hypocalypse

samir: Moyers is indeed one of our greatest American commentators. And as significant as this latest documentary promises to be, it seems that something is missing. I wouldn't assume to premise as to why it's missing (too slippery a slope even for me), but where's the investigation into the Israeli connection?

Moyers notes that he "realized that we needed to put this together for the American people so that they could see that these isolated stories out of Washington represented a larger pattern of corruption that defies the imagination." Shouldn't the American people also be given a window into the extent to which this trail of deceit is inextricably linked to the Israeli "settler" movement, especially given Israel's most recent flaunting of international law vis-a-vis the West Bank?

I guess we'll have to wait and see if the full documentary reveals even an inkling of this.

samir: Pardon me for conversing with myself, but thought I'd add to the list of American patriots of the pop-culture bent. Nothing's more impressive than standing up for what you believe in when you're famous and stand to loose a lot by betraying your carefully groomed image. The Dixie Chicks have bent so many Bushites out of shape, I may just have to make my first itunes purchase ever and download their latest album in tribute, even though I'll probably be compelled to listen to it no more than once.

abraham: While I greatly admire the Dixie Chicks for their heroic and principled stand, I simply cannot stomach any music that was produced with a fiddle (violin, yes; fiddle, no :) Ok, I'll add that I admire Johnny Cash and Willie Nelson, and I definitely enjoy Bluegrass, but mainstream country music just offends me.