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Michael Moore

• October 22 -- A "Didactic" Anti-Michael Moore "Screed"
Movie critic Manohla Dargis takes on "Celsius 41.11", a conservative antidote to left-wing Michael Moore's "documentary": "A didactic screed that has all the verve of a PowerPoint presentation and all the subtlety of a Homeland Security red alert, 'Celsius 41.11' is finally interesting only because it represents another unconvincing effort on the part of conservatives to mount a viable critique of Mr. Moore."

• August 23 -- Giving Bush an Art Attack
Three more stories celebrating anti-Bush art.

• August 5 -- Who'd Have Guessed: WV Republicans Still Like Bush
Elisabeth Rosenthal finds some people still support Bush despite "criticism from the Sept. 11 commission, prison scandals in Iraq and a flat economy at home."

• July 22 -- The Right's Latest Victim: Linda Ronstadt?
The Times engages in liberal hand-wringing over hostile audience reaction to Linda Ronstadt's in-concert tribute to Michael Moore, in an Arts story and an editorial (yes, an editorial).

• July 20 -- Another Bumiller Scoop: Bush Won't Take Long Vacation
Dog days on the White House beat? Last week, Elisabeth Bumiller made waves with a front-page rumor about Cheney leaving the ticket. Now she has another news flash: Bush won't be taking another long vacation this election year.

• July 2 -- Moore Krugman?
Paul Krugman, who is sounding more and more Michael Moore-like, becomes the second Times columnist in two days to praise "Fahrenheit 9/11."

• July 1 -- Michael Moore, "Genuine Son of the U.S. Working Class."
Socialist Barbara Ehrenreich's debut NYT column features Michael Moore: "But no one can miss the fact that he's a genuine son of the U.S. working class--of a Flint autoworker, in fact--because it's built right into his 'branding,' along with flannel shirts and baseball caps…an invulnerable target for the customary assault weapon of the right." Ehrenreich may have been suckered by Moore's populist shtick, but less starry-eyed writers have long seen through it.

• June 28 -- Criticizing Michael Moore: As Phony as John Ashcroft
Arts editor and columnist Frank Rich criticizes Michael Moore, but only to compare him to John Ashcroft.

• June 23 -- Is "Fahrenheit 9/11" Accurate? Who Cares?
A.O. Scott reviews left-wing "credit to the republic" Michael Moore's "Fahrenheit 9/11" and decides the important thing isn't the film's accuracy, but Moore's impish spirit.

• June 22 -- More Moore, Less Clarke
Intelligence reporter Philip Shenon pens a quasi-review of Michael Moore's "Fahrenheit 9-11" and goes out of his way to defend Moore. Also: What became of media hero Richard Clarke?

• May 24 -- Rich Pets Michael Moore's "Goat"
Frank Rich praises left-wing filmmaker Michael Moore's "Fahrenheit 9-11," taking Moore's bad-faith assumptions on faith and chortling over Moore's cheap-shot techniques that make Bushies look dumb.

• May 19 -- "Patriotic" Michael Moore's "Moving" Anti-Bush Documentary
From the Cannes film festival, movie critic A.O. Scott joins the celebrations for leftist filmmaker Michael Moore's "Fahrenheit 9/11."

• May 6 -- More Michael Moore
A day after splashing Michael Moore across the front page of the Times, the paper pours out another serving of Moore-helping controversy, again with no liberal or radical label for Moore, and no conservative critics.

• May 5 -- Page One for Michael Moore, Vets Against Kerry Buried
While Kerry’s Vietnam-heavy ad campaign made Tuesday’s page one, a group of fellow Navy “swift boat” Vietnam veterans assembling in Washington to declare John Kerry unfit for the presidency were assigned to Wednesday’s page 20. The Times saved front-page space for Michael Moore’s new anti-Bush film, but the radical-left director drew no label.

• July 7 -- Democrats Are Too Good for the World
James Traub writes: “Maybe Democrats are just nicer, but a more philosophical view is that liberals are committed to, are in fact bedeviled by, ideals about process that do not much preoccupy conservatives, at least contemporary ones. Liberals put their faith in such content-neutral principles as free speech, due process, participatory democracy. Is that too lofty?” Ask a campus conservative about liberal love of free speech, or Robert Bork about liberal love of due process.