Good counterpoint to someone else I know. Even if I am guilty of saying that Katrina is a GOP conspiracy (link).
I read through the entire piece, and the point of it was?????
All this piece article is , clearly, is an attack, on, largley one person, who made the film -"loose change "and then draws the whole 9/11 movement into the picture, linking them to holocaust denial. It is in essence a piece of propaganda.
It uses basic propaganda techniques of name calling: " Name Calling seeks to make us form a judgment to reject and condemn without examining the evidence"
or transference: making a connection between alleged holocaust deniers and 9/11 truther
How is it a counterpoint to anything??
So you are willing to overlook the fact that it was a good expose of that "one person"?
He he...
well, in your mind you may see it that way, an "expose", if you may.
was it a good expose?
All depends what one thinks is a good expose. i guess?
Bottom line it is not a counterpoint to anything, and barely qualifies as an expose, IMO.
I'll reiterate, it is a good piece of propaganda, meant to sway the reader, not by attacking FACTS, or anomolies, the movie is bringing out, but, meant to smear (name call) the person who made the movie and by extension the larger truth movement.
Looking at how the piece is set up....right of the top , it sets the entire premise of the article which it wraps up in the conclusion.
It uses a CLEARLY FICTIONAL dialogue, right at the beginning between Avery and "Mr Soprano" , who is a FICTIONAL character in a t.v series. (there is no link to the conversation, that works) and from the reading of it, if Mr Avery said it that way, it is CLEARLY tongue in cheek.( hence a fictional dialogue)
I mean can one have a conversation with a fictional character?????
Am I to assume, you think that's is possible?
The one statement , directly attributed to the conversation between the actor James Gandolfini
Is this "James told me, "If you want to be a successful director, you have to have something to say to the world." not to be snide, but, wow, how 'cryptic' (facetious, completely)
I can dissect the piece further, but, I am not going to bother, all in all, it is an article emplying classic propoganda techniques, name calling ,association.
"Name-calling is a form of ad hominem attack that draws a vague equivalence between a concept and a person, group or idea. By linking the person or idea being attacked to a negative symbol, the propagandist hopes that the audience will reject the person or the idea on the basis of the symbol, instead of looking at the available evidence."
This use of propoganda, also demonstrates, or should demonstrate to the reader, weakness.
That if the promoter was to engage in an actual factual debate on the subject, the promoters evidence would be weak or non-existent, so the promoter , must engage, in manipulation to sway opinion. Think Bush regime propaganda leading up to the attack on Iraq.....
What one should ask oneself, is why this writer, did this piece?
It should be obvious.
Hint: it's not REALLY, to challenge the questions raised in the movie.