Roger Ebert review of Hijacking Catastrophe: 9/11 Fear & Selling...

[edbermac]

Roger Ebert / October 15, 2004

"I have here a commentary by John Eisenhower, son of the late president, who states in the Manchester Union-Leader that for the first time in 50 years he plans to vote for the Democratic candidate for president. "The fact is that today's 'Republican' Party is one with which I am totally unfamiliar," he writes, citing its $440 billion budget deficit and unilateral foreign policy. The current administration, he says, "has confused confident leadership with hubris and arrogance."

That is essentially the same argument made in "Hijacking Catastrophe: 9/11, Fear and the Selling of American Empire," the most outspoken and yet in some ways the calmest of the new documentaries opposing the Bush presidency. It charges that America is in the hands of radicals at the right-wing extreme of the Republican Party. This view has some backing among traditional conservatives; none other than Patrick Buchanan has founded a magazine, The American Conservative, to argue against Bush and the war in Iraq."


I have not heard much about this due to Moore's F911; hopefully it will get a lot of buzz in the media. Anyone here see it yet?

http://rogerebert.suntimes.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20041014/REVIEWS/41004003/1023

[rainy]

1. I'm going to see it Oct. 26 in Norfolk, VA

My dad is going with me. Can't wait.

[BlueEyedSon]

2. Yippeee! kick

[BlueEyedSon]

3. Playing tonight, free, at Princeton U

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=106&topic_id=11340&mesg_id=11340