Michael Moore. A Rebel and his Counter-Rebels

Pre-University Paper from the year 2005 in the subject Didactics - English - Applied Geography, grade: 2-/10P., , language: English, abstract: When on November 2nd in the year 2004 the world¿s single left super-power¿s citizens went to choose between incumbent George W. Bush and his challenger John F. Kerry to become the nation¿s next president, the whole planet glanced excitedly at their TV in order to be informed as soon as possible about whom of the two would be the one to lead the United States of America in the forthcoming four years. Too much had been happening between 2000 and 2004, during the first period of the Bush administration in power. Events like the terror attacks on September 11th 2001, the resultant Afghanistan war and so-called war on terror and of course ¿ most importantly ¿ the invasion of Iraq which began in march 2003 and was suspected not to be waged due to the existence of Saddam¿s mysterious ¿weapons of mass destruction¿, but much more likely because of the country¿s extensive oil fields, had been changing the world¿s political consciousness and especially the view towards a western civilization that did not seem to stand for peace-keeping or democracy any more, as it was seen almost a whole century ago, but as a Goliath that was trying to raise a hegemony just to be able to fulfill his wishes no matter which non-allied country or people with a different culture suffered from this. Yet it was not only abroad that vast forms of protest began to form themselves, but also in the U.S. One of this movement¿s most polarizing phenomenons is meanwhile world-widely known and had not least co-motivated these developments in Europe and particularly in Germany: leftist writer, director and polemic Michael Moore. As a vehement critic of his government¿s policy, this man specially published a book and a film in the wider pre-election phase only with the goal of removing Bush from his presidency. This agitator, these two outputs and how his opponents try to prevent him from spreading his message shall be dealt with on the following pages.