>According to Gary Younge in the Guardian, it's Dude, Where's My Country?
>
>http://www.guardian.co.uk/michaelmoore/story/0,13947,1055591,00.html
Three relevant paragraphs from which...
>Between the man in print and the man in person, there are definite
>similarities. Face to face, Moore is funny. When I mention his
>Arsenal cap, he breaks into an impersonation of the Clock End
>singing opera tunes in praise of Patrick Vieira (he's been to a
>match or two at Highbury). He is also passionate about his politics
>and determined in his activism. But in everything but his size -
>Moore is big in all three dimensions - he is not overbearing. For a
>start, he listens. Even though he is the one being interviewed, he
>is very ready to engage in a dialogue. Even though the opinions in
>his book are forthright, they are not finished. He is still
>thinking. And so - and this is rare among male opinion-formers of
>his age - he does not consider being challenged an act of insolence.
>In fact, you get the impression that he really rather enjoys it.
>
>When I ask why he did not write more in the new book about Israel
>and America's relationship to it, he pauses. The issue receives a
>couple of passing mentions and the book is dedicated to, among
>others, Rachel Corrie, the young American who was crushed by a
>bulldozer while trying to defend Palestinian houses from being
>demolished. But, considering its centrality to America's actions in
>the Middle East, it gets relatively little space. "That's
>interesting," he says. "The only piece of criticism I got from my
>publisher about this book are the pieces about Israel. She thought
>they were too harsh. So the parameters of the debate are different
>in this country than they are in Britain, and there is a lot of
>pressure to toe the line."
>
>A little bit later, he comes back to the question of his own
>volition. "I think it's a good point, because, as much as I think
>I've done, I haven't done enough. I feel that one of the big flaws
>in Bowling For Columbine is that I go through the history of
>American violence around the world and completely miss out what
>we've done in the Middle East when it comes to the Israelis and the
>Palestinians."