Via John Ray, from the Times Online, it seems Michael Moore is being exposed by a pair of principled left-leaning documentary makers:

It was in Flint, Michigan, Moore’s former home town, that Caine and Melnyk made the first discovery that they say rocked their confidence in his approach. Roger & Me was a hugely successful account of what Moore portrayed as a fruitless task to force Smith to answer questions about GM’s policies in closing the car manufacturing plants that had long been Flint’s economic lifeline.

Caine and Melnyk claim that Moore interviewed Smith on camera twice. But the scenes were left on the cutting room floor, apparently for greater dramatic effect.

Even more amusingly, it seems Michael Moore is precisely the sort of unreachable, unaccountable, hostile, defensive and un-interviewable person Roger Smith never was...

Caine and Melnyk said they had hoped to interview Moore about his views on how much editing was acceptable before a factual documentary turned into misleading propaganda.

“We had met him at a premiere of the Columbine film in Toronto, and he said, ‘Oh yes, talk to my people and they’ll set something up’,” said Caine. “We then called his people and they said he’s not doing any more interviews in Toronto. We had his e-mail, we sent a letter to his lawyers, we had his phone number in New York. But each time he said no.”

Then Caine and Melnyk began to run into open hostility. Eventually, in a scene that might have come from Roger & Me, they were bundled out of an event at Kent State University, where Moore’s sister, Anne, knocked aside Caine’s camera.

I undoubtedly disagree with this pair's politics, but I applaud them for their good character, and for standing up for something we should all be able to agree on: the need for integrity.

“If you have to sell out your values and principles to get at a greater truth, where does that leave you?” said Melnyk.... “If we think it’s wrong for the government to lie and manipulate, how do we think that [left-wingers] doing it is the solution?”

Precisely. Good for them!

(And, across the aisle, I'm also glad to see conservatives roundly criticizing Coulter for her latest bit of Coulter-like behavior. And her disingenuous response, "it was a joke" (yes, duh, we all knew that) shows how far she's sunk. Yes, she can be funny and even insightful at moments; but she lacks judgement, and is, at times, precisely what I dislike about much of the left. I've said numerous times before that her antics are harmful to conservatism.)