You'll probably have seen the Oscars last week, the highlight* of which was Michael Moore's anti-Bush & war speech.

In his great documentary film Bowling For Columbine, Moore blames the media for creating fear in people, and not telling the whole story about America, and the world in general.
And appropriately, the media didn't tell the whole story about the audience reaction to his speech. Yahoo.com, and several other 'news' sites I saw, ran the headline 'Moore booed off stage' suggesting that the audience were mostly against his views.
Since, in the UK, the Oscars are on overnight and are way too long for a sane person to watch, I watched the shortened (and better) version of the show the following night. And the TV coverage certainly didn't suggest he was booed. Although we could hear boos clearly enough, there was no visual sign of it. Out of the hundreds of people shown during Moore's speech, most didn't react, some were smiling, a few clapped and I think one woman was shouting angrily towards the stage.
It turns out that some stagehands near to the microphones were the ones booing (that's why they were so loud), and apparently some people in the top tier of the audience (and perhaps that one woman) booed the boo-ers, if you get what I mean.
Before his speech Moore and the team of Bowling For Columbine received a standing ovation, and afterwards they were applauded (the Oscar audience certainly weren't against him), but a few stagehands booing into nearby microphones was what made the news pages.
For more, check out the true account of what happened or  www.michaelmoore.com .

By the way, before all you who've never heard of Michael Moore start blindly criticising him, he's been making funny and often dark documentaries, on film and TV, about the injustices and strange ways of America, for 15 years. He's not anti-American, but is prepared to speak out about the poor ways in which it's run (especially at this time), and how the rich get richer at everyone else's expense.


*(you may argue that wasn't the 'highlight'. But were there any better moments? Chicago predictably winning a bunch of awards? Oh, thrilling)

I like michael moore, but lately ive heard bad things about him, my freind and i was talking about it, and google turned up this weird white nationalist page http://www.elishastrom.com/awf/WM-mocked.html  Then i googled myself, and came up with something far more respectable http://www.spinsanity.org/columns/20020403.html  Now i dont know what to think, i reckon even after this info he's still cool.