You are probably right, John. I would add that we need to remember the context at the time he was making the film; Bush had steamrolled the rules and bought himself a kingship and the nation was mesmerized. The 9-11 shock -- first invasion on this soil since the white folks got here -- was still running up and down people's spines and there was a lot of fear, a lot of fear-mongering, and it was the worst of "red-scare" days all over again.

In the middle of this witch-hunt and blind-follow noise, when those who could think for themselves were feeling pretty alone, shut up and stifled, Micahel Moore provided a crystallization for a clearer and saner voice; he called bullshit loud and clear. He catalyzed the dispersed protest and the seekers of clarity everywhere and brought them out in their thousands as nothing else had been able to do, and strated a counter-movement singlehanded.   

For that alone, he shall sit on the right hand of the angels just grinning.

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