Michael Moore, whats your opinion????

The Cannes Film Festival jury gave yet more proof that many artists have the moral seriousness of children.
See how the nine jurors gave their top honour to Michael Moore’s anti-Bush documentary, only to quickly deny they were playing politics. Who? Me?
“I knew this political crap would be brought up,” snapped jury president Quentin Tarantino after handing the Palme d’Or to Moore’s Fahrenheit 9/11.
“I think judging a film by its politics is a bad thing.”
Moore, too, played innocent: “I did not set out to make a political film,” he claimed, confirming his growing reputation as a liar.
Other jurors agreed that, no, they didn’t vote for Moore’s film just because it was a Leftist wet dream that made President George W. Bush seem like a moronic war criminal, conspiring with Osama bin Laden’s family. Hur, hur.
But some muffed their lines. When a journalist called the film one-sided, actor Tilda Swindon raged: “We heard what Bush has to say. We live with it. It’s not a fair fight. This film helps to redress the balance.”
Another juror, Haitian writer Edwidge Danticat, said Moore “gives voice to the voiceless”.
The jury itself was intensely political, with the Left-wing bias common to second-rate artists.
Swindon is a member of Britain’s Democratic Left, successor to the pro-Stalin Communist Party. Emmanuelle Beart, the French actor, is a Leftist activist, as is America’s Kathleen Turner, who last year said a win by Bush’s Republicans “scares the hell out of me”.
Danticat has even claimed “there is some impending evil that seems linked with the Bush regime”. Regime?
Three other jurors, less overtly political, make shlock movies as offensive to serious people as they are reckless. Tarantino’s new Kill Bill films celebrate grotesque violence, Benoit Poelvoorde cheerfully portrayed sadistic killings and a brutal rape in his Man Bites Dog and Tsui Hark’s latest is about kung fu zombies. But children always leave adults to clean after them.
So these are the cultural vandals, pantomime moralists and tyrant-followers, who now judge a politician doing deadly serious work.
It was Rudyard Kipling, the Nobel laureate, who lashed out at lazy moralists “makin’ mock o’ uniforms that guard you while you sleep”. How many more do we have now — spotless sophisticates sneering at men made dirty by keeping them safe?
This is why the Left-wing writer George Orwell so praised the Right-wing Kipling: “He does possess one thing which ‘enlightened’ people seldom or never possess, and that is a sense of responsibility.”
Although a writer, Kipling still identified with rulers who were “always faced with the question, ‘In such and such circumstances what would you do?’ “, unlike the critics who never take responsibility.