Bee Wilson writes:

Moore’s critics – and he has plenty, on both the right and the left – are driven mad by the things he leaves out. On the right, Moore-hating websites such as Moorewatch.com are incensed by the way he will, for example, invoke Cuba’s healthcare regime without setting it in a political context. ‘The Unbearable Wrongness of Moore’ is one subject heading on Moorewatch. More interesting are his critics from the left, who support his politics but dislike the form it takes in his films. Both Manufacturing Dissent and Citizen Moore – Roger Rapoport’s earnest biography – fit into this category. More in sorrow than in anger, they cite the labour activists in Flint, many of them Ralph Nader associates, who felt betrayed by the way Roger and Me turned out.

(LRB 1 November 2007)

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