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= =  About the Au thor - Mich ael Moore

Born April 23rd, 1954 in Michigan, Michael Francis Moore comes from a family of down-to-earth American liberals. His parents and grandfather worked for General Motors, and his uncle founded a worker's union. Moore went to a Catholic elementary and middle school, then attended the public Davison High School. He was a prominent member of debate club.

After dropping out of college his freshman year, Moore worked with several newspapers. His first, //The Michigan Voice// was shut down when he moved out of Michigan. He then was hired as the editor for the liberal newspaper //Mother Jones// in 1986. Moore was fired "for refusing to print an article" that Moore knew to be false information. Michael Moore thought they really fired him because the publisher wouldn't let him do a story on the GM plant closings in his hometown. He did so anyway and put a coworker's picture on the front cover of the magazine (the coworker had been laid off when GM closed), causing //Mother Jones// to fire the man. Moore sued them on charges of wrongful dismissal and settled in court for $58,000. This provided him with the money to cover the story he wasn't allowed to do.

//Roger & Me//, Moore's 1989 documentary of the GM plant relocations was a huge hit. GM had closed the plants in Michigan and reopened them in Mexico, where Mexican workers did the same labor for much less money. He became known for his brilliant muckraking and heavily liberal point of view.

His next huge movie (although he released quite a few in between that were'nt as big a success) was the 2002 film //Bowling for Columbine,// documenting guns and violence in the United States. It also highlights the school shootings of Columbine. It held the record for highest grossing documentary, a title it held until it was upstaged by another Moore film two years later.

The highest grossing docutmentary of all time is Michael Moore's //Fahrenheit 9/11//, a 2004 film about the 9/11 terrorist attacks and an homage to Ray Bradbury's science fiction novel Fahrenheit 451. Its tagline is "the temperature at which freedom burns". It highlights a controversy in Bush's election, the infamous World Trade Center bombing, and the lies of the Iraqi War.

Moore's popularity is rocky at best. Some people, such as those he helps, think he's great. Others, like those he insults (The rich, politicians, republicans, Free Choice activists, people who voted for Bush, white people in general; etc.) hate him. He is essentially the Niesztche of the modern world. But less mysogynistic.

Despite similarities in appearance, //Family Guy// creator Seth Green denies basing Peter Griffin off of Michael Moore.