The puppeteers stuffed him with ham before setting him off

"He’s one of the few [celebrities depicted in the film] I’m actually personally pissed off at," says "Team America" director Trey Parker of the unspeakable Michael Moore. The Providence Phoenix reports:

As for Michael Moore, he’s a surprising [perhaps to lotus eaters] target, though some might take delight in watching him blow up. (The puppeteers stuffed him with ham before setting him off.) Wasn’t Stone a friendly witness in Moore’s "Bowling for Columbine"? Don’t get them started.

"Basically he’s a sh**head," says [co-producer Matt] Stone. "He’s ripe for parody."

"The interview I did with Michael Moore is vastly different from how the movie ended up," says Stone. "I said, like, 'I don’t think guns are the problem at all.' He was, like, 'I don’t either.' He’s an opportunist. He doesn’t believe half the things he says."

What really makes the two mad is the sneaky sleight of Moore hand that makes it seem they were responsible for a left-wing animated history of the US done in the "South Park" style.

Now Moore's sneaky sleight of hand has backfired, leaving the poor slobs who "get their news" and historical "perspective" from his agenda-driven anti-capitalist mockumentaries gasping for air. By making it seem that the "South Park" boys had created a left-wing animated history in "Bowling for Columbine," the calorically-challenged flimflam maker set up his followers for a rude awakening when "Team America" revealed that Trey and Stone, far from being lefty apologists, are free thinkers who take no prisoners. In our initial review the other day, we quoted a typical critic's voice from the left, that of Slate's David Edelstein, who seemed blindsided that "Team America" didn't follow the standard leftoid "satirist's" formula of all-Bush-bashing-all-the-time. Among the unwashed armies of the left, Democratic Underground abounds with spelling-challenged lefties mugged by "Team America" reality who still don't get it. A typical example:

Okay, I laughed in some of it but overall this is a Freepers wet dream. They poke fun at liberals BIG TIME!!!Nothing against ANY rightwingers, ONLY LIBERALS!!! Liberals are the butt of the joke & are even the villians in this. Oh, & all the liberals Die a horrific death in this. TOTALLY bias! I mean, c'mon. How can they NOT have Bush puppet? I mean, he so much a charachter that needs to be mocked. This film was very mean spirited IMO. My firned said I didn't get it. That it was an extreme right wing edge to it & that was the joke. Well, I didn't get that when I saw it. TRUST ME, Freepers will call this film their own & Trey Parker & Matt Stone have sold out BIG TIME!

We blame the critics' cluelessness on their rarefied existence inside the Pauline Kael media elite bubble and their -- and their followers' -- fact-free incoherence and lack of historical perspective upon Jacques Derrida's deconstructionism and its p.c. fallout in academia and the public schools, "if indeed [fact-free incoherence and historical perspective] can be said to mean anything beyond the biases of culture, language, religion and philosophy," as ScrappleFace would put it. It's frightening to think of our fellow citizens' excercising their franchise based upon such bottomless and willful ignorance.