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...focused on defining themselves and selling their campaign as an upbeat "celebration of American values." So for now, they'd just as soon avoid the issue of the war (which both supported) and let others carry the attack against Bush. Michael Moore is happy to offer his services. Fahrenheit 9/11, his new Bush-bashing movie, has generated more heat than any attack ad the Democrats could possibly dream up. In effect, the provocateur has become an uninvited (but not altogether unwelcome) Democratic operative, and his documentary can be thought of as an independent, uncoordinated expenditure on behalf of the Kerry...
...recent trip to Paris, I hadn’t even been in the country five minutes before the French’s disapproval of America became all too apparent. Advertisements for Fahrenheit 9/11 were plastered around the metro, while Le Monde Selon Bush (The World According to Bush)—another documentary suggesting that Bush deliberately made erroneous statements about WMDs in Iraq—was playing in theaters. The cover of the daily magazine L’Humanite portrayed Michael Moore dressed up like the Statue of Liberty, wearing his signature baseball...
...COVER STORY Michael Moore With Fahrenheit 9/11 a box-office hit, the populist pest is now a political lightning...
...million Amount Fahrenheit 9/11 earned in its first weekend of release, making the anti-Bush film the highest-grossing documentary ever...
...Saudi Connections In his report on Michael Moore's film Fahrenheit 9/11, Richard Corliss provided a good account of its presentation at the Cannes Film Festival [June 14]. But he incorrectly described the flights transporting members of the bin Laden family, who are Saudi, out of the country after 9/11. Corliss wrote that "in the dire days after 9/11, when U.S. flights were grounded, two dozen of Osama bin Laden's relatives were flown out of the country without the FBI being allowed to question them." The film does not claim that these flights from the U.S. took place while...