"The point of the ad was to say that while they, as right wing conservatives, were proud of getting rid of Kerry, there was still one more nuisance running around loose they had to deal with – me!"

Moore said that this evil GOP cabal has "issued a not-so-subtle threat to the Academy Awards voters that, in essence, said don't even THINK about nominating 'Fahrenheit 9/11' for Best Picture. And Bill O'Reilly recently bellowed that if the Oscars recognize my work this year, Middle America will boycott Hollywood."

Of course, some may recall that Moore promised to withdraw his film from Oscar contention when he thought he had a chance to air "Fahrenheit" on the pay-per-view cable net iNDEMAND before the election.

"I told my crew who worked on the film, let's let someone else have that Oscar," he told the BBC in September. "I don't want to take away from the other nominees and the attention that they richly deserve."

What Moore meant, it turns out, is that he was yanking "Fahrenheit" out of contention for the Best Documentary honors, which didn't preclude him from chasing the Oscar for Best Film.

And if Moore doesn't win his Oscar, it won't be because his rancid little flick was chock full of inaccuracies and propaganda, but because the Vast Right-Wing Conspiracy strong-armed Hollywood into picking a less deserving production.

Christopher Donnelly contributed to this report.

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