It’s good to see a left-leaning website point out a few problems with Michael Moore’s latest movie. First up is a scathing critique by that grumpy Englishman Christopher Hitchens. Usually I find Hitchens too pompously verbose, but he points out a few problems with Moore’s conclusions. Next up is an artcle by Jack Shafer pointing out the ridiculousness of Moore’s claims to sue anyone who speaks ill of his movie. Like Shafer points out, Hitchens should be his first target.

It seems that Michael Moore is fast becoming the left’s Rush Limbaugh, except on the silver screen instead of the airwaves. He’s becoming an windbag who seeks to offend the other side with nuggets of half-truths. Interestingly, a lot of people on the left are taking Moore’s movie as gospel truth despite what Moore said about it (and what Shafer repeats in his article):

Fahrenheit 9/11 is “an op-ed piece. It’s my opinion about the last four years of the Bush administration. And that’s what I call it. I’m not trying to pretend that this is some sort of, you know, fair and balanced work of journalism.

Yet ask a lot of liberals and they’ll tell you this is best piece of fair journalism to come out in the last four years.

Posted on 23 June 2004