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Michael Moore

Michael Francis Moore (born April 23, 1954) is an American documentary filmmaker, producer, author, and political activist whose works polemically examine perceived flaws in U.S. capitalism, healthcare, gun policy, and foreign affairs.^[1]^[2] Born and raised in Flint, Michigan, a city emblematic of industrial decline due to automotive sector shifts, Moore drew from local experiences in his debut feature Roger & Me (1989), which confronted General Motors executives over factory closures and their socioeconomic fallout, launching his career with a signature blend of on-camera advocacy and investigative tactics.^[1]^[2] Among his most prominent achievements, Bowling for Columbine (2002) earned the Academy Award for Best Documentary Feature for probing factors behind mass shootings like Columbine, while Fahrenheit 9/11 (2004) secured the Cannes Palme d'Or and became the highest-grossing documentary film to date by challenging the George W. Bush administration's post-9/11 decisions and Iraq invasion rationale.^[2]^[3] Later films including Sicko (2007) on healthcare system inefficiencies and Capitalism: A Love Story (2009) on the 2008 financial crisis extended his critiques of institutional power, often blending humor, interviews, and dramatic reenactments.^[2] Despite acclaim for amplifying public discourse on inequality and policy failures, Moore's productions have faced substantial criticism for relying on selective editing, chronological manipulations, omitted context, and fabricated implications to bolster arguments, as evidenced in fact-checks of Bowling for Columbine and other entries.^[4]^[5]^[6] His personal affluence, including residence in a $1.9 million property, has fueled charges of inconsistency given his anti-corporate rhetoric.^[6]

Biography

Early life

Michael Moore was born on April 23, 1954, in Flint, Michigan, and raised in Davison, a suburb of the city.^[1]^[2] Flint served as a major hub for General Motors manufacturing during his childhood, with the local economy heavily dependent on automotive production that employed much of the working-class population.^[7] He grew up in an Irish Catholic family of modest means as the eldest of three children, with sisters Anne and Veronica.^[8] His father, Francis Richard "Frank" Moore, worked for over three decades on General Motors assembly lines, including producing spark plugs, reflecting the era's blue-collar labor in the industry's supply chain.^[9]^[10] His mother, Helen Veronica (née Wall), held a position as a secretary.^[1] The family's circumstances exposed Moore to the rhythms of unionized factory work and the stability—followed by emerging vulnerabilities—of mid-20th-century industrial employment in the region.^[11] Moore attended St. John's Catholic Elementary School in Davison, where the emphasis on traditional Catholic values shaped early aspects of his upbringing amid a community marked by economic reliance on automotive jobs.^[12] Local conditions included contrasts between relative postwar prosperity and pockets of hardship, as Flint's population swelled with auto workers but faced underlying dependencies on a single dominant industry.^[7]

Education

Moore enrolled at the University of Michigan–Flint in 1972, intending to study journalism, but withdrew after completing his freshman year in 1973 without earning credits toward a degree.^[13]^[14] He later cited mundane obstacles like chronic parking shortages as a factor in his disengagement from campus life, alongside distractions from off-campus political pursuits such as lawsuits against local school officials.^[15]^[16] Lacking advanced academic training, Moore pursued knowledge through autodidactic means, immersing himself in alternative publications and hands-on civic engagement rather than structured coursework. This approach, unencumbered by institutional norms, aligned with the era's youth-driven skepticism toward authority, evident in widespread anti-Vietnam War protests and cultural shifts away from traditional hierarchies during his formative adolescent years in the late 1960s and early 1970s. The resulting gaps in formal credentials reinforced his self-conception as an unpolished provocateur, distinct from credentialed elites in media and academia.^[14]

Personal life

Moore was married to Kathleen Glynn from October 19, 1991, until their divorce was finalized on July 24, 2014, after 22 years together.^[17]^[18] The couple, both natives of the Flint, Michigan area, raised Glynn's daughter from a prior relationship, Natalie, whom Moore has publicly referred to as his daughter.^[19]^[20] No records indicate Moore had biological children or additional marriages prior to Glynn. Moore has maintained residences in both Michigan and New York, including a Manhattan condominium and multiple properties in Michigan such as a seven-bedroom lakeside mansion on Torch Lake purchased for approximately $2 million around 2011.^[21]^[22] Divorce proceedings in 2013–2014 revealed the couple owned nine real estate holdings across these states, valued collectively in the multimillion-dollar range.^[23] His accumulated wealth, estimated at $50 million as of various assessments during that period, stems from career earnings including film revenues and book sales.^[24]^[25] Throughout his adult life, Moore has contended with obesity, maintaining a body weight that drew public attention and personal health efforts.^[26] In the mid-2000s, he reported losing 30 pounds over three months through dietary shifts emphasizing whole grains, increased sleep, daily walking of 10,000 steps, and work with a personal trainer; by 2010, he claimed a total loss of 60 pounds.^[27]^[28]^[29] No verified reports confirm adoption of vegetarianism or veganism; critiques have noted his past endorsements of meat consumption in public statements.^[30]

Journalistic Beginnings

Local journalism in Flint

In 1976, at the age of 22, Michael Moore founded the Flint Voice, an alternative weekly tabloid newspaper based in Flint, Michigan, which emphasized grassroots reporting on local economic and labor challenges.^[2]^[31] The publication targeted issues arising from General Motors' early plant rationalizations and the broader deindustrialization affecting the region's autoworkers, including coverage of layoffs, union organizing efforts, and community impacts from factory slowdowns in the late 1970s.^[32]^[33] Moore's editorial approach involved on-the-ground investigative journalism, such as interviewing autoworkers displaced by production shifts and challenging corporate executives on accountability for job losses tied to GM's restructuring decisions.^[34] These pieces highlighted causal links between managerial choices at headquarters and localized hardship, drawing from direct sources in Flint's industrial neighborhoods rather than aggregated national data. The Flint Voice operated as a counterpoint to mainstream outlets, prioritizing worker testimonies over corporate press releases amid a period when GM's employment in the area began contracting from peak levels.^[35] Under Moore's leadership, the newspaper expanded its scope and distribution, evolving into the Michigan Voice to cover statewide alternative perspectives while maintaining a Flint-centric focus on automotive sector accountability.^[36] Circulation details are sparse in contemporaneous records, but it achieved recognition as a respected alternative outlet distributed at local newsstands and community sites.^[32] Financial pressures common to independent print media, including advertising shortfalls and operational costs during economic downturns, contributed to ongoing challenges; Moore edited the publication until 1986, when he was ousted amid internal political disagreements over content direction.^[37]^[7]

National alternative media

In early 1986, Moore relocated to San Francisco to serve as editor of Mother Jones, a national progressive magazine focused on investigative journalism and social issues.^[8] His brief tenure, lasting approximately four months, involved efforts to assert greater editorial independence, but it ended in controversy.^[37] Moore was dismissed in early September 1986 following clashes with the board, including his opposition to publishing an article criticizing Nicaragua's Sandinista government, which he viewed as insufficiently supportive of leftist causes.^[38] He contested the firing as wrongful termination, filing a $2 million lawsuit against the publication that alleged breach of contract and interference with his vision for bolder, more populist content.^[37] The case settled out of court, providing Moore with funds to pursue independent projects.^[14] Following the Mother Jones episode, Moore edited a newsletter for Ralph Nader's Public Citizen, a consumer advocacy group, where he contributed writings critiquing corporate influence and government policies during the Reagan administration.^[14] This role marked his deeper engagement with national countercultural outlets, emphasizing ideological opposition to establishment power structures through pointed commentary on economic inequality and deregulation.^[39] In these platforms, Moore began refining a provocative style that prioritized direct challenges to authority, laying groundwork for his later confrontational techniques in public discourse.^[40]

Filmmaking Career

Early documentaries (1989–1995)

Moore's debut feature-length documentary, Roger & Me, released on December 20, 1989, chronicled the socioeconomic fallout from General Motors' closure of 11 factories in Flint, Michigan, between 1986 and 1987, which eliminated approximately 30,000 jobs in the city.^[41] The film centers on Moore's persistent, ultimately unsuccessful efforts to secure an interview with GM CEO Roger Smith and compel him to witness the resulting poverty and decay firsthand, interspersing these pursuits with footage of evicted residents, struggling workers, and local responses like rabbit farming for food. Produced on a modest budget of around $160,000, the movie achieved commercial success, grossing over $7.7 million worldwide.^[42] Moore financed and directed Roger & Me independently after failing to attract traditional backers, employing a participatory style that positioned himself on camera as the protagonist and interviewer, often ambushing subjects in public or corporate settings to underscore themes of executive detachment from labor impacts. This approach combined verité footage of Flint's decline—evictions, unemployment lines, and makeshift survival tactics—with ironic commentary and archival clips, using humor to juxtapose corporate prosperity against working-class hardship without relying on scripted narration beyond Moore's voiceover.^[41] In 1992, Moore followed with the 23-minute short Pets or Meat: The Return to Flint, a direct sequel that revisited individuals and conditions profiled in Roger & Me three years prior, airing as a PBS POV special on September 28. The film documented ongoing desperation in Flint, including families resorting to eating pets amid persistent joblessness and failed revitalization efforts, maintaining Moore's confrontational on-camera presence to highlight unaddressed corporate accountability.^[43]^[44]^[45] By 1995, Moore ventured into narrative fiction with Canadian Bacon, a satirical comedy he wrote, produced, and directed, depicting a U.S. president manufacturing anti-Canadian hysteria to boost domestic poll numbers amid economic woes, exaggerating border tensions and cultural stereotypes for absurd effect. Released on a budget reflecting his growing profile, the film marked a departure from pure documentary form while retaining satirical jabs at political opportunism and nationalism, though it underperformed commercially compared to his prior work.^[46]

Rise to prominence (1996–2004)

Moore's 1997 documentary The Big One followed his book tour promoting Downsize This!, confronting corporate executives and politicians on issues of downsizing, job outsourcing, and economic inequality across the United States.^[47] The film premiered in 1997 and received a limited U.S. theatrical release on April 10, 1998, distributed by Miramax, grossing approximately $720,000 domestically.^[48] While not a major commercial hit, it expanded Moore's audience beyond niche activist circles by blending confrontational interviews with on-the-road footage, earning praise for its satirical edge from critics like Roger Ebert.^[47] The Big One laid groundwork for Moore's subsequent breakthroughs, culminating in Bowling for Columbine (2002), which investigated American gun violence through the lens of the 1999 Columbine High School shooting, incorporating interviews with survivors, experts, and figures like Marilyn Manson and Charlton Heston.^[49] Premiering at the 2002 Cannes Film Festival, the film opened in U.S. theaters on October 11, 2002, with a modest budget of $4 million, ultimately earning $21.6 million domestically and $58 million worldwide.^[50] Its success marked Moore's entry into mainstream recognition, highlighted by winning the Academy Award for Best Documentary Feature on March 23, 2003, during a ceremony where Moore's acceptance speech critiqued the Iraq War, drawing both applause and boos.^[51] Moore's prominence peaked with Fahrenheit 9/11 (2004), a scathing examination of the George W. Bush administration's response to the September 11, 2001, attacks, including alleged Saudi connections, the Patriot Act, and the Iraq invasion.^[52] Winning the Palme d'Or at the 2004 Cannes Film Festival on May 23, 2004—the first documentary to do so since 1955—the film faced distribution hurdles after Disney declined to release it, leading Lions Gate Films to secure nationwide U.S. theaters starting June 25, 2004.^[53] It shattered documentary records with a $23.9 million opening weekend, grossing $119.2 million domestically and $222.4 million worldwide, the highest ever for a documentary at the time.^[54] This commercial triumph, amid polarized reception, elevated Moore to celebrity status, with widespread media coverage and sold-out screenings reflecting heightened public interest in post-9/11 critiques.^[55]

Mid-career works (2007–2015)

Moore's Sicko, released on June 29, 2007, examines the U.S. health care system by contrasting profit-driven insurance practices with universal coverage in countries like Canada, the United Kingdom, France, and Cuba, featuring personal stories of denied claims and HMO inefficiencies alongside interviews with affected individuals and 9/11 rescue workers denied benefits.^[56] The film earned praise for its emotional impact and critique of industry profiteering but faced criticism for oversimplifying foreign systems' challenges, such as wait times and tax burdens, while portraying universal care as uniformly superior without addressing fiscal realities.^[57] It achieved commercial success, grossing over $36 million worldwide on a $22 million budget, and received an 8/10 user rating on IMDb from nearly 78,000 votes.^[56] In 2008, Moore released Slacker Uprising, a documentary compiled from his 2004 tour across 60 U.S. college campuses aimed at mobilizing young voters against George W. Bush's re-election, including speeches, interviews with celebrities like Thom Yorke, and voter registration drives in swing states.^[58] Distributed free online starting September 23, 2008, to encourage civic engagement ahead of the Obama-McCain contest, it documented apathy among youth and Moore's confrontations with non-voters but was critiqued as self-indulgent and ineffective propaganda, with a low 5.3/10 IMDb rating from about 2,900 users reflecting perceptions of it as ego-driven rather than substantive analysis.^[58]^[59] Capitalism: A Love Story, premiered at the Venice Film Festival on September 6, 2009, and released theatrically in the U.S. on October 2, critiques the 2008 financial crisis through stories of foreclosures, airline worker buyouts, and corporate bailouts, interviewing figures like economist William Black and former President Jimmy Carter to argue that unchecked capitalism erodes worker protections and concentrates wealth.^[60] Moore employs his signature style of on-camera stunts, such as attempting to foreclose on banks, to highlight bailouts exceeding $700 billion via TARP while ordinary citizens suffered, though reviewers noted its sentimental framing and simplistic moral binaries as reducing complex economic causes—like deregulation and subprime lending—to greed alone.^[61]^[62] The film holds a 7.4/10 IMDb rating from over 44,000 users and grossed about $15 million globally.^[60] Moore's Where to Invade Next, released on December 23, 2015, after premiering at the Toronto International Film Festival, frames him as a Pentagon envoy "invading" nations like Italy, Slovenia, and Tunisia to "steal" policies on paid vacations, worker rights, free college, and prison rehabilitation, using interviews with locals and officials to contrast these with U.S. shortcomings in equality, health care, and justice.^[63] While lauded for witty optimism and spotlighting empirical successes abroad—such as Norway's low recidivism rates via humane incarceration—it drew criticism for cherry-picking examples, ignoring implementation costs, cultural differences, and policy failures, presenting a didactic travelogue that idealizes foreign models without causal depth on scalability to America's diverse economy.^[64] The documentary earned a 7.5/10 IMDb score from over 26,000 users and emphasized borrowing proven ideas to revive American progress.^[63] Throughout this period, Moore maintained his approach of blending autobiographical narration, confrontational encounters, and expert testimonies to advocate systemic reform, though detractors consistently highlighted selective editing and emotional appeals over rigorous data, contributing to polarized reception amid his films' consistent box office draws exceeding production costs.^[56]^[60]

Later films and projects (2016–present)

In October 2016, Moore released Michael Moore in TrumpLand, a 73-minute documentary capturing his one-man stage show performed in Wilmington, Ohio, weeks before the U.S. presidential election. The film explored Donald Trump's appeal to working-class voters in Rust Belt areas, blending humor, self-reflection, and critique of Hillary Clinton's campaign without overt partisanship. It premiered on October 18, 2016, at IFC Center in New York and earned a limited theatrical release, grossing $149,100 in the U.S. Critics gave it mixed reviews, with a 54% approval rating on Rotten Tomatoes, praising its introspective analysis of Trump's rise but noting its meandering structure.^[65]^[66] Moore's next major project, Fahrenheit 11/9 (2018), directed and produced by him, examined the 2016 election outcome, the Trump presidency's early years, and related events like the Flint water crisis. Released on September 21, 2018, it opened to $3 million domestically but ultimately grossed only $6.3 million, marking one of the weakest box office performances in Moore's career compared to earlier hits like Fahrenheit 9/11's $119 million. The film received a 82% Rotten Tomatoes score for its provocative style and coverage of Democratic failures, though some reviewers criticized its scattershot focus and lack of new insights.^[67]^[68]^[69] As executive producer, Moore backed Planet of the Humans (2020), directed by Jeff Gibbs and released for free on YouTube on Earth Day, April 22, 2020, amid the COVID-19 pandemic. The documentary critiqued the environmental movement's reliance on renewables like solar and wind, arguing they depend on fossil fuels and fail to address overpopulation and consumption growth, while questioning figures like Bill McKibben and Al Gore. It drew sharp backlash from climate scientists and activists for using outdated data—such as 2010s solar efficiency stats ignoring post-2015 improvements—and promoting skepticism toward green tech transitions, with outlets like Yale Climate Connections labeling it misleading and akin to denialism. Moore defended the film as a necessary challenge to complacency, though it amplified debates on energy realism over optimism. No theatrical run occurred, reflecting a pivot to digital platforms.^[70]^[71] Post-2020, Moore produced few feature-length films, with reports in January 2025 indicating he was developing his first directorial effort in seven years, though no release had materialized by October 2025. His output shifted toward shorter online content and commentary on events like the 2024 election, amid declining theatrical viability for his style of polemical documentaries. This period highlighted broader industry trends of reduced box office for non-mainstream docs and reliance on streaming for reach.^[72]^[73]

Other Media Contributions

Television production

Moore created and hosted TV Nation, a satirical news-magazine series that premiered on NBC in July 1994 and ran for two seasons until 1995, later moving to Fox for its second season.^[74] The program featured field segments by "guerrilla journalists" investigating corporate wrongdoing, social inequalities, and political hypocrisies, blending investigative reporting with humor to highlight issues overlooked by mainstream outlets.^[74] It received a Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Informational Series in 1995, recognizing its innovative format.^[75] Despite drawing initial strong interest on cable reruns, the show struggled with network ratings and faced cancellation after Fox executives imposed greater content restrictions than NBC, including blocking segments critical of the network's ownership.^[74]^[76] In 1999, Moore launched The Awful Truth on Bravo, a successor series that aired two seasons through 2000 and continued the experimental mix of on-the-ground investigations and satire targeting corporate abuses, such as exploitative labor practices and consumer scams.^[77]^[78] Episodes included confrontational segments like challenging media pundits and exposing insurance industry tactics, maintaining a focus on systemic inequities without traditional news constraints.^[79] The show's cable platform allowed bolder content than broadcast TV, though it remained short-lived due to limited mainstream appeal and production challenges.^[80] Moore also developed pilots such as The Mike Moore Show in 1999, which experimented with similar satirical formats but failed to secure ongoing network support amid recurring censorship battles over politically charged material. These television efforts prioritized provocative, segment-driven storytelling over sustained runs, reaching audiences through niche networks while influencing later documentary styles.^[81]

Writing and authorship

Michael Moore's first book, Downsize This! Random Threats from an Unarmed American, was published on January 15, 1996, by Crown Publishers and critiqued corporate downsizing and political corruption through satirical essays and proposed stunts, such as mailing corporate donations to political figures.^[82]^[83] In 2001, Moore released Stupid White Men ...and Other Sorry Excuses for the State of the Nation!, a collection of essays employing populist rhetoric to assail economic inequality, political elites, and media complicity, which achieved commercial success with over three million copies sold and appearances on the New York Times bestseller list.^[84] Following the September 11, 2001, attacks, Dude, Where's My Country? appeared on October 7, 2003, from Warner Books, extending Moore's critiques to foreign policy and domestic surveillance with demands for liberal mobilization against Republican leadership; it sold 481,343 copies that year, outperforming David Beckham's autobiography in U.S. non-fiction sales.^[85]^[86] Will They Ever Trust Us Again? Letters from the War Zone, published in 2004 by Simon & Schuster, compiled correspondence from U.S. soldiers, families, and veterans in Iraq and Afghanistan, voicing disillusionment with the war effort and government narratives.^[87]^[88] Moore's 2011 memoir, Here Comes Trouble: Stories from My Life, issued on September 13 by Grand Central Publishing, recounted autobiographical anecdotes from his youth in Flint, Michigan, to early activism, spanning encounters with figures like Robert F. Kennedy and Ronald Reagan.^[89]^[90]

Music videos, acting, and theater

Moore directed the music video for R.E.M.'s "All the Way to Reno (You're Gonna Be a Star)" from their 2001 album Reveal, incorporating footage shot by students at Bishop Ford Central Catholic High School in Brooklyn, New York.^[91]^[92] This project, released in April 2001, featured the band members Peter Buck, Mike Mills, and Michael Stipe alongside the student contributions.^[91] In film acting, Moore took a supporting role as Walter in the 2000 comedy Lucky Numbers, directed by Nora Ephron, where he portrayed the cousin of the character Crystal (played by Lisa Kudrow) who assists in a lottery scam scheme.^[93] The film, released on November 17, 2000, marked one of Moore's few on-screen acting appearances outside his documentaries. Moore ventured into theater with his solo Broadway production The Terms of My Surrender, which he wrote and performed at the Belasco Theatre from August 10 to October 22, 2017, for a limited run of 12 weeks.^[94] Directed by Michael Mayer, the show critiqued the political landscape following the 2016 U.S. presidential election, incorporating audience interaction and live elements to explore themes of resistance and national discord.^[95]^[96] These activities, spanning 2000 to 2017, constitute a limited extension of Moore's creative output, typically serving as platforms to amplify his social commentary rather than standalone artistic pursuits.^[97]

Podcasting and online platforms

In 2019, Michael Moore launched The Michael Moore Podcast, a weekly audio series distributed on platforms including Apple Podcasts, Spotify, and Rumble, where he delivers monologues on current events, often employing humor and satire to address topics such as U.S. elections and political figures.^[98] The podcast, which continues into 2025, has maintained a consistent release schedule, with episodes focusing on unfiltered personal analysis rather than guest interviews, allowing Moore to bypass editorial constraints of broadcast media.^[99] It has garnered high listener engagement, evidenced by over 12,000 reviews averaging 4.7 stars on Rephonic analytics, reflecting a dedicated audience seeking alternative viewpoints outside mainstream outlets.^[100] Episodes frequently incorporate satirical elements to critique political developments; for instance, Moore has used hyperbolic analogies, such as likening certain electoral dynamics to dramatic scenarios reminiscent of horror tropes like sharks or cannibalistic pursuits, in discussions of the 2024 presidential race and Donald Trump's influence.^[101] This approach enables direct dissemination to subscribers, amassing significant download volumes through digital aggregation—facilitating reach in the millions cumulatively across episodes, independent of traditional network approvals or advertiser dependencies.^[102] Expanding into written formats, Moore initiated a Substack newsletter in the mid-2020s, with active posting from 2024 onward, providing extended essays on immediate events like the September 23, 2025, United Nations escalator malfunction during Trump's appearance, which he framed as symbolically portentous.^[103] Subsequent entries included post-2024 election dissections, emphasizing grassroots mobilization and perceived systemic failures, delivered without intermediary fact-checkers or institutional filters. These platforms collectively represent Moore's pivot to audience-funded, decentralized media, prioritizing volume and immediacy over polished production, and sustaining his commentary amid evolving digital consumption trends as of October 2025.^[104]

Political Views and Activism

Core ideological foundations

Michael Moore's ideological foundations emerged from his upbringing in the Flint, Michigan area, where the closure of General Motors assembly plants between 1987 and 1990 resulted in the loss of over 76,000 manufacturing jobs, catalyzing a severe economic downturn that he attributes to unchecked corporate prioritization of shareholder value over community stability. This experience instilled a class-based worldview framing capitalism as a system that systematically exploits laborers for elite gain, with causal mechanisms rooted in profit-driven offshoring and automation rather than market efficiencies or worker productivity shortfalls. Moore's early journalism emphasized tangible worker hardships—such as rising poverty rates from 15% in Genesee County in 1980 to over 30% by 1990—over doctrinal debates, positioning economic advocacy as a defense of concrete interests against abstract corporate rationales.^[105]^[106] Drawing from anti-establishment thinkers like Noam Chomsky and Ralph Nader, Moore internalized critiques of institutional power that highlight how concentrated economic control distorts democratic processes and public discourse. Chomsky's examination of elite consensus in policy formation aligned with Moore's observations of media complicity in downplaying industrial decline, while Nader's focus on regulatory capture by monopolies reinforced a commitment to challenging corporate impunity through public scrutiny. These influences shaped a pragmatic orientation toward safeguarding labor entitlements and local economies, eschewing rigid ideological labels in favor of first-hand accounts of disempowerment, where causal chains link executive decisions to familial ruin without intermediary excuses like global competition.^[107]^[108] Central to Moore's framework is the assertion that both Democratic and Republican parties function as extensions of corporate agendas, with lobbying expenditures exceeding $3 billion annually by the 2000s enabling undue sway over legislation that entrenches inequality. He identifies bipartisan acquiescence to deregulation—evident in policies from the 1970s onward—as eroding worker bargaining power, irrespective of partisan rhetoric, and traces this to foundational dependencies on campaign financing from financial and industrial sectors. This analysis evolved from Moore's initial local engagements in Michigan, confronting municipal and state authorities on job preservation, toward broader indictments of national elite capture, fostering a populist ethos that prioritizes mass mobilization against systemic incentives favoring capital over labor.^[109]^[110]

Positions on domestic issues

Michael Moore has expressed evolving views on gun ownership and violence, initially emphasizing cultural factors over strict firearm restrictions in his 2002 documentary Bowling for Columbine, where he argued that American exceptionalism in gun deaths stemmed from societal fears and media influence rather than guns alone.^[111] By the 2010s, however, Moore shifted to advocating comprehensive bans, stating in 2021 that "all weapons intended primarily to kill human beings" should be prohibited and calling for licensing requirements and elimination of certain firearms in the short term following mass shootings.^[112] ^[113] In 2022, he explicitly urged repeal of the Second Amendment, framing gun ownership not as a right to self-defense but as incompatible with protection from violence, and suggested alternatives like guard dogs for security.^[114] ^[115] On healthcare, Moore has consistently promoted a single-payer system modeled on Medicare for all, as detailed in his 2007 film Sicko, which contrasted U.S. profit-driven insurance with universal coverage in countries like Canada and Cuba, highlighting cases where denied claims led to untreated conditions and deaths.^[116] He criticized the Affordable Care Act (Obamacare) in a 2013 New York Times op-ed as "awful" for preserving private insurers' dominance and mandating purchases without addressing root inefficiencies, though he viewed it as a potential pathway to single-payer by forcing 80% of premiums toward care and exposing system flaws.^[117] ^[118] In 2017, following Republican repeal attempts, Moore reiterated demands for Medicare expansion to replace Obamacare's market-based approach, arguing it failed to achieve universal coverage or cost controls evident in single-payer data from other nations.^[119] Moore has critiqued 1990s welfare reforms for exacerbating poverty and social instability, linking the 1996 Personal Responsibility and Work Opportunity Reconciliation Act in Bowling for Columbine to increased youth violence by forcing single mothers into low-wage work, leaving children unsupervised—as in the case of a Flint boy whose mother's dual jobs post-reform contributed to his involvement in a school shooting.^[120] ^[14] He has also opposed prison labor practices, exposing in his 1997 film The Big One how corporations like TWA exploited inmates at 80 cents per day for tasks such as customer service, framing it as a mechanism to suppress wages and undermine free workers amid rising incarceration rates.^[121] Regarding economic inequality, Moore attributes much of it to deindustrialization and corporate offshoring, as depicted in his 1989 debut Roger & Me, which documented General Motors' closure of Flint, Michigan, plants in the 1980s, resulting in over 30,000 job losses, a 50% unemployment spike, and community collapse without adequate retraining or relocation support.^[122] In Capitalism: A Love Story (2009), he highlighted stagnant real wages despite productivity gains—claiming a freeze from 1980 onward while output rose—tying this to union busting and deregulation under Reagan, which he said concentrated wealth among the top 1% holding more financial assets than the bottom 95% combined.^[123] Moore supports substantial minimum wage increases, citing polls showing 76% of voters favoring $17 per hour and 74% for $20, while advocating unionization to sustain gains beyond bare mandates, crediting autoworkers' strikes for creating the post-World War II middle class through collective bargaining that tied pay to productivity.^[124] ^[125] He has proposed $22 hourly floors in union contexts, arguing they counter inequality drivers like automation and globalization without relying on government subsidies.^[126]

Stances on foreign policy and war

Michael Moore has consistently opposed U.S. military interventions, particularly the Iraq War, which he described as based on "fictitious reasons" in his acceptance speech for Bowling for Columbine at the 75th Academy Awards on March 23, 2003.^[127] In his 2004 documentary Fahrenheit 9/11, released on June 25, Moore critiqued the Bush administration's post-September 11, 2001, decisions, alleging connections between the Saudi royal family and the Bush family influenced the decision to invade Iraq rather than fully pursue Osama bin Laden in Afghanistan.^[128] The film highlighted the human costs of the war, including interviews with Iraqi civilians and U.S. soldiers facing chaos and recruitment challenges, portraying the conflict as unnecessary and driven by profit motives for defense contractors.^[129] Moore's anti-interventionist stance extends to broader critiques of U.S. foreign policy, advocating for adopting beneficial social policies from other nations instead of military conquest. In Where to Invade Next (2015), he satirically "invades" countries like Italy, France, Finland, and Tunisia to "steal" ideas such as generous paid vacations, universal healthcare, and worker rights, contrasting these with U.S. militarism.^[130] Moore claimed in the film that the U.S. allocates 60% of its federal budget to the military, arguing this diverts resources from domestic improvements and perpetuates unnecessary wars.^[131] He emphasized diplomacy and learning from abroad over invasion, suggesting that emulating foreign models could reduce reliance on force.^[132] Linking economic policy to foreign affairs, Moore has criticized globalization and free trade agreements for causing U.S. manufacturing job losses, attributing millions of displacements to policies under the Reagan administration onward.^[133] In Capitalism: A Love Story (2009), he portrayed offshoring and foreign competition as detrimental, resisting globalization as a driver of inequality rather than mutual benefit.^[134] This view ties into his skepticism of post-9/11 patriotic fervor, which he argued masked profiteering and policy failures in Fahrenheit 9/11, questioning the rush to war without sufficient evidence or diplomatic alternatives.^[135] Moore has repeatedly highlighted the fiscal burdens of militarism, estimating in public statements that endless wars cost trillions and exacerbate domestic economic woes, advocating instead for de-escalation and negotiation to avoid such expenditures.^[136] His positions prioritize causal analysis of U.S. actions abroad, linking interventions to blowback and resource misallocation over ideological or security justifications.^[137]

Involvement in elections and candidates

Moore initially supported Green Party candidate Ralph Nader in the 2000 presidential election, discouraging votes for Democratic nominee Al Gore on grounds that Gore represented insufficient change despite being "a decent guy."^[138] This stance aligned with Moore's broader critique of the two-party system in his book Stupid White Men, published that year, where he lambasted establishment Democrats.^[139] In the 2004 election cycle, Moore mobilized opposition to incumbent President George W. Bush through his documentary Fahrenheit 9/11, which he openly intended to sway voters against Bush's reelection by highlighting administration decisions post-9/11.^[140] Complementing this, he launched the Slacker Uprising Tour, a 62-city grassroots effort across swing states from April to October 2004, targeting young and apathetic voters—termed "slackivists"—to register and turn out against Bush.^[141]^[142] The tour involved rallies, voter drives, and performances, later documented in his 2008 film Slacker Uprising, distributed free online to sustain anti-establishment voter engagement.^[143] During the 2016 Democratic primaries, Moore endorsed Senator Bernie Sanders, citing decades of personal support including campaigning for Sanders' congressional runs in Vermont, and urged Sanders to "crush" Trump as the general election opponent.^[144]^[145] Ahead of the general election, in a July 2016 essay, he predicted Trump's victory, warning of economic alienation in Midwest "abandoned" regions like his native Michigan that could propel Trump despite elite dismissal.^[146] In the 2020 cycle, Moore announced he would vote for Joe Biden, framing it as pragmatic disbelief in Biden's centrist pledges rather than enthusiasm.^[147] Via episodes of his Rumble podcast spanning 2020 to 2024, he leveled pointed critiques at the Biden-Harris ticket, including Biden's 2019 fundraiser appeals to wealthy donors and administration handling of issues like foreign entanglements.^[148] By July 2024, amid Biden's reelection bid, Moore demanded Biden exit the race, accusing advisers of "elder abuse" in propping him up despite evident decline, and pressed Vice President Kamala Harris to explicitly disavow Biden's record on taxpayer-funded conflicts.^[149]^[150] He also advocated swift impeachment proceedings against Trump during the 2019 House inquiry, insisting it proceed without delay to underscore accountability ahead of 2020.^[151]

Reception and Legacy

Awards and commercial success

Moore's documentary Bowling for Columbine (2002) won the Academy Award for Best Documentary Feature at the 75th Academy Awards ceremony on March 23, 2003.^[152] His follow-up film Fahrenheit 9/11 (2004) received the Palme d'Or at the 57th Cannes Film Festival on May 22, 2004.^[153] ^[154] Moore's television series TV Nation (1994–1995) earned him a Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Informational Series.^[75] Commercially, Fahrenheit 9/11 became one of the highest-grossing documentaries, earning $222,446,882 worldwide against a $6 million production budget, with $119,194,771 from the U.S. and Canada.^[155] ^[54] Bowling for Columbine grossed over $58 million globally.^[156] Moore's books, including Stupid White Men (2001) and Dude, Where's My Country? (2003), achieved strong sales, with the latter contributing to his ranking among top nonfiction authors in 2003 amid high demand for political titles.^[85] ^[157] His diversified output across documentaries, television, and publishing has generated an estimated net worth of $30 million as of recent assessments, though it previously peaked higher due to peak earnings from major releases.^[158]

Positive impacts and influence

Moore's documentary Bowling for Columbine (2002), released in the wake of the April 20, 1999, Columbine High School shooting that killed 13 people, amplified national conversations on firearm access and violence in the United States. By juxtaposing U.S. gun ownership rates—approximately 393 million civilian firearms as of 2017—with lower homicide figures in other high-ownership nations like Canada, the film prompted viewers to consider cultural and media influences on gun-related incidents rather than ownership alone.^[159] Academic analyses have linked such documentaries to shifts in public attitudes toward gun control policies, fostering broader media scrutiny of Second Amendment interpretations and societal fear narratives.^[160] In healthcare, Sicko (2007) exposed operational practices of U.S. insurance providers, such as claim denials affecting over 20 million Americans annually in the mid-2000s, drawing attention to inefficiencies in the for-profit model. A Kaiser Family Foundation poll conducted post-release found that 36% of aware viewers believed the film accurately depicted systemic issues, contributing to heightened public and legislative focus on reform efforts that culminated in the 2010 Affordable Care Act's expansion of coverage to 20 million more individuals by 2016.^[161] Supporters, including single-payer advocates, have credited Moore's empirical case studies of denied treatments with sustaining momentum for universal access discussions amid industry resistance.^[116] Fahrenheit 9/11 (2004), which grossed over $222 million worldwide and became the highest-earning documentary at the time, influenced viewer skepticism toward the Iraq War's justifications following the March 20, 2003, invasion. Experimental surveys showed that post-viewing, participants reported stronger beliefs that the Bush administration pursued the conflict for oil and defense contractor gains rather than weapons of mass destruction, correlating with shifts in mood and voting intentions against incumbent policies.^[162] This resonance elevated documentary filmmaking as a vehicle for dissecting executive decisions, with the film's Palme d'Or win at Cannes on May 21, 2004, underscoring its role in global policy critiques.^[163] Moore's on-site engagement with Occupy Wall Street protesters starting September 17, 2011, including speeches decrying financial sector excesses amid the 2008 crisis that erased $11 trillion in household wealth, helped sustain the movement's visibility against corporate influence. By framing Wall Street as a "kleptocracy," his advocacy aligned with empirical data on income inequality—where the top 1% captured 91% of income gains from 2009 to 2012—bolstering grassroots pushes for regulatory reforms like the Dodd-Frank Act's implementation.^[164] Overall, Moore's works have been praised by activists for democratizing investigative techniques, enabling wider scrutiny of power structures through accessible, data-driven narratives that prioritize viewer-driven policy discourse over institutional gatekeeping.^[165]

Cultural and political resonance

Moore's documentaries reshaped left-wing political discourse by infusing it with populist elements drawn from working-class experiences, particularly in deindustrialized areas. His 1989 film Roger & Me, which examined the closure of General Motors facilities in Flint, Michigan—resulting in over 30,000 job losses and local unemployment exceeding 20% by 1988—popularized narratives of corporate abandonment and economic dislocation in the Rust Belt, framing globalization as a direct assault on American communities.^[8] This approach diverged from elite-focused critiques prevalent in earlier progressive media, instead prioritizing visceral depictions of ordinary citizens' hardships to challenge neoliberal policies, influencing subsequent discussions on trade agreements like NAFTA, which contributed to manufacturing job declines from 17 million in 1994 to 12 million by 2010.^[166] In electoral contexts, Moore's works generated measurable mobilization among progressive audiences, though with mixed outcomes. Fahrenheit 9/11 (2004), which critiqued the Bush administration's post-9/11 policies, prompted widespread grassroots efforts including over 1,000 organized screenings and voter outreach events by groups like MoveOn.org, energizing anti-war sentiment and boosting turnout intentions among likely Democratic voters by reinforcing beliefs in administration misconduct related to Iraq.^[167] However, empirical studies post-election found no significant shift in undecided voter preferences, with Bush prevailing 50.7% to 48.3% nationally, suggesting resonance confined largely to base reinforcement rather than broader persuasion.^[168] Moore's stylistic innovations—confrontational interviews, ironic humor, and personal narration—established a template for political documentaries, cited as foundational by scholars for amplifying their role in public debate since the 1990s.^[165] This legacy endures digitally: despite waning box-office draws for post-2010 films, his Substack platform reached 842,000 subscribers by 2025, fostering ongoing discourse on populism and inequality, while The Michael Moore Podcast sustains listener engagement on platforms like Spotify through episodic analysis of economic and anti-establishment themes.^[99]

Controversies and Criticisms

Factual inaccuracies and selective editing

In Bowling for Columbine (2002), Michael Moore selectively edited archival footage of NRA president Charlton Heston's speeches to suggest Heston delivered a provocative "from my cold, dead hands" address in defiance shortly after the April 20, 1999, Columbine High School shooting; in reality, the speech occurred on May 17, 2000, in Charlotte, North Carolina, and Moore spliced audio from seven sentences across five sections of that speech plus elements from another address to fabricate a cohesive, immediate post-Columbine rant.^[169]^[39] The film's title and opening narrative implied the Columbine perpetrators went bowling shortly before the attack, drawing a causal link to gun culture; however, Jefferson County Sheriff's Office investigators confirmed no evidence existed that the shooters bowled that morning or the day prior, with the bowling reference originating from an early, erroneous New York Times report that Moore did not correct.^[170] In Fahrenheit 9/11 (2004), Moore omitted the Clinton administration's June 26, 1993, launch of 23 Tomahawk cruise missiles at Iraqi intelligence headquarters in Baghdad—retaliation for an alleged plot to assassinate George H.W. Bush—while emphasizing Bush family business ties to Saddam Hussein's regime, creating a selective portrayal of Republican culpability for U.S.-Iraq entanglements.^[171] The film further misrepresented pre-2003 Iraq through juxtaposed idyllic footage of civilians flying kites and shopping, implying peaceful normalcy disrupted solely by the U.S. invasion; this editing ignored Saddam's widespread use of chemical weapons, mass graves, and fortified military sites later targeted in coalition strikes.^[171] Moore's depiction of President George W. Bush remaining "frozen" for seven minutes in a Florida classroom upon learning of the second 9/11 plane strike on September 11, 2001, suggested paralysis or indifference, but omitted the real-time uncertainty advisors faced in distinguishing the attack from a potential broader assault, as detailed in contemporaneous White House logs.^[172] In Sicko (2007), Moore filmed Canadian healthcare interactions to portray near-instantaneous access, interviewing patients and doctors in Windsor, Ontario, who described minimal delays for routine care; however, this selectively downplayed national data showing median wait times of 17.7 weeks for non-emergency specialist consultations and up to 27.7 weeks for treatment in 2006-2007, with critics noting Moore avoided provinces like British Columbia where waits exceeded months for procedures such as cataract surgery.^[173]^[174] Canadian media outlets, including the National Post, highlighted how Moore's clips misrepresented systemic queues for elective and diagnostic services, averaging 2-3 times longer than in the U.S. for comparable non-urgent cases.^[173]

Accusations of propaganda and bias

Critics have characterized Michael Moore's films as vehicles for ideological propaganda rather than impartial documentaries, arguing that they prioritize advocacy for left-wing causes over balanced exploration of issues.^[171]^[175] This perspective holds that Moore employs techniques such as selective editing and omission of counter-evidence to advance narratives, contrasting with standards of journalistic objectivity that require presenting opposing viewpoints.^[5]^[176] For instance, accusations include deliberate exclusion of evidence challenging his premises, such as potential benefits or successes in critiqued systems, to heighten emotional impact and reinforce preconceived conclusions.^[6]^[177] Right-leaning organizations like the Atlas Society have specifically critiqued Moore's anti-capitalist slant, contending that his portrayals systematically ignore market-driven innovations and efficiencies while amplifying failures to vilify free enterprise.^[5] These analyses assert that such bias distorts causal realities, presenting capitalism as inherently exploitative without acknowledging empirical instances where competitive incentives have yielded societal gains, such as in technological advancement or consumer choice.^[178] Moore's defenders counter that his work openly embraces partisanship, but detractors maintain this admission does not excuse manipulations that mislead audiences on complex economic dynamics.^[179]^[180] By the 2010s, Moore's appeal reportedly diminished among centrist viewers, with box office underperformance signaling a narrowing audience confined to ideological allies rather than broader publics seeking less polemical content.^[181] This shift, observed in declining returns for projects like Where to Invade Next (2015), which grossed under $5 million domestically, has been attributed to perceptions of unrelenting partisanship alienating those valuing empirical nuance over advocacy.^[182] Critics from outlets like the New York Post have argued that in an era of heightened political polarization, Moore's methods rendered him increasingly irrelevant to non-partisan discourse.^[183]

Specific film and project debunkings

In Roger & Me (1989), Moore portrayed General Motors' layoffs in Flint, Michigan, as abruptly devastating the local economy without nuance, but the film rearranged the chronology of events to imply direct causation between closures and subsequent hardships. Eviction scenes filmed in 1988 were intercut after a 1987 interview with a rabbit breeder suggesting residents turned to selling pets for meat due to desperation, creating a false narrative sequence since the evictions predated the interview.^[184]^[45] The documentary also implied GM had fully abandoned Flint, overstating the closures' immediacy and ignoring the company's continued employment of over 20,000 workers there through 1989 via remaining operations and supplier networks.^[185] These edits prioritized dramatic impact over temporal accuracy, as Moore filmed from 1987 to 1989 while compressing events to fit a quest narrative.^[186] Capitalism: A Love Story (2009) focused on the 2008 financial crisis, using anecdotes like airline bankruptcies and foreclosures to blame unchecked deregulation, but omitted key government-driven factors such as the Community Reinvestment Act's pressure on banks for high-risk loans and Fannie Mae/Freddie Mac's securitization of subprime mortgages, which amplified the housing bubble.^[187] Moore claimed capitalism evicted "millions" during the Reagan era, but employment rose by 16 million from 1983 to 1989, with the cited manufacturing losses tied more to productivity gains and global shifts than systemic malice.^[133] The film highlighted "dead peasant" life insurance policies exploited by corporations but ignored their rarity—fewer than 1% of large firms used them—and regulatory expansions under prior administrations that enabled such practices, selectively framing private sector actions while downplaying public policy contributions to risk accumulation.^[188] Planet of the Humans (2019), produced and promoted by Moore, argued renewables were inefficient and reliant on fossil fuels, but relied on data from 2010–2014, such as solar capacity factors under 10% and battery storage limitations, presented without noting post-2015 advancements like perovskite cells boosting efficiency to 25%+ and lithium-ion costs dropping 89% by 2019, rendering claims of inherent unviability outdated.^[189] Critics, including environmental filmmakers like Josh Fox, highlighted factual errors such as misrepresenting a 2011 solar farm's output as perpetual failure despite its functionality, leading to petitions for retraction that garnered over 100,000 signatures.^[190] Moore defended the core thesis amid the backlash, emphasizing persistent fossil fuel dependencies in manufacturing, but the film's selective metrics ignored empirical progress in grid-scale integration, where U.S. solar generation rose 20-fold from 2010 to 2020.^[191]

Broader critiques of methodology and influence

Critics of Michael Moore's documentary approach have argued that his emphasis on emotional anecdotes and confrontational staging, rather than systematic data aggregation or statistical analysis, fosters oversimplification of socioeconomic and political phenomena.^[5]^[57] This method, while effective for audience engagement through comedic and narrative elements, has been faulted for prioritizing rhetorical impact over causal depth, such as exploring underlying incentives in markets or policy failures beyond isolated personal stories.^[192]^[193] Conservative commentators, in particular, contend that this anecdotal focus undermines public discourse by substituting visceral appeals for evidence-based reasoning, though some left-leaning analysts echo concerns about its alignment with entertainment norms over journalistic rigor.^[194]^[195] Moore's stylistic choices have been described as demagogic by both conservative and select liberal observers, framing opponents in caricatured terms that polarize audiences and stifle nuanced policy debate.^[194]^[196]^[197] This adversarial rhetoric, while amplifying left-wing populist critiques of corporate power and elite institutions, has arguably contributed to a fragmented political landscape where empirical counterarguments are dismissed as bad faith.^[182] For instance, analyses from outlets skeptical of mainstream media narratives highlight how Moore's influence encouraged reactive outrage cycles, reducing complex issues like globalization's tradeoffs to binary moral battles and eroding trust in shared facts.^[198]^[199] Despite galvanizing anti-establishment sentiment on the left—evident in the commercial success of films like Fahrenheit 9/11, which grossed over $222 million worldwide—Moore's broader influence has waned amid accumulated skepticism toward his persuasive tactics.^[182] His correct forecast of Donald Trump's 2016 electoral victory, articulated in a July 2016 speech emphasizing Rust Belt discontent, temporarily bolstered his prognosticative standing among doubters of polling orthodoxy.^[200]^[201] However, persistent perceptions of manipulative framing have led to net credibility erosion, with conservative critiques portraying his work as contributing to left populism's self-sabotage through demagoguery that alienates moderates and invites backlash.^[202]^[182] Liberal-leaning publications have similarly noted that this approach, while resonant in echo chambers, hampers constructive coalitions by prioritizing spectacle over substantive causal analysis of policy outcomes.^[203]^[204]

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Bravo claims Moore's 'Awful Truth' - Variety
best known for his film “Roger & Me,” an ...Missing: network | Show results with:network<|separator|>
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The Awful Truth (TV Series 1999–2000) - Episode list - IMDb
The Awful Truth ; S1.E1 ∙ Episode #1.1. Sun, Apr 11, 1999 · 6.0 · (65) ; S1.E2 ∙ Beat the Rich. Sun, Apr 18, 1999 · 5.5 · (56) ; S1.E3 ∙ Crackers vs. Mickey Mouse The ...Missing: network | Show results with:network
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The Awful Truth: The Complete Set - Season 1-2 - Amazon.com
30-day returnsFrom acclaimed filmmaker and author Michael Moore comes THE AWFUL TRUTH, the most daring documentary show to hit the American public since Moore's own TV Nation ...
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Michael Moore - Wikipedia
Michael Francis Moore (born April 23, 1954) is an American film director, producer, screenwriter, and author. · Moore followed up and won the 2002 Academy Award ...Michael Moore Live · Michael Moorer · Michael Moore in TrumpLand · Roger & Me
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TV Nation Reviews - Metacritic
Rating 78% (4) Producer Michael Moore presented this newsmagazine as a humorous presentation that reports on things that big corporate media tends to avoid.
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Downsize This! Random Threats from an Unarmed American ...
30-day returnsMichael Moore delivers a witty critique of corporate downsizing and political corruption, while organizing provocative stunts like sending donations from a John ...
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Downsize This!: Moore, Michael: 9780517707395 - Amazon.com
Book details ; Print length. 278 pages ; Language. English ; Publisher. Crown ; Publication date. January 15, 1996 ; Dimensions. 6 x 1.25 x 9 inches.
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Cult author Moore scores more than Beckham in book sales
Dec 18, 2003 · Michael Moore's root-and-branch onslaught against George Bush and ... It sold 481,343 copies, compared with 438,175 for David Beckham: My Life in ...
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Dude, Where's My Country?: Moore, Michael: 9780446532235
The title is a satirical reworking of the 2000 film Dude, Where's My Car?. Product information. Publisher, Warner Books. Publication date, October 7, 2003.
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Will They Ever Trust Us Again?: Letters From the War Zone
30-day returnsThe controversial filmmaker shares a collection of provocative and poignant letters from active duty soldiers, their family members, and veterans.
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By Michael Moore - Will They Ever Trust Us Again? - Simon & Schuster
4–8 day deliveryBut in this book, Moore gives the spotlight to the real heroes of protest: the men and women who have fought in Iraq and want the American public to know how ...
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Here Comes Trouble: Stories from My Life: Moore, Michael
Oscar-winning filmmaker Michael Moore shares twenty-four irreverent stories from his life, including encounters with Bobby Kennedy and Ronald Reagan, while ...
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Here Comes Trouble by Michael Moore | Hachette Book Group
In stock Free deliveryCapturing the zeitgeist of the past fifty years, yet deeply personal and unflinchingly honest, Here Comes Trouble takes readers on an unforgettable, take-no- ...
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REM: All the Way to Reno (You're Gonna Be a Star) - IMDb
Rating 5.7/10 (72) R.E.M.: All the Way to Reno (You're Gonna Be a Star): Directed by Michael Moore. With Peter Buck, Bertis Downs, Mike Mills, R.E.M.. The song's video was shot atMissing: Nirvana | Show results with:Nirvana
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R.E.M. - All The Way To Reno (You're Gonna Be A Star) - YouTube
Apr 30, 2010 · A Music video Directed by Michael Moore that encorporated footage shot of and by the students of Bishop Ford High School in Brooklyn, NY.
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Lucky Numbers (2000) - Full cast & crew - IMDb
Lucky Numbers (2000) - Cast and crew credits, including actors, actresses, directors, writers and more.
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Michael Moore: The Terms of My Surrender - Playbill
This subversive one-man show takes audiences on a ride through the United States of Insanity, explaining once and for all how the f*** we got here.Missing: Agreement | Show results with:Agreement
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Michael Moore to Take Aim at Trump, on Broadway - The New York ...
May 1, 2017 · A (mostly) one-man show, “The Terms of My Surrender,” will run eight times a week for 12 weeks, starting in July, at the Belasco Theater.
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Michael Moore Explains Why His Broadway Show Is About Hope
Aug 13, 2017 · Michael Moore hopes self-hating liberals attend Broadway show, 'The Terms of My Surrender,' so they can heal and fight President Donald ...
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Michael Moore on His Broadway Show, “The Terms of My Surrender ...
Sep 29, 2017 · He's now starring in his theatrical debut on Broadway, his play, The Terms of My Surrender. He launched the production with the question, “Can a ...
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The Michael Moore Podcast
Rating 4.7 (8,704) Academy Award-winning filmmaker and political provocateur Michael Moore offers his subversive and humorous take on the issues of the day.
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The Michael Moore Podcast - Spotify
Academy Award-winning filmmaker and political provocateur Michael Moore offers his subversive and humorous take on the issues of the day.
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The Michael Moore Podcast - Rephonic
Rating 4.7 (12,360) See how many people listen to The Michael Moore Podcast and access YouTube viewership numbers, download stats, audience demographics, chart rankings, ratings, ...
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The Michael Moore Podcast - Podnews
Rating 4.7 (12,229) Sep 18, 2025 · Stats: Statistics are produced by Spotify for Creators to help The Michael Moore Podcast to understand how many downloads it is getting, or how ...
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My First Post-Trump Substack - Michael Moore
and ended — on an escalator. June 16, 2015, at Trump Tower — to September 23, 2025, at the United Nations. When the ...Missing: 2023-2025 | Show results with:2023-2025<|control11|><|separator|>
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Michael Moore | Substack
I was born in Flint, Michigan and raised on a dirt street by loving parents, two sisters and a lot of Green Giant in a can. Click to read Michael Moore, ...The Coup d’État Has Begun · Overwhelm… Overreach... · Podcast · ArchiveMissing: Voice circulation
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Michael Moore Takes on Capitalism Itself - In These Times
Sep 15, 2009 · He sees the film as the culmination of 20 years of work, starting with his breakthrough account of the decline of Flint, Michigan, in Roger and ...
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Pets or meat: Class, ideology, and space in Roger & Me
Flint's decline in individual, family, and class terms. Moore begins his film with a depiction of Flint during the period of. his own childhood. The ...
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Michael Moore's "Here Comes Trouble": Celebrity Politics in an Age ...
... of personalities, not parties or large social movements. There are the celebrity figures like Moore, Nader, Noam Chomsky or the late Howard Zinn, but where ...
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In These Times 24/24--Ralph's Way
As Nader criss-crossed Wisconsin, Michigan and Minnesota on his "Non-Voter Tour," he packed auditoriums consistently with 1,000 to 2,000 people in Milwaukee, ...
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Michael Moore's "Capitalism" economical with facts - Reuters
Sep 7, 2009 · Michael Moore's "Capitalism" economical with facts. By Reuters ... Though it blames all political parties, including the Democrats, for ...
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'Capitalism is evil … you have to eliminate it' | Michael Moore
Jan 29, 2010 · After guns and the Iraq war, Michael Moore is now taking on an entire political and economic system in his latest documentary, Capitalism: A Love Story.
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Michael Moore and the 2nd Amendment - FEE.org
Is that an implicit endorsement of private individuals' right to armed self-defense? Probably not. Moore, who became the darling of the gun-control movement ...Missing: positions | Show results with:positions
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Gun and Done - Michael Moore
Dec 15, 2021 · “The People have an inalienable right to live their lives free of gun violence. All weapons intended primarily to kill human beings are ...
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Moore talks gun control after Conn. shooting | AP News
Jan 9, 2013 · The “Fahrenheit 9/11" filmmaker said that certain weapons need to be banned, and gun ownership should always require a license. “The short term ...Missing: positions | Show results with:positions
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Michael Moore Urges 2nd Amendment Repeal: Get Dogs, Not Guns
Jun 11, 2022 · The filmmaker and activist said he believes this is not about people's right to own a gun, but the “right of all of us to be protected from gun violence.”
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Michael Moore On MSNBC: "It's Time To Repeal The Second ...
May 25, 2022 · “Look, I support all gun control legislation. Not sensible gun control. We don't need the sensible stuff. We need the hardcore stuff that's ...
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Ode to the SiCKO Decade and Single-Payer Power | Common Dreams
Jul 17, 2017 · I think every one of us will owe a debt of gratitude to Michael Moore and to SiCKO, writes Smith on the documentary film's ten year anniversary.
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Opinion | The Obamacare We Deserve - The New York Times
Dec 31, 2013 · When right-wing critics “expose” the fact that President Obama endorsed a single-payer system before 2004, they're actually telling the truth.Missing: views | Show results with:views
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Obamacare Will Lead to Single Payer, Michael Moore
Jan 5, 2014 · How Obamacare Actually Paves the Way Toward Single Payer · Obamacare now mandates that they spend 80 cents per dollar on health care. · It's worth ...Missing: views | Show results with:views
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Michael Moore: Time To Fight For Medicare For All | All In | MSNBC
Mar 24, 2017 · Documentary filmmaker Michael Moore argues that in the wake of the failure of the GOP's plan to repeal and replace Obamacare, ...Missing: healthcare | Show results with:healthcare
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Bowling with the Truth | Cato Institute
Oct 11, 2004 · In his 2002 documentary, Bowling for Columbine, the filmmaker suggested that the 1996 welfare reform led to an increase in youth violence–the ...Missing: critiques | Show results with:critiques
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The Big One (4/10) Movie CLIP - 80 Cent Check (1997) HD - YouTube
Nov 22, 2011 · ... labor for TWA airlines while in prison and a group of Borders ... Michael Moore•2.2M views · 2:43. Go to channel · The Big One (6/10) Movie ...
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Roger And Me Analysis - 1222 Words - Bartleby.com
As we see in Moore's documentary, when General Motors cut back and left Flint, Michigan, it left the people poor, helpless, and unemployed.<|control11|><|separator|>
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Michael Moore claims in 'Capitalism' that during Reagan years ...
Oct 7, 2009 · Michael Moore claims in 'Capitalism' that during Reagan years, productivity went up while wages remained frozen. In his new film, Capitalism: A ...Missing: early op-
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Fact Check: "America is a Liberal Nation" poster - Michael Moore
76% of all voters support a $17 minimum wage (52% strongly, 24% somewhat) and the same poll found 74% also support a $20 minimum wage.
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Michael Moore: Autoworkers Union Built U.S. Middle Class - YouTube
Dec 4, 2008 · "my uncle was in the sit down strike that helped to found this union. If it wasn't for the autoworkers, we wouldn't have a middle class.Missing: support minimum wage
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May Day Every Day - Michael Moore
not for minimum wage, but for $22 an hour! And still, not enough ...
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A Look Back at Michael Moore's Divisive Anti-War Speech in 2003
Feb 22, 2017 · Michael Moore used his Academy Awards acceptance speech to accuse then-President George W. Bush of being a “fictitious president” and waging a “fictitious war” ...Missing: militarism | Show results with:militarism
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Michael Moore's Fahrenheit 9/11 Is Tame Now But Still Amuses
which Moore had already stated was being fought for “fictitious reasons” at the Oscars a year earlier ...Missing: stances | Show results with:stances
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Fahrenheit 9/11's Purpose-Driven Agents: A Multipentadic Approach ...
... Moore showed the naïveté of some of the young soldiers and the chaos of the war situation. He depicted a facet of war not shown on military recruitment ...
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Where to Invade Next review – Michael Moore gets happy with a ...
Sep 11, 2015 · Not the evisceration of US foreign policy you might expect. Instead Michael Moore takes a break from chasing powerful white men down the ...
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Michael Moore on “Where to Invade Next” - The Dilettante's Dilemma
Mar 21, 2016 · The only reference to foreign policy in the whole film is his claim that the U. S. spends 60% of its budget on the military. Could these other ...
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Toronto 2015: Michael Moore explains why he thinks Europe is ...
Sep 11, 2015 · Moore is not interested in US foreign policy, but in “invading” other countries to steal their best social and economic ideas.
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Michael Moore claims in his movie, 'Capitalism,' that during the ...
Oct 8, 2009 · Michael Moore stated on October 2, 2009 in his movie "Capitalism: A Love Story": During the Reagan administration, "Millions of people were thrown out of work."Missing: op- | Show results with:op-
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The Misguided Economics of Michael Moore's Capitalism: A Love ...
Oct 23, 2009 · Michael Moore makes much of the inequality produced by capitalism. His assertion that the top 1 per cent have more financial wealth than the ...Missing: deindustrialization | Show results with:deindustrialization
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Michael Moore Ignites A Firestorm - CBS News
In the days before Cannes, Moore's Disney criticism whipped festival audiences into a fever for "Fahrenheit 9/11." Hollywood cynics called it Moore's usual ...
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Michael Moore Speaks On American Military Involvement Abroad
Sep 27, 2021 · NBC's Mehdi Hasan spoke to Oscar-winning filmmaker Michael Moore about his infamous 2003 Oscar speech, accountability in the 'War on Terror ...Missing: diplomacy | Show results with:diplomacy
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Empire Down - Michael Moore
Feb 26, 2022 · I don't want war. However, democracy, freedom, liberty are worth fighting for. Are worth dying for. Are they worth risking the world for, ..Missing: militarism | Show results with:militarism
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Political Activist Michael Moore - ABC News
Nov 6, 2000 · Filmmaker and political activist Michael Moore didn't want you to vote for Al Gore. While he said he thinks Gore is “a decent guy,” he also took the vice ...
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The Nader Campaign and the Future of U.S. Left Electoral Politics
The unlikely postelection contest between Al Gore and George W. Bush, which ultimately led to the anointing of Bush as president by the Republican majority ...
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Moore's Myths | American Enterprise Institute - AEI
Michael Moore has been honest in one regard: He freely admits he hopes his film helps defeat President Bush this fall. It's hard to find much else that he's ...Missing: mobilization | Show results with:mobilization
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The verdict on Michael Moore's Slacker Uprising - live! - The Guardian
Sep 23, 2008 · Slacker Uprising documents Moore's 62 stop tour round swing states in the run-up to the 2004 election. Presumably Moore's thinking is that he ...Missing: summary reception
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Michael Moore screens Slacker Uprising at Michigan Theater
Sep 18, 2008 · Filmmaker Michael Moore premiered his film, “Slacker Uprising,” at ... Moore on his tour of swing states during the 2004 presidential election.
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Moore's 'Slacker Uprising' hits the Web - POLITICO
Sep 9, 2008 · Michael Moore's finally decided last week to release of “Slacker Uprising” as a free Internet download.Missing: facts summary reception
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Michael Moore on Sanders endorsement: 'I've always been with ...
Oct 25, 2019 · Documentary filmmaker Michael Moore told Hill.TV on Friday that his support for Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) dates back to the presidential ...
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Michael Moore Endorses Bernie Sanders: It's Time To "Crush" Trump
Oct 19, 2019 · The filmmaker joined Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez at the candidate's “Bernie Is Back!” rally Saturday in Queens, New York.
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Michael Moore: Democrats Made Fatal Mistake in Not Taking Trump ...
Sep 21, 2018 · In July, 2016, Michael Moore wrote a column titled “Five Reasons Why Trump Will Win.” In it, Moore wrote, “Donald J. Trump is going to win ...
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Ep. 113: I'm Voting For Joe Biden Because I Don't Believe Him
Aug 25, 2020 · On June 18th, 2019, at a high-end campaign fundraiser on Manhattan's Upper East Side, Joe Biden tried to win over wealthy donors and top ...Missing: critiques 2020-2024
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I'm Voting For Joe Biden Because I Don't Believe Him - YouTube
Aug 25, 2020 · On June 18th, 2019, at a high-end campaign fundraiser on Manhattan's Upper East Side, Joe Biden tried to win over wealthy donors and top ...Missing: 2020-2024 | Show results with:2020-2024
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Michael Moore on Biden's advisers: 'There's a form of elder abuse ...
Jul 7, 2024 · Michael Moore is not only calling on President Biden to drop out of the race in a July 4th essay he writes that it is time for Biden to step down.Missing: Rumble podcast Harris 2020-2024
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“Say 'I Am Not Joe Biden!'”: Michael Moore Urges Kamala Harris to ...
Oct 25, 2024 · The Oscar-winning filmmaker tells Mehdi “we are funding the slaughter” of Palestinians and he will not lecture Muslim voters in his home state of Michigan.Missing: Rumble podcast 2020-2024
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Michael Moore says impeachment 'has to happen now, don't draw ...
Oct 22, 2019 · Filmmaker Michael Moore joins Hardball to talk about the 2020 presidential race and his endorsement of Senator Bernie Sanders.
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Michael Moore winning an Oscar® for "Bowling for Columbine"
Jul 16, 2012 · Michael Moore wins the Oscar for Documentary Feature for Bowling for Columbine at the 75th Academy Awards. Presented by Diane Lane.Missing: notable | Show results with:notable
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Michael MOORE - Festival de Cannes
Michael MOORE. Script ... Director, Screenplay. Awards. FAHRENHEIT 9/11. (FAHRENHEIT 911) In Competition - Feature Films, 2004. 2004 Palme d'or.Missing: list Oscar Emmy
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“Fahrenheit 9/11” Wins Palme d' Or at 57th Festival de Cannes
May 22, 2004 · Michael Moore's “Fahrenheit 9/11” won the Palme d'Or at the 2004 Festival de Cannes. The documentary, a powerful indictment of the Bush ...<|separator|>
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Fahrenheit 9/11 (2004) - IMDb
Rating 7.5/10 (134,408) Box office ; Budget. $6,000,000 (estimated) ; Gross US & Canada. $119,194,771 ; Opening weekend US & Canada · Jun 27, 2004 ; Gross worldwide. $222,446,882.
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The Films of Michael Moore — Dogwoof Releasing
Jun 9, 2016 · Michael Moore broke box office records with his 2004 film, Fahrenheit 9/11 with it becoming the highest grossing documentary of all time making ...<|control11|><|separator|>
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Michael Moore | Official Publisher Page - Simon & Schuster
Michael Moore is also America's #1 selling nonfiction author with such books as Stupid White Men and Other Sorry Excuses for the State of the Nation, and Dude, ...
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Michael Moore Net Worth
Michael Moore is a documentary filmmaker and author who has a net worth of $30 million. Michael Moore's net worth at one point peaked at $50 million.
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The Media and Public Perceptions of Criminal Justice Policy Issues
... Bowling for Columbine and Gun Control | Recent research in criminology has indicated that the media may influence people's attitudes toward criminal justice
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Michael Moore's "Sicko"-- Broad Reach and Impact Even ... - KFF
Aug 23, 2007 · About equal numbers of those aware of the movie thought it accurately represents problems in the U.S. health system (36%) versus overstating ...
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The Effects of Watching Michael Moore's Fahrenheit 9/11 on Voting ...
Nov 18, 2009 · Abstract. This study evaluated the effects of viewing Moore's film Fahrenheit 9/11 with a survey conducted in 4 California theaters.
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Fahrenheit 9/11 | Issue 47 - Philosophy Now
Fahrenheit 9/11 is a profoundly affecting film. Although its explicit target is George W. Bush and his commitment to war in Iraq, for me the film's power stems ...Missing: influence | Show results with:influence
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“Something Has Started”: Michael Moore on the Occupy Wall St ...
Sep 28, 2011 · On Monday night, Michael visited the Occupy Wall Street protest in Lower Manhattan. Police have barred the protesters from using any form of ...
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Michael Moore and the Politics of Political Documentary
This study integrates documentary theory and poststructuralist discourse analysis within a critical/cultural studies perspective.Missing: local populism national
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(PDF) Michael Moore, an American Populist ... - ResearchGate
Aug 6, 2025 · PDF | This article contextualizes the films of Michael Moore in the tradition of American populism. Extending in particular from historian ...Missing: evolution advocacy
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Why Less is Still Moore–Celebrity and the Reactive Politics of ...
Dec 1, 2005 · The conservative animus toward Michael Moore's success is to be expected. But what is the liberal-left's problem with the filmmaker?
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[PDF] The Effects of Watching Michael Moore's Fahrenheit 9/11 on Voting ...
In the case of Fahr- enheit 9/11, Moore promoted beliefs that President Bush and his administration initiated war against Iraq for reasons that benefited ...Missing: mobilization | Show results with:mobilization<|control11|><|separator|>
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Michael Moore's Bowling for Columbine: The Real History - fall 2003)
It would seem that the movie was more fiction than fact. Michael Moore created much of his documentary himself, using lies, misquotes and facts without reason.Missing: inaccuracies | Show results with:inaccuracies
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(SPOILER ALERT) are there factual errors in "Bowling For ...
Dec 29, 2002 · Scoring Bowling for Columbine for accuracy. So according to Forbes the police say no bowling took place. But then we have this Salon story, in ...
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The lies of Michael Moore. - Slate Magazine
Jun 21, 2004 · Moore has announced that he won't even appear on TV shows where he might face hostile questioning. I notice from the New York Timesof June 20 ...
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Inaccuracies and Deceptions in Fahrenheit 9/11 - Arcane Knowledge
The documentary is riddled with factual inaccuracies and deliberate deceptions that undermine the director's basic argument.
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Canadian Journalists Can't Swallow SiCKO | Cato at Liberty Blog
Jun 12, 2007 · Other Canadian journalists spoke of the long wait times Canadians face for health care, much longer than the few minutes Moore suggests in Sicko ...Missing: exaggeration | Show results with:exaggeration
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Analyzing the Truth of "Sicko" for Canadian Health Care - IvyPanda
Feb 6, 2025 · Moore also gave the impression that waiting times were short everywhere, and this also is not true. What is true is the essential difference in ...
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KUHNER: The hypocrisy of Michael Moore - Washington Times
Feb 10, 2011 · Michael Moore is a hypocrite. He embodies all that is wrong with Hollywood: He is a shameless, self-serving propagandist masquerading as an idealistic “artist.”
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Some Say Michael Moore Omits Facts, Distorts Truth - WAVE News
Feb 11, 2005 · We found deception by omission in more than one of Moore's movies. In "Bowling for Columbine," Moore takes aim at the NRA for showing up in ...
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'Roger and Me': Documentary? Satire? Or Both?
Feb 1, 1990 · Moore, an experienced advocacy journalist but a man with no film experience, seems to have defined anew. The complaints of unfairness are based ...Missing: pre- | Show results with:pre-
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Film Review: The Ends Justify the Meanness - The Atlas Society
On one hand, panning Michael Moore's facile infotainment is like shooting fish in a barrel. But, on the other, giving his sophistry the imprimatur of ...
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Are Michael Moore's “Fahrenheit 9/11" and “Bowling for Columbine ...
May 25, 2022 · To call Michael Moore's work propaganda, and or completely discredit it in that sense would be an act of trying to censor and limit free speech, ...
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Capitalism: A Propaganda Hate Film | HuffPost Latest News
Mar 18, 2010 · Capitalism: A Propaganda Hate Film. In Michael Moore's worldview, a goodly portion of the American people are ignorant, uneducated, clueless ...<|separator|>
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How Michael Moore Lost His Audience - Yahoo
Sep 23, 2018 · The films of Michael Moore have been faltering at the box office for several years now. This weekend, though, the lackluster performance of ...
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The Decline of Michael Moore - The American Conservative
May 26, 2022 · Emboldened by this rabble-rousing heritage, Moore left the University of Michigan–Flint after one year and embarked on a journalism career.
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Why Michael Moore is irrelevant in the age of Trump
Oct 13, 2018 · Michael Moore, the left-wing director of documentaries "Roger & Me" and "Bowling for Columbine," is no longer a voice in the wilderness, ...Missing: centrist | Show results with:centrist<|separator|>
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Roger and Me - Three Monkeys Online
At first glance, Roger & Me is a film about Michael Moore's attempts to meet Roger Smith, then chairman of General Motors, after GM closed its factory in ...Missing: timeline | Show results with:timeline
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Complaining: Documentary Of Lies - TV Tropes Forum
May 21, 2015 · ... Roger & Me. Moore's debut film claimed, or at least strongly implied, that General Motors had completely pulled out of Flint, Michigan ...
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370) Roger & Me (1989) - The Horse's Head
Jun 17, 2019 · Journalist Michael Moore returns to his hometown of Flint, Michigan in 1986, just as the town's General Motors plant announces a seismic number of layoffs.Missing: pre- | Show results with:pre-
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Fact-checking Moore's 'Capitalism' - CBS News
Sep 24, 2009 · Despite the title of his new movie, Michael Moore really hates capitalism. He says it's a scheme for businesses to profit at the expense of the little guy.
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The Good, the Bad and the Exaggerated in Michael Moore's New ...
Oct 14, 2009 · Michael Moore's movie, Capitalism: A Love Story, doesn't pull any punches in its depiction of capitalism as the monster that is destroying America.
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Michael Moore, Josh Fox Battle Over 'Planet of the Humans'
May 4, 2020 · 'Planet of the Humans' finds Michael Moore Pitted against left-wing activists he once inspired. Moore, known for inciting the right, is now facing criticism.<|separator|>
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SD350 response to “Planet of the Humans” - SanDiego350
May 1, 2020 · Cleantechia: Climate Activists Call BS On Planet Of The Humans Film · Environmentalists demand that Michael Moore's anti-EV film be retracted ...
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Planet of the Censoring Humans - by Matt Taibbi - Racket News
May 29, 2020 · In the multitudinous critiques of Planet of the Humans, a creepy kind of rhetorical intersectionality is observed. Moore's film is consistently ...
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Michael Moore's Use of Expository and Interactive Modes in Roger ...
The stylistic technique of juxtaposition is another aspect that Moore uses throughout the film to help the audience engage with the film's text and at the same ...Missing: early 1989-1995
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Michael Moore's critique and its limitations | Meer
Jun 8, 2025 · While Moore's critique targets the capitalists, he fails to interrogate the broader conditions that create wealth and poverty and the state's ...
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Demagoguery Disguised as Documentary - The Austin Chronicle
Jul 8, 2014 · A bit ashamed, I now deal with a certain hypocrisy on my part because, regardless of beliefs, Moore is much more a demagogue than documentarian.Missing: influence decline
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The Sicko Debate: Citizen Truth - POV Magazine
May 9, 2022 · Perhaps what his earnest critics don't understand about Moore is that he aligns himself with the entertainment industry, not the factual ...Missing: methodology reliance anecdote
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The Rhetoric of Fahrenheit 9/11 - ROUGE
... demagoguery? No more than any other kind of rhetoric is demagoguery out of bounds for documentary. Scott is not alone in calling Moore a demagogue, a term ...
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Moore's the Pity - The American Prospect
Nov 23, 2002 · Whereas the rapper's movie reaches for the sort of truth mere facts cannot convey, Moore's film grabs viewers with the old demagogue's trick ...
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Overheated Rhetoric Shuts Down Debate - The Heritage Foundation
Fans of Michael Moore ... Sometimes liberals launch their critiques of conservative policy initiatives before the policy in question has even taken effect.
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Why A Vocal Democrat Is Predicting A Trump Win In November
Jul 24, 2016 · Michael Moore, who predicted Donald Trump's GOP nomination, now predicts Trump will win in November.Missing: credibility | Show results with:credibility
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We remember predictions that come true but forget the flops.
Sep 1, 2017 · We remember that Michael Moore said Trump would win. We forget when he called Trump “self-sabotaging” or said that Clinton was doing great.Missing: credibility | Show results with:credibility
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ELI5: Why is Michael Moore so controversial and polarizing? - Reddit
Jan 23, 2016 · Moore has stated himself that his films are leftist propaganda, and as such it is customary to twist details to fit his agenda.I'm curious, what's this sub opinion on Michael Moore?Thoughts on Michael Moore and his movies? : r/AskALiberalMore results from www.reddit.com
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The Perils of Michael Moore - Dissent Magazine
Moore has busted through, as the saying goes, reaching a broad audience about such crucial issues as increased use of prison labor; botched urban renewal ...
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Why must the left apologize for its own propaganda? - This Magazine
Sep 17, 2004 · In the New Yorker review, Fahrenheit 9/11 is generally welcomed but Moore himself is called a “polemicist,” his methods are labeled “tricky and ...