Michael Moore, Fidel Castro, and Useful Idiots

John Derbyshire gets it about right:

Wherever there is a jackboot stomping on a human face there will be a well-heeled Western liberal to explain that the face does, after all, enjoy free health care and 100 percent literacy*.

Michael Moore, of course, wants to bring the mass-murdering, librarian imprisoning, military dictator to the Academy Awards as his guest because he would be a "ratings grabber". Why not Pol Pot, Michael? Oh yeah...Pol Pot is dead. What a shame for the ratings. And Hollywood won't get to give him a standing ovation.

In a way, that is a shame: The rest of the country won't be able to watch.

*According to the jackboot's own "statistics".