The Welcome to Media Roots Radio. This is Abby Martin.

This is Robbie Martin. Thanks for joining us, everybody.

Thanks for tuning in you guys. We're going to jump right in here to talk about Michael Moore's new film.

I have not seen it yet, Robbie.

Obviously, we all saw Fahrenheit 9-11.

I thought it was really good.

Yeah, there was a lot of 9-11 documentaries that came out after that, but it aged really well.

And it did bring up a lot of incredibly important points and valid arguments that, you know,

about the unanswered questions and what the Bush administration did and did not do after the attacks.

So walk us through what this movie is.

Yeah, I mean, Fahrenheit 9-11, you know, was obviously a really important cultural event when it happened.

At the time, I was a little bit more already more radical than what were Michael Moore was with the movie.

So I, you know, even at the time, I really liked the effect that it was having.

Like it was really, you know, creating a lot of

angry Bush supporters to a lot of backlash against it. It was, it was, you know, creating a lot of

discussion. I remember talking about it endlessly with people at the time. Some very heated discussions.

What reading, you know, trying to, back then it's hard to remember. Everything was a

unified front on the right. I mean, 100%. You had like all these AM radio talk show hosts like

Sean Hannity and stuff putting out like debunking guides to Fahrenheit 9-11, like stuff like that.

That's how that's how strong of an effect the film had is that all these

conservatives needed to debunk it or you know, try to fight against what narratives were in it.

And after bin Laden came out in 2004 with that video right before the presidential election,

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