Liberal philistinism and Michael Moore’s Fahrenheit 9/11

[Karmadillo]

http://www.wsws.org/articles/2004/jul2004/cohe-j09.shtml

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The success of Fahrenheit 9/11 is deeply disturbing to the leading figures in the US media, all of whom, in one way or another, helped conceal certain truths about the Hussein regime in Iraq—that it possessed no weapons of mass destruction, that it had no connection to Al-Qaeda, that it bore no responsibility whatsoever for the September 11 attacks—from the American people.

It is only natural then that columnists whose lies or apologies for imperialist intervention have been laid bare should turn venomously on Fahrenheit 9/11 as part of a more general damage-control operation.

Richard Cohen of the Washington Post—along with others like Nicholas Kristof of the New York Times—has recently weighed in with a strident attack on Moore’s documentary.

Cohen has a particularly despicable record on the Iraq war. After expressing reservations about the US intervening again in the Persian Gulf, the Post columnist—like Paul on the road to Damascus—saw the light on February 5, 2003, in the rather unedifying form of Secretary of State Colin Powell’s appearance at the United Nations Security Council.

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[Burma Jones]

1. Cohen is an Isreal Whore and not particularly respected n/t

[Warpy]

2. All the attacks have come from media wonks

not film critics. Moore made the media look just as bad as they really are, and they can't stand it. After all, they've made a good living being stenographers for the RNC. Moore's movie threatens to upset their cushy job situation and make them do some damned research, for a change.

[riverwalker]

3. In the scene of Brittany

snapping her gum and nodding "I trust this president completely" Moore was saying to the media: THIS IS YOU. You are no more analytical, or discriminating than this.