Wednesday, May 05, 2004

Just what we need, another martyr

Micheal Moore's worn out his welcome for a lot of people, even liberals like me, and an incident like this will only encourage him: Disney, which distributes film's produced by Moore's studio Miramax, is declining to distribute Moore's latest film. Interesting details:

Disney came under heavy criticism from conservatives last May after the disclosure that Miramax had agreed to finance the film when Icon Productions, Mel Gibson's company, backed out.

Mr. Moore's agent, Ari Emanuel, said Michael D. Eisner, Disney's chief executive, asked him last spring to pull out of the deal with Miramax. Mr. Emanuel said Mr. Eisner expressed particular concern that it would endanger tax breaks Disney receives for its theme park, hotels and other ventures in Florida, where Mr. Bush's brother, Jeb, is governor.

Another take from the BBC and CNN and Moore's own site.

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