Stardate 20040207.1253

(On Screen): Be still, my heart. Michael Moore is about to release another of his investigative pseudo-documentaries, and this time he's aiming high. It will be titled Fahrenheit 9-11, but could just as easily have been named Atta and me, or perhaps Bowling for the WTC.

"You know the question a lot of people were asking after Sept. 11 — `Why do they hate us?' The question I want to ask is, `Why don't they hate us?' — and then take my camera around the world a bit and show what's done in our name," says Moore, who makes an appearance in the Canadian documentary The Corporation, in theatres now.

Terrorism is wrong, he says. But when he has finished cataloguing misdeeds by the U.S. government and corporations, viewers will feel lucky their country hasn't drawn more attacks.

And why, he continues, are Americans so obsessed with terrorism in the first place? Sept. 11 was horrific. But the typical citizen has almost no chance of encountering terrorists.

He accuses the Bush administration of exaggerating the danger to frighten voters into giving the president another term: "It is one of the most successful lies ever perpetrated upon a people."

Gad.

You know, I don't recall a lot of people asking, "Why do they hate us?" But I sure remember a hell of a lot of people saying, "Ask yourselves why they hate us." It was a stupid question then, and it's a stupid question now, because it always implied, "If they hate us, shouldn't we hate ourselves?"

Sounds like Moore is trying to make the implication explicit. From the sound of it, his goal is to prove that we deserved to be attacked. Terrorism is wrong, he says. But...

Hmmm... gawkumentary? shlockumentary? crockumentary? blockheadumentary? fuckyoumentary? squawkumentary? There's got to be a word for this of more than four letters.

Update: Mindles H. Dreck comments.

Update: Whatever else it may be, Moore's movie is not treason.

Update: Brad Wardell comments.

Update 20040209: Porphyrogenitus comments.

Update 20040210: The Morpholine Team comments.