The famous Daily Mirror headline about 59,054,087 Americans bneing so dumb was definitely on to something.  I am convinced now.  
I know that I am coming to this quite late in the game, but I just saw Michael Moore's "documentary" Farenheit 9/11.  
To call that movie "crap" would be to insult crap.  I seriously have far less respect for the people who saw it and told me to see it.  The movie is so beneath criticism that I am not sure why anyone would dignify it with a critique (though Christopher Hitchens does a perfect job.)   Do people no longer believe in thinking? I mean, seriously, my fellow Americans, what is up?  
This is the most egregious instance of Confirmation Bias I have ever seen.  Confirmation Bias the the psychological condition whereby one takes an argument to be convincing because you already agree with the conclusion.  You may not like George Bush, I can respect that.  But if, for you, this film contributed to that, you have a sad, sorry, excuse for an intellect.  
I really hope that in 100 years from now there will be no copies of this film left.  I would be mortified to know that future historians will be laughing their asses off, judging us by this, wondering how 50-something million Americans thought that this movie made a point.  
Saturday, December 18, 2004
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