And considering how WikiLeaks has released only 1,826 cables of its planned drop of 251,287 — and I’ve already played a starring role twice — I can only say I await with bemused anticipation how the moi-storyline will play itself out.

The most recent secret cable revelation is in today’s Guardian newspaper of London. It’s entitled, “US Intervened in Michael Moore NZ Screening.” Oh yeah, baby! New Zealand! That’s where we’ll stop Moore and his band of evildoers!

The date was July 30, 2004. ‘Fahrenheit 9/11’ was already a huge hit in the United States. Just to give you an idea how huge, it had hit #1 at the box office, the only documentary to have ever accomplished this feat, and had made more on its opening weekend than ‘Star Wars: Return of the Jedi.’

But it was no easy path to get there. Disney (which owned Miramax) was apoplectic when they saw the final cut. So they pulled the film from its theatrical schedule. Then they put a permanent block on its release, insuring no one would see it. But then the New York Times, in a front page story, reported that the real reason Disney hated ‘Fahrenheit’ was they were worried about the tax breaks it got in Jeb Bush’s Florida for Disney World. This caused some embarrassment, so Disney then sold ‘Fahrenheit’ to the Weinstein Bros., who said they’d spend their own money to distribute it.

The release of the film caused concern at the White House, as this was the re-election year. They hired a pollster who told them the film might tip the election. That was enough for them to swing into action. Much of July was a nonstop barrage of attacks on me and the movie. But that just resulted in more tickets being sold.

Which brings us to Wellington, the capital of New Zealand. There are few nations on earth further away from us. A local chapter of the ruling Labor Party apparently had decided to do a fundraising screening of ‘Fahrenheit 9/11.’ It was to be hosted by the Prime Minister’s Cabinet Secretary for the Environment.

Well, when the U.S. Embassy in Wellington got word of this, it was like all heck broke loose. America was offended! Phone calls were made to the Prime Minister! Then to the Cabinet Secretary! We … are … not … happy!

Apparently, the Kiwis backed down and the Cabinet Secretary withdrew as the host. A sigh of relief whiffed its way through the American embassy. Moore stopped! The cable back to Washington showed the embassy had no problem taking credit for putting the kabosh on yours truly:

“… it is probable that this potential fiasco may only have been averted because of our phone calls — it is apparent to us that neither the Minister nor anyone else in the Labour government seems to have thought there was anything wrong with a senior Minister hosting such an event.”

So here’s my question:

Really?

I mean, seriously — really? This is how the Bush State Department was spending its time — on a single screening of ‘Fahrenheit 9/11′ in freakin’ New Zealand? Or maybe … was this kind of interference happening just to New Zealand? Call me crazy, but I gotta feelin’ it doesn’t stop there. Just as a health insurance executive has now come forward as a whistleblower to reveal the millions spent to smear ‘Sicko,’ I can’t wait for that day when the whistleblower from the Bush White House comes forward to tell the fascinating tale of how the Bush team believed they had to do something — anything — to stop ‘Fahrenheit.’ Or worse (like the “Plan B” the health insurance companies discussed — to “push Michael Moore off a cliff.”). I didn’t want to think about what the Bush Plan B would be. Just wasn’t worth the crazy-making. So I ignored the things I’d hear, kept my head down and motored on.

But, it does make you wonder. And I ask you, is it fair to pose the question: If they were this focused on some insignificant screening in New Zealand, what else were they up to? And I don’t mean in regards to me. I mean anyone who was on their enemies list …

I can’t wait to read more classified cables.

P.S. Of course, given the false claims the State Department made in the other “secret” cable about my movie ‘Sicko,’ I guess anything was possible.

P.P.S. Don’t miss the REAL revelations from just the first batch of WikiLeaks cables. For instance, the Obama administration worked together with Republicans to kill an investigation by Spain into Bush’s torture. Pfizer hired a private investigator to dig up dirt on the Attorney General of Nigeria. Bush’s ambassador to France planned to “retaliate” against the country for standing up to Monsanto. And we’re less than 1% of the way through …

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NBC gave the former president an hour-long platform during primetime to push his new book Decision Points. They played clips of the interview on The Today Show several mornings in a row. On Wednesday, NBC’s Matt Lauer did a live interview with Bush on The Today Show.

In his book, Bush goes as far as to compare Michael Moore to Osama bin Laden.

Bush recalled that bin Laden released a videotape just days before the 2004 election mocking his response to 9/11. The former president compared it to something Moore had done in the movie Fahrenheit 9/11.

“It sounded like he was plagiarizing Michael Moore,” Bush wrote.

MSNBC’s Keith Olbermann gave Moore a chance to respond Tuesday.

“Great to see president Bush back,” said Moore. “We actually needed him a couple of weeks ago [during the midterm elections] to remind ourselves who was responsible for these two wars, who was responsible for this crash on Wall Street, who created this mess that our grandchildren will be cleaning up.”

“I wish that NBC itself had a little more balance,” Moore added. “Not that I’m taking this personally but, I mean, he trashes me in his book and makes a reference between Osama bin Laden and myself. That just shows how insane and crazy these Republicans are and have gotten.”

“I made a film — this is what upset him — I made a film and I showed how he sat there for seven minutes after he was told the nation is under attack and he just sat there reading My Pet Goat,” Moore said.

“And the other things I pointed out in the film in terms of his connections to how this war happened and he and Halliburton and the others were going to make money from it.”

Moore’s documentary, Fahrenheit 9/11, looked critically at Bush’s handling of the attacks on 9/11 and the Iraq war.

“I would love it actually — my plea if [GE CEO Jeff Immelt] or anyone who is watching here at GE, if they — I will give them for free Fahrenheit 9/11 to run on NBC as balance to all this publicity they have been giving president Bush this week and his answers, you know, that the worst thing that happened to him was Kanye West and all this,” Moore offered.

“I hope we never forget what this man did. Parents tonight, thousands of them sit at home, their children no longer with them because of a war that was essentially a lie. So that’s my answer to Mr. Bush,” Moore concluded.

While the topics in Lauer’s interview with Bush were wide ranging, the former president was largely spared tough follow up questions.

In the book, Bush said, “Damn right” I ordered waterboarding. Lauer asked Bush why he thought waterboarding was legal but failed to ask him if it was the morally right thing to do.

Waterboarding is legal, Bush said, “because the lawyer said it was. He said it did not fall within the Anti-Torture Act. I’m not a lawyer, but you gotta trust the judgment of people around you and I do.”

Bush also told Lauer that after failing to pardon I. Lewis “Scooter” Libby, he was afraid that his friendship with then-Vice President Dick Cheney would be jeopardized.

In one of the strangest moments of the interview, the former president said that his mother, Barbara, had given him permission to tell the public that she had once showed him her miscarriage in a jar.

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