Moore blasts Bush over film-trip probe

[AbnJack]

I don't know....where do you even start with this idiot?

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070511/...5HNFcv3VIDW7oF

Moore blasts Bush over film-trip probe

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.

"For five and a half years, the Bush administration has ignored and neglected the heroes of the 9/11 community," Moore said in the letter, which he posted on the liberal Web site Daily Kos. "These heroic first responders have been left to fend for themselves, without coverage and without care.

"I understand why the Bush administration is coming after me — I have tried to help the very people they refuse to help, but until George W. Bush outlaws helping your fellow man, I have broken no laws and I have nothing to hide."


Harvey Weinstein, whose Weinstein Co. is releasing "Sicko," told The Associated Press the movie is a "healing film" that could bring opponents together over the ills of America's health-care system.
"This time, we didn't want the fight, because the movie unites both sides," Weinstein said. "We've shown the movie to Republicans. Both sides of the bench love the film. The pharmaceutical industry won't like the movie. HMOs will try to run us out of town, but that's not relevant to the situation.
"The whole campaign this time was not to be incendiary. It was, can Michael Moore bring both sides together?"


The health-care industry Moore skewers in "Sicko" was a major contributor to Bush's 2004 re-election campaign and to Republican candidates over the last four years, Moore wrote.


"I can understand why that industry's main recipient of its contributions — President Bush — would want to harass, intimidate and potentially prevent this film from having its widest possible audience," Moore wrote.


Treasury officials in Washington said Friday they would have no comment on the contents of Moore's letter, citing a policy against discussing specific investigations being conducted by Treasury's Office of Foreign Assets Control, the agency that enforces the trade embargo against Cuba.


"Generally speaking, as administrators and enforcers of U.S. sanctions, OFAC is required to investigate potential violations of these programs," Treasury spokeswoman AnnMarie Hauser said. "In doing so, OFAC issues hundreds of letters each year asking for additional information when possible sanctions violations have occurred."


OFAC notified Moore in a letter dated May 2 that it was conducting a civil investigation for possible violations of the U.S. trade embargo restricting travel to Cuba................
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There's plenty more....................

[Darksaga]

1) The fat fucker broke the law in going to Cuba.

2) The first responders should be recieving benefits from their state or city depending on who was employing them.

3) Moore need's to suck start a .50 cal.

[SpongeBob]

WHY THE HELL do Liberals think President Bush is responsible for everything?
According to Moore and all the other dumb shits regarding 9/11 and Katrina....
He owes the "victims" money....

I guess in their government class in High School....
They must have been tought we don't have governors, senators, representatives, and committees....
Just the President doing everything...kinda like a mom and pop grocery store.


Maybe I got too many handjobs from the hot latina girls in my government class......
I need to pay attention!!!!

[AbnJack]

This article hinted at it, another article I read expanded on it a bit.....

OFAC's letter to Moore noted that he had applied in October 2006 for permission as a full-time journalist to travel to Cuba, but that the agency had not made any determination on his request.


The agency gave Moore 20 business days to provide details on his Cuba trip and the names of those who accompanied him.

...he never submitted the requested info. In other words Moore manipulated this from the beginning.
I betcha he did it to create the publicity.
I hope it backfires on him and he does jail time.
Blatant disregard for the law.

[LOOON]

WTF does his going into Cuba have to do with anything 9/11 related? Give me a fucking break.........

He's a fucking traitor if there ever was one.

[Shamus62]

This fucking meat-sock needs to die a slow, painful death.