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Originally posted by SlaveNoMore
You mean a real one? Or a faked one, like Fahrenheit
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I don't have a fact sheet for either the Swiftie's epic or F9/11, but I do know this... Such pieces don't get made out of thin air. Where there is smoke there is fire. I saw F9/11. There's a lot of very damaging shit there, and so far, all I've heard in rebuttal is "Moore is a propagandist." The only facts I've heard refuted were Moore's claims about the Taliban gas pipeline and Carlyle's purchase of a defense contractor. What about the other 200 damaging facts laid out against Bush in the movie? Are they all just inventions of Moore's imagination?
As to the Swifties, these people didn't throw out these charges solely at the behest of Bush and Rove. Nobody puts himself on national television and lays his credibility out to be picked apart by the media just because he wants to see a certain candidate get elected. Are they connected to Bush? Sure they are, but does that automatically mean their stories are utter crap? Hell no. Kerry is clearly a grandstander who probably did ask for medals he might not have deserved.
The difference between Kerry and Bush, however is that Kerry did deserve at least one or two of his medals, and he was there, grandstander or not. Bush, OTOH, was... well, no one knows where he was.
The Swifties vs. F9/11 lays bare a question the Bush people might not want asked: "Is it a greater sin to exploit one's military career for political gain or to repeatedly be caught lying to the American people?"
