{"id":516,"date":"2004-06-27T17:55:31","date_gmt":"2004-06-27T17:55:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/?p=516"},"modified":"2004-06-27T17:55:31","modified_gmt":"2004-06-27T17:55:31","slug":"agitprop_at_its","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/?p=516","title":{"rendered":"Agitprop At Its Best"},"content":{"rendered":"

Whatever your political persuasion, I think it’s not difficult to be moved by some of the scenes in F-9\/11<\/a>. Moore isn’t a raving anti-American peacenik as some people have tried to portray him. His interviews with American soldiers and their families are deeply respectful and compassionate. Moore’s beef isn’t with the military; it’s with Bush and his administration for getting us into this mess. The clips of Bush should be particularly embarrassing for any self-respecting American. He comes across as decidedly un-Presidential, often behaving vacuous or simply overwhelmed. I don’t know if this movie will give Kerry any bounce in the polls, but it definitely can’t hurt him.
\nI should note that it was a good thing I bought tickets in advance because the 7:00 showing at the Lagoon was sold out when I got there. And almost everyone applauded at the end.
\nOh, and I’m not sure what Bush is trying to accomplish when he commissioned an ad<\/a> juxtaposing Hitler with Kerry. It’s more puzzling than upsetting. Is his campaign starting to feel a little desperate? The Hitler card is usually a strategy of last resort in political debates.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Whatever your political persuasion, I think it’s not difficult to be moved by some of the scenes in F-9\/11. Moore isn’t a raving anti-American peacenik as some people have tried to portray him. His interviews with American soldiers and their families are deeply respectful and compassionate. Moore’s beef isn’t with the military; it’s with Bush […]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sfsi_plus_gutenberg_text_before_share":"","sfsi_plus_gutenberg_show_text_before_share":"","sfsi_plus_gutenberg_icon_type":"","sfsi_plus_gutenberg_icon_alignemt":"","sfsi_plus_gutenburg_max_per_row":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-516","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","category-1-id","post-seq-1","post-parity-odd","meta-position-corners","fix"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9Iwau-8k","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/516","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=516"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/516\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=516"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=516"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=516"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}