Ranting to /dev/null

Now that's more like it

Props to Christopher Hitchens, whose brilliant response to the godawful Farenheit 9/11, about to desecrate decent theaters nationwide, is possibly the best thing on Moore I have yet to read. Mr. Hitchens has Moore pegged exactly: it doesn't matter whether or not Moore has anything at all to say, let alone anything intelligent. Moore's posturing is the intellectual equivalent of standing on your tiptoes and yelling "Bush bad!" while pointing in a fashion that somehow fails to be menacing. Any half-witted third-grader can do that. Does Moore have anything constructive to say? No. Does he have any ideas at all? Not as such. Is he preparing a legal backlash for anyone who "insults him or his pet"? Youbetcha.

Money quote for those who think Moore makes good films, regardless of their content: "If you leave out absolutely everything that might give your 'narrative' a problem and throw in any old rubbish that might support it, and you don't even care that one bit of that rubbish flatly contradicts the next bit, and you give no chance to those who might differ, then you have betrayed your craft." (emphasis in the original)