Author Archives: Donncha

Two on Michael Moore.

Whores

COURIC: Well, I don’t want to get into this too much, but certainly with the reported Saddam Hussein, 9/11, al-Qaeda connection and some of the other intelligence information that the press was given…

Mr. MOORE: We–I’m–I’m–my film is a–is a silent plea to all of you in the news media to do your job. We need you. You–we–you’re our defense against this. If–if we don’t have you, what do we have? And I just think a disservice was done to the American people. You know–you know what’s great about this country? You and everyone else here gets to ask any question you want. Literally, you can ask any question you want. No one can stop you. You…

Unfairenheit 9/11 – The lies of Michael Moore. By Christopher Hitchens

To describe this film as dishonest and demagogic would almost be to promote those terms to the level of respectability.
Osama is suddenly so guilty and so all-powerful that any other discussion of any other topic is a dangerous “distraction” from the fight against him. I believe that I understand the convenience of this late conversion.

Who do you believe? I don’t know.

Later… Michael Moore responds. Excellent! Thanks Kevin for the link.

If LOTR was written by someone else..

What if Douglas Adams wrote Lord of the Rings? These extracts made me grin 🙂

Far out in the uncharted backwaters of the unfashionable end of Eriador lies a small unregarded countryside.
In this land is an utterly insignificant little green town whose men-descended life forms are so amazingly primitive that they still think smoking is a pretty neat idea.