Since the failure on most every front of his latest ode to Marxism, “Capitalism: A Love Story,” Michael Moore’s been desperately scratching around for relevance once again, using every opportunity to get his face on television and name in the paper.
Enter Mr. Wikileaks, Julian Assange.
Any enemy of America has a friend in Michael Moore and what better way to get a little ink and feel the warm glow of those MSNBC studio lights than to post part of Julian Assange’s bail and offer up his own website as an outlet for any and all of this brave truth-tellers leaks. But because there’s a God and because He is a good and noble God with a delicious sense of humor, the best laid plans of rat and liar have just completely blown up in Michael Moore’s face — twice in a single week.
For starters, in his knee-jerk zeal to defend America’s enemies, Moore brought a public relations nightmare down on his and host Keith Olbermann’s head late last week, earning the label “rape apologist” even from many of his own fans after dismissing some pretty serious rape charges against Assange as nothing more than “hooey.”
Then — just when you thought it couldn’t get any better — Moore’s own hero dropped this bomb on the anti-American director regarding his 2007 documentary “Sicko.”
Cuba banned Michael Moore’s 2007 documentary, Sicko, because it painted such a “mythically” favourable picture of Cuba’s healthcare system that the authorities feared it could lead to a “popular backlash”, according to US diplomats in Havana.
The revelation, contained in a confidential US embassy cable released by WikiLeaks , is surprising, given that the film attempted to discredit the US healthcare system by highlighting what it claimed was the excellence of the Cuban system.
But the memo reveals that when the film was shown to a group of Cuban doctors, some became so “disturbed at the blatant misrepresentation of healthcare in Cuba that they left the room”.
Castro’s government apparently went on to ban the film because, the leaked cable claims, it “knows the film is a myth and does not want to risk a popular backlash by showing to Cubans facilities that are clearly not available to the vast majority of them.”
Whether or not this is true, we don’t know — at least for now. (Rumors about “Sicko” being banned in Cuba aren’t anything new. Lacking the sex appeal of Wikileaks, they just weren’t given much attention until now.)
But the result is that for the second day in a row, Micheal Moore is over at the HuffPo playing Wikileaks’ defense, claiming the leaked “Sicko” cable was nothing more than Cuba telling the world what it wanted to hear and that “Sicko” was in fact broadcast on Cuban television. But Moore’s mouth is moving, so who knows. When it comes to truthfulness, asking us to choose between Michael Moore and a murderous Communist government is asking too much.
While the irony here is is so obvious one need not point it out, I’m still going to. Moore bailed this scumbag out of jail, hailed him as some sort of brave truth teller and now Moore’s the one whose reputation is taking a harsher beating than anyone in the American government he so despises. It’s Michael Moore who’s having to explain himself, not the NSA or CIA.
And this just one day after Moore was forced to again hit the HuffPo in a desperate attempt to talk his way out of that hearty helping of rape apologia he cooked up for his hero Assange in what was such a disastrous appearance on “Countdown” for both Moore and his host that Keith Olbermann’s been forced to suspend his Twitter account to avoid the only kind of outrage the former sportscaster can’t deal with — outrage from his own supporters.
Michael Moore: Rape Apologist.
Michael Moore: A socialist liar whose propaganda is so out there even murderous Communist dictators don’t believe it.
It must be true, Wikileaks told me so.
There just isn’t enough popcorn in the world.