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06/22/2004 Archived Entry: "Unfairenheit 9/11"

Posted by steve @ 01:43 AM EST [Link]

HITCHENS REDEEMS HIMSELF...SLIGHTLY: After savage hit pieces on Bob Hope and Ronald Reagan, Christopher Hitchens redeems himself slightly by absolutely lighting up Michael Moore's Fahrenheit 9/11.

To describe this film as dishonest and demagogic would almost be to promote those terms to the level of respectability. To describe this film as a piece of crap would be to run the risk of a discourse that would never again rise above the excremental. To describe it as an exercise in facile crowd-pleasing would be too obvious. Fahrenheit 9/11 is a sinister exercise in moral frivolity, crudely disguised as an exercise in seriousness. It is also a spectacle of abject political cowardice masking itself as a demonstration of "dissenting" bravery.

Good to have you back Mr. Hitchens...if only on this issue.

Read on.