The Green Left Weakly Even Weaker

Check out this piece in the Green Left Weakly, by Deirdre Griswold. It seems to have an average of one error, mistruth, or exaggeration every sentence:

Michael Moore's Fahrenheit 9/11 has become a huge box office hit, even though the Disney Corporation did everything it could to torpedo the documentary.

BZZZZZT - WRONG!!!! Disney announced a year before the release of the film that they would not be bankrolling it. Mike Moore admitted to this in a CNN interview!

This alone makes it important to evaluate the film and try to understand why it has penetrated what is commonly called “popular culture” — which 99% of the time is in a politically conservative mold shaped by giant corporate institutions.

BZZZZZT - WRONG!!!! Bruce Springsteen, Willie Nelson, the Dixie Chicks, Pearl Jam, Metallica, Judi Davis, Bette Midler, Quentin Tarantino, Janeane Garofoleano, John Mellencamp, Jon Bon Jovi, Whoopi Goldberg, Jann Wenner, Neil Diamond, Robin Williams - all involved in 'popular entertainment', all with a liberal-democrat stance. (And that's just for starters.)

Across the US — and, indeed, in much of the world — this film seems to have fallen like rain on a cultural landscape thirsting for the unvarnished truth.

WHOOP!! WHOOP!! WHOOP!! My Unsubstantiated And Totally Subjective Statement Alert has been activated!

People are clamouring to see it across the world.

BRRRRRINGGGG!!! "Hello? Police? This is the Newcastle cinema, and there's a horde of half-crazed hippies threatening to tear my place down unless I screen a piece of poorly-edited propaganda by a socialist on the other side of the world!"
Clamoring to see it? Yeah, right.

Reviews from hundreds of small-town newspapers across the US report standing ovations and cheers when the film ends.

WHOOP!! WHOOP!! WHOOP!! My Unsubstantiated And Totally Subjective Statement Alert is going overtime! Care to source any of these claims sometime, Ms. Deirdre Griswold?

Audiences laugh and cry, and few are unmoved.

BZZZZZT - HALF-TRUTH (if that)!!!! This only follows if you accept the previous sentence!

The last time a cultural work evoked this much interest and passion from the “silent majority” in the US was the 1850s, when Harriet Beecher Stowe's Uncle Tom's Cabin was published and soon began outselling the Bible. In 1856, 2 million copies of this anti-slavery novel were sold. Families gathered at the end of the day on farms and in cities in the US north, reading it aloud and weeping.

Praise the Lord, Hallelujah, still more exaggerations!!! Is Ms. Griswold even able to believe herself?

In a July 4 opinion piece for the Los Angeles Times, he (Moore) urged the anti-war movement to wrap itself in the US flag: “For too long now we have abandoned our flag to those who see it as a symbol of war and dominance, as a way to crush dissent at home.”

But the flag IS the symbol of the US state. And the US IS an imperialist country that has run roughshod over much of the world.

BA-BAAAAAM!!! NO SOUP FOR YOU, Ms. Griswold! You have just missed the first law of Being An Intelligent, Reasonable Human Being - saying that something IS true DOES NOT NECESSARILY MAKE IT TRUE!

That's why burning the US flag has become commonplace.

BZZZZTT!!! Nice way to follow a biased and unsubstantied allegation with a totally unexplanatory explanation!!!

Nothing short of a revolution to overturn capitalist exploitation and oppression will change this...

KA-CHING!!! Ms. Griswold, you have just won the TEN-DOLLAR PRIZE for the year's most ridiculous piece of Inflammatory Communist Rhetoric!!!

(Several boring paragraphs of supposedly 'insightful' commentary)
At the same time, those here fighting hardest against sweatshops and poverty wages often come from countries where intolerable conditions created by these same corporations are forcing millions to emigrate. They are today's fugitive slaves, and they are now living all over this country.
All this is going on while imperialist wars are raging in Iraq and Afghanistan and young workers here have to choose between dead-end jobs, prison or the military.

BZZZZTT!!! WHOOP!! WHOOP!! WHOOP!! BRRRRRING!!! KA-CHING!!! BZZZTTT!!! BZZZT!!! BZZZZZTTT!!! Communist Blames Evil Corporate Capitalism for All the Ills In The World Today While Completely Failing to Acknowledge All the Ills Caused by Communism!!! Like, we didn't see that one coming from light-years away???

Well, that was fun...