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Fahrenheit 9/11 Review
Douglas Chick
 As I left the theater after
Michael Moore’s documentary,
Fahrenheit 9/11, I turned to my wife and said, “Wow, Bush took a public
spanking on that one.” And she quickly replied, “Yeah, that’s going to
leave a mark.” And of course my daughter added, “I’d say raised
welts.” (We are all comedians in my family)
I’m no great supporter of President Bush, nor am I of
John Kerry, but I am a
fair man, and many of the accusations in the “documentary” I felt were
too subjective. My wife and daughter however, as well as many other
moviegoers, were vindicated in their shear dislike for Bush. The movie definitely preached to an already converted
congregation, and I’m sure it was a completely different audience from the
one that saw The Passion of the Christ.
The “documovie” was filled with a lot of
information that I already knew; the Bush family business connections to the
Saudis, who financed all of Bush’s failed business ventures, and their
financial interest in getting a gas pipeline through Afghanistan. I must say
though that I was surprised to discover that the only news station during
the presidential election that called Florida Bush country was George Bush’s
cousin on Fox news. And it was the first time in television news history
that the exit polls were wrong. That was a little concerning. What was even
more surprising was just how many senior citizens there were in the movie
theater. I would dare to guess that well over half the audience were over
the age of 65. Considering the intended audience and the scope of the
“documentary” I expected to see more orange haired liberals than
silvered haired seniors. In Florida seniors only turn out in numbers that
large for garage sales, free coffee, or to vote.
The documentary also showed a lot of pictures that you
wouldn’t typically see, even on the Internet. Such as, as many soldiers
that had lost their lives in Iraqi, there were probably five times that in
soldiers that lost their legs and arms in the explosions. Moore spoke
with a soldier that refused to return to Iraq because he said he wasn’t
going to kill anymore-poor people. And there was video of young Iraqi
children with their bodies split open. Very sad scenes from a very
unfortunate war. There were as many
tears in the theater as there were laugher and applause. There was humor,
suspense, a bad guy, okay, lots of bad guys and Condoleezza Rice. This movie
was definitely politically motivated, but it also showed that Michael Moore
was a man of conscious and conviction.
Still, with access to enough video as with the president, you can
paint a picture of betrayal and conspiracy with anyone. I will say that if only one quarter of what I saw in
Fahrenheit 9/11 were true, than both George Bush senior and “W” should
also be turned over to the Iraqis like Saddam Hussein. And if Michael Moore
fabricated even one scene for political reasons than he should be turned
over to the Republican party. I'm not sure which would suffer the crueler
punishment.
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