Titles: | Fun With Moore: A Point by Point Scoring of Fahrenheit 9/11 | |||
Fahrenheit 9/11 | ||||
Bush Slam 9/11 | ||||
The Day Moore Shot Himself In His Political Left Foot | ||||
Blind Cynicism 9/11 | ||||
BUSH | MOORE | POINTS AWARDED | ANALYSIS | ARGUMENT |
PART 1: 2000 PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION, BUSH'S VACATIONING | ||||
2000 Presidential
Election: "Bush got away with 2000 election..." "1st cousin called victory in Florida..." "Chairman of Bush campaign vote count chairman..." |
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2000 Presidential Election
Recount: "if there was a recount Gore would have won Florida…" |
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2000 Presidential
Election: "official misconduct in Florida vote..." |
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2000 Presidential Election House
of Representatives Protest: "Not a single senator came to the aid of African Americans in Congress…" |
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2000 Presidential
Election: In Washington DC liberals in the streets were seen demonstrating to "reclaim what was taken from them"… showing eggs thrown at Bush's car… |
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"Bush lost Republican
control in the Senate" |
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"Bush's approval ratings began to sink" | ||||
"Bush already beginning to look like a lame duck president…" | ||||
"Bush went on vacation…" | ||||
"Pre 9/11 Bush was on vacation 42% of the time" | ||||
Bush, in response to reporter's challenge that he's taking too many vacations: "You don't have to be in Washington to work"… | ||||
Bush, in response to reporter's challenge that he's taking too many vacations: "You don't have to be in Washington to work"… | ||||
"Bush's summer to remember, with fine French linens…" | ||||
Wolfowitz licking comb and running it through hair… a Moore attempt to make Wolfowitz look bad… | ||||
Powell getting makeup- a Moore attempt to make Powell look superficial... | ||||
Bush getting "camera ready" for a speech, an attempt by Moore to catch Bush being stupid… | ||||
PART 2:BUSH AND 9/11 | ||||
Moore cuts into the World Trade Center event… | ||||
Moore still on WTC | ||||
"After 1st plane hit, Bush went ahead with photo-op." | ||||
After 1st plane hit, "Bush continued to read…" | ||||
"Was Bush wondering maybe should he have shown up to work more often…" | ||||
"Bush held not one meeting with his head of counter-terrorism…" | ||||
Bush "cut terrorism funding from the FBI…" | ||||
Bush "Should have read security briefing…" | ||||
The security briefing "said Osama was planning to attack America by hijacking airplanes…" | ||||
"A report like that might make some men jump…" | ||||
"What was Bush thinking, 'I've been hanging around the wrong crowd…" | ||||
"Which one of them screwed me…" | ||||
"Was it my daddy who delivered a lot of weapons to Saddam…" | ||||
"Was it the group of religious fundamentalists who visited my state when I was governor…" | ||||
"Or was it the Saudis? Damn, it was them. I think I better blame it on Saddam." | ||||
Moore shows Osama bin Laden himself flying out of the US during the flying ban imposed by the FAA. | ||||
"Should have subpoenaed Bin Ladens…" and "FBI did nothing, not even standard police interrogation procedure…" | ||||
Senator Byron Dorgan: "I think we ought to look into why the Bin Laden flights happened, it should be the subject of a significant investigation…" | ||||
Moore still playing up the Bin Laden flights. | ||||
"Letting the Bin Ladens go was like letting the McVeigh family leave the country after the Oklahoma City bombing…" | ||||
"What do you think would have happened to Clinton…" | ||||
Moore using his own whiny voice. | ||||
Scene of Saudi official saying Osama thanked him for bringing US aid to Afghanistan during the Soviet occupation. | ||||
Larry King asking that Osama MAY be responsible for the attacks… | ||||
Scene jumps back to Bush in the 2nd grade classroom with Moore's infantile and shallow commentary… | ||||
Moore showing himself giving a speech at the Democratic New Hampshire primary. | ||||
PART 3: BUSH AND SERVICE RECORD | ||||
"Bush a deserter" and "White House hopes of disproving the charge…" | ||||
Moore then tries to equate suspension with desertion. | ||||
Bush had many cross-outs in the copy of his service document he presented… | ||||
PART 4: BUSH/SAUDI/MILITARY INDUSTRIAL COMPLEX TIES | ||||
Mr. Bath was the Bin Laden's Texas money manager… | ||||
"Bush ran all his companies into the ground, yet still received Bin Laden money to bail him out." | ||||
Bush receiving Bin Laden money… | ||||
"Bush beat securities fraud rap with help, then appointed that help the Ambassador to Saudi Arabia…" | ||||
"After that debacle" | ||||
"Carlyle Group owned many weapons companies and other heavily government regulated industries, and the Bin Ladens stood to gain from the actions of Osama through defense investments." | ||||
9/11 guaranteed the United Defense was going to have a very good year. | ||||
Bush Sr. visited Saudi Arabia as ex. President. | ||||
For military arms dealers… | ||||
"Who's your daddy (the US or the Saudis)? Implying Bush Sr. would give the Saudi's more consideration than the US based on their relative sources of income... | ||||
Moore shows Powell with the Saudis… | ||||
"Bush has special relations with a regime that has human rights violations… | ||||
"It will come back to haunt him…" | ||||
Bush saying "It's important not to reveal how we collect information, that's what the enemy wants…" | ||||
"Bush censors report…" | ||||
Widow of 9/11 victim saying "it's important to know what happened…" | ||||
Moore "Here we are at three important landmarks, the Watergate Hotel, the Saudi Embassy,…" | ||||
"Saudis have $860 billion (6-7% of the US economy) invested in the US…" | ||||
Security shows up and questions Moore about what he's doing there taking pictures… Moore says there are 6 secret servicemen assigned to Saudis… | ||||
"Saudi money funded Al Qaeda…" | ||||
Saudis reluctant to cooperate with investigators… | ||||
"Obvious Al Qaeda attacked us…" | ||||
PART 5: BUSH AND WAR ON TERRORISM | ||||
"Bush didn't do much in Afghanistan, he only put 14,000 troops there…" | ||||
Clarke: "Special Forces should have went directly after Osama right away…" | ||||
"Afghanistan about oil…", "Taliban in Texas…", Karsai former advisor to Unical…" | ||||
"Most of the Taliban and Osama got away…" | ||||
PART 6: BUSH AND FEAR FACTOR | ||||
"War president had a new target- the American people; "Where, how, there's nothing specific to report…" | ||||
"Fear works" says Democrat. "For political gain", says Moore. | ||||
Calls Bush "skillful and ugly". | ||||
"No way anyone can live constantly on the edge like that…" (pertaining to Bush's alleged scare tactics) | ||||
Moore shows crackpot anti-terror products and small-town terror concerns… | ||||
PART 7: BUSH AND IRAQ WAR | ||||
Iraq "a nation that has never attacked the US…" | ||||
"A nation that has never murdered a single American citizen…" | ||||
Moore shows dead baby. | ||||
Moore shows civilian deaths, implying US killed them wantonly through gung-ho interviews with US soldiers. | ||||
Soldier's gung-ho interviews. | ||||
"They" killed civilians. | ||||
Moore uses Britney Spears as an example of only the vacant-minded as being supporters of Bush. | ||||
Moore shows the Bush administration saying "Saddam not able to create new WMD's then shows them saying "He's got them…" | ||||
"No real threat in Saddam…" | ||||
Moore sets out to demean the coalition of the willing, showing tropical islands with no standing army, and WWII japs bicycling down village dirt roads. | ||||
Concerning members of the coalition of the willing: "Afghanistan? Afghanistan had an army- Our army! That's one way to build a coalition- just keep invading countries…" | ||||
Then Moore begins showing dissident soldiers- making the kind of statements cynical turntail liberals like to hear. | ||||
Moore shows Bush's "bring 'em on!" | ||||
Soldier "not easy in Iraq". | ||||
"War not going as planned." | ||||
"War not going as planned." | ||||
Soldier: The army will have retention problems and recruiting will be down." | ||||
"Bush will get replacements from places destroyed by the economy…" | ||||
Moore interviewing black from his hometown, Flint, Michigan. "It looks like a war zone around here, just like Iraq!" | ||||
PART 8: MILITARY RECRUITING | ||||
Recruiters shown interviewing young whites. | ||||
Recruiter: "Shaggy was a former marine." Black rap-wannabe's jaws drop. | ||||
"Should use the military only as a last resort." | ||||
Black "It would be nice go be able to go to college without dying in the process…" | ||||
PART 9: BUSH AND SOLDIERS IN IRAQ | ||||
Moore shows US military vehicles driving around Iraq to the tune of Bing Crosby's Christmas music. | ||||
Moore shows soldiers searching Iraqi house for combatant, ostensibly to portray them as some kind of arm of tyranny. | ||||
Soldier "We're not winning the hearts and minds of the Iraqis…" | ||||
Mother of soldier killed in Iraq visiting Washington, protestors there… | ||||
"Immoral behavior breeds immoral behavior…" | ||||
Then cuts to scene of Iraq war with comment "There goes Bush sending otherwise good kids to war…" | ||||
"Sending kids to war based on a lie…" | ||||
Soldier lamenting "Iraqis say 'go away, we don't want you here', then when they need help, 'Oh, why weren't you here?' which makes working in Iraq difficult… | ||||
Disillusioned Soldier: "I will not go back to Iraq to kill poor people, especially when they posed no threat to me or my country…" | ||||
Bush proposed cutting combat soldier's pay by 33%, assistance to their families by 60%, opposed $1 billion increase in health care benefits for vets, doubled prescription costs for vets, closed veteran's hospitals, opposed full benefits for part-time servicemen who were covered elsewhere, and dead serviceman docked 5 days pay on his last paycheck for being dead... | ||||
Wounded Soldier: "I was a Republican, not any more. Republicans conduct business in a dishonorable way…" | ||||
Moore cuts to Mother who's son was 'taken'… | ||||
Soldier: "George got us out here for nothing" and "Don't re-elect that fool." | ||||
"Fighting for what?" | ||||
"Fighting for what", then Moore shows Halliburton corruption, some guy saying "was is always good for certain companies"… | ||||
"If it wasn't for the oil, the US wouldn't be there…" | ||||
Old lady "Iraqis will never be free." | ||||
Outside Whitehouse, dark-skinned kid "Bush is a terrorist…" | ||||
"Al Qaeda didn't make the decision to send my kid to Iraq…" | ||||
Moore then shows himself getting congressmen to enlist their sons and daughters in the military to go over and fight in Iraq, since only one congressman has a son enlisted in the military. | ||||
"The poor serve so we don't have to…" | ||||
"The poor serve so we don't have to…" | ||||
PART 10: MOORE PUSHES MARXISM | ||||
Moore then mentions poverty and ignorance in America. | ||||
"Ruling group rules over own subjects to keep structure of society intact…" | ||||
Bush "fool me once, shame on you, fool me twice…. (mind goes blank…)" | ||||
FINAL SCORE: | ||||
BUSH | MOORE | |||