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[redqueen]

Secret to 'Fahrenheit's' success

For starters: the video footage of recuperating U.S. soldiers, Iraqi casualties, President Bush in that classroom paralyzed for seven minutes after learning of the terrorist attacks. This is video you have likely seen nowhere else, and you emerge from the theater wondering, “Why the heck not?”

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And it provides a bracing alternative to the claims for objectivity that reign at TV news outlets (including, naturally, the “fair-and-balanced”-boasting Fox News Channel, whose lack of objectivity is probably its greatest asset). These Big Media news providers have served as Bush administration facilitators ever since his disputed election, declares Moore, a little guy whose message is unmistakably his own.