Mr. Moore's films, like "Roger and Me" and "Bowling for Columbine," are often a political lightning rod, as Mr. Moore sets out to skewer what he says are the misguided priorities of conservatives and big business.
Here are just a few examples from this morning of the cost of these misguided priorities: These kinds of problems don't happen in Oregon and Washington state, which conduct their elections by mail.
There are ways all over the country – whether it's medical marijuana, unfair police practices, lack of programs in the prisons, misguided priorities between law enforcement and corrections, the desire for rehabilitative hope in the prisons -- here we are a Christian country with no concept of mercy or forgiveness in our justice system.
Republicans quickly pounced on the speech as a misguided priority that will kill jobs.
In timing that youth advocates say represent the state's misguided priorities, the education funding announcement follows the state's approval of the $30 million construction of a youth jail in Baltimore earlier this week.
Mr Clinton avoided using the president's name, but criticised the Bush tax cuts which he smartly described as "my tax cut", as the ex-president is now very rich as a misguided priority when America is on a war footing.
"This futile legal challenge tells you all you need to know about the government's misguided priorities: it would rather defend a privileged elite in the City than support a tax that could raise billions to tackle poverty and protect public services.
"Verizon's first-quarter earnings show starkly how the company's misguided priorities and scattershot approach to business are hurting customers and the company's standing on Wall Street.
The Gates Foundation is "being allowed to speak too loudly, and too many actors in international development are falling into line with the foundation's misguided priorities".
College kids will stop drinking as soon as teachers and administrators allow them to suffer the consequences of their misguided priorities.
Even more importantly, the department should rearrange its misguided priorities so it can equip and train U.S. forces to address the most urgent challenges of the 21st century.
