Mainstream Pundits Bash Fahrenheit 9/11 without Mentioning that much of the film's Allegations have been Proven True

After hearing all this predictable negativity from the mainstream political pundits about Fahrenheit 9/11, I was wondering how many of them actually saw the movie. It would be a great exercise to go over point by point what Michael Moore was trying to say. I think it would be shocking to see that despite some questionable assertions how much of what he said has been confirmed by mainstream institutions such as the 9/11 committee itself and the recent senate report that explored the links between Al-Qaida and Saddam Hussein's Iraq.

The REAL QUESTION is; are we open to the truth or would we prefer to bash those who go against our preconceived notions of reality?

On ABC’s This Week (Sept 10 2006) George Will went on the attack against the Nation’s Katrina vanden Heuvel regarding Michael Moore's Farenheit 9/11 movie, in which Will incorrectly portrayed as docudrama, Vanden Heuvel went on the defensive (possibly - and understandably so - fearing that any passionate defense of Moore's work on Farenheit 9/11 would undermine the mainstream pundit credentials she has worked so hard to build over the years) and did not challenge him on the fact that much of what Moore said in the movie was in fact proven true in the years after the movie by numerous reports mentioned in the mainstream media. Zakaria while noting that Will was incorrect in labeling Moore's movie a docudrama went on to denounce the movie (without really explaining why it should be denounced!). The responses of vanden Huevel and Zakaria in their reaction to Will's denunciation of Moore demonstrate the power of the conservatives to define the boundaries of the discussion in the mainstream media, particularly in relation to economic and national security issues.

Also see Chris Hitchens critical view of Farenheit 9/11.