Posted on 10/25/2009 5:53:01 PM PDT by rdl6989
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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“Michael Moore is a most unfortunate coward,” I have to agree.
Micheal Moore irks anyone who looks at him but it’s still funny to see him get the treatment any conservative would get for daring to voice any opinion, even that it’s Sunday. Schadenfreude.
“...a most unfortunate coward...”
I guess leftists can be right from sporatically.
Amazing how MM isn’t a ridiculed laughingstock.
Shows just how complicit the MSM is.
And I didn’t even know he was gay.
Can’t say I’m surprised.
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