by Frances Taylor

Created on: August 24, 2009   Last Updated: August 25, 2009

Of course Michael Moore is biased.'His work has a humorous, yet passionate voice, the exact opposite of objectivity.

As a film-maker his world-view - his bias - has been to focus the spotlight the auto industry, the gun industry, the 2000 election and the healthcare industry through the prism of outrage and from the perspective of the common man.

Moore is on the side of the everyday man and woman against corporate power and greed, government ineptitude and corruption. He holds a mirror up to craven politicians, and turns over the rocks to reveal where classism and racism would much prefer to hide.

Moore's diatribes are filled with both humor and anger, and he usually starts a topic where most media investigations end. His landmark film "Roger and Me,'' dared to discuss the auto industry, not from the point of view of executives and experts, but from point of view of workers and the impact of corporate policies on Detroit and the nation.

In "Bowling for Columbine,'' Moore dared to ask why other countries had less gun violence than the US, including countries where guns ownership is commonplace and widespread.

In 'Fahrenheit 911,'' Moore showed how the war on terror was being used to manipulate the fears of Americans, not to protect them. And in "Sicko,'' Moore asked why America is the only industrialized Western country unable to provide access to affordable healthcare to all its citizens.

Moore's upcoming film "Capitalism; A Love Story,'' will examine the near-collapse of the banking and financial services industry, and the trillion dollar bailout that followed it.

Moore earned the enmity of many with his book "Stupid White Men,'' which took on many of his favorite targets and with over the top title designed to rattle cages of the most comfortable elite. It worked.

Moore's detractors view him as a dangerous liberal without the appropriate respect for big business, power elites and others permanently ensconced in the social and political hierarchy. Of course, they never say that - they call Moore and everyone who shares his ideals socialists, communists, conspiracy theorists etc. Rather than stand up to powerful special interests his detractors prefer to shoot the messenger in the hopes that the issues will go away and everyone can go back to sleep and dream about an America that no longer exists, if it ever did.

Moore doesn't try to hide his bias, it's there for the world to see, and when it comes to his films, to watch and learn.

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