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Michael is challenging the rating (on his site he has also encouraged underage viewers to sneak in anyway)

http://www.michaelmoore.com/words/index.php?messageDate=2004-06-18

On top of all this, the MPAA gave the film an "R" rating. I want all teenagers to see this film. There is nothing in the film in terms of violence that we didn't see on TV every night at the dinner hour during the Vietnam War. Of course, that's the point, isn't it? The media have given the real footage from Iraq a "cleansing" -- made it look nice, easy to digest. Mario Cuomo has offered to be our lawyer in appealing this ruling by the MPAA. Frankly, I would like to think the MPAA is saying that the actions by the Bush administration are so abhorrent and revolting, we need to protect our children from seeing what they have done. In that case, the film should be rated NC-17!
However it turns out, I trust all of you teenagers out there will find your way into a theater to see this movie. If the government believes it is OK to send slightly older teenagers to their deaths in Iraq, I think at the very least you should be allowed to see what they are going to draft you for in a couple of years.

The only "proper" way for minors to see R rated films is to attend with their parents or legal guardians. Michael Moore did not ask them to persuade their parents to take them.

There is also this lie: MoveOn.org is a pair of Clinton Cronies. Grassroots my ass. They had stated their socialist goals online in an earlier incarnation of the website. Algore lost the 2000 election, they need to "move on".

(The members of MoveOn.org—an ACTUAL grassroots organization—have done a very cool thing. They are pledging to send a message to theater owners and are planning to attend a showing of the film on its opening weekend.)