While he did not actually say it, Michael Moore certainly acts like he is above the law that the rest of us Americans have to follow:
LOS ANGELES (AP) - Filmmaker Michael Moore has asked the Bush administration to call off an investigation of his trip to Cuba to get treatment for ailing Sept. 11 rescue workers for a segment in his upcoming health-care expose, “Sicko.”
Moore, who made the hit documentary “Fahrenheit 9/11″ assailing President Bush’s handling of Sept. 11, said in a letter to U.S. Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson on Friday that the White House may have opened the investigation for political reasons.
Moore doesn’t even acknowledge the fact that by traveling to Cuba without obtaining permission from the government (no matter who is in charge) he has broken the embargo against Cuba, which has been in place for years. In fact, if you read the entirety of his letter to Secretary Paulson you can see for yourself that he spends all of the letter complaining about what he perceives as political shenanigans on the part of the Bush Administration over the past five or six years, while mentioning his transgression in only one sentence:
First, the Bush Administration has been aware of this matter for months (since October 2006) and never took any action until less than two weeks before SiCKO is set to premiere at the Cannes Film Festival and a little more than a month before it is scheduled to open in the United States.
Believe it or not, Mr. Moore actually did apply for permission from the Treasury Department to travel to Cuba as a working journalist. I guess he just didn’t think he had to wait for the Treasury Department to render a decision on his request, because if he wants to go to Cuba that’s his right. Obviously, he states, the only reason the Bush Administration is investigating him because of politics and donations from big pharmaceutical companies. Pay no attention to that whole, “ignoring the law which has been in place for years” thing he did.
Michael Moore has a problem with his self-image. Apparently, he thinks that the entire Bush Administration has nothing better to do than to spend its resources trying to stop him from producing and releasing his “movies.” Never mind the fact that Moore has never had a single problem from any Administration when it came to the release of his other “movies,” the Bush Administration is obviously putting that whole “terrorism” thing aside, as well as that whole “North Korean nuclear” thing, on the back burner just so they can target and go after poor little Mikey.
Hey, Mike, listen up! You. Are. Not. That. Important. Get over yourself. I realize that this may be hard for you to understand and comprehend, but no one in the Bush Administration cares about your “movie” or your conspiracy theories. If this next “movie” is anything like your previous “movies” it will be long forgotten and completely debunked before the end of 2007.
Although I would agree that you are large enough to qualify as a celestial body, you must realize that the Earth does not revolve around you and your ideas.
