Michael Moore's class dismissal

Sure he's been honoured with European awards as well as an Oscar for his films. Not to mention the fact that he's a Best Selling author. He's the darling of the media elites in New York and Los Angeles, has a large following in the Liberal Left, and is Internationally acclaimed, but for Michael Moore home town acceptance is getting harder and harder to come by.

The pride and joy (then again maybe not) of Flint, Michigan has once again been nominated for his High School Hall of Fame, and again it seems he's going to come up short of the necessary votes.

The Creator of Roger and Me, Bowling for Columbine and Fahrenheit 9/11 (as well as Canadian Bacon and TV Nation, to name a few of his projects) has always had kind of a love/hate relationship with the old home town. Obviously the establishment types haven't taken kindly to his portrayal of Flint as an industrial wasteland, abandoned by the corporations and left to the working poor to struggle on alone. But to many of the working class he's a true hero, who shines the light on parts of Flint that most would prefer not be known.

But with controversy comes backlash and Moore is suffering in a bid to have him placed in the Davison High School Hall of Fame. Four times he's been nominated and four times denied, Oscar or not! It seems that the voting public of Davison High consider him to be a bit of an embarrassment, not the role model the Hall of Fame people are looking for.

Moore's next opportunity for enshrinement was to come up on February 11th when the nominations closed and the committee made their decision. However due to all the controversy, all nominations have been suspended until further notice. Possibly good news for Moore, presently his fan base have only accumulated 300 signed nominations, and were hoping to have 1700 more names by February 1st, now they have all sorts of time to get the vote in.

All these years out of High School and still there are struggles for class popularity, somehow one thinks there should be a movie in there somewhere for Michael. And I have just the opening theme for him, From Steely Dan How about "My Old School"