[lbo-talk] Oil, Conspiracy Theory, and F 9/11 Re: Dude, Whyare you fronting?

[Carl Remick]

>From: Doug Henwood <dhenwood at panix.com>
>
>Yoshie Furuhashi wrote:
>
>>What distinguishes Michael Moore's conspiracy theories about oil 
>>(especially the UNOCAL angle), the Saudi Connection, Big Tobacco, etc. 
>>from the sort that you would normally be the first to hold in contempt?
>
>I don't like the pipeline angle. The Saudi connection is *not* 
>conspiratorial - Unger refreshingly and explicitly makes the opposite point 
>that the Bush-Saudi relation is not a conspiracy, but a money-making 
>venture.
>
>He's not perfect. He's soemtimes sloppy with facts, and his analyses aren't 
>always coherent. But I basically don't care. He's got an amazing talent for 
>making entertaining, radical agitprop that has considerable aesthetic and 
>dramatic complexity. I'd rather learn from him than complain much.

I have just one complaint about F 9/11, but it's a big one -- the movie's 
complete neocon void.  I don't think that scene of Wolfowitz slobbering over 
his comb provides much info about one of the main driving forces of the Iraq 
war.

Carl

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