8 Ways to Sunday

Fox News — known for its right-leaning bias — surprised last week by giving liberal pundit Michael Moore’s new film “Fahrenheit 9/11” a glowing review on its web site. Among other praise, reviewer Clive Davis called Moore’s movie “a tribute to patriotism, to the American sense of duty, and at the same time a [sic] indictment of stupidity and avarice.” Davis cites a video of Bush reading to a group of school children on the morning of the attacks as the “most incredible” moment of the film. Sent to Moore by the instructor of the class Bush was visiting, it shows the President lingering for almost eleven minutes to complete his photo op despite having just been told that the country was under attack:

Instead of jumping up and leaving, he instead sat in front of the class, with an unfortunate look of confusion, for nearly 11 minutes. Moore obtained the footage from a teacher at the school who videotaped the morning program. There Bush sits, with no access to his advisers, while New York is being viciously attacked. I guarantee you that no one who sees this film forgets this episode.

In another refreshing instance of the press calling a spade a spade, the New York Times — a partisan media outlet in its own right — blasted Bill Clinton’s autobiography My Life in it’s Sunday book review section, chiding the former President for having written a “sloppy, self-indulgent and often eye-crossingly dull” memoir.

In other news, record low temperatures have been reported in Hell this week. When asked to explain the underworld’s cold snap, a National Weather Service meteorologist said that it was agency policy not to comment on weather occurrences outside the earthly plane.