Many in the media are trying to position the upcoming documentary film America's Heart and Soul as a counterweight to Fahrenheit 9/11. I had written a couple paragraphs on how ridiculous this position is before finding out that the same public-relations firm trying to get F9/11 banned is promoting AH&S as an antidote to F9/11 and that Disney invited the group Move America Forward, formed in response to Moore's movie, to an early private showing of AH&S. This totally validates what the earlier draft had called Michael Moore's paranoid ranting about "Disney joining forces with the right-wing kooks who have come together to attempt to censor Fahrenheit 9/11".
There appears to be nothing against Fahrenheit 9/11 in America's Heart and Soul, only in its marketing. As near as I can tell (having not seen it yet), AH&S says that there are many great things about the United States that Americans should be proud of. F9/11 says that the Bush administration is not one of them. There is no conflict between these two opinions. The only people claiming that AH&S showcases only Republican Party values are the Kaloogian extremists in the Republican Party and the mainstream media which gladly and uncritically echoes them.
The movie which comes closest to being the opposite of Fahrenheit 9/11 is DC 9/11: Time of Crisis (aka The Big Dance), the Showtime special whose script is based on the White House's official version of events specially provided to the producers. I've never seen it, but I've heard that its tenuous connection to the facts challenges the worst that anyone has had to say about F9/11.
Posted by Warrior Tang at June 30, 2004 10:07 PM