Michael Moore takes his sharp sense of humor and his strong political opinions to the small screen to screw around with people who deserve nothing more than to be screwed around with. Ever since Roger & Me and The Big One and, most recently, Bowling For Columbine, Michael Moore has flogged the political world with their own hypocrisies, and doesn't even stop there.
Some of my favorite episodes of this show are ones like the African American Wallet Exchange, in which Moore publicly chastises the NYPD for their idiotic mistakes. One African American man was shot holding a cell phone, because the police thought it was a gun. In another even more sickening event, an African American man was shot in the chest and killed as he was pulling his wallet out of his pocket to show the police his ID. He was cooperating with them 100%, and they killed him. For this, the NYPD deserves nothing more than to be embarrassed in public and on television, and Michael Moore is just the man to do it.
I absolutely loved the scene in that show where Moore exchanges black wallets for bright orange ones, and then walks right up to NYPD officers with a poster-board with a gun on one side and a wallet on the other, quizzing the officers on which was which. Moore also hints at a lot of the things that he comments on in Bowling For Columbine as well as his incendiary Oscar acceptance speech at the 2002 Academy Awards. He confronts dozens of politicians and corporate bigheads on their greed and hypocrisy, and launches some of the most creative and original political campaigns in the history of corrupt politicians.
To the best of my knowledge, The Awful Truth only ran for two seasons, which is not nearly enough to have exposed all of the corruption and hypocrisy and greed that is infesting this country, so I really hope that Moore is able to get his TV spot back. But given the fact that he launched an enormously insulting show against his own network providers near the end of the second season, it's not hard to see why it's not aired anymore. But on the other hand, just the fact that his show is not on the air anymore is just more proof that he was exactly right all along.
Michael Moore is a man to watch, he has a lot of things to say, and while his dry, sarcastic humor may get old after a while, he is pointing out some things about our society that simply need to be pointed out and not ignored any longer. He may have damaged his reputation at the Oscar ceremony this year, but I am more than confident in his talents and his unique way of looking at and exposing the world, and hope to see more movies and TV shows from him in the near future.
Some of my favorite episodes of this show are ones like the African American Wallet Exchange, in which Moore publicly chastises the NYPD for their idiotic mistakes. One African American man was shot holding a cell phone, because the police thought it was a gun. In another even more sickening event, an African American man was shot in the chest and killed as he was pulling his wallet out of his pocket to show the police his ID. He was cooperating with them 100%, and they killed him. For this, the NYPD deserves nothing more than to be embarrassed in public and on television, and Michael Moore is just the man to do it.
I absolutely loved the scene in that show where Moore exchanges black wallets for bright orange ones, and then walks right up to NYPD officers with a poster-board with a gun on one side and a wallet on the other, quizzing the officers on which was which. Moore also hints at a lot of the things that he comments on in Bowling For Columbine as well as his incendiary Oscar acceptance speech at the 2002 Academy Awards. He confronts dozens of politicians and corporate bigheads on their greed and hypocrisy, and launches some of the most creative and original political campaigns in the history of corrupt politicians.
To the best of my knowledge, The Awful Truth only ran for two seasons, which is not nearly enough to have exposed all of the corruption and hypocrisy and greed that is infesting this country, so I really hope that Moore is able to get his TV spot back. But given the fact that he launched an enormously insulting show against his own network providers near the end of the second season, it's not hard to see why it's not aired anymore. But on the other hand, just the fact that his show is not on the air anymore is just more proof that he was exactly right all along.
Michael Moore is a man to watch, he has a lot of things to say, and while his dry, sarcastic humor may get old after a while, he is pointing out some things about our society that simply need to be pointed out and not ignored any longer. He may have damaged his reputation at the Oscar ceremony this year, but I am more than confident in his talents and his unique way of looking at and exposing the world, and hope to see more movies and TV shows from him in the near future.