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* [[Raised Catholic]]: Moore was raised as a Catholic and identify himself as a Catholic, however he disagree with the Church's teachings on Same Sex Marriages and Abortions.
* [[Straw Man Has a Point]]: In making ''Bowling for Columbine'' Moore was surprised to learn that Canada has higher per capita gun ownership than the States, but lower per capita gun crime. He thus came to the conclusion that the NRA (and others) are not entirely wrong.
** Of course, his take on it was essentially "Maybe it's not guns that are evil... maybe it's that ''Americans'' are evil!"
* [[Strawman Political]]: Often used in his works, for obvious reasons.
** In addition, he's something of a living strawman for people who disagree with him (a lot of liberals are [[Don't Shoot the Message|embarrassed to have him]] [[Stop Helping Me!|on their side]]).
** An example of this was in the film ''[[An American Carol]]'', which had an obvious Moore parody being yelled at by various historical figures and eventually changing his ways and coming to love America.
** Another, more light-hearted example was in ''[[Team America: World Police]]'', which portrayed Michael Moore as a suicide bomber blowing up Mount Rushmore.
* [[This Loser is You]]: Moore has carefully crafted his image to be what he considers that of the "poor working man". (He himself was born into a relatively affluent family from suburbia, and has possibly worked a single day at a "common" job in his life, if he himself is to be believed.) Which basically means that the slovenly clothes and ragged beard are what he thinks of the "Average Joe".
* [[Twisting the Words]] / [[Manipulative Editing]]: One of his signature tactics.
** In Bowling for Columbine, he spliced [[Quote Mine|select portions]] of various speeches Heston made as president of the NRA to appear like one speech that he gave during the Denver convention which makes Heston look like an insensitive prick to the [[Columbine]] Massacre. The fact that Heston's suit and background wasn't matching up between cuts is either really funny or really sad.
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