Reply #14: "Stop them damn pictures"

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Reputedly what Boss Tweed said about Thomas Nast's editorial cartoons that were causing Tweed and his political machine at Tammany Hall so much grief. Tweed knew that his mostly illiterate electorate wasn't going to be fazed or outraged by spoken tales of corruption; let the elite commentators bloviate all they want. But the simple drawings of Nast brought the truth about Tammany home to people in a way that speech never could.

Likewise, the facts about 9/11 have been out there for months, even years. But the Bushistas haven't been worried because who cares what Al Franken or Randi Rhodes say or what Paul Krugman writes? But a two hour compendium of Bush's greatest hits, as it were, is impossible to ignore, and has far more impact with the casual observer of events (which means people who don't read and post at DU). Bush and his corrupt buddies are out in force to stop this film or try to minimize its impact. They know what's at stake.