OK, Wanzala. Is your next post a pointer the the Protocols of the Elders of Zion? Can you see the antisemitic conspiracy theory lurking about here?
Chip Berlet Senior Analyst Political Research Associates Webmaster http://www.publiceye.org
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Joseph Wanzala [mailto:jwanzala at hotmail.com]
> Sent: Thursday, July 01, 2004 2:27 PM
> To: lbo-talk at lbo-talk.org
> Subject: Re: [lbo-talk] Re: Blind, or a coward
>
>
> from xymphora:
>
> Thursday, July 01, 2004
>
> Bob Dreyfuss wonders how Michael Moore could get the entire
> blame for 9-11
> so back-asswards, throwing it all on the obviously innocent
> Saudis and
> ignoring completely the Israelis. Michael Moore is a big-time
> Hollywood film
> director. You need money - lots of it - to make big-time
> Hollywood films.
> The people who produce, finance, and distribute big-time
> Hollywood films,
> and in particular this one, and any other that Moore would
> like to make, are
> not going to finance a film that lays any blame for anything
> on Israel. It's
> a, um, tribal thing. Moore knows that his American audience has a
> psychological need for a foreign villain to help deal with
> the guilt that
> America itself was primarily responsible for 9-11, and the
> connections of
> the Bush Crime Family to the Saudi elites allows him to have
> his villain and
> attack Bush at the same time. This would be completely
> harmless American
> jingoism except that I guarantee that if Bush gets reelected
> the neocons
> will be citing Moore's film and claiming that even the most
> liberal of all
> liberals supports their ultimate fantasy, the bombing of
> Mecca. __________________
>
> http://www.tompaine.com/articles/blind_or_a_coward.php
>
> Blind, Or A Coward?
> June 30, 2004
>
>
> One of the first things I did when I got back from vacation
> was to go see
> Michael Moore's Fahrenheit 9/11. It's a brilliant piece of
> propaganda,
> entertaining and funny, and it skewers the president
> deliciously. But am I
> the only one to notice that in one critically important way,
> it entirely
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