>July 6, 2004
>Critiquing the critique
>
>Pandering to the lies the Left tells itself about the Democrats
>
>By Stephen Gowans
>
>http://www3.sympatico.ca/sr.gowans/critique.html
>
>Robert Jensen, a professor of journalism at the University of Texas,
>has written a penetrating and mostly cogent critique of Michael
>Moore's Fahrenheit 9/11, in which he argues the filmaker's
>documentary panders to the lies Americans tell themselves about the
>US military protecting Americans' freedom, rather than projecting US
>power abroad.
More tedious crap. Almost without fail, you can tell exactly where pieces like this are going after the first sentence. As Cockburn once said of C.L. Sulzberger, his writing consists of dense volleys of cliche fired into the preconceptions of his readers. Do you keep reading to reassure yourself?
Doug