Fahrenheit 911 Trailer
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The obvious personal attacks reflect the very fact that Hitchens, whom I read and respect, has not gotten the kudos or exposure for asking such questions to a national audience. Might I point something out? Bush, Inc. is a problem for the world, but the US is going to be ultimately responsible for removing him. I think Michael Moore symbolizes a non-perfect, loud idealist with very, VERY important QUESTIONS for Bush, Inc. and for the US. That is the point.....and for Hitchens to get bitchy like the Euro-Princess he can be...well. But the ultimate irony is the fact that his writing, for the average viewer for which this film is directed, is obtuse and pretty impenetrable, unlike Moore's FILM. This is the work of a filmmaker, not a bitter columnist with greatly detailed political/historical knowledge.
quote from a US news program:
HITCHENS: But speaking here in my capacity as a polished, sophisticated European as well, it seems to me the laugh here is on the polished, sophisticated Europeans. They think Americans are fat, vulgar, greedy, stupid, ambitious and ignorant and so on. And they‘ve taken as their own, as their representative American someone who actually embodies all of those qualities.