Who Can Really Say?

Really. I mean it.

My housemates, we'll call them Tall and Short just saw Fahrenheit 9/11. (Although Short isn't really that short she's shorter than Tall and so that's that.) Tall said that even if it's only half true, that half is so troubling as to make it very difficult to give any benefit of the doubt to, never mind vote for, Bush.

I've since de-programmed semi-corrected her understanding of the World According to Michael. But her comment at the end of the intervention conversation was interesting. She said to the effect, that Moore's movie was really his personal view of the world, and that it made more sense to her looking at it that way. Fair enough, so I asked her:

ME: Well is it a documentary then?

HER: No.

I referred her to Dave Kopel's Fifty-nine Deceits in Fahrenheit 9/11 for more detailed information. I don't expect you to read it all but try the stuff in italics at the top of the page. What's striking to me, and what makes it all the more an effective read, is that the author acknowledges making changes to the page in response to critics of it, including Moore himself.