Well, according to ABC News, Moore was found to have made the choice to hire non-union crew while filming his flop “Capitalism: A Love Story.” Worse still, those non-union personnel didn’t receive health care benefits … from, you know, the multi-millionaire director of “Sicko” — an incredibly dishonest (albeit entertaining) propaganda film calling for Cuba-style socialized medicine here in America.

A little after 10AM, Governor Sarah Palin tweeted out the story and asked a very good question:

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And now we get to the fun part. Would anyone like to argue that what you’ll see below — Michael Moore’s series of desperate tweets over the last couple of hours, doesn’t represent a form of damage control in reaction to the former-Governor Tweeting our timely resurrection of the ABC News story? (And I have yet to mention this story about Moore pressuring his writers not to join the WGA.)

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Hey, Michael, it’s great that you’re so generous to all your employees … now.

It’s just too bad that after you had already spent two decades railing about the “selfishness” of big business and wealthy types, that you had to get busted by ABC News before you decided to hold yourself to your own standards. 

Tweet away, Michael. But when you thought no one was looking, the real Michael Moore revealed himself.  Oh, and good luck using your millions to sue for more millions. Because you’re a proud socialist who thinks the wealthy aren’t taxed enough, I have no doubt you’ll donate any winnings directly to the U.S. Treasury.

Someone needs to slap the handcuffs on Michael Moore, no?

Image by Warner Todd Huston

ABC News:

It was unclear exactly how many union or non-union employees worked on the film. …

In a statement issued to ABCNews.com, Moore’s agent, Ari Emanuel, said the filmmaker wished the union included more documentary crew people — but he did not deny that IATSE members were snubbed in favor of non-union employees. …

An internal AFT memo, obtained by ABCNews.com, added that the non-union workers hired for the film did not receive health insurance.

The organized labor source said Moore and IATSE were in talks about Moore’s decision, but did not know why Moore had used union labor for some jobs and non-union employees for other jobs for which he could have employed union workers.

Read the full article here.

Two examples:

In 1978, a young director named Michael Cimino ascended to the very tippity-top of Tinseltown adulation with his sophomore directing effort “The Deer Hunter,” which triumphed at the box office and that year’s Oscars. Subsequently, everyone in Hollywood wanted to be like Mike. And yet, a mere two years after his out-of-nowhere rise to the top and flushed with the power of his own invincibility, Cimono went on a then-unprecedented spending spree to produce the ill-conceived “Heaven’s Gate” which would not only become the biggest financial debacle in all of Hollywood history, but effectively destroy an entire studio, United Artists. 

And thus ended Hollywood’s love affair with Michael Cimino. Oh, he would go on to make a few more films but by most definitions, the toast of Hollywood’s career was all but dead and he would never truly receive a second chance.

Fast-forward to 2008 when a young Senator named Barack Obama ascended to the very tippity-top of Hollywood adulation and won the highest office in the land. Everyone in left-wing Hollywood wanted to be like Barack. And then, right after his out-of-nowhere rise to the top, while still flushed with the power of his own invincibility, President Obama went on an unprecedented spending spree to produce the ill-conceived Heaven’s Gate of economic plans which would become the biggest financial debacle in generations and the Waterworld of health care plans which would prove to be more unpopular than some diseases. Overnight, the net result of both would all but destroy the hard-earned gains of the Democrat Party in a single midterm election.

And thus ended Hollywood’s love affair with Barack Obama.

It’s been almost a week since the election, the President is obviously licking his wounds over the “shellacking” he took, and where are all his Hollywood pals? Where’s the public Hollywood support, especially when the President needs it most…?

Where’s the “We’re Still With You!” Will.I’Am video?

Where’s Ashton Kutcher’s “We Still Post-Midterm Pledge Our Allegiance to Barack Obama” Celeb-u-Tard-YouTube-a-thon? 

When will those creepy Venice, California neighbors Mao their kids together again to buck up the Precious One?

“Funny or Die” can’t produce one quick, painfully self-conscious unfunny ”Die” to buck their guy up some?

While I’m sure his ego appreciated it, Obama certainly didn’t need a bunch of shallow preeners attaching their little pinko wagons to his star while he was on the rise and especially after he had reached the top. Now is when he could use some public support, but thus far Hollywood’s nowhere to be found. Unfortunately for the President, he’s no longer boffo at the box office– in fact, he’s box office poison — and standing by the Chief Executive of Epic Failure is not a Hollywood resume enhancer.

Most confusing for Obama must be the fact that he did absolutely everything Hollywood asked him to when it came to exponentially expanding the size of the federal government and socializing our health care system. But doing what Hollywood expects of you is not enough. Failure will still strip you of your mojo and the result is always the same: the left-wing celeb community flees from you like a Brownie Troop from Roman Polanski … which is far from a perfect analogy. After all, even though he’s a child rapist, Polanski still enjoys plenty of Hollywood public support because he’s successful — successful at getting films made and winning his actors awards.

Poor Barack, in Hollywood today he doesn’t even rate above a child rapist.

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Hitler promised health care, said that Germany’s business infrastructure needed a total government reform, and promised that all of the Germans would have jobs. Also, Hitler may have been elected by less than 40% of the people in Germany, but he was elected by 98.8% in Austria. After becoming Chancellor of Austria he took over the health care system, the car company (Austria had one major car manufacturing company at the time), and the business infrastructure.

Hitler did not sell fear and anger, he sold fundamental change of the nation’s infrastructure. He sold the hope of everyone having a job and that everyone had a right to be given medical treatment at the government’s provision.

That is definitely not what the Tea Party is selling. The Tea Party is selling a return to the constitutional principles that our country was founded upon. It is selling less government intrusion into our lives and that people can make better decisions for themselves than the government can. In other words, the Tea Party is selling the exact opposite of what Hitler promoted.

In the final homestretch to the elections, though, facts are dispensable to the left. It’s important in these last few days before the elections to smear the Tea Party as much possible because it’s all the institutional left has. The left has lost the intellectual debate of big government to the American people this election cycle, that is apparent by the choice of candidates on the right and the campaign ads coming from the left. Bad history or bad facts don’t matter to the left right now because they are in serious danger of losing their overwhelming power.

It’s not surprising to see people like Robert Reiner and Bill Maher promote bad history with the malicious intent to paint the Tea Party as the next Hitler. It is sad, though, because several people will actually believe their blatant revision of some very important history.

It’ll tickle the back of your throat:

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So let me get this straight: you’re young, healthy and unemployed – and your solution for lack of health care is …THIS?

You know – There’s another option: getting off your asses, stop sponging off your parents and your government, and look for a damn job. That’s what people do in order to pay for things they want.

I mean – listen to this whine:

“For decades we were left wondering if we’d ever get covered.”

Really – you were wondering about health care before you were born? I don’t know what’s worse: your lack of initiative, your mindless dependence on handouts or your sulky expectations that obliterate any desire for achievement.

And how about this line: “What they’re really trying to do is take away our coverage. We won’t let them.”

How sadly predictable this is, that these idiots expect us to pay for their health care – rather than treat it like any other expenditure? It’s not “your ” health care to take away. It’s my money.

Something tells me these folks – despite lack of health care – still manage to have I-Phones, IPODs, tickets to Lady Gaga, Spring Break vacations, and all the beer they can throw up five days out of every week. You’re young, healthy, and boring: get your own insurance, you freeloading fools.

But you won’t – because you don’t really want it. You’re liars.

But the worst thing about this video? these tools combined two things I love – co-eds and nudity – and still managed TO BORE THE CRAP OUT OF ME.

That has to be the ugliest group of naked people I’ve seen since the Villages put on a holiday version of “Oh Calcutta.”

And if you disagree with me, you’re a racist, homophobic wiccaphobe.

Tonght we are back with a great show:

S.E. Cupp

Imogen Lloyd Webber

Reggie Hamm 

And tomorrow we will be running the show that got bumped, which is an excellent, excellent show, I must say!

Divine.

Undeniably miraculous that a child, like a female, singing, Biblical David, should arrive with that much inborn courage, wisdom and sensitivity!

“It felt great,” Rhema Marvanne, said about making her theatrical debut. “It felt like God is really proud of me and he’s smiling right at me.”

She has that right, along with what appears to be everything else in her soul.

Does God send His divinities when we need them most?

Yes.

Does he send us other symbols of His Amazing Love?

Yes.

Who, what and where they are is up to you.

What we are facing in terms of Evil, however, demands that we collect around these divinely gifted souls, worship with them and listen to God’s Will for us.

A Spirit of Evil is not only moving across the land, but owns the very halls of power we are most vulnerable to.

It is an Evil so great that only God knows what to do with it.

Ahab and Jezebel and their 21st Century counterparts, the Clintons and the Obamas, have ruled American infanticide for two decades. They intend to expand the use of death as a solution to the “problems” and “challenges” of a Progressive New World Order.

Because the United States has resigned itself to legalized abortion and the Supreme Court’s Roe v Wade decision for 37 years, the Progressive Disease that now possesses the land will not be stopped.

Why?

God will not lift a finger to delay the progress of the Progressives as long as Americans refuse to call abortion for what it is: cold-blooded murder.

How many Rhema Marvanne’s have been butchered by Roe v. Wade?!

How many angels has God sent that we have aborted?

Is there anything planned by The Progressives that could surpass in importance the living witness to God embodied by this 7 year old prodigy?

No.

Such miracles in gestation are being treated as utterly irrelevant. The inhumanity of The Progressive’s Progress marches blindly forward to end the essence of the Judeo-Christian Civilization, and, I might add, God’s angels on Earth.

Man as God, holding God’s power over life and death.

Which man or woman on earth then can claim to be the will of God?

The Communist Collective and its ever-obligatory dictator!

We must just respond to this Communist Collective and its Dictator with another form of C.C.: the Christian Collective.

Do not fool yourselves: Communism is a faith, a Devil-worshipping religion!

Communist tyranny, coupled with its own version of Gestapo, Islamic Jihadists, are intent upon not merely the “fundamental transformation of the United States” but the utter and compete destruction of the Judeo-Christian Civilization.

A spirit is walking the American land and it is not Communist, nor Jihadist.

It is profoundly Judeo-Christian, and, with 5,000 years of its existence, this spirit will inevitably triumph.

After waiting until the Progressive Jihadists are fully assembled and as cocksure as Adolph Hitler in Paris, the Judeo-Christian Spirit, “under God,” will not only walk the land, but, piece by piece, disassemble every single creation of the Progressive Movement.

The Progressive Disease will collapse from within.

Why?

It is a lie.

The grandest lie that ever sought to own and run the human race is the Progressive New World Order!

It actually dwarfs the endless lies of Hitler, Stalin and Mao.

Why?

The depth of its treasonous hypocrisy.

Posing as not only Christians but, if you can believe it, Catholics as well, the Clintons, the Obamas and the Pelosi/Bidens are selling their tyranny as a Christian liberation.

I cannot think of a greater display of heretical arrogance than Nancy Pelosi demanding an audience with the Pope.

To watch her listen to Benedict XVI and his lecture to her on the cardinal sin of abortion and yet to have her maintain that increasingly infuriating smile on her lying lips?

Then to watch her carry that smile through a gathering of Tea Party protestors and have her African American, Fellow Progressives also lie about what was said at that protest?

 Treasonous hypocrisy!

Can you conceive of a more horrifying combination of sins?

 Sin, however, is not anything the Progressive Movement recognizes.

The only sin for the PM and the Obama Nation is any opposition to their Progressive ambitions.

After listening to my daily diet of Glenn Beck, I reluctantly realize that all of his leadership power and skill will lead to ruin if he doesn’t prioritize the overturning of Roe v. Wade.

Without God’s help, the Tea Party, 9/12ers and Fox News will face one infuriating defeat after another.

I don’t believe God will be there to defeat the Progressive New World Order unless Americans realize that their resigned acceptance of Roe v Wade, their look-the-other-way attitude, is a revelation of their real priorities: their impassioned commitments to personal income and personal freedom than to the sacredness of human life itself.

God, at least the Judeo-Christian Deity I know, hardly put Mammon before the baby Jesus.

Our Lord said, “As you do unto the little ones, so you do unto Me!”

As the Tea Party and 9/12ers roll toward their big day in Washington, D. C. on August 28th and collect their conglomerate power for what amounts to a counter-revolution in the face of what has now become of America: the Obama Nation?

Legislation, already passed by Congress – the Healthcare and Financial Regulation Bills – will be inflicting their increasingly invasive powers over the American people.

The Fist of the Obama Nation will be closing around America.

Only God and God alone can so weaken this worldwide Hand of Evil that the Fist of the Obama Nation will open and let the American people go.

The Obama Nation’s vengeful enslavement of traditional America, as payback for slavery, is purely the Devil’s doing.

Like Job, America’s patience will be sorely tested.

In the case of this Third Millennium Job, traditional America, God will not order Evil to cease and desist until America sees its greatest sin!

One even greater than that of slavery.

The legalized murder of abortion.

The Roe v Wade Holocaust.

At a modest estimate, 50 million, gestating human beings have been butchered by Roe v Wade.

Since when did God ever bless Cain for slaying Abel?

Oh, the Devil loves Cain, and Mankind is no match for the Devil.

God is.

God won’t really help us until Roe v Wade is overturned, if only in one of America’s states.

The intensity of the battle between Arizona and the Obama Nation is a prelude and warm-up for the rage that the Obama Nation will feel when one state defies Roe v Wade and categorically defines murder by abortion as illegal.

It is in that rage of the Obama Nation that God will work His miracles and turn former Progressives into Americans again.

With such inner deterioration, the Obama Nation will collapse in agonizing defeat before the miraculously powerful strains of a 7 year-old child, a young, female, Biblical David now known as Rhema Marvanne.

As she sings:

Guide us to a place

Guide us with Your Grace

To a place where we’ll feel safe!

We all know where we are going and where we most belong.

The Declaration of Independence charges the King of England with engaging in 10 acts of abuse, of which half are offenses against private property. Most significantly, the Declaration lists the pursuit of happiness as one of man’s primary inalienable rights. The founders believed that liberty, happiness, and property were inextricably tied together.

Over the years, the American occupation with private property has not receded. Indeed, the question of private property remains a central part of our national political conversation. The political rhetoric may not always reflect it, but if one scratches the surface of arguments surrounding universal healthcare; entitlements; budgetary deficits; business regulation; cap-and-trade, or even abortion, one will find an argument involving the God-given right to private property.

The founders, of course, did not understand property simply to mean one’s possessions. Property was understood to include the fruit of one’s labor; it included a man’s conscience—the things he believed and thought, and the ideals he held dear. James Madison wrote that individuals have a property, “In their opinions and the free exercise of them.” As well as “a property of peculiar value in his religious opinions and in the profession and practice dictated by them.” In short, “as man is said to have a right to his property, he may be equally said to have a property in his rights.”

The founders were then of the same mind as John Locke, who wrote in his “Second Treatise on Government:” “The great and chief end therefore, of men united into commonwealths, and putting themselves under government, is the preservation of their property.”

Some Americans continue to share the belief that the right to private property is sacrosanct–other Americans, not so much.

In a 2001 radio interview, a young Barack Obama lamented that the Warren Court had not been more radical and had not addressed the redistribution of wealth, which is to say the redistribution of private property. Obama continued to opine that the Constitution was a charter of “negative liberties,” which failed to declare, “What the federal or state government must do on your behalf.” The truth is that when read through the lens of the Declaration, the Constitution lays out the manner in which the government will carry out the commission with which government has principally been charged: protecting each citizen’s private property!

It is truly a tragic sign of the times, that to be in favor of private property is increasingly viewed as being extreme. Witness the manner in which the New Left demonizes the political right, sneering that Republicans view all regulation of business as evil. Like so much of the current political rhetoric, this claim is wanting for lack of truth.

Regulation is not a zero sum question. The choice is not to be made between regulation and lawlessness. Rather, the question is one of the manner and extent of any proposed regulations. Are the regulations prudent and do they preserve the government mandate to protect the lives, liberties, and private property of each individual? Or is it bureaucratic micromanagement–an attempt to redistribute property, and/or choose economic winners and losers? That is the issue, and it is no wonder that the New Left chooses to put up straw-men rather than argue the merits and morality of its specific regulatory propositions.

Like the founders, conservatives believe that the free market must be regulated by the rule of law and by those civil institutions responsible for building and maintaining an individual’s character. In other words, any business must conform to both criminal and civil laws, (which must be enforced), must be held to contractual obligations, and must respect the private property of other citizens. Conservatives also share the conviction of the founders that citizens raised with a sense of Judea/Christian morality and educated in civic virtue–as opposed to moral relativism and secular progressivism–will tend not to need the eyes of Uncle Sam looking over their shoulder.

There are, alas, a great many Americans that tend toward the progressive view that in order to achieve “social justice” the government ought to own, well, everything.

John Adams perhaps put it best when he said: “The moment the idea is admitted into society, that property is not as sacred as the laws of God, and that there is not a force of law and public justice to protect it, anarchy and tyranny commence.”

Here’s the gasbag, now, gasbagging:

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“We see it as an entrepreneurial bill – a bill that says to someone, if you want to be creative and be a musician or whatever, you can leave your work, focus on your talent, your skill, your passion, your aspirations because you will have health care.”

So, to put it plainly: If you want to play your guitar in the subway, no worries – we’ll supply your health care. If you want to join a death metal barbershop quartet that plays everything on a children’s xylophone- that’s cool too. If you want to freeze-dry your feces, jar it, and call it an indictment on the Bush regime, relax, you daring artist – we’ll pay for your pink eye.

This is EXACTLY the news our young Americans need. With health care a non-concern, they can now focus on their crappy folktronica ragacore techstep. I’m sure their parents will be pleased to know their kids will get a real job.

Look, it used to be that those who embarked on careers in the arts did so because the lifestyle rejected the idea of a safety net. The rest of those boring old farts can become accountants and lawyers – but not the creative soul! He’s leaving town with nothing but a guitar, the wind at his back, herpes in his future. But when he snubs his nose at the safe and the boring – he also snubs the benefits that come with it. That boring company he mocked happens to provide steady income and benefits.

Life on the road doesn’t. That’s why it’s called “life on the road.” Somehow I don’t remember Bruce Springsteen singing, “Tramps like us, baby we were born to stay on our parents’ policies as dependents until age 26.”

Although that sounds better than the original, if you ask me.

And if you disagree with me, you’re a racist homophobe who won’t boycott Arizona.

Tonight’s show puts the delight in delightfanstastic!

We’ve got

Andrew W.K.!

Steven Crowder!

Juliet Huddy!

and Slayer’s Kerry King!

First lady Michelle Obama has made childhood obesity her pet project. The media is full of reports on the dangers of childhood obesity, and the federal government is in full crisis mode.

There really is no secret to obesity. Obesity is the result of a poor diet and lack of exercise. The people most responsible for the diet and exercise habits of children are the children’s parents. Why should this concern the federal government? The answer is that obesity is a leading driver of healthcare costs. A study conducted by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention found that the direct costs of obesity is $147 billion annually or 10% of medical costs. Those costs are expected to more than double over the next decade. As the federal government begins to pick up the tab for more and more of those costs they will also begin to demand a greater influence in what we eat and how much we exercise. Certainly, the fiscal health of the nation demands that government do something.

Worry not.

There is a bill currently making its way through the House of Representatives, ironically entitled, “The Healthy Choices Act,” which would establish regulations and fund programs aimed at reducing obesity rates by such means as putting nutritional labels on the front of food products, subsidizing businesses that provide fresh fruits and vegetables, and collecting Body Mass Index, (BMI), measurements of patients, and counseling those that are overweight or obese.

Body Mass Index, or BMI, is a 200 year-old scientific relic that is used to determine a person’s body fat. The BMI is calculated by taking a measurement of a person’s weight in pounds and height in inches, multiplying that number by the person’s height in inches, and then multiplying that number by 703. Any number over 24 is considered overweight.

States receiving federal grants through the bill would be required to mandate that all health care providers in the state “determine the BMI of all their patients in the 2-to-18 year-old age bracket and then report that information to the state government. The state government, in turn, would be required to report the information to the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services for analysis.”

No good can come from the government becoming the fat police, especially given that the BMI is an unreliable measure of body fat and thus a poor determinate of future health risks.

For instance, the BMI makes no allowance for the density of bones or the weight of muscle. Athletes and those with strong bones, good muscle tone, and low body fat tend to have high BMIs.

Just for fun, I went to the website for the National Institute of Health and entered the height and weight for Tim Tebow into the institute’s BMI computer. Tebow is a former Heisman Trophy winner, All-American football quarterback for the University of Florida Gators, and widely considered one of the best collegiate athletes of all-time. Coaches and sports writers have often commented on what an amazing physical specimen he is. According to Tebow’s BMI, he is obese.

I couldn’t find the necessary statistics on the first lady; so instead, I coaxed my wife into entering her information. According to the BMI computer my wife is of a “normal’ weight. There is no question that my wife is in terrific condition. I am a lucky man! However, she is in such terrific physical condition because she runs eight miles a day, lifts weights like a maniac, and eats nothing but lettuce. When she is really feeling daring she will even add dressing to her salad. And here is the point: The height and weight ratios associated with the BMI are unrealistic. More significantly, by itself the BMI offers very little information on the actual health and condition of the patient.

So why is the government determined to use the BMI? Because the government nannies are more interested in power than they are concerned with the health of individuals and the BMI will offer them the statistics they need to prove the crisis.

The bill also requires “HHS to share with Congress and other government officials, including the secretaries of education and agriculture, its analysis of the BMI data.”

The data would be analyzed in order to determine “obesity trends in regions of the United States and how those trends vary according to gender, and economic status.”

Can you see it yet? The disparate impact folks will have a field day. Black people are fatter than white people; women are fatter than men, and the poor are fatter than the wealthy. Clearly, the food industry responsible for making America obese is also racist, exploits the poor, and is at war with women’s health. We are in the midst of a crisis! Why isn’t the government doing something?

Fear not. The cavalry is speeding to our rescue.

Uh oh.