“America, where is your fury?”

asks Michael Niewodowski, who was a chef at the Windows on the World restaurant at the World Trade Center until Sept. 11, 2001

When future generations look back on the Sept. 11 massacre, their first impression, through the medium of film, will be a work in which the president and the government are blamed for the attacks, and the soldiers who are protecting this country are defamed. Instead of a film version of Lisa Beamer’s book, “Let’s Roll,” or Richard Picciotto’s “Last Man Down,” we are presented with this fallacy. How could this happen?

For those of you who might be interested, Farenheit Fact is doing an item-by item dissection. And there’s Fifty-six Deceits in Fahrenheit 911. Sort of a Heinz’s 57-varieties, only with a bite

Do the many falsehoods and misrepresentations of Fahrenheit 911 suggest a film producer who just makes careless mistakes? Or does a man who calls Americans: “possibly the dumbest people on the planet” believe that his audience will be too dumb to tell when he is tricking them? Viewers will have to decide for themselves whether the extremist and extremely deceptive Fahrenheit 911 is a conscientious work of patriotic dissent, or the cynical propaganda of a man who gives wartime aid to America’s murderous enemies, and who accepts their aid in return

This op-de article in the UK’s Telegraph examines the Moore delusions

Moore is the most powerful spokesman of the myth that gripped the Spanish people when they elected Jose Luis Rodriguez Zapatero as their Prime Minister in the wake of the Madrid bombing: namely, that if we oust specific politicians from office – replace Bush with Kerry, Blair with Brown – the Islamic fundamentalists will leave us alone . . .

and concludes

This is why it isn’t enough to say that Moore manipulates the facts, or that he is a charlatan, or that his arguments are glib. The reality is that his methods are working, and working for a reason. He is the grizzled face of a culture in denial, the contrarian voice of the millions who would rather hate Dubya than confront the awesome threat that stalks our age. His success is an urgent warning to those who support the war, who grasp its importance, to raise their game, and fast. Nitpicking is not the answer. It’s the big issues that count. And it’s there that Michael Moore has no answers. If he is so visionary, why is his objective – to run Bush out of the White House – so parochial? What would he do about the new horrors of our time? Dude, where’s your sense of history?

As tacitus put it, “If the Democratic Party and its leadership were smart, they’d drop Michael Moore, and treat him like would Nader or a red-headed stepchild.“