Michael Moore Irks Supporters of Chávez

[Zorro]

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CARACAS, Venezuela — Michael Moore, the filmmaker who is a bête noire of conservatives in the United States, now appears to have made some enemies among the leftist supporters of President Hugo Chávez.

During a recent appearance on ABC’s late-night program “Jimmy Kimmel Live,” Mr. Moore gave an account — apparently tongue in cheek — of how he drank a bottle-and-a-half of tequila with Mr. Chávez at the Venice Film Festival in September, and how he mistook Venezuela’s burly foreign minister, Nicolás Maduro, for a bodyguard.

Those comments have created an uproar here among some of Mr. Chávez’s loyal supporters, known as Chavistas.

“Michael Moore is a most unfortunate coward,” Eva Golinger, an American lawyer who lives in Caracas and who is one of Mr. Chávez’s most prominent defenders in international leftist circles, wrote in an essay widely disseminated here that lambasted the filmmaker.

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More at: http://www.nytimes.com/2009/10/26/world/americas/26venez.html

[jwirr]

1. Michael has never needed free heating oil.

[SIMPLYB1980]

2. This should be good.

:popcorn:

[Lasher]

3. Look out, you be hit by one of them flying Chavistas!

:popcorn:

[bluestateguy]

4. Michael Moore and Hugo Chavez at the buffet. Would there be any food left?

:rofl:

[47of74]

5. So the worshippers of St. Hugo Chávez don't like Moore

[marmar]

6. Any reporter that uses "bete noir" should be fired immediately.....

.... for unlawful use of cliched cheese.

[valerief]

8. Especially if they spell it that way. nt

[marmar]

9. oops

I was thinking of Bette Midler. :hide:

[valerief]

12. I'm old. I would have been thinking of Bette Davis. nt

[BolivarianHero]

7. Michael Moore irked me years ago...

He fucking told me to vote for the Paul Martin Liberals. If I wanted to vote for a centre-right corporate stooge, I'd be a Tory.

[Deja Q]

10. I don't care much for Chavez, but Eva's spot-on in her assessment.

Don't blame me. Don't blame her. Read Michael's own words:

http://current.com/items/91072412_moore-if-theres-no-revolution-i-quit.htm
(so he's happily retiring when not stomping like a toddler, holding his breath until he turns blue, yeah... he'd rather people die for him than actually do something. All he can do is talk. Yes, he is a coward. Look up "the relationship era"; Moore plays his audience like how Limbaugh and Coulter play theirs... )

[marmar]

11. Making the films isn't 'doing something'?

nt