Scott Simon of NPR (yes, that’s National Public Radio) assesses Michael Moore’s Farenheit 911 in an OpinionJournal piece entitled “When Punchline Trumps Honesty”. Here’s the bottom line:
[W]hen 9/11 Commission Chairman Kean has to take a minute at a press conference, as he did last Thursday, to knock down a proven falsehood like the secret flights of the bin Laden family, you wonder if those who urge people to see Moore’s film are informing or contaminating the debate. I see more McCarthy than Murrow in the work of Michael Moore. No matter how hot a blowtorch burns, it doesn’t shed much light.
I may have to rethink my aversion to NPR. Well, I might give Scott Simon a shot. But Nina Tottenberg is just too much.
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