Brookhiser's Nazi froth over F9/11

In today's New York Observer, Richard Brookhiser faults Michael Moore for failing to prescribe alternative policy (as if, say, not lying, cheating, and stealing wouldn't be enough of a start). But the truly offensive moment comes as he likens Moore to... Leni Riefenstahl???

Mr. Moore, grandly boasting of his accuracy, has hired a rapid-response team, manned by former Clinton operatives, to rebut all the criticisms of Fahrenheit 9/11 lodged by conservative critics. But fact-checking is not really the point. There was nothing factually wrong in Leni Riefenstahl's Olympiad. She did not show Aryan sprinters beating Jesse Owens. Her camera gloried in the speed and strength of his body, as it gloried in the physiques and accomplishments of all the athletes she photographed. The only meaningful way to critique her tone poem was to pose larger questions: What was the status, and what were the long-term prospects, of German athletes who might be liberal democrats, or Jews? Are beauty and discipline the only values in a society? What do beauty and discipline amount to in a society run by the Führer?

(http://www.nyobserver.com/pages/observer.asp)