[Marxism] WSWS reviews Fahrenheit 9/11

[Louis Proyect <lnp3@xxxxxxxxx>]

Liberal philistinism and Michael Moore’s Fahrenheit 9/11
By David Walsh, wsws.org
9 July 2004

Through July 7 nearly ten million people in the US had viewed Michael 
Moore’s documentary film, Fahrenheit 9/11. That is to say, millions 
understand better now than they did prior to June 25 that the American 
government is run by a gang of crooks with ambitions to plunder and 
dominate the globe.

Moore’s film has its weaknesses, but it argues persuasively that Bush, 
Cheney, Rumsfeld, Powell, Wolfowitz and the rest are liars and war 
criminals, with intimate connections to big business in general and the 
oil industry in particular. About these facts there simply is no longer 
any debate within an increasingly wide layer of the population.

The success of Fahrenheit 9/11 is deeply disturbing to the leading 
figures in the US media, all of whom, in one way or another, helped 
conceal certain truths about the Hussein regime in Iraq—that it 
possessed no weapons of mass destruction, that it had no connection to 
Al-Qaeda, that it bore no responsibility whatsoever for the September 11 
attacks—from the American people.

It is only natural then that columnists whose lies or apologies for 
imperialist intervention have been laid bare should turn venomously on 
Fahrenheit 9/11 as part of a more general damage-control operation.

full: http://www.wsws.org/articles/2004/jul2004/cohe-j09.shtml
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