The New Road

If I weren't laughing so hard

I'd be crying at how insanely ironic this is:

When Mr. Gibson walked to the press room lectern, he and Mr. Moore seemed delighted to meet each other.

"I feel a strange kinship with Michael," Mr. Gibson said. "They're trying to pit us against each other in the press, but it's a hologram. They really have got nothing to do with one another. It's just some kind of device, some left-right. He makes some salient points. There was some very expert, elliptical editing going on. However, what the hell are we doing in Iraq? No one can explain to me in a reasonable manner that I can accept why we're there, why we went there, and why we're still there."

This is what's going to screw Fox. The press (if that's what you call Fox) cannot rally around specific pop culture references. Fox has been playing a dangerous and stupid game of trying to split Americans into two camps, which they described as true American Christians who liked the Passion, and America hating sicko liberal scum who allied themselves with crazies like Michael Moore and liked Fahrenheit 9/11. Well, turns out, Fox's people are idiots, and the world just isn't that simple. That's what you get for believing in absolutes and simplistic black and white notions of categories of morality.