Stardate 20040506.2027

(On Screen): Why does anyone believe anything that Michael Moore says, anyway?

Less than 24 hours after accusing the Walt Disney Company of pulling the plug on his latest documentary in a blatant attempt at political censorship, the rabble-rousing film-maker Michael Moore has admitted he knew a year ago that Disney had no intention of distributing it.

The admission, during an interview with CNN, undermined Moore's claim that Disney was trying to sabotage the US release of Fahrenheit 911 just days before its world premiere at the Cannes film festival.

Instead, it lent credence to a growing suspicion that Moore was manufacturing a controversy to help publicise the film, a full-bore attack on the Bush administration and its handling of national security since the attacks of 11 September 2001.

If he was willing to manufacture a controversy to publicize the film, why should anyone believe any of the allegations made in the film?

Coming up next: Michael Moore confesses that he was actually in the Rangers and saw combat in Panama, in order to publicize his upcoming film Bowling for Stupid White Soldiers.

Update 20040507: Kevin answers my rhetorical question.

Update: Wouldn't it be the ultimate irony if the showing of Moore's film at Cannes was indirectly prevented by French Union protests? Oh please, oh please, oh please...