Here's my take (and I personally like his movies,
Roger & Me is one of the funniest movies ever and 100% accurate; I lived in Flint for 5 years on and off so I know first-hand):
He's got ideas. Yes, they are very left-wing. Yes, not everybody is going to agree with them. Especially not the right and far right. Just like the left disagrees with Rush Limbaugh.
His methods are unusual (and quite comical), and they do exactly what they are designed to do - put his 'enemies' on the defensive.
However, he promotes a
different agenda than you are going to see on Fox News, CNN, NBC, CBS, ABC, local news, etc. And there is nothing wrong with that. The whole idea of a free society is the free exchange of ideas,
especially when they aren't popular or universally accepted.
You don't have to agree with him, but to wish and hope for his death is childish and shows a lack of open-mindedness. It would be just as inappropriate for me to wish the following: "I hope Rush Limbaugh dies from an Oxycontin OD, and when his fat corpse falls to the ground he lands on Bill O'Reilly and suffocates him."
Michael Moore isn't going to bring the apocolypse by airing his ideas. I personally was offended by his outburts at last year's Oscars. But then again, I believed the administration's stance on the War in Iraq at the time. I even listened to the entire Powell UN presentation.
Now that the argument for the war has pretty much been shown to be false (read the 9/11 comission reports and the CIA's releases owning up to the faulty intelligence used for that presentation, and show me the WMDs), it seems like Michael Moore was the smartest person in the building at the time.
Bottom line: You can disagree with him, but by being afraid of the expression of his ideas, you spit in the face of the ideology this country is supposed to be about.
I'll go see the movie with my mom. She's not afraid of a different point of view.
