Fahrenheit 911 is Fair and Balanced

Fahrenheit 911 is Fair and Balanced: "We've come to expect poisonous and unbalanced attacks from the paid far right propagandists denouncing Michael Moore's documentary 'Fahrenheit 911.' But more disturbing are the scolds from tepid moderate mainstream journalists who often fail to read their own newspapers. New York Times columnist Nicholas D. Kristof attacks the film because 'Moore hints that the real reason Bush invaded Afghanistan was to give his cronies a chance to profit by building an oil pipeline there.' Kristof attacks Moore for even raising this issue,. But he conveniently ignores volumes of information readily available to back up Moore's claim.
Perhaps Kristof, like President Bush, refuses to read. At least that would explain why he missed the raging international debate surrounding the Bush administration's well-documented, then-secret oil negotiations with the Taliban in the summer of 2001.
The book FORBIDDEN TRUTH: U.S.-TALIBAN SECRET OIL DIPLOMACY AND THE FAILED HUNT FOR BIN LADEN was an international bestseller. Written by French Intelligence experts Jean-Charles Brisard and Guillaume Dasqui�, the book asserts that the Bush administration threatened the Taliban with the now- infamous words: 'Either you accept our carpet of gold or we'll carpet you with bombs.' The threat was made about a month before the attack on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon. "


by Bob Fitrakis and Harvey Wasserman