I’m guessing Denby fears Dave Karnes, Jason Thomas, and men like them, only dimly realizing that they’re there to protect him from threat.

In my opinion this is only the first of a series of films he plans to make about 9/11 with each one gently moving the meme along that America/Israel and George Bush are to blame for pushing Moslems into a corner where they see killing innocents as their only recourse to secure justice.

The last frame in the last film in a possible trilogy would depict Bush’s impeachment in the House and conviction in the Senate, possibly with elected Democrats playing themselves.

Thus is the stuff of moonbat dreams.

We the viewer/reader/audience get to choose which themes we will accept. Mr. Denby knows that final secret. It is we, the public audience, who will decide over decades and centuries what matters and what does not.

We read Dickens and Twain, watch Myrna Loy, admire Norman Rockwell; and not their contemporaries. All of these do exactly what Mr. Denby denigrates: exalt the good. And we love our country, “our.” I dare say Denby cannot. I think Denby and his intellectual coteries actually prefer today’s killers and their awful world.

“The world may not make sense anymore” because of an intellectual and moral depravity simply too great on his part. Does Denby shows his jealousy of Stone’s ability to come home? while he–the media gate keeper– can only lament ‘” before we got so lost.”’

Denby is no “anguished patriot with an outsized capacity for anger and shame” but simply futile, worthless, and–with an implacable enemy he refuses to see having already torched his New York once– finally damned.