Moore the McCarthyist

NPR host Scott Simon takes down F9/11 on, of all places, the WSJ's editorial page. And in an aside, he notices the pathology of excuse-making liberal reviewers:

In the New York Times, Paul Krugman wrote that, "Viewers may come away from Moore's movie believing some things that probably aren't true," and that he "uses association and innuendo to create false impressions." Try to imagine those phrases on a marquee. But that is his rave review! He lauds "Fahrenheit 9/11" for its "appeal to working-class Americans." Do we really want to believe that only innuendo, untruths, and conspiracy theories can reach working-class Americans?

Right on. I made the same points here and here.