Michael Moore Recycles My Joke! Yay! (I Think)

No one, bar no one enjoys Michael Moore movies more than me. Anyone who can get the troglo-right's ample knickers in a twist the way he can, is aces in my book. The message of his ads for SICKO seems to be that said troglo-right, along with HMOs, pharmas and other flesh-eating leeches who believe that pain, injury, disease and death should be a profit center, are in for some slight discomfort:

So it's good to see that Mike, who hasn't said a whole lot -- yet -- about the planet's eco-crisis, is into recycling:

We ran this cover exactly fourteen years ago when I was editing Spy, and when Hillary, in the full flush of her spring-like confidence, was still betting she and Bill could cause the same people the same degree of discomfort.

Now, I don't lay claim to any originality when it comes to the operative phrase. "This may hurt a little" has been the punch-line to just about every DRE (digital rectal exam) joke since the dawn of proctology. Indeed even further back than Spy, when I was helping edit the Lampoon, it was internal code for 'you (or some third party) are/is about to get a right royal shafting'.

So no hard feelings. Au contraire. One for all and all for one, what's mine is thine, property is theft, solidarity forever.

My problem is more practical.

We all know how things turned out for Hill. It doesn't bode at all well that Mike chose exactly the same message. I hope I'm wrong. I hope to God Mike has more luck. I hope the HillBills make it back to the Big White House, or Obama-rama does and someone on the side of the angels and that, that proverbial rubber-clad digit is firmly inserted where only darkness dwells and the right people finally squeal like pigs.

I just hope it's not Mike. Or worse, us. Because that would be twice.