A Different Kind of Heat Wave The Debate Over 'Fahrenheit 9/11' Has Temperatures Soaring (artical)

The White House preemptively gave the movie two thumbs down: "Outrageously false," said communications director Dan Bartlett, when he was asked about some of its allegations. Sizzling! countered Rep. Jay Inslee (D-Wash.), who plans a teach-in at a Seattle theater to tap into the "anger brewing against this administration." The director, Michael Moore, predicted half his audience for his new documentary will be nonvoters and 20 percent Republican, and that those on the fence will be …

…Moore says. "Many of them have turned into cynics who have just decided to sit on the sidelines. If I can give them a song to sing as they leave the theater and become active once again, that's a good thing." And even if he is preaching to his choir "the timing is exquisite," says presidential historian Robert Dallek. "He's catching Bush right when he's on the defensive, when Bush is stumbling badly in Iraq."