Posted 2:54 am
Scott W. Johnson pulls out the hatchet. This film is beautifully made, great camerawork, and goes to the heart of the matter. Dan Rather was "swift boated" by the powerful individuals who stole the presidency. Like the Oracle in the Matrix kept repeating "Make up your own damn mind." The onus was on George W. Bush to prove that he, indeed, didn't go AWOL. It's easy to attack the messenger, the more difficult thing to do is to be honest with the citizens. Major corporations stopped being news gatherers and started being followers when the bottom line benefited. This film gets people thinking, and my opinion is that any film that does that has achieved at least one of the key goals of good movie making. The acting is terrific and the clear message that special interests would rather shoot the messenger than be honest with the public goes back to Roman times and way before that. Bush's puppet masters masterfully unleashed their malicious attacks to distract from the message: what exactly did George W. Bush do to serve his country. One thing is for sure: Al Gore would have kept our surplus, Bush spent it on wrecking the Middle East. Would you rather John Kerry as Secretary of State or George W. Bush? That's a rhetorical question. The eight years Bush stole from us will take decades to recover from. Truth works on many levels, and it sure got Scott W. Johnson's attention. But as the swift boaters who unleashed their fury on Dan Rather never gave us the truth about Bush's record, Johnson doesn't give an accurate review of this cinematic achievement.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MqOz8-Sto1g
