THE DAILY BRUIN ONLINE: Moore heats up crowd at UCLA

THE DAILY BRUIN ONLINE: "Under an increasingly warm midday sun, thousands of UCLA students gathered Tuesday to hear Michael Moore's impassioned call to oust President Bush in the Nov. 2 election.

Sporting his trademark baseball cap, Moore took to the stage and pulled out his partisan politics as he lashed out at Bush and his handling of the war in Iraq. Moore spoke, shouted and sang for over an hour as a crowd of over 2,000 students and staff in the Los Angeles Tennis Center literally sweated it out.

The controversial liberal author and filmmaker has come to expect protests everywhere he goes, but the crowd that greeted him Tuesday was largely supportive.

'He did make some good points,' said Nick Forman, a third-year political science and philosophy student. 'It was a productive event (and) it was a hell of a turnout.'

But a contingent of about 20 protesters holding signs with phrases like 'Give war as many chances as it needs' and 'No Moore lies!' greeted students entering the tennis center.

One of the protesters, Nicholas Louw, the vice chairman of the Bruin Republicans, said they were not against his right of free speech, but Louw and his group would not 'passively absorb (Moore's) vitriolic disdain for America's policies.' He said he wanted a 'comparable conservative' to speak on campus, like Sean Hannity or Ann Coulter."