[lbo-talk] Double Standard: Israel and Saudi Arabia

[Carl Remick]

>From: Jon Johanning <jjohanning at igc.org>
>
>Aside from any other consideration, if Moore had replaced any segment of 
>F911 (my choice would be the ice cream truck caper, but that's just me) 
>with a discussion of Israel's role, we all know what would have happened: 
>nothing else in the whole film would have been talked about. Everyone's 
>attention would have been monopolized with yet another scream-fest over 
>Israel-Palestine, which as usual would have settled nothing.

I agree.  It would have been fatal to F911 if Moore had broached an actual 
controversy instead of sticking to the obvious, e.g., Bush is an idiot, war 
is bad, business is greedy.  I mean, how much can the cognitively impaired 
American public be expected to absorb?

Carl

"This is supposed to be a happy occasion.  Let's not bicker and argue about 
who killed who." -- Michael Palin, Monty Python and the Holy Grail

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