Tue, May 18, 2004 - Page 16 News List

Muck-raking `Farenheit 9/11' divides critics

The Michael Moore film is a hard-hitting piece of work that looks at the Sept. 11 attacks and the ongoing Iraq war

By Jim Rutenberg  /  NY TIMES NEWS SERVICE

Bartlett also said he had no comment on the sections of the film that address the war in Iraq, which include gruesome images of violence, like a man angrily holding up an infant's charred corpse after an American attack and the exposed bone of a soldier's shrapnel-infused leg.

Jim Dyke, a spokesman for the Republican National Committee, said he believed there was no need to prepare a public challenge to the film. "People are smart enough to know that this is someone who is very angry, who has for some time had a clearly partisan agenda," he said.

Just the same, Democratic operatives said they believed viewers' opinions of Moore would not matter if his film raised new or even old questions about Bush.

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