"90% of the guns in America are owned by White people in the suburbs."

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158. Nope

I know somebody who was a member of an organization that sponsored a Michael Moore talk at a university. He and many others left with a very negative impression of Moore on a personal level. The person who told me this is a solid progressive - that's why Moore was brought there in the first place. Apparently he was very rude to everybody and acted like a diva. I wasn't there so I can't say for sure that was the case. But the source had no reason to lie at all. He's very liberal . . . he just thought Moore is an ass.

I've heard the same thing here on DU about Dennis Kucinich. Apparently there are more than a few veterans of Ohio Democratic politics who just don't like the guy.

Whether or not Moore is a nice guy, his strong suit is domestic economic issues. I think he's at his best when talking about that. He's much less effective talking about anything else. It's not that he's always wrong, it's just that he's not nearly as good when working outside of his specialty. I've found his work on guns and foreign policy to be of much lower quality than his work about income inequality, etc. He's not a man for all seasons, but one who does only one particular thing pretty well.