Bill Hobbs feels that Michael Moore's latest venture into fantasy land... Fahrenheit 9/11 will actually help Bush in the upcoming election.
Extremism, real or perceived, by one political party tends to help the other political party in America.
That's a view I hadn't really considered. I had thought the people who would be swayed by this movie are the type of people who never really pay much attention to anything outside their own sphere of entertainment. They don't read newspapers, they only peripherally listen to television news, they like the morning shows that are "fun". They form their opinions by sound bytes, so the slick well choreographed film will win them over. We all know by now, a picture is worth 1000 words!
These people would never know that the movie is full of outright provable lies, the documentary label would certainly lead them to believe it's all true. After all, they believe Oliver Stone movies are simply the truth with a little drama thrown in. I tend to think the only way this group will change their minds or be turned off by what they saw in the movie, is if Katie Couric does a segment on GMA (or whatever morning show she resides on) about the movie being wrong. (somehow I doubt they would ever call Moore on his lies, but they might say, he was "wrong about a few things")
OTOH Bill could be hitting the nail directly on the head. I certainly hope he's right! It would be a wonderful thing if Moore's excesses backfired on them all. As usual we have to wait and see. And most certainly Bill has given me some good food for thought.
Personally, I don't think anybody but hardcore lefties are going to plunk down $8 for this thing. It's documentary. How boring is that? :-)
Posted by: Harvey | July 02, 2004 at 10:08 AM
I don't know... a young man in his 20s with no political leanings whatsoever went to see it and came away thinking it was gospel.
It took his father, my husband and quite a few links to some good webites to draw him back from the dark side.
For every time we write "it's not a documentary - it's full of lies!" there are massive amounts of people who will instead choose the pandering mainstream media and their cries of "brilliant".
Sometimes I believe that thinking for yourself is a lost art in this country. ;)
Posted by: pam | July 03, 2004 at 03:33 PM