Fahrenheit 9/11 Fact?

Fahrenheit 9/11 Fact?

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Fahrenheit 9/11 Fact?

How much of the news information consumed by the general public is fair and factual? How much information is contextual bias dressed up to look like fact? As I analyzed two of the many claims made by Michael Moore in his documentary “Fahrenheit 9/11” I found myself led through a labyrinth of biased news articles cleverly disguised as fair and un biased. Now without a doubt, the liberal commentator and documentarian I am talking about makes no attempt to hide his liberal bias. The answers I seek here are not about the context of his liberal bias. The answers I seek pertain to whether the factual claims made by Moore can be confirmed as true or false with the support of credible sources. First, I would like to provide some insight into the general theme of the film.

The beginning of the film starts with the controversy over who really won the 2000 elections between George W Bush and Al Gore and continues on to these issues:

* Bush vacationed 42% of the time during his first eight months in office,

* Bush continued to read a children’s story to a class after finding out about the World Trade Center Bombings

* The two generation family friendship of the Bush’s and Bin Laden’s

* The United States secret service guarding a foreign embassy belonging to Saudi Arabia

* Moore and a soldier confront members of Congress on the street, asking them to enlist their children into the military

* The Bush Administration’s claim regarding Iraq and its harboring of Weapons of Mass Destruction

The film finishes with Bush sending troops to Iraq even though Osama Bin Laden was in Afghanistan and not Iraq. (Moore, 2004)

So what was the medias response to Moore’s claims? The following quotations are taken from Moore’s documentary in chronological order and are followed by evidence affirming or denying the aforementioned statements.

“Out of 535 members of Congress, only one had an enlisted son in...