F9/11- a view from the trenches...

OK- so we had to drive an hour to a major market to see Michael Moores Fahrenheit 9/11,
on its opening night. That's fine, we had a nice dinner too. The place was packed, and we were seated with the local royalty of liberal thinking- serious! We seemed to luck right into sitting with a large local contingent who had made the same hour drive. So of course, to different degrees, most of our friends already know most of what Michael had to say. What I was checking out were the gasps of the average hoosier who were probably forced to tag along due to a mate, friend or loved on who had to go.

Let me say this right now- Mike COULD HAVE BEEN HARDER ON THE PRESIDENT!
Sure, he pretty much made sport of the guy- but I think he kept most of his comments "fun" or "on the lighter side". Really. I mean, what's worse; Making you look foolish or funny; or making you seem to be a traitor wrapping himself in the flag? Point is, Mike really lets GW off the hook by mostly portraying him a guy who is "willing", but only "allowed to get away with it" by a willing media and generally hoodwinked public. Well duh!....

I wasn't surprised that Michael had some un-censored versions of white house "sanitized" military records relating to GW. I wonder- did ANY newsmedia organization have those un-censored versions? And were they afraid to air them for "fear of losing the place" in the white house press corp.? What I really really want to know is, are any other Americans making these connections and asking the same questions right now!!>?? I hope so...

There was one point in the footage of GW that he seemed to be a "golf bully", demanding credit "did I hear anyone say 'nice shot GW'?" for what was probably a shitty shot (what the fuck do I know about golf?) ; so for the rest of the movie, whenever the president was shown taking a swing, I exclaimed as loud as socially possible "nice shot GW!"- I just couldn't resist!
I really wanted to jump up and bring everyone together in a "Ferris Beuller" moment, but as soon as the idea crossed my evil mind, I had to realize that not everyone there was on the same page.
Some of these folks had never heard some of that stuff, I need to shut up and let folks listen... and that was a hell of a thing to realize.

If you generally read "bartcop.com" or "buzzflash.com" or "leftwingwackos.com", then this movie is not required viewing. You and I are already informed to a point. What you need to do is, take someone who "isn't interested". I'm reminded of some professional friends I have, who are arch-conservatives. I can just hear them say, "I'm just not interested in what that man has to say!". Problem is, they really should see it. They'd see the little-boy victim of war, getting his little head stiched up, crudely, screaming the whole time. Problem is, these arch-conservative friends are the "everything for the children" types, and while they'll give up their human rights, and therefore demand that WE ALL GIVE UP OUR RIGHTS, just to make their children "safer" from "terra", they're also the folks who DEMAND TO BE KEPT UNINFORMED AND IN THE DARK.

They care so much, that they "aren't interested" in critical opinions.
They care so much they try to shut down, and disallow dissenting, peacefully opinions.
They care so much they that searching law abiding citizens, with no regard to civil rights, will help make them safer.

Problem is, most folks don't run a political blog, being critical of the media on a semi-regular basis. Most folks get their news from Dan "I ran Cronkite out so I can be a shill" Rather, and when they REALLY REALLY WANT TO KNOW THE FACTS, they check out MSNBC or Fox News. (Ouch!)
Most people only choose from the facts presented to them between bites of cheeseburger or they want little "digestible news nuggets" that pass for critical thinking.
So I hope there were many, many non-political types, or straight up Republican recon types at Fahrenheit 9/11.
Maybe with a full-on, over-done, too far out to be believed and too frightening to be ignored movie like this one, someone, ANYONE else will hear this. Maybe it's the only way some can ever hear...