Sometimes I'm nothing if not blunt, and your response only spurs me to ask what you're smoking.
Are you trying to say they, the Academy, didn't know what they were doing? That they to a man never heard any of the controversy concerning Moore's "Bowling for Columbine"? For instance, taking Charlton Heston's words out of context, or acting like he could walk out of a bank with a gun in hand by signing up for an account, blah blah blah.
Yeah, right.
"He gave a belligerent speech and got booed off the stage"
No! no! no....some people started booing-- and then OTHER people started booing the booers, so that it only sounded like alot of booing at MM, but in reality, the booing was at the booers who were....well....booing loudly....