Some useful chatter on Slate about Michael Moore:

...It would have been different, I think, if a non-blowhard had gotten up there and bellowed, "Shame on you!"—had put his or her career on the line to say that Bush was a liar. But that kind of boorish grandstanding comes too naturally to Moore, a man who didn't have the intellectual honesty to add that Saddam Hussein is a "fictitious president," too—and one who has killed a lot more people than George W. Bush and his father combined. Nothing has ever shaken my faith in my own politics like having Michael Moore in the same camp....