Steve at Absit Invidia covers what appears to be a ban on White House personnel from seeing the movie. If that is what the White House is most worried about….we need a new set of priorities.
Even more strangely, there is a move to get the FEC to declare TV commercials as violations of FEC law. I suppose the law could encompass such ads, but wow would that be an ironic twist on campaign finance reform. And I kind of doubt it.
[CAMPBELL] BROWN: Real quick?we?re almost out of time?but how?how?given how the Bush administration is reacting to the 9/11 film, which is, you know, banning their staffs from going to see it or anybody…
[CHRISTOPHER] HITCHENS: What?BROWN: I know. Is it the right approach?
HITCHENS: I didn?t know that.
But, if so, then it would be something to add to my long list of misgivings about the Bush administration.
Uh, yeah.
A couple of thoughts.
(1) I wouldn’t be too excited by an offhand remark by Campbell Brown. We have no way of knowing if it’s true — so why don’t we wait for some confirmation. And why not jump on something we know is true – like Al Gore calling his internet detractors digital brownshirts. There’s something real to cause misgivings.
(2) I think it would be wonderful if the FEC would ban Fahrenheit 9-11 as political speech — not because it is political speech (which it is) that I don’t like, but because it would make people realize what an infringement on freedom of speech that McCain-Feingold is, and hopefully those provisions would be gutted.