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Monday, May 14, 2007

Film Moore Drama

Posted by The Unpaid Intern on Mon, May 14 at 10:18 AM

Filmmaker Michael Moore is “facing a U.S. government probe into a recent trip to Cuba.”

U.S. citizens are not allowed to travel to or purchase anything from Cuba without the U.S. government’s permission— because of the U.S. trade embargo against the communist country which has been in place since 1962— and since Moore did not receive permission to take his trip, he is being investigated by the U.S. Treasury Department. I think it’s worth mentioning the U.S. does not have a trade embargo against communist China.

“I have broken no laws, and I have nothing to hide,” Moore stated in a press release. Moore’s trip to Cuba was for his new movie SiCKO, set to open in theaters June 29, which investigates the health care system in the U.S.

For the movie, Moore took “volunteer rescue workers who suffered health problems after September 11 to Cuba where they received better care than in the United States.”

What do you think, is Moore guilty of committing a crime, or does the Bush administration just have it out for him because of his last movie Fahrenheit 9/11? Should we have a trade embargo against Cuba and not China?

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Comments

Those Cuban Cigars are WMD-esque. Just take a jaunt up NW 23rd and talk with Monica.

Posted by Mike-DD | May 14, 2007 11:20 AM

Look, our trade embargo against Cuba is working, you just have to give it a chance! It's not going to change things overnight, sure, but already it's reaping results -- why, look at how old and feeble Castro has gotten under the embargo!

Seriously, I really think we're turning the corner on this one. Progress is being made. Cuba's communism is in its last throes. Sure, some people like Moore want us to just give up and cut-n-run, but if we give the embargo a chance, then someday we will be greeted as liberators in Cuba. Promise.

Posted by tODD | May 14, 2007 12:23 PM

I've had a Cuban cigar, and I can speak of its quality and craftsmanship first hand. As for the things I own from China... Wait, almost everything is made in China now!

Posted by Unpaid Intern | May 14, 2007 1:03 PM

Moore is guilty of being an ass. Since I'm not in favor of the embargo, I don't care if Moore is guilty of a crime or not. But buddying up to a dictator like Castro and a regime that would probably jail and possibly execute Moore for his exposes if he was doing them in Cuba on Cuba is just further proof that Moore is a worldclass douche.

Posted by extramsg | May 15, 2007 7:44 PM

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