  urlLink Moore, in bending facts, documents a fantasy To call Michael Moore's Fahrenheit 9/11 a work of fiction is to miss the point. It's a documentary, but whereas most documentaries document the truth, Moore's film is documenting a fantasy. With his false documentaries, Moore fills a need. His work is there for people immune to evidence and fact. Moore and his audience are there for each other, functioning as a support group that reinforces the willful belief in things that do not exist and are not so.
It's been said (flippantly) that being a member of the radical left is, as with communism and socialism, evidence of a mental illness. But with Fahrenheit 9/11, flippancy isn't called for. We are talking mass delusion here. Millions of people are unable to deal with certain facts - that, say, Bush is a popular, effective, exemplary wartime leader; that his administration, while it may have made some errors, is not the sink of iniquity we saw with Bill Clinton; that the war in Iraq, though fraught with difficulty, is succeeding and will make the world better. Unable to deal with these facts, Moore and others like him create a separate reality, one of shady conspiracies between the Bush family and the Saudis, of deliberate attempts to mislead the American people so the trigger-happy Bush could go to war, of a war the United States, despite victory after victory, is shown to be losing.
Alternative reality. Mind you, these people are not mentally ill because they're leftists; they are leftists because they're miswired from the start. Since Moore and his fans live in an alternate reality, it doesn't matter how many times and by how many insiders and experts their view has been disproved to them. When the unwell individual isn't able - through legislating, lobbying or voting - to make reality accord with his mental world, this prototype sets off for Hollywood, where there is a sea of others like him, who have studios at their disposal.
That's how the public ends up with TV shows such as The West Wing and movies like The American President. Fantasies of the successful liberal presidency. Except now, with the advent of Michael Moore, the presentation has become more insidious, with this new genre of pseudo-documentary. Unfortunately, the Academy Awards have no such category, so it's likely that Moore again will be a nominee for Best Documentary (though he won't be a shoo-in this time). To accommodate works like Moore's, the Academy should consider creating a new category, perhaps titled "Fantasy Documentary.
" Ok, so now people with different opinions are crazy? I don't know, but for some reasons I'd think that someone who can't accept difference at all is a little more crazy than us liberals. I don't think my conservative friends are crazy just because they don't believe what I believe. It's easy to SAY stuff like, "It's been said (flippantly) that being a member of the radical left is, as with communism and socialism, evidence of a mental illness", but where the fuck is the evidence to support that? There is no evidence! Fahrenheit 9/11 could actually BACK UP it's crazy ideas with some kind of vague proof at least. And it's easy to say it's all made up and all fake, but where's the proof? And to say that Michael Moore and other crazy liberals have "who have studios at their disposal" is bullshit.
Fahrenheit 9/11 was turned down by a number of movie studios before it went to Lions Gate. What's really funny is saying that Clinton is worse than Bush. Clinton did what plenty of men ALL OVER THE WORLD do. Now, I'm not saying that's right, but it's nothing compared to Bush. Bush cut back on benefits for soldiers and veterans. Bush hasn't exactly been helping the environment either. He's also against gay marriage, which, I admit, can be debated as something that makes Bush a bad president.
Bush also started a war with another country and killed innocent people. All of the reasons for having that war are bullshit. People say, "Saddam killed all those Kurds! It's horrible! He deserves to die for that. " A couple things, since when have you ever given a fuck about people other than yourself? I agree, it IS horrible, and something SHOULD'VE been done about it. But why Iraq? Look at Africa! Look at the fucking Congo. There's racial violence a hundred times worse than what happened to the Kurds.
Why aren't we helping them? Because the Congo doesn't sit on top of the second largest oil supply in the world. WMD's? Don't exist. What about the Osama Saddam connection? Yes, they're both arab, but truthfully, they hated each other. I know people don't like Michael Moore, and I can honestly see why. Just because he believe something different, it doesn't mean he's crazy. 
