Moore Gets the Attitude Right in 'Fahrenheit'

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WASHINGTON -- Michael Moore's "Fahrenheit 9/11" is everything you've heard. It is a searing indictment of the Bush administration's war on terror. It is an eye-opening expose of a president whose inexperience and limited intelligence make him tragically unsuited for the job. It is a masterful job of connecting the dots between Saudi money and the business interests of the president and his friends. And it is an overwrought piece of propaganda -- a 110-minute hatchet job that doesn't even bother to pretend to be fair.

That last may be a part of its appeal: There is no hidden agenda, no subliminal message. Moore thinks President Bush is dumb, devious and dangerous and needs to be voted out of the office. He doesn't have that much good to say about the Democrats or John Kerry, their presumptive candidate. But it's mostly about how bad Bush is.

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Moore Gets the Attitude Right in 'Fahrenheit'

It's easy enough to see why Republicans hated the movie before they ever saw it, why they used their influence to try to stop its production and distribution, and why...

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