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Fahrenheit 9/11by M. Faust |
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Even his detractors can’t accuse Michael Moore of having a hidden agenda: he was always open about calling his 2004 film Fahrenheit 9/11 an attempt to persuade Americans to vote George W. Bush out of the White House in last year’s presidential election. That he failed in that goal, however, hardly renders the film worthless, as faculty members Dr. Ted Pelton and Dr. Sue Weber will discuss after a screening of Fahrenheit 9/11 Wednesday evening as part of the Medaille Teach-In Project. Reminded of the filmmaker’s status as a cultural icon when Bush recently tried to insult Representative John Murtha by likening him to Moore, Pelton and Weber note that, at least on the surface, both Moore and Bush (and their defenders/detractors) use similar rhetorical tactics: Both claim to stand for the real, working class Americans who are fighting the war and against an exploitative “elite”; both claim to be patriots; both accuse the other of distorting facts; both accuse the other of seeking to exploit the lives of innocent victims for personal gain, etc. It’s worth a look if you haven’t seen it yet.
Wednesday, December 7 at 7pm in the Main Lecture Hall at Medaille College
(18 Agassiz Circle). Free and open to the public.
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