Day: September 10, 2006
Crapudrama and Farenheit 911 Not the Same
I’m already tired of hearing Bush supporters say that the crapudrama, “The Path to 9/11” is no different than Michael Moore’s, “Farenheit 911.”
It’s different, morons.
A “docudrama” employs actors to portray real people who participated in real events.
Farenheit 911 featured a narrator, Michael Moore, presenting his opinion with newsreels, interviews, and other nonfiction footage to illustrate.
Farenheit 911 was not presented on television without commercial interruption by a major broadcast network with a major broadcast news division.
Farenheit 911 was not picked up by Scholastic children’s publishing company to be presented as a curriculum in public schools.
Farenheit 911 was not denounced by people who appeared in it as a travesty before it was ever aired.
Farenheit 911 was blocked from being released by Disney/Miramax/ABC, acting on its own. The same media conglomerate has refused calls not to air The Path to 9/11 from Pres. Clinton, Secretary of State Albright, members of the 9/11 commission, other senators and representatives, and the public.
I’m sure there are lots more ways the two films are different. Help me out here in the comments section.
Five Year Old Lies Continue Killing
One of my favorite off-line reads, The Week magazine, is usually unswervingly neutral in its coverage. Not this time. The editor’s note for the current issue comes down hard on the Bush administration, blaming it not just for 9/11, but for the greed and consumerist ideology that placed the economy above safety.
The government let them down—just as surely as it did when it ignored warnings that Muslim men with foreign citizenships were learning how to fly commercial jets
Just hours after Sept. 11, Jeffrey Endean of the Morris County, N.J., Sheriff’s Office plunged himself into the nightmare of ground zero. Endean rushed to the still-burning ruins, volunteering to search for survivors and counsel emergency workers. He worked there for two months on nights and weekends, without ever wearing a mask. “The EPA said the air was safe,” he said. “That was all the talk—it was just dust.” Today, Endean’s lungs, larynx, and vocal cords are all scarred from a cocktail of atmospheric toxins—dioxin, lead, asbestos, and pulverized glass. His asthma is so bad that he awakens most mornings gasping for breath…
A new study by Mount Sinai Medical Center has found that about 70 percent of ground zero workers have serious respiratory problems caused or worsened by inhaling the poisoned air at the site. Even as they worked in the dust and the fumes, many had concerns about what they were breathing. But the Environmental Protection Agency blithely insisted that the air was fine. If people didn’t return to downtown Manhattan, of course, Wall Street would remain closed, and the economic damage would be severe…But a small army of selfless laborers are now paying the price with their health; some have died. The government let them down—just as surely as it did when it ignored warnings that Muslim men with foreign citizenships were learning how to fly commercial jets.
