Several people emailed about this great piece at Victor Davis Hanson’s site, by Joey Tartakovsky: What’s wrong with Fahrenheit 9/11?

Instead of addressing Bush’s policies in any honest or serious-minded way, the film’s tactic is ridicule. In the golfing section, and in many others — the exit flight of the bin Ladens, Bush’s “vacation” time, or Bush sitting in the Florida classroom on the morning of 9/11 — writer-director Michael Moore presents an apparent malfeasance to cause outrage. Most of the sniping is cheap and petty, inflating an unglamorous remark here or an ill-advised action there into a high crime. In every one of these cases, there is a perfectly reasonable explanation. Should Bush have sat in the Florida classroom room for seven minutes, or two minutes, or should he have immediately leapt from the room to don his flight suit? Actually, Bush was contained in the classroom by the Secret Service as they scouted an alternative route to Air Force One and a secure location. Included by Moore as “vacation” days are weekends. Bush had nothing to do with the bin Laden family flights.

Michael Moore throws everything he can at Bush, who is portrayed at times as bumbling and artificial, at others conniving beyond our wildest imaginations. The Bush-hater need only take their pick: the disputed election, his ties to the House of Saud, Afghanistan, Iraq, Bush’s plutocratic pedigree, his drawl, too much antiterrorism, too little antiterrorism, defense companies, the Saudis again, and then finally, at the end of the movie, the big one: war is what powerful elites do to keep the poor down and preserve their hierarchies of wealth and privilege. Actually piecing the movie together reveals a contradictory mosaic of unrelated topics, which, especially in the lurid conspiracy-weaving parts, flit across the silver screen in rapid-fire succession. It is “somewhat confusing, admittedly,” says Joanne Doroshow, an associate producer of the movie. Nothing speaks more about Fahrenheit 9/11’s incoherence than its consideration of the terrorism issue.

Go ye and read of it, for it is good.