Dimdahl at the Movies

ABQjournal: Master Fingerpointer Falls Short of Propaganda Paragon By

John Dendahl

Right at the get-go, for example, the screen is dark but the sound is of some kind of enormous crash. The pictures that

follow make clear that what wasn’t seen is an air transport being flown into the World Trade Center.

Moore later proffered some

lame excuse about excessive violence for leaving out the important visual — real life, not some special effects man’s gory scare

stuff — of the event that led President George W. Bush to declare war against international terrorism. Any inquiring person who

sees the film in its entirety knows very well that these pictures would have detracted mightily from the likely purpose of the film,

demonizing the Bush administration.

One shouldn’t be surprised that John Dimdahl is no better as a movie critic than he

is as a political commentator. That long dark scene in Moore’s film which Dimdahl misinterprets was powerful to the point of painful; it

was even radical in film to depend entirely on sound. No one has forgotten what the attack looked like; listening to it was, in a way,

new and freshly shocking.

But, I would be happy for Dimdahl to become a film critic if it distracted him from his normal job of attach

dog for the Radical Right. He doesn’t even rise to the label ‘propagandist’ — he’s a vicious hack of the Lush Limbaugh ilk.

mjh

mjh’s Blog: Dimdahl is

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