After Moore's law, here is Moore's effect. What else is there to say, since even conservatives go out see the movie. Americans seem to be taking it like a "needed cold shower". That can only be good. Even in Denmark Farenheit 9/11 is watched and praised: the critics commented it as "what the mass media has been denying for the last 4 years".

Only two comments for those agreeing with the cause but disagreeing with the means: the first is from Moore. "Every single fact I state in "Fahrenheit 9/11" is the absolute and irrefutable truth. This movie is perhaps the most thoroughly researched and vetted documentary of our time. No fewer than a dozen people, including three teams of lawyers and the venerable one-time fact-checkers from The New Yorker went through this movie with a fine-tooth comb so that we can make this guarantee to you. Do not let anyone say this or that isn't true. If they say that, they are lying. Let them know that the OPINIONS in the film are mine, and anyone certainly has a right to disagree with them. And the questions I pose in the movie, based on these irrefutable facts, are also mine. And I have a right to ask them. And I will continue to ask them until they are answered." (Jul 4 "My first wild week with F9/11")

The second: of course, some would have preferred a more balanced documentary. But who are the real targets of this movie? Not us! Yes it ties up all those doubts we have had from the start, and it even surprises us in its breath and depth. But the real targets are the conservative republicans who have been bombarded by one-sidedness for the last years. Yes, Moore goes right in, drills a hole in their brain and pours the doubt so deep that they won't remain unshaken. That is the objective. It is working in the cities: "In California, effigies of the president are sold in tourist shops, apparently to be burnt on the beach. Bush punchbags are doing brisk trade: "Anyone but Bush" stickers are on cars. Bush-hating has become a national sport." It remains to be seen if "church-going, gun-owning populations of Arkansas and Arizona" will change their "God bless America" sticker. This is why "Mr Kerry knows he must be as conservative as possible to win". (FT Aug 18 - "Bush-hating becomes a way of American life")

Moore, by the way, won the Palme D'Or for his movie at Cannes this year with a 15-min standing ovation. Even Fox News give the movie a good critic: "But, really, in the end, not seeing "F9/11" would be like allowing your First Amendment rights to be abrogated, no matter whether you're a Republican or a Democrat."

So by the way, why is it again that Denmark joined the US in the war? Is the leap to that question so huge?