The Union Leader and New Hampshire Sunday News : Commentary: Bush from the cutting room floor

The Union Leader and New Hampshire Sunday News - 11-Jul-04 - Commentary:
Bush from the cutting room floor: "Still, it took Michael Moore, troublemaker extraordinaire, to fully undo the work of the best PR money can buy and spin Bush's morning all the way back to zero. With the devil's own audacity, Moore chose to include seven excruciating minutes of real-time Presidential inaction - resurrected from the cutting-room floor of history - in his new documentary.
And thus the nation is now watching, in phenomenal numbers, the commander-in-chief, upon learning that jetliners have struck the World Trade Center, sitting frozen in cluelessness in front of a class of Florida elementary school students, reading, God help us, "My Pet Goat."
Those who hate Michael Moore hate most of all his uncanny knack for messing with the official script. Those seven merciless minutes, which, of course, launch "Fahrenheit 9/11," are simply unadorned George W. Bush, sitting, sitting, sitting. He's all by himself, shooting occasional furtive glances around the room. That's it. And it's devastating. "

By ROBERT C. KOEHLER
Guest Commentary
The Union Leader