[lbo-talk] Comment on F-9/11

[Jon Johanning]

Saw Fahrenheit 9/11 Sat. afternoon at a suburban Philadelphia theater. 
Very large crowd, looking pretty much like a cross-section of suburbia. 
During the film you could hear a woman sobbing through most of it, and 
when it was over a guy stood up and shouted "Go to hell, George Bush."

The main thing I learned from it that I did not know before was the 
scene in Congress when Bush's election was being certified; a petition 
to stop or delay it got a lot of Representatives' signatures and needed 
at least one Senator's signature, but no Senator was willing to sign 
it. Moore showed one black Representative after another standing up and 
saying she or he had signed it and bitterly complaining that no 
Senators had; after each one, Gore, who was presiding, officiously 
asked if a Senator had signed. "No." "Petition denied."

I hadn't realized that this had happened. A very powerful scene.

Jon Johanning // jjohanning at igc.org
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