Saturday, May 06, 2006
The press goes to the movies
So has anyone in my newsroom been to see "United 93"? You've got to be kidding. The people who lined up two and three times for "Fahrenheit 9/11" are made visibly uncomfortable by this film. They seem to just wish it would go away.
Actually, one person has seen it -- the new guy. Poor new guy. He hasn't picked up the culture yet. He thinks it was powerful. People have no response except to change the subject.
5 Comments:
By 
Admin, at
Sat May 06, 02:21:00 PM:
having been in nyc on 9/11, watching the towers burn from behind the high school where i worked near the waterfront in greenpoint, brooklyn...
having been in nyc on 9/11, watching the towers fall into giant plumes of smoke, which moved through much of brooklyn for days and days...
having been in nyc on 9/11, frantically trying to locate my two younger brothers who worked in the city...
having been in nyc on 9/11, walking through the streets with walls lined with pictures of missing, people afraid to take them down for weeks and weeks, til each fell of its own accord, littering the streets with the faces of the fallen...
let me be the first progressive to respond with a big FU to callimachus and his comparison of F9/11 viewers.
i fail to see how the heroics of those passengers on flight 93 and the subsequent film has anything to do w/ a film dedicated to exposing the multitude of falsehoods that led up to us being in IRAQ, a place where Osama ain't hiding.
Where is the man responsible for 9/11, and why have we spend almost 500,000,000,000 dollars in Iraq instead of going after him?
By 
, at
Sat May 06, 03:24:00 PM:
... because getting UBL is not the point. It would be nice to see, but it is not the point.
Throwing this war back into the Muslim world is the point. That has happened and that is an initial condition for victory.
Having U.S. Marines in the heart of the most important Arab country taking on and defeating those that call themselves "Al Qaeda in Mesopotamia" is exactly what we want.
That's why it's worth every penny.
Got to say that I like Michael Moore. He performed a great service in helping to re-elect George W. Bush.
By Dawnfire82, at
Sat May 06, 11:38:00 PM:
So Uptown... are you implying that we should be spending $500b on an invasion and occupation of Pakistan instead? Since, you know, that's where Sayyid bin Laden is?
(P.S. We are, in fact, looking for him. The US can do more than one thing at a time you know. Or have you missed the more-than-a-few press accounts of missile strikes and spooky activities in the Pakistani "tribal areas?")
By , at
Sun May 07, 01:27:00 AM:
Uptown the comparison is apt, because F9/11 was all about how "America deserved it" and the only "rational response" was to "talk" with "why they hate us" etc.
Moore spent more time bashing GWB than bin Laden. Heck Moore opposed any action in Afghanistan and called it a war crime.
Yes of course Libs hate this film because it shows clearly who the enemy is:
Muslims. Not GWB.
Yes they really hate us and want to kill us. Because we are not Muslim. That's all there is.
By , at
Sun May 07, 10:36:00 AM:
From the Moonbat Rulebook: Only mention terrorism or national security as a ploy to bash Bush. They were recently in high-camp indignation because some twit blogger was reporting that Rove's outing [sic] of Valerie Whozzit damaged our ability to track Iran's nuke program. Because, you know, they'd support a war on Iran in a minute
