[punky]

I don't think he hates America per se, but he certainly doesn't have any respect for his country what so ever. There are no end of quotes along the lines of "All americans are the stupidest people on the planet" (behind Canada and England), and from memory, he has also called them, selfish, naive, ignorant, and a whole host of derogatory comments I can't think of atm.

Theres a bit of a difference between being just left wing, and being a socialist, although there is a fair amount of overlap. Most left wingers believe in pro-choice, gay rights, more social security for all etc. They aren't communists, in the same way as they want the government to share out their paycheque, and destroy capitalism. Moore tries to be the latter, which as you quite rightly said before BBKing, Moore is a product of pure capitalism. He gave a lot of easily led people what they wanted, and he made a lot of money out of it. That is in direct contrast to the socialist agenda he tries to maintain. Do you know he tried to charge the columbine children's family to watch a prescreening of BFC? Seems old Mikey can't see where the "utopia of socialism ends and the stench of capitalism" begins. I've even spoken to a few people who are MM fans who agree he is a huge hypocrite, but still love him, because they believe he says what noone else is willing to say. (Hell, i'd say screw capitalism, Bush is a war criminal, etc. if it would of made me that kind of money.)

Anyway, I dont want to get into another huge fight on MM, because its been done before. It's all rather pointless too, because for people who are so heavily left-wing would believe MM if he said black is white and the Sun revolves around the Earth.