[lbo-talk] Re: Blind, or a coward

Doug Henwood dhenwood at panix.com
Thu Jul 1 11:38:20 PDT 2004


Joseph Wanzala wrote:


>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.

That's some crazy-ass bullshit. One that Moore neglects domestic criminals, and two that he'd support the bombing of Mecca. Do you buy this, or just find it "interesting," a la Pugliese?

Doug



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