{"id":80,"date":"2004-07-22T16:36:50","date_gmt":"2004-07-22T21:36:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.clank.org\/pundit\/?p=80"},"modified":"2004-07-22T16:36:50","modified_gmt":"2004-07-22T21:36:50","slug":"what-exactly-does-fahrenheit-911-mean-anyway","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.clank.org\/pundit\/2004\/07\/22\/what-exactly-does-fahrenheit-911-mean-anyway\/","title":{"rendered":"What, exactly, does &#8220;Fahrenheit 9\/11&#8221; mean, anyway?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Been busy this week, but this bears mentioning: Michael Moore&#8217;s latest &#8220;documentary&#8221; may have some serious credibility problems.<br \/>\n<!--more--><br \/>\nWhether you&#8217;ve already seen the film or plan to, you need to read <a href=\"http:\/\/www.davekopel.com\/Terror\/Fiftysix-Deceits-in-Fahrenheit-911.htm\">David Kopel&#8217;s analysis<\/a>, too. <em>Fifty-nine Deceits in Fahrenheit 9\/11<\/em> exposes Moore&#8217;s masterful spin through misinformation, resequencing of timelines, out-of-context video clips, and downright lies.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<div>&#8220;&#8230; there are lies from the Bush administration which should concern everyone. [&#8230;]<\/div>\n<\/blockquote>\n<blockquote>\n<div>&#8220;But two wrongs don&#8217;t make a right, and the right response to Presidential lies is not more lies from his political opponents. Moreover, regarding the issues presented in Fahrenheit 9\/11, the evidence of Bush lies is extremely thin.&#8221;<\/div>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Please be careful and check the sources for each item. You should be as skeptical of this commentary as I am encouraging you to be of the film. On the balance, though, it doesn&#8217;t look good for Mr. Moore.<\/p>\n<p>PS &#8211; Thanks to Mom for the pointer!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Been busy this week, but this bears mentioning: Michael Moore&#8217;s latest &#8220;documentary&#8221; may have some serious credibility problems.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-80","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-moore-is-less"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p706FH-1i","jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.clank.org\/pundit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.clank.org\/pundit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.clank.org\/pundit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.clank.org\/pundit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.clank.org\/pundit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=80"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.clank.org\/pundit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.clank.org\/pundit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=80"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.clank.org\/pundit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=80"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.clank.org\/pundit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=80"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}