Note to Michael Moore; Just stop, you are making a BIGGER ass out of yourself than normal
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Filmmaker Michael Moore is calling out White House hopeful Fred Thompson for refusing to debate him.
The director and the former senator have been trading shots since May 2, when Thompson weighed in on the Treasury Department’s investigation into whether Moore violated the U.S. trade embargo against Cuba by seeking free treatment on the Communist isle for sick 9/11 responders. Writing in the National Review, Thompson chided Moore for “gushing” over dictator Fidel Castro.
Moore, who filmed the trip for “Sicko,” his forthcoming cinematic indictment of America’s health care, yesterday returned fire in an open letter that pointed to Thompson’s fondness for Cuban-made Montecristo cigars.
“While I will leave it up to the conservatives to debate your hypocrisy and the Treasury Department to determine whether the ‘box upon box of cigars’ violates the trade embargo, I hereby challenge you to a health care debate,” Moore wrote in a letter posted on the Drudge Report.
Moore said he’d welcome the chance to discuss the “hundreds of thousands of dollars” in campaign contributions Thompson has received from the health care industry and his “inexplicable” desire to cut funding for AIDS research.
“Our debate would provide you an opportunity to appeal to the right wing of the Republican Party by continuing to attack me; it would give me a chance to discuss health care and tell you exactly what happened in Cuba,” Moore told the “Law & Order” star. “Like [on] ‘American Idol,’ we could even have the country vote to determine which one of us wins the debate.”
Thompson responded with a video (posted on breitbart.tv) in which he’s seen sucking on an unlit cigar while sitting in a swiveling armchair.
“I’ve been looking at my schedule, Michael, and I don’t think I have time for you,” the GOP candidate said. “But I may be the least of your problems. You know, the next time you’re down in Cuba visiting your buddy Castro, you might ask them about another documentary filmmaker. His name was Nicolas Guillen [Landrian]. He did something Castro didn’t like, and they put him in a mental institution for several years, giving him devastating electroshock treatments. A mental institution, Michael, might be something you ought to think about.”
Thompson’s stogie stunt surprised Moore.
“Why would a potential presidential candidate provide photographic evidence of himself committing a felony?” the director told us last night before he showed his film to the 9/11 workers he’d brought to Cuba.
“Someone should tell him that ‘Law & Order’ isn’t just a TV show, it’s real life. I hope the federal government will take the proper and necessary actions against him for violating the law.”
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