Havde emnet været lidt mindre seriøst, havde det her næsten været sjovt. Michael Moore fyrer 300 argumenter af pÃ¥ 6 minutter i et sært forsøg pÃ¥ at svine CNN til; uden iøvrigt at sætte det hele ind i en sammenhæng – Og hvorfor i alverden begynder Moore at snakke om Dick Chaney!?!
Jeg kan især godt lide, at Michael Moore giver CNN skylden for krigen i Irak… i et indslag der burde handle som sygeforsikring.
Michael C. Moynihan fra Reason har et par fornuftige ting at sige om Moores udtalelser:
Like much of what Moore says, it simply isn’t true. In 2005, for instance, Blitzer started his Cheney interview with the following question: “You recently made suggesting the insurgents in Iraq were in, your words, their ‘last throes.’ Do you want to revise or amend those comments?”, and followed with inquires on how many insurgents were operating in Iraq, whether Iraq has become a training ground for terrorists, if he had read the Downing Street memo, and why the administration was so colossally wrong on the question of WMDs. Blitzer began his interview with Vice President Cheney’s wife Lynne, who was on promoting a book, with a question on her husband’s support of torture.
But the most bizarre argument from Moore is his claim that had it not been for CNN, America would have stuck to its Lindberghian principals and never set foot in Iraq: “We wouldn’t be in this war if you had done your job. Come on. Just admit it. Just apologize to the American people.”
