The Awful Truth

So I recently got NetFlix and it is awesome. The DVD I am watching right now is the first season of Michael Moore's "The Awful Truth", which holds up a lot better than I thought it would. If anyone wants to remember the crazed political climate of the Clinton impeachment era (and who doesn't?), this is a must-add to your queue.

The first season has some real gems... Moore conducts his own Ken Starr-style witch hunt on Capitol Hill, forces an insurance company to pay for a man's surgery after staging a mock funeral for him at their HQ, sends Crackers The Corporate Crime-Fighting Chicken to DisneyWorld, and takes on Fred Phelps. And, in some prescient pieces, he looks at the India-Pakistan arms race and protests the policies of the new Taliban regime in Afghanistan.

He also attracted a smackdown from the NYC government after being issued a restraining order from industrialist billionaire Ira Rennert, whom Moore had awarded a satirical 'Man of the Year' award for his companies' pollution. Here, Moore deals with the effects-



'Bowling For Columbine' and 'Fahrenheit 9/11' were mixed bags for me, but this is Moore at his muckraking best.