Reply #27: I wonder if we took a poll here [View All]

[TallahasseeGrannie]

on DU how many folks would characterize him as fringe? I know that all my Dem friends do. None of them like his work. I will mention all my Dem friends are women and that might have some bearing..don't really know.

Yes, there are a number of things in his film making I don't care for, but I didn't feel this was the place to air that point for point, but if you want a treatis I can deliver one.

I am not listening to right wing smear. I make my own decisions about politics and political figures, and particularly entertainment figures. You like them and their products or you don't. I don't. So rip me a new one because I have the chutzpah to say I don't like Michael Moore's work? I have no right to an opinion without being told I'm eating up the RW smears?

I have heard him speak in person twice here in FL and found him to be engaging, rather mild-mannered and humorous. But I don't like his work. I believe it has hurt the Democratic cause more than helped it, and I don't think I'm in a minority there.

I also don't see corporate media as mainstream for just that reason. They are corporate, and THAT is not mainstream. But I have to say regarding their hosts that "draw constant comparisons between left wing leaders and Osama" that we do it all the time here as regards to fascism, and Bush the Nazi. That's politics. Nasty and hateful.