Yes DougR, you do have those rights. But I think you should try and open your mind up a bit, and actually see the film. Of course you don't have to see it. But really, considering your level of interest in politics, I have to say I'm really surprised you don't want to see it for yourself. And if you don't see it for yourself, nothing you say in conversations about the film will have any validity whatsoever.

As to the accuracy of the information in the film, the conventional political pundits have all vetted the claims in the film, most of them without ever having seen the film. The issue seems to be coming down to the facts in the film are very accurate, and the sources are conventional news sources of mainstream journalism institutions. Footage is provided by both American and non-American journalism sources.

The "fact" that has been challenged by the Newsweek article misses the point entirely. Moore didn't have access to the most recent revelations of the 9/11 commission, so first off, it is only fair to say that it is perfectly reasonable to allow there may (not that there will, but that there may) be a fact or two that turns out to be different from what Moore claims in the film. That is a given in any continuously unfolding non-fiction narrative. The 9/11 story is still unfolding. We can't condemn Moore or the film on the basis that he used the best information available at the time, that later turns out to be inaccurate, false, misleading, etc.

The bin Laden family being hurriedly flown out of the country being 'approved' by the FBI is still an issue, because anyone with any common sense knows you should never allow that many people with ties to the main suspects in a criminal investigation, to flee the jurisdiction. The FBI and the Bush administration should have held the bin Ladens and Saudi royals while we had them, and they should certainly have been rigorously interrogated as to what they knew not just about bin Laden, but about all the shady Saudis involved in the 9/11 plot. To let them go only days after the attack is a disgrace, and a slap in the face to the American people, especially those who lost loved ones in the attack.

So sure DougR, you are fully within your rights not to see the movie. But by not seeing it, I think you will be missing a lot. Even though I don't agree with Fox News, I do still watch in on occassion, if for no other reason than to be informed.

But stick your head in the sand if you want. It isn't going to change the fact that this is a watermark in American film, as well as a watermark in the political discourse of our day.