Letters

A true conservative endorses Fahrenheit 9/11

I enjoyed your editorial ["Feeling the Heat," Editor's Note, July 1] but I have one small complaint. You wrote:

"How could this plump purveyor of political satire be responsible for a coast-to-coast shudder on the right?" And, "The movie is excellent, but the reaction from the right has been even more entertaining."

Since when are Republicans on the right? Ronald Reagan is long gone and Son of a Bush is not on the right. Gov. Kenny Guinn is not on the right. Republican state Sens. Rawson, Raggio and Townsend are not on the right. They are all tax-and-spend, drive-up-the-debt, support-the-PATRIOT Act tyrants on the left. So what if Sen. Reid is 2 percent more liberal than Guinn. That is no REAL choice or difference.

I am on the REAL right. I am the state chairman of the Independent American Party of Nevada and I loved Michael Moore's Fahrenheit 9/11. We have had many people join the Independent American Party since they saw this film. Six people specifically mentioned the movie while changing their registration. We have 2,900 new members in just the last four months, which is 17.8 percent growth. Moore's film will only help those numbers. (No other party in Nevada grew more than 4 percent during the last four months.

And this film was not just an attack on the Republicans. It was an attack on the Democrats too as they follow along doing nothing about the corruption in the last election or the war in Iraq or the USA PATRIOT Act. Tweedledum and Tweedledumber.

There is still not a dime's worth of difference between the Republican Party and Democratic Party. The only difference is that Democrats support Labor Socialism and Republicans support Corporate Socialism (Benito Mussolini called this fascism)

So please do not say the TRUE right opposes the message in Fahrenheit 9/11. We Independent Americans are telling every Republican and Democrat to go see the film and after they do to re-register in a different party (Not just us! There are the Greens and Libertarians too) so we can have TRUE debate in American politics once again.

--Christopher Hansen

Moore's harsh assessment of Americans is right

In a July 3 letter to the Review-Journal, Chris Drelich says she (he?) refuses to see Michael Moore's film, Fahrenheit 9/11, because Moore insults the president and the American people. Actually, Moore does not insult the president; he just shows film of the guy and tells what Bush has been up to. Chris also objects to statements Moore allegedly made to foreign audiences about America.

First, Moore is to have said to Canadians that in America "every man is for himself." That is not an insult; it's comparatively true. Most other democracies have more safety nets for their people, including more affordable and better health care. Also, a British study shows that nearly one-quarter of the world's prisoners are incarcerated in the United States, and we're one of the few countries with the death penalty. Prison is where we put our poor when we're not sending them off to fight wars for corporate profits.

Second, Chris objects to Moore saying to a German audience that Americans are "dumb" or "ignorant." If Moore said that, I would have to agree that Americans are misinformed and tend to believe mythology rather than facts. We were certainly misinformed by the mainstream media when it failed to challenge the Bush statements about WMD and ties of Saddam to Al Qaeda when a little research could have revealed the truth well before the invasion. Instead, the "Fourth Estate" became the propaganda arm of the Bush administration. Americans don't have to see Moore's film or become informed on anything. They can just go on believing the myth that their government can do no wrong--right up to the point where they lose all their freedoms.

--Jerry Bitts

Disney's refusal to release Fahrenheit was clever ploy

In regards to Fahrenheit 9/11, it's well known that Michael Moore is a far-left filmmaker who despises President Bush. Disney film studios, which funded his propaganda film, claim they were shocked when they saw it and refused to release it. (Yeah, right.) The biased documentary goes into turnaround and is soon released by Miramax, under the guise that, "This is the movie Disney tried to censor."

It's hard to believe that a studio wouldn't know what kind of film Moore would make. Is it believable for Disney to pay Moore for nothing? The bottom line is always profit. No film studio would knowingly put money into a film that would be unreleasable. Unless...

The plan? Release Fahrenheit 9/11 as the forbidden fruit. The motion picture that's too hot to handle. Since when did controversy hurt, real or created? Documentaries rarely make money, but if the public thinks this is the film "they" don't want you to see, by God, they'll want to go see it.

It's absurd for any intelligent person to believe or buy into the idea that Disney won't be receiving money for this anti-Bush, pre-election propaganda. They produced it. Without the funding, ideas are only ideas.

The timing is more than obvious. If the election is close as it was last time (with Bush winning the key state of Florida by a mere hundreds of votes), every vote will count.

Hollywood, the land of limited thinking, liberal idealism and candy-coated socialism, is doing all it can to put its man in the White House.

--Vince Belise