribution and bigger box offices for the picture. It is an anchor around John Kerry's neck as ordinary Americans not filled with self-loathing will despise Moore for his transparent lies and not trust a political party that does not reject them.

I am more certain than I was last week that attending the premier and the standing ovation that followed it was a mistake for Tom Daschle. The folks in South Dakota should hear repeatedly of Daschle's sympathy for Moore's project and point-of-view. The John Kerry-Michael Moore Democrats do in fact represent a low point for that party, and unless and until the Kerrys and Daschles denounce the fraud for what he is, they are stuck with him. Some on the left are proclaiming Moore to be their Limbaugh. He's not. Moore is the Democrats' David Duke, but they are putting their arm around him.

I will not reprise the now well-known deceptions abundant in the movie. The best romp through that territory is Christopher Hitchens'. But I will note the one undeniable benefit of the movie's success. It provides a handy reference to the intelligence of the person who sees it. If you encounter anyone speaking in tones even remotely approaching respect for the movie, you have proof positive that the speaker is a fool, not to be trusted on any point, for he or she has given testimony as to their ignorance of basic facts and of an inability to detect even elephant-sized inconsistencies in argument and story line.

Michael Moore is the latest in a long line of entrepreneurs who have proven P.T. Barnum to have been on the money when it came to the number of suckers abroad in our land. Sure, he's a Jabba-sized oaf, but give him his due. He knew how to play the left's paranoia like a fiddle, and he did.

I do want to provide a link to the best "shut-up" story to provide Michael Moore fans. Easiest part of the Michael Moore paranoid fantasy to explode: that President Bush arranged for the bin Laden family to flee the U.S. after 9/1. See this story from The Hill. Richard Clarke – hero to Moore's movie in other parts – let the bin Ladens go. It never got to Bush. Moore didn't have time to put that in the movie.

You might also want to ask Moorites why Hezbollah loves the flick. Moore got asked and he ducked the question. What a surprise: No courage from Jabba the propagandist, Tom Daschle's favorite moviemaker.

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[JohnHuang2]

Wednesday, June 30, 2004

[Fzob]

It provides a handy reference to the intelligence of the person who sees it. If you encounter anyone speaking in tones even remotely approaching respect for the movie, you have proof positive that the speaker is a fool, not to be trusted on any point, for he or she has given testimony as to their ignorance of basic facts and of an inability to detect even elephant-sized inconsistencies in argument and story line.

Worth repeating

[bad company]

Beat me to it bump.

[wai-ming]

How about it folks? Should Kerry draft Michael Moore as his VP?

That would be the ticket: Addams' man and Saddam's man.

[JohnHuang2]

Should Kerry draft Michael Moore as his VP?

hehehehehe -- dream ticket. ;-)

[angkor]

It provides a handy reference to the intelligence of the person who sees it.

I've recently heard several people challenged on talk radio to explain why the movie is "good", and the best they can come up with is that it "presents an alternate to Bush," even though it is flawed with inaccuracies and exaggerations.

In other words, fiction is truth in the minds of Rats, because it "feels" right.

[JohnHuang2]

Hugh Hewitt MEGA PING!!

[swilhelm73]

Richard Clarke – hero to Moore's movie in other parts – let the bin Ladens go. It never got to Bush. Moore didn't have time to put that in the movie.

I've mentioned this to a few F911 fans I've ran into and they have no answer for it. You bring it up they change the topic. You bring it up again...and they change the subject.

[sd-joe]

Jabba the propagandist

He he he. Moore's new title.

[libertylover]

Michael Moore: The Dems' David Duke

If only it were true. I haven't heard a single Dimocrat denouce the film while the Republicans won't touch David Dukes with a ten-foot pole.

[dawn53]

Well Michael Moore's movie seems to be "history" at our local multi-plex.

Just checked the listings (teenager wants to see Spiderman, of course) for movies playing at our downtown 22 screen theatre and there's no F9/11 listed.

It was playing there last weekend, but the crowds must have been too thin to sustain the run.

[dawn53]

Now that's a thought.

The photo op of Kerry and Moore would look like Stan Laurel and Oliver Hardy.

[Harmless Teddy Bear]

Moore is the Democrats' David Duke, but they are putting their arm around him.

The big difference between Republicans and 'Rats is how they respond to the...uh... less then stellar examples of humanity that attempt to crash the party.

Republicans root them out and give them the boot. 'Rats throw a party in their honor.

[RonDog]

See also this "Fahren-HYPE-9/11" cartoon by Paul Nowak - from Today's Toons 6/28/04:

I like that "hype" part of that cartoon.

Perhaps we could use it in a F-9/11 protest sign...

... like THIS:

DEFLATE
THE
FAHREN-HYPE-9/11. ..

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[SkyPilot]

John,

Even the host and callers to Philly talk radio found this film appalling. Lumpy Riefenstahl's garbage may earn him millions from fools (who would otherwise probably would have spent it on tattoos, piercings, porn, and drugs), but they are a fringe.

[RonDog]

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[MarkL]

Hmmmm.... IIRC, Ebert and Roper went on and on about what a masterful job this film was, and how everyone should see it.

Couldn't have anything to do with their politics, huh?

Mark

[beyond the sea]

It is an anchor around John Kerry's neck as ordinary Americans not filled with self-loathing will despise Moore for his transparent lies and not trust a political party that does not reject them.

I hope he's right about the anchor, but I fear that Americans are nearly as stupid as Moore constantly informs Europeans that we are.

November may be very ugly.....I hope not!

[ZeitgeistSurfer]

The best analogy I've heard is that F911 is crack cocaine for the left. They don't care about the facts, logic or anything else. It just makes them feel SOOOOOOOO good.

[finnman69]

(Farenheit 9/11) provides a handy reference to the intelligence of the person who sees it. If you encounter anyone speaking in tones even remotely approaching respect for the movie, you have proof positive that the speaker is a fool, not to be trusted on any point, for he or she has given testimony as to their ignorance of basic facts and of an inability to detect even elephant-sized inconsistencies in argument and story line.