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| Fox: Some of the The Truth About ’Fahrenheit 9/11’ |
| 2004-06-29 |
| EFL ...For instance, in one often-showed clip, Moore claims that President Bush was on vacation 42 percent of the time during his first several months in office — but that estimation included weekends at Camp David, a common practice for presidents. Without those days figured in, Bush actually spent 13 percent of his time on vacation. The movie also criticizes Bush for staying inside a Florida classroom full of kids for a full seven minutes after he learned that the country was under attack on Sept. 11, 2001. However, the vice chairman of the Sept. 11 commission has said that Bush did the right thing. "Bush made the right decision in remaining calm, in not rushing out of the classroom," said Lee Hamilton, a former Democratic congressman from Indiana. In "Fahrenheit 9/11" Moore also claims that the White House approved plans for planes to pick up relatives of Usama Bin Laden right after the attacks. But according to terrorism czar Richard Clarke, he alone approved the Saudi flights. In addition, Moore says that the departing Saudis were not properly processed by the FBI when leaving the country. That too is contradicted by the Sept. 11 commission, which said the Saudis were properly interviewed. Finally, Moore shows prominent members of the Taliban visiting Texas, implying that they were invited by then-Governor Bush. The Taliban delegation, however, was invited to Houston by UNOCAL (search), a California energy company. Moore also doesn’t mention that the visit was made with the permission of the Clinton administration, which twice met with Taliban members — in 1997 and 1998. |
| Posted by:Super Hose |
| #4 There are plenty of people whose indifference to the Taliban looks fairly indicting in retrospect. How many of you responded to the HUGE email campaign against the Taliban in 2000/2001? It was BEFORE 9/11, when rumors of their savagery toward women should have made EVERYONE, Bush AS WELL AS Clinton, push to change our dealings with them. There was plenty of substantiation by that point that the Taliban were murdering religious savages. So if Bush is guilty, so are plenty of others. |
| Posted by: jules 187 2004-09-01 11:36:02 AM |
| #3 The Taliban delegation, however, was invited to Houston by UNOCAL (search), a California energy company. Which President Bush happened to have close friends on the board of. |
| Posted by: ConservativeView 2004-09-01 11:10:10 AM |
| #2 More crap about this on my blog, esp. the Unocal thing, and another bit of dishonesty this article doesn't mention (Rep. Kennedy). |
| Posted by: Angie Schultz 2004-06-29 2:07:50 PM |
| #1 Moore is a big ugly propaganda blot on the american landscape. nothing worse than a hypocrite. Moore uses the same tactics of lying by omission, distorting with one-sided stats and outright misrepresentation that he accuses the "mainstream" media of doing. The only thing uglier than the man himself is the applauding idiots who keep giving him awards for his "documentary" proving they don't know the dictionary definition of the term. |
| Posted by: Anon1 2004-06-29 10:15:30 AM |