More Moore Bashing

On an occasion, or two, I have strongly disagreed with analysis offered by Christopher Hitchens. He was dead wrong when it came to “The Passion,” a film he has yet to see, as well as on Reagan’s legacy.

However, yesterday I was delighted to stumble over his recent anti-Moore article. It is truly a radiant piece that cleverly combines personal attacks and facts, a concept that Moore has yet to discover.

This review will come in handy on Saturday when I will attend a screening of “Fahrenheit 9/11” along with my BF and his liberal friends.

Also, for those who care, I will be deferring my admission to law school for another year. It is odd, but they offered me a full 3 year scholarship for my deferral.

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Indeed, Moore's affected and ostentatious concern for black America is one of the most suspect ingredients of his pitch package. In a recent interview, he yelled that if the hijacked civilians of 9/11 had been black, they would have fought back, unlike the stupid and presumably cowardly white men and women (and children). Never mind for now how many black passengers were on those planes—we happen to know what Moore does not care to mention: that Todd Beamer and a few of his co-passengers, shouting "Let's roll," rammed the hijackers with a trolley, fought them tooth and nail, and helped bring down a United Airlines plane, in Pennsylvania, that was speeding toward either the White House or the Capitol. There are no words for real, impromptu bravery like that, which helped save our republic from worse than actually befell. The Pennsylvania drama also reminds one of the self-evident fact that this war is not fought only "overseas" or in uniform, but is being brought to our cities. Yet Moore is a silly and shady man who does not recognize courage of any sort even when he sees it because he cannot summon it in himself. To him, easy applause, in front of credulous audiences, is everything.

http://slate.msn.com/id/2102723/
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