(Yes he is)

The "News on the March" sequence: possibly the most heavy-handed obituary in history. It also uses both text and subtext to present Kane as an incredibly contradictory, self-contradictory, ambiguous character.

Walter Parks Thatcher: Kane is a communist
Random Stuttering Guy: Kane is a fascist
Kane: I'm ambiguous (read as: American)

Even the shot angles show the three different opinions. Thacher from a high angle, a classically disempowering method. Thatcher, in his first appearance in the film, looks decrepit, his shoulders shrugged under the weight of his holdings. It is a far cry from his appearance as a young man when he meets the child Kane. The nameless speaker is the opposite, shot from a low angle, an empowering accent. Kane's shot, to match his inscrutable response to their criticism, is maddeningly shot from a normal, middle-height angle. Flip-flopper.

"Kane urged his country's entrance into one war, opposed another": It's no accident that the war Kane supported appears triumphant (1898) and that the one he opposed appears less optimistically fought. Remember , however, that this entire sequence must be filtered through more than the normal amount of artistic influence. "News on the March" is created by the news mogul characters in the screening room, created by Orson Welles. We cannot know if the implications about the two wars are Welles' influence or the text's influence.

"[Kane] spoke for millions of Americans [and] was hated by as many more."

"There was no public man whom Kane himself did not support or denounce, or often support, then denounce."

"Twice married, twice divorced, first to a president's niece...Sixteen years after his first marriage...Kane married Suzan Alexander, singer.

Those were the more obvious things, and some sneaky things mixed into them. Let's be sneaky from now on:

In case any one was wondering, the name for Kane's mansion, Xanadu, is a reference to a poem by Samuel Taylor Coleridge: "Kubla Khan" (alternate spellings). The reference is a nice choice. The quote that the newsreel shows at the beginning: "In Xanadu did Kubla Khan a stately pleasure dome decree," is the first two lines, and as far as most readers' understanding can extend. Try for yourself. The poem is just as undecipherable as Kane is to any other character in the film.

In the newsreel's montage of Xanadu, there is a mix between extreme low angle shots of the structures, from below, almost right up against the stones, and bird's eye view shots from a helicopter. I smell significance. I'm running heavy on pics already so just take my word for it.

I don't know if it's a stretch or not, but during the animals montage, they show an elephant and then a donkey being unloaded from ships, both with identical shot compositions. Underlines his fence-splitting?

One final, random note. Look at this octopus. Oh CGI...I love you...