  ok, so I read the Robert Jensen article that Aimee provided the link for. The man is obviously well read and articulate, and I agree with his Anti-Empire political leanings. However, all that happy horseshit aside, I can't really totally buy his article "critiquing" the 9/11 film. I mean, some of the shit might be true, but...... First, who ever said that Michael Moore was trying to make an Anti-Empire movie? A lot of Jensen's comments seem geared towards the fact that Moore should have made an Anti-Empire movie, not an Anti-Bush movie. While I may agree with that statement in some ways, I'm not the one who made the damn movie. Maybe Jensen should make his own fucking movie. Maybe he should give his time, money, and energy to the making of an Anti-Empire movie. And by the way, Jensen seems to think that if the movie had been made the way HE wanted it to be made, it would have changed the world!
He makes it seem as if people would rally around in opposition to today's two-party system, and there would be a revolution of such force that the government as we know it would be toppled and oppressed people everywhere would rejoice in their new found freedom from tyranical rule! RIIIIIGHT. Hello, Mr. Jensen? This is France. It didn't work for us. Get the fucking net. Anyway.... It seems like there is this constant competition among people to see who can be the MOST left wing, the MOST liberal, who can point to and condemn the most instances of the subtle racism that plagues our society.
It kind of reminds me of that episode of the Apprentice where one girl says to the black woman "that's the pot calling the kettle black", to which she responded "there you go with your racist comments again. " HAH. And the sad thing is, some people didn't even understand why the comment was so hilariously funny!
fuckers. Although it's true that Michael Moore did not emphasize the treatment of Arab americans since 9/11, I fail to see that the mere fact that a white man who was harassed by the FBI for making anti-Bush comments was included in the movie therefore makes it racist. PLEASE. Also, about the Coalition of the Willing - Iceland was also listed in that segment. Iceland is one of the whitest places on the PLANET. Also, Morocco DID offer to send in monkeys! How is showing a picture of running monkeys, when Morocco offered to send them, in any way racist?
Just because they are monkeys? I think THAT is racist. I think the point of the segment was to show that the other nations who were a part of the coaltion have basically no military at all, and were therefore only useful in Bush's attempt to make people think that other nations supported our military actions, when in fact every nation that mattered in the military sense did NOT support our actions. I did not get the feeling that Moore was pointing to the fact that the other nations weren't WHITE as a way of making fun of them. Paranoid much? But then again, I'm about as white as Powder, so I guess I have no right to discuss issues such as these.
I'm not saying Moore's movie is great, or that it couldn't have been done better. What I am saying is that the film has a purpose - to get Bush out of the White House. And I think it can help with that purpose. And getting Bush out isn't the ultimate solution to all of the nation's problems, that's true. But let's be real people. This ain't no fucking revolution. 
