My take on Moore on the Tonight show.

Jim and Lee said everything I was thinking, but I’d like to add a bit as well, if you don’t mind.

The overall impression I got from Moore is that this was the most phony I have ever seen him. He should change his name to Janus Moore if he’s going to talk out of both sides of his head like that.

On his website , he has tons of links to “Bush stole the election part 2: Election Bugaboo” but when Leno asked him why did he think the Democrats lost, he first simply answered “Bush got more votes”.
Then, he actually came up with the only palatable reason that Democrats would accept for Bush winning, which was the “ We have never unseated a President during wartime, and besides, Bush promised no terror attacks and he delivered on that promise” diatribe.

IMHO, this was all about the Oscars. He needs to appear reasonable from now until Oscar night. I would expect his website to start slowly turning down the rhetoric at a measured pace over the next few weeks as well. He needs to win more than the 48% Kerry got.  Yes, he was likable and humble. That’s exactly what he wanted you to think.

Since the movie, the book and the Osama-quoting-Moore video, Moore has been exposed to a lot of folks who don’t live in front of a key board like we do. They don’t know him. He needed to look rational to those folks, if only to make those of us who talk trash about him look like the radical ones.

Well, I see through all of that. Moore was as phony as his movie. I don’t even buy the saddness. I think it was all an act. He probably practiced looking a little humbled.

I do have to say, I’m really glad to see he’s cleaned up a bit. I’ve never thought his “scruffy” look was any kind of statement, I figured it to be a combination of laziness and slobbery. He really looked healthier on the show that I’ve seen him look in a long time. Good for him. He’s already dressed up for the Oscars.

Oh, and speaking of the Oscars.

I wonder if the Academy would still award Moore best picture if he was tied up in a lawsuit with some of the folks who appeared in the movie without their permission? That might just be too much for them.