Did you know that Fidel Castro really, really likes Michael Moore?

* Did you know that Fidel Castro really, really likes Michael Moore? Not content simply to screen Fahrenheit 9/11 throughout Cuba--where the theaters had been packed for a week--Castro sought an even wider audience for the film. On July 29, the dictator broadcast the movie in prime time on Cuban television to ensure that it reached each and every Cuban home.

In a speech earlier that week, Castro had paid tribute to Moore's literary masterpiece, Stupid White Men, and had displayed his own clinical skills, conjecturing that President Bush's "fevered and fundamentalist mind" derives from his past drinking problems. El Jefe is far from alone in his admiration of Moore and his film. He joins Hezbollah, which offered to help distribute Fahrenheit 9/11 in the Middle East, and, of course, major powers in our own Democratic party: Terry McAuliffe, Tom Daschle, Jimmy Carter, and Bill Clinton. See how Bush unites people?

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