Well, I guess if you have to find something to complain about....
This strikes me as a fairly common Bush apologist approach. Faced with evidence they can't refute, they start assailing the messenger.
Works for them.
Then comes 9/11. Moore touchingly conveys this day of infamy with a montage of sounds and visuals that refrains from showing images of airplanes hitting buildings or the World Trade Center collapsing. Instead, we get noise of horror over a blank screen, then shots of crying, horrified people staring into a sky filling with smoke and debris.
Matt leaves unmentioned that the accompanying pictures are those of Chickenhawk Little sitting passively in that kiddie classroom.
Even if one agrees with all of Moore's arguments, the film reduces decades of American foreign-policy failures to a black-and-white cartoon that lays the blame on one family. He ignores facts like the policy to arm and support Afghan rebels that began in the Carter administration. For that matter, the Clinton team never mounted a serious effort to go after al-Qaida even after the 1998 embassy bombings in East Africa.
And waaah, waaaah, waaaaaah, Clinton! Clinton!
