If I could only remember...

[burning_brain]

If I could only remember who the fucking idiots were who told me how biased the film Farenheit 911 was, how when Michael Moore showed daily life in Iraq before the bombing, they claimed there was tender music playing, trying to subtly influence the audience. Well, I'm watching it on cable now, and that's bullshit, just like so much right wing

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[addiejd]

Fahrenheit 911 was biased, but that doesn't mean that the information was inaccurate. It was biased because it was a piece of persuasive art, and it is impossible to have persuasive art without trying to bias people towards that side (or the other if it is satire). Something being biased doesn't make it wrong, it just means emphasizing the points you think are important and de-emphasizing the points you think are not; Michael Moore was just lucky in that he had an abundant amount of information to work with that favored what he was trying to say.

It's not the bias that the right wingers are upset with, it's that they don't have enough information towards their own bias to comment back with and therefore are pointing out that it is biased because it's easier to convince the non-thinking masses that make up the majority of our country's population that there is something wrong with being biased and therefore should not believe that information than it is to try to convince them of their side.

That being said, I wasn't a huge fan of the movie. I felt the majority of it was just beating a dead horse, repeatedly, until there were only small chunks and a fine red mist left. And that it was pretty much preaching to the converted because of that because he made it so blatantly obvious his point of view that people who didn't share it wouldn't bother to see it to find out what that point of view was.

As far as the demonstrations go, I would skip anti-Bush demonstrations as I think they are kind of pointless because he can't be re-elected and stick to demonstrations that focus on other political figures you disagree with and topics you think are important, because those can make a much bigger difference.

[burning_brain]

Rather than beating a dead horse, I think the overwhelming amount of damning evidence is very necessary. For the most part he was preaching to the choir, but I'd like to believe some people who saw the film who did so because they were undecided, and were eventually made to see how our way of life is being subverted and sold off to Bush cronies. In a poll taken before the election, 48% of Bush supporters still believed Saddam Hussein had something to do with 9/11. That kind of ignorance needs a sledge hammer, not a tap on the shoulder.

I still believe the film made a difference, and that the election ended up the way it did only because the incumbent administration prevailed at the one and only thing they've proven themselves competent: election fraud.

About demonstrating, I was speaking broadly, but there are specific demonstrations organized by moveon.org and others. For example, they recently organized demonstrations in front of the homes of congressmen in order to encourage them to sign on to Rep. Conyers impeachment effort. The hope is that we'll move forward on prosecuting the President for breaking the law, rather than engaging in masturbatory debates about the nuances of what the law really means.