Usually things get lost in translation, but this translation of our "A big, fat useful idiot" post, found in our Site Meter stats, speaks for itself.
Unlike Donald Rumsfeld's "Old Europe," nuanced and solicitous in its desire to understand "why they hate us," "New Europe," only lately escaped out from under the boot of tyranny, gets it big time:
Michael Moore's contentious film Fahrenheit 9/11 has opened in Poland, with some film critics likening it to totalitarian propaganda.
Gazeta Wyborcza reviewer Jacek Szczerba called the film a "foul pamphlet".
He said it was too biased to be called a documentary and was similar to Nazi propaganda director Leni Riefenstahl.
"Michael Moore will not convince Poles with his film," the Rzeczpospolita newspaper said in its review.
"People are very sensitive to aggressive propaganda, especially when it pretends to be an objective documentary or a work of art."
Even as Bush haters and America bashers embrace the work of the idiota utile grande gordo, the idiota himself remains the best argument for the decadence of the West that they claim to despise.
[via The Cool Blue Blog]
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