Al Rantel
Monday, May 17, 2004

Comes news from the Festival of the Limousine Liberals that Michael Moore, who bears a striking resemblance to an unshaven Porky Pig, received a 20-minute standing ovation after the entertainment industry elite viewed the premiere of his Bush-bashing film "Fahrenheit 9/11." This is the film that Disney determined was too partisan to be distributed through its Miramax subsidiary.

The ovation is described with glee by Thierry Fremaux of the Cannes Film Festival as the longest ovation ever, with yelling, screaming and cheering that made it impossible for Moore to be heard over the crowd. Though Moore did manage to screech that he would continue to fight. Moore may now be tied with the likes of Adolf Hitler for the longest and loudest ovation during a public appearance.

The film is scheduled for wide release this summer, of course only by coincidence around the date of the Democratic Party convention in Boston. It is said to depict President Bush as complicit with the Saudi royals following the attacks of 9/11. It also shows video of U.S. soldiers talking about how much they want the Democrats to win the election in November. Now, there is a core of the Democratic Party only Michael Moore could invent: guys in the military.

Moore claims to have made a documentary, akin to his partner in political propaganda crime Oliver Stone, who tried to sell his film "JFK" as a documentary by filming it in a style designed to manipulate the less sophisticated viewers. One thing we can say about the left is that they know how to use vicious propaganda and distort reality better than any outfit since the Third Reich.

This spectacle in Cannes reaffirms what I and others have pointed out over and over again. The left is obsessed with the defeat of President Bush to a point never seen in recent political memory. Only al-Qaida hates Bush more than Moore and his cronies but for almost the same reasons. As Ann Coulter points out brilliantly in her last book, "Treason," the left always finds itself aligned with America's enemies when Republicans are in power.

President Bush has taken the fight to the enemy rather than waiting for the fight to be waged here, as it was up until the attacks of 9/11. To do this, Bush has used American power and courage in the face of opposition from the European left. Those nations lost their freedom twice in the last century, so who but other leftists would take their counsel? Also, the left in America hates American power unless it is used in a cause they approve of. That usually consists of social work by our men and women in uniform, not killing our enemies.

At least one question has been answered in my mind. I recall the Oscars of 2003 when Michael Moore was booed at the Kodak Theater ceremony after he launched into an attack on President Bush from the podium. At the time, I said my suspicion was that the Hollywood Liberal Elite were heckling Moore not because they did not share his radical views, but because it disrupted the phony image they were presenting to Americans of respect for the nation just gone to war.

The only thing real about any of these celebrities taking part in this embarrassment in Cannes is their hate for President Bush and anyone else who stands for a strong America and has the guts to do whatever it takes to win our security and preserve our freedom.

Al Rantel is a radio talk show host on Los Angeles' KABC.