Bradbury unhappy with Moore

I don't get it -- or maybe I get. Ray Bradbury is apparently upset at Michael Moore for taking creative license on his Fahrenheit 451 book and titling his latest movie, Fahrenheit 9/11. I've read on blogs with subjects like:
  • "Michael Moore Plagiarizes Ray Bradbury?"
  • It amazes me that the American sheep are so willing to hold a public hanging of Michael Moore -- the gut hatred they feel for the man is amazing. The man has done nothing than make a documentary, slightly leftist, but one with more truth than the promises of weapons of mass destruction in Iraq. They're willing to burn a man for his use of freedom of speech (the irony here is just too much -- re: the temperature Fahrenheit 451 is the temperature books burn in Bradbury's fiction), while defending Bush, the lair, that sent hundreds of Americans to their death and killed thousands more innocents in his campaign that was nothing more than a compensation for having a small weenie. I also find it hard to understand Bradbury -- he seemed to have gone senile with age. What happened to the message of his book? If nothing else man, Moore just give you some free publicity! Thank him instead of being an ass who seemed to have forgotten that it is a-ok for an artist to co-opt a title from another work, especially when it's for satirical purposes. Whatever happened to being an artist Ray? Don't you remember the reception Fahrenheit 451 got from the US government in the first place? They wanted to burn your ass too, remember?

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