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Katie Couric and Matt Lauer get tough with Michael Moore on the 'Today' show.Hmm. There are certain things from both interviews that have made me twitch a bit. I think I'll just have to see F9/11 and judge for myself, though I can already say that I don't agree with Moore having kept that footage of a soldier molesting a detainee to himself. He

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Michael Moore's an entertaining guy sometimes and he's often been very funny. i very much enjoyed his TV show TV Nation and i liked Roger and Me, because it had some funny parts and poignant parts and made me think. However, he is no documentarian. To call his movies documentaries spits in the eye of every legitimate documentary film maker. Bowling for Columbine is the example i'm most familiar with when it comes to how he manipulates and distorts practically everything. i don't imagine Fahrenheit 9/11 is any different. What i do know about Farenheit offhand is that he makes a big deal out of the fact the Bushes know the Bin Ladens. It's no surprise two wealthy families with international connections should know one-another. Apparently the little detail that the bin Ladens disowned Osama decades ago means nothing. i also wonder that if i saw Roger and Me now, would i notice all the holes i missed when i saw it in high school? i also wonder if the stunts he pulled on TV Nation would still seem as clever to me as they did when i was a relatively politically unaware munchkin. His show was somewhat like a half-hour-long version of those "Truth" anti-smoking ads, except with 60% more CEO ambushes. Children and intellectual pinheads (Cannes-goers, i'm talking to you) eat that stuff up.

i think we can all see how his motives are purely political, his holding onto the prison footage for himself like that. And does a true documentarian lie about losing his distribution at the last minute in order to garner publicity? i don't think so. Moore probably thinks he's very high-minded, but i find him to be as big a distraction for the average American slob as People magazine, entertainment "news" and MTV.

Now, how about abuse of prisoners in the U.S.? Does anyone care about all the prisoners who get abused every day in America's prisons? i don't think such acts are right in either case, but abuse happening here will never be a hot-button issue. Incidentally, Bush is the only president who's ever signed nation-wide prisoner anti-abuse legislation. Let's see Moore put that in one of his "documentaries."

Sorry to go on and on, i'm just sick of all the unwarranted attention he gets. It's nice to see someone like Couric or Lauer challenge him, so Moore fans won't automatically dismiss the challenges as the rantings of a right-wing wacko radio show host. As frightening as it is, many folks look up to Lauer and Couric, it may give the questioning some creedence to the general populace of young people.