I will admit, after having read everything that I could find that was Anti-Bowling for Columbine, that Moore did do some unfair things to help make his point.
I saw F 9/11 on Friday and have looked into every single story that attempts to debunk Moore's side of the facts and I have found NOTHING wrong. The vast majority of the attacks take the form of the things that Manasecret posted. Stuff like this:
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But the movie does not point out that the FBI interviewed about 30 of the Saudis before they left the USA and that investigators say no one on board the planes has turned out to be of interest. The independent 9/11 commission has reported that "each of the flights we have studied was investigated by the FBI and dealt with in a professional manner prior to its departure."
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I mean, that's ridiculous. So the FBI interviewed less than 25% of the Saudis that left and then we're supposed to feel better because it turns out after the fact that they really weren't a threat. Well golly gee, I'm so glad we got that information after they left the country.
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In December 1997, a delegation of top Taliban officials visited the USA at the invitation of officials from Unocal, a California-based oil and gas company with extensive business dealings in Texas. At the time, Unocal was pursuing a deal to construct a gas pipeline through Afghanistan. Moore notes that the delegation visited Texas while Bush was governor. He doesn't say the delegation met with Bush, but that is implied.
In fact, Bush did not meet with the Taliban representatives. What Moore also doesn't say is that Clinton administration officials at the State Department did sit down with the Taliban officials and that their visit was made with the Clinton administration's permission.
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Paragraph 1: Saying that it was implied is
implying that it was implied. How this can be construed as anything but right-wing nitpicking is beyond me. I didn't feel it was implied. Texas is an oil rich state, I'm sure some bull**** went down while they were there, if not with bushes bosom buddies than with another scummy oil corporation.
Paragraph 2: Anyone who has followed Michael Moore's career knows he's no fan of the Democratic Party, but the feeling of the vast majority of the liberals in this country is that right now anything is better than the Republican Party. For a conservative to point this out is basically conceding that very fact.
If you want to say that this movie is more a piece of propaganda than a documentary I won't argue with (to a point, all of the parts where Moore actually went and did his own interviews cannot be considered anything but documentary) but I have yet to see ANYTHING that exposes a major flaw (or even a minor flaw) in the FACTS of this movie. That wasn't the case with BfC, and Moore has learned his lesson. He hired an entire team of fact checkers and a team of lawyers to go after anyone who attempts to discredit the movie though false accusations.
If you follow the news carefully, as I do, you won't learn very much from F 9/11, but I, though a modest person, can guarantee that the vast majority of the American public does not follow the news as closely as I do and they are going to learn a lot from this movie.
4 Stars, go see it, $10 bet on the table that it gets a Best Picture nomination.