MOORE NEWS . . . ON MOORE

The Horse is back from another untimely (as usual) vacation, and they have some stuff to say about Michael Moore's recent appearance on Real Time with Bill Maher. On whether we should get over the 2000 election theft:

To his everlasting credit, Moore said he would never get over it. In one of those through-the-looking-glass moments, Moore was compelled to patiently explain to a bewildered Maher why it was we shouldn't accept stolen elections.

Then the ACADEMY AWARD WINNER (hehe) said something antithetical to many of his fans from the Green Party:

Moore was asked if Al Gore would have governed in the same way had he not been prevented from serving in the office to which he was elected. He answered with an unequivocal "no" and added that Al Gore was always a better candidate than George W. Bush. (emphasis mine)

The Horse goes on to ponder the connotations of that statement, and no liberal site (save for maybe Alterman's) oozes with anger at Nader's 2000 campaign more than they do.

Anyway, the bigger news here has to do with Moore's next movie:

We look forward to Moore's next film, which will focus on a subject too taboo for the media to address in a forthright manner: the Bush Regime's grotesque exploitation of the victims of 9/11 - people who, much to the delight of Karl Rove and George W. Bush, can no longer speak for themselves and can thus be portrayed as martyrs for the Regime's demented and unAmerican right-wing agenda.

Wow. What an interesting acceptance speech that's gonna be!