IHT: Other Views: What Moore can we hope for?

IHT: Other Views: What Moore can we hope for?

Moore's triumph at Cannes did not only make Disney look stupid: it is at least possible that without Eisner's intervention, the film-maker would have returned from France with a lesser accolade.

Moore represents a healthy and vibrant strand in American democracy. -- a tradition of sceptics, of dissenters who were hard to silence, of troublemakers who insisted on asking the difficult questions.
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Although it isn't exactly misleading of Moore to depict himself as a David up against a range of Goliaths, if truth be told, he's had it much easier than a wide range of illustrious predecessors who were put through the wringer for their political views, and didn't always come out alive.
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Moore has suffered few of the slings and arrows of outrageous fortune. Sure, there are concerted efforts to discredit him, but they have failed to substantially dampen his appeal.
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He is accused of bias, but that's a charge that could be flung back at most of his detractors. Moore makes no secret of the fact that he is partisan, and there is no good reason for him not to edit his documentaries in a manner that substantiates his arguments.