The cutting an editor does is as much the art of filmmaking as the writing, acting, and directing is. However, the point of that is totally lost on these right wing nuts.

Moore's most vociferous critics don't give a shit about the art of documentary filmmaking though. If they did, they would be criticizing his style, which I mentioned above. Moore's documentary style includes stalking subjects in his films and tv shows. He did it to brilliant effect in "Roger and Me" which neither the right wing nut conspiracy theorists or the mainstream media talking heads who hosted the "blast Moore" talk shows seemed to know anything about. Hellooo--if your are going to critique the filmmaker/review the film, shouldn't you at least know something about their body of work?

But the attacks against Moore had nothing to do with his artistic style. He is being attacked for expressing political opinions and points of view which rarely, if ever, are seen in the mainstream media, because those political opinions (which are on the radical left, not the liberal left, as so many claim) are anathema to the values of the mainstream media conglomerados and their supporters.

You see this sort of disconnect all the time with the talking heads. I was watching Washington Week on Friday night, and there were all the sparkling political experts representing all good mainstream media conglomerates like PBS, US News and World Reports, the Wall Street Journal, NY Times, Washington Post blah blah blah blah. They were talking about the field of Democratic candidates running for president, and how messy the debates were for the media types to spin. And they said "why don't those losers just drop out of the race, and give the REAL field a chance..." meaning of course, those Democratic candidates of the far left, whom they named--now Sharpton, now Kucinich, now Mosley Braun...

The media whores who pounced on Moore and his film and his book "Stupid White Men" have that same disconnect with reality beyond their moronic Beltway state of mind that the right wing nuts have with the concepts of "fact" "truth" and "documentary".