To call this a Bush-bashing film is an embarrassing bit of oversimplification. Moore indicts the Democrats and the national news media, as well as the citizens of our own country. He makes the apparently daring statement that we all have culpability and being able to take responsibility for mistakes and wrongdoing is the first step in correcting them.
Words like manipulation, bias, anger, rant are all being used to downgrade
Moore's opinion, but his is as valid as anyone else's and the only post I have seen on this review thread to really address the specifics of these accusations calls Bush the greatest president since Washington, which shows less a facile scholarship about Bush than it does about Washington himself.
Many of the points in Moore's documentary have been attainable facts for quite a while now, though many are under reported, some have never been strung together in quite this fashion, and few still have been used to an editorial point. But they have been there for those who pay attention.
The right talks about the left being filled with rage as if that honest emotion is shameful. The funny thing is that all I see in the conservative responses to this film - indeed to any criticism of the president - is a seething anger that seems on the verge of popping a vein in their forehead.
The larger message of the film is the same message as in any of Moore's films - that the upper class will always manipulate data in such a way that the lower class will think that what is bad for them is what is actually good for them. It's the way it has been in our country since Washington and it continues to be the American Way.
So just go see the movie and decide for yourself. Who cares what anyone else has to say?
Words like manipulation, bias, anger, rant are all being used to downgrade
Moore's opinion, but his is as valid as anyone else's and the only post I have seen on this review thread to really address the specifics of these accusations calls Bush the greatest president since Washington, which shows less a facile scholarship about Bush than it does about Washington himself.
Many of the points in Moore's documentary have been attainable facts for quite a while now, though many are under reported, some have never been strung together in quite this fashion, and few still have been used to an editorial point. But they have been there for those who pay attention.
The right talks about the left being filled with rage as if that honest emotion is shameful. The funny thing is that all I see in the conservative responses to this film - indeed to any criticism of the president - is a seething anger that seems on the verge of popping a vein in their forehead.
The larger message of the film is the same message as in any of Moore's films - that the upper class will always manipulate data in such a way that the lower class will think that what is bad for them is what is actually good for them. It's the way it has been in our country since Washington and it continues to be the American Way.
So just go see the movie and decide for yourself. Who cares what anyone else has to say?