I love Roger Ebert. He is the only movie critic that I agree with almost 100% of the time.

I went to his page at the Chicago Sun-Times website to see what review, if any, he had posted for Michael Moore's "Fahrenheit 9/11". It turns out that he did write a review last month after seeing it in Cannes.

The review itself seems reasonable (if I can comment as someone who has only heard about it). However, it is obvious from the review the even Roger Ebert allowed Michael Moore to lead him down the garden path of Bush hatred.

Ebert writes, "The official story is that Bush was meeting with a group of pre-schoolers when he was informed of the attack on the World Trade Center and quickly left the room. Not quite right, says Moore. Bush learned of the first attack before entering the school, "decided to go ahead with his photo op," and began to read My Pet Goat to the students."

However, President Bush's leaving right away was never the official story. Here is how the President's morning was described in the NY Times on the day of the attacks - 9/11/01.

"Mr. Bush was informed that a plane had hit the World Trade Center in a telephone conversation with Ms. Rice shortly before walking into a second-grade classroom at the Emma E. Booker Elementary School in Sarasota, Fla. White House officials said he knew only that it was a single aircraft and not necessarily a terrorist attack."

As Ebert's words about the "official story" are his own, I am of the belief that this is what Michael Moore said was the official story and Ebert bought it hook, line and sinker.

Furthermore, Ebert suggests that the Bin Laden family was flown out of the country while U.S. airspace was still closed. (This is also a "liberal legend" as they left the country no earlier than 9/14 when airports were re-opened.) However as the NY Times reported on April 14 of this year:

"Independent commission investigating Sept 11 attacks finds that six chartered flights that rushed scores of Saudi citizens out of United States after Sept 11 attacks were handled properly by Bush administration; flight on Sept 20, 2001, carried 26 passengers, most of them relatives of Osama bin Laden; but all 142 passengers on flights, mostly Saudi citizens, were screened by law enforcement officials."