Let's take a step back here, folks...
JuddX, fishguy10, Gene-Siskal, ironzealot, TheReverendAzrael, TheWalrus, and Michael Moore himself....I am of the impression that NONE OF YOU ARE FUCKING MORONS! That's right - amazing, isn't it? How can you all be Good Guys on Different Sides? These are xenophobic, mean-spirited times we live in (as if it wasn't enough of a clue that when a foppish, sarcastic Hell-beast who calls people FUCKING MORONS for a living comes along, he is hailed as the Voice of Reason). In such an environment, what ought to be a genial, reasonable critique can make other genial, reasonable people...defensive. The Human Race is dependant on trust - when and where it evaporates, things fall to shit, and we're left with pathetic, laughable, tragic substitutes like governments. But I digress. These posts, this cartoon, and Moore's initial comments stem from a near-universal feeling that we cannot trust those we don't know well to be rational, decent human beings - so we naturally recoil to defend our own asses, and since all human beings work the same for the most part, we fracture from there on out. When people who like Michael Moore see something like this, they get more nervous and hostile than they otherwise would because they know that he has been the subject of irrational - indeed false - attacks on the part of powerful bullies who didn't like being tattled on, so when TheWalrus simply points out that Moore's not perfect, they fear it's just support - or at least extra ammunition - for the genuinely unreasonable people. Different people put different amounts of emphasis on different words, too. fishguy10 may have seen Reginald's monologue as unambiguously harsh, but TheWalrus has got noteworthy people like Michael Moore and George W. Bush roped in here with featherweights who merit no attention whatsoever like Jessica Simpson and Britney Spears - he neither takes himself terribly seriously nor expects to be taken seriously. Now I myself have Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder, and coupled with my lifelong concern for the world's problems, I've always had a hyperkeen awareness of the Butterfly Effect potential of my words and actions to ripple outward in unintended ways - especially under the auspices of modern technology, where 3 meager seconds of poorly thought out, throw-away behavior can be preserved, scrutinized, and replayed for all eternity. I'm pretty sure TheWalrus is less neurotic than this - a trait he shares with Michael Moore. The man clearly has 0 PR-savvy. He's fat, he's been known to sport a neckbeard, he has no head-to-mouth filter, he makes NO EFFORT to make himself presentable, general D&D Charisma score of 6, yet he lumbered right up to America's image-ruled media and attacked Bush on national TV back when nobody else famous was! That's why I think he's trustworthy enough - as a certain George Carlin once put it, "the real cynics are the ones who tell you everything's going to be alright." If he was really slimy, he wouldn't LOOK so slimy. Pardon me if this *essay* seems disjointed or whatnot, but distractions have been profuse. Point is, if I just twist my brain around enough, I can see where most everyone on here's coming from, so I think most everyone can do that if they just take the time to do so. Being scared, angry, and powerless sucks - especially of/at/against other scared, angry, powerless people.
P.S.: Heck - I'll give you a '4' Interactivity for the in-show pictures of fans. That would count, wouldn't it?