Hustled Michael Moore is a talented filmaker, with a talent for using humor as a way of making the bluntness of his points plainly apparent. His films I often find disagreeable, sometimes highly so, but I often find myself laughing during them anyways. He is also someone i would call an ambulance chaser, taking issues out of the spotlight and using them to push his radical political agenda.
Fahrenheit 9/11 is a film which does this to an eggregious, shameless extent, to the point where he goes against his own credo as a documentarian. Though his films often leave out much of the other side of the argument, they generally do a good job at educating the public on issues they are not well aware of. His latest film takes advantage of the fact that most of us are not well-educated on certain events in order to be able to make the ridiculous points of the film sound well-founded.
Working on the assumption that most of his audience is A: liberal and B: ill-informed, Moore takes what is actually not the most confidential information and puts a radical spin on it, making the Bush administration look like it much more control over the events of 9/11 and beyond than it, or any administration, could possibly have had. It demonizes the president way beyond the point to which he is able to be legitimately criticized for his mistakes, which are legion. What he doesn't want you to remember is that our government is every bit as responsible for deciding on the actions taken since 9/11 as our president and that John Kerry, his party's chosen one, was behind the agenda every bit of the way until it went wrong.
Michael Moore is a person that people look to when they are disillusioned at the current state of things, whether the rest of us like it or not. However, in the case of Fahrenheit 9/11, he uses the growing resentment of the bad state of things to hoodwink the public, and the resulting film has way more holes in it than in other Moore works. The film is ultimately a cheap shot at the right, which Moore made because he knew he could get away with it. It is not really documentary, and something worse than yellow journalism. It's sensationalism, and it's success has cheapened the value of the Palme D'or.