{"id":373,"date":"2004-08-22T10:45:28","date_gmt":"2004-08-22T17:45:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/wp2\/uncategorized\/dimdahl-at-the-movies\/"},"modified":"2004-08-22T10:45:28","modified_gmt":"2004-08-22T17:45:28","slug":"dimdahl-at-the-movies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/letters-to-the-editor\/dimdahl-at-the-movies\/","title":{"rendered":"Dimdahl at the Movies"},"content":{"rendered":"

ABQjournal: Master Fingerpointer Falls Short of Propaganda Paragon<\/a> By <\/p>\n

John Dendahl<\/p>\n

Right at the get-go, for example, the screen is dark but the sound is of some kind of enormous crash. The pictures that <\/p>\n

follow make clear that what wasn’t seen is an air transport being flown into the World Trade Center.<\/p>\n

Moore later proffered some <\/p>\n

lame<\/b> excuse about excessive violence for leaving out the important visual — real life, not some special effects man’s gory scare <\/p>\n

stuff — of the event that led President George W. Bush to declare war against international terrorism. Any inquiring person<\/b> who <\/p>\n

sees the film in its entirety knows very well that these pictures would have detracted mightily from the likely purpose of the film, <\/p>\n

demonizing the Bush administration.<\/p>\n

One shouldn’t be surprised that John Dimdahl is no better as a movie critic than he <\/p>\n

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

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, <\/p>\n

new and freshly shocking.<\/p>\n

But, I would be happy for Dimdahl to become a film critic if it distracted him from his normal job of attach <\/p>\n

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

mjh<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

mjh’s Blog: Dimdahl is <\/p>\n

an Ass<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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