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For tomorrow night, Michael Moore — craftsmith of the new documentary film "Capitalism: A Love Story" — will face off against Stephen Colbert, giant of conservative punditry.

See here the evidence of their last battle, if you think yourself made of strong enough stuff…

The Colbert Report airs Monday through Thursday at 11:30pm / 10:30c.

To honor this sorta kinda normalizing of relations, we found some sorta kinda good clips about Cuba from The Daily Show and Colbert:

* Is Obama Targeting Catholics?

* Brits 'Bored' By Obama

* Rush 1, Obama 0

* Nobel Prize winner denounces Obama

* When Michael Moore is happy, America's in trouble

* MSNBC moves farther left

* Sharia law in America?

Of course Sharia law is coming to America. What did you think would happen when you elected a secret Muslim terrorist.

[S]ome commentators (Richard Wolffe of Newsweek, Chuck Todd of NBC News, etc.) have likened this to "what Republicans tried to do to the Democrats with Michael Moore." Perhaps. But there is one central difference: What I have believed in, and what I have stood for in these past eight years — an end to the war, establishing universal health care, closing Guantanamo and banning torture, making the rich pay more taxes and aggressively going after the corporate chiefs on Wall Street — these are all things which the majority of Americans believe in too.

That's why in November the majority voted for the guy I voted for. The majority of Americans rejected the ideology of Rush and embraced the same issues I have raised consistently in my movies and books.

How did this happen? Considering how, for the past eight years, the Republican machine thought they could somehow smear and damage the Democrats if they said it was "the party of Michael Moore," it appears that the American public heard them loud and clear and decided that, 'hey, if you say Michael Moore is connected to the Democrats, then the Democrats must be OK!'

Actually, that's exactly how everyone I know in New York City voted. We all got together in one of our gay coffee shop massage parlors and, after praying to the cold and empty void of the universe, we tried to figure out which candidate Michael Moore would vote for. Now, granted, that was hard. Because, as I'm sure you know, Moore's politics veer all over the place from populist liberalism to socialist Democratism.

But, then, once we decided that, 'hey, if you say Michael Moore is connected to [whichever candidate], then [whichever candidate] must be OK!'

And that's totally different from the way Republicans vote. Totally!

Only problem is, some parts of the country don't love conservative talk show hosts back, as Glenn discovered when he and his crew stopped at a roadside Wendy's for a snack…

…I'm just, I just want [a] Frosty, please, the guy standing next to me, who, by the way, I may point out. Had food in his hair, is a truck driver and he turned around. He looked at me and the recognition was immediate and he said, You racist bigot! And I just said — I wanted to say, I think you have me mistaken for someone else, but I knew he knew who I was and he just hated me for who I was. You conservatives that have destroyed this country! And the hatred was so deep, it was breath taking.

Obviously this truck driver was all fired up with Hope, and Glenn's security team got involved, and someone accused someone of being involved with the Holocaust, which is racist. Glenn just wanted a Frosty. Why do liberals ruin everything?

The guy screamed at the restaurant, you better not let me see you in the parking lot because I've got a truck and I'll run your ass over! Wow. Is this who we've become? Is this who we've become?

I could stand in line with Michael Moore and I wouldn't say that to him. I would say some things to Michael Moore, but it wouldn't be that.

Ha, no, Glenn Beck wouldn't say that to Michael Moore if they were standing in line together. He wouldn't say anything at all, because he'd be busy committing murder.

From the May 17 [2005] broadcast of The Glenn Beck Program:

BECK: Hang on, let me just tell you what I'm thinking. I'm thinking about killing Michael Moore, and I'm wondering if I could kill him myself, or if I would need to hire somebody to do it. No, I think I could. I think he could be looking me in the eye, you know, and I could just be choking the life out — is this wrong?

Of course it's not wrong, Glenn. Killing a man with your bare hands is so much more patriotic than running him over with your truck, which was probably made in Japan.

Here's some things you might not have known about battleground state Michigan…

Did you know that it was the 26th state to join the union. Why, that makes it, um… almost exactly not noteworthy enough to justify mention.

Okay, it's also got some fantastic cities like Ann Arbor, Detroit and the fossilized husk of Flint. So, that's something, right?

Hey, some really famous people came out of Michigan. Like Michael Moore and Kid Rock and… Oh, and Matthew Tobey.

Okay, listen, Michigan is still a really important state. Or, so I hear.

Go back to Day 27.

His brand new movie — the, by all accounts, brilliant piece conservative cinema merde, An American Carol — went head to head with Maher's also-just-opening anti-religious-dogma Religulous. And it beat it at the box office by a whole $310,000.

And it was only showing on 3.26 times as many screens!

There's a lesson to be learned here: Conservatives are always funny.

The right-wing readership of this blog (assuming he logs in today), might want to patronize "An American Carol," the new pro-war right-wing comedy from one of the guys who brought you The Naked Gun.

"An American Carol" features almost every prominent conservative in Hollywood, including…

* Chris Farley’s thinner, less funny younger brother.

* Gary Coleman as a slave.

* Kelsey Grammar being dickish for a change.

* Dennis Hopper confusing everyone who saw him in "Easy Rider."

* Papa Bear Bill O’Reilly as himself!!

The film's main goal is to denigrate Michael Moore (totally redundant if you've ever seen "Canadian Bacon"), and to advocate war as a fine solution to life’s problems.

Those who are of the Moore persuasion themselves should skip "An American Carol" and instead see "Religulous," a new documentary from Bill Maher and Larry Charles that critically profiles world religious beliefs, from Christianity to Judaism to Mormonism to Scientology.

No word as of press time what "Religulous" has to say about creationist, tongue-speaking, "witchcraft-free" Holy War crusaders who want to "pray away the gay," which is all the more reason you should be watching the VP debate tonight.

I'll let Videogum's Gabriel Delahaye set this one up…

Yikes. The movie was written and directed by David Zucker, who gave the world Airplane! and the Naked Gun series. He's like an American treasure, but whatever the opposite of treasure is. It's too bad 14-year-olds can't vote, because then this movie would be a really powerful political tool.

Was Gabe actually besmirching Airplane! and The Naked Gun? Whatever. Either way, this preview really shows how far this particular Zucker brother has fallen…

My favorite part of the preview — the only part that actually made me laugh — was when they cut to the country singer shitkicker guy singing the ridiculously patriotic love ballad to America in that huge pyrotechnic arena. I thought, "Wow, are they actually making fun of themselves a little?"

And then I realized that was the one part of the preview that wasn't intended as parody.

After the jump, the CC Insider's Matthew Tobey and I debate whether this is the worst-looking movie of all time or just one of the worst-looking movies of all time. Feel free to throw in your two cents…

Matt: That American Carol trailer is the most mind-blowing thing you'll see all day.

Dennis: It actually doesn't look nearly as bad as I thought it would.

Dennis: But I was thinking pretty bad.

Matt: Really? Wow.

Dennis: Yeah.

Matt: Your expectations are impressively low.

Matt: I don't think mine go that low.

Dennis: I mean, it doesn't look "funny."

Dennis: But it holds together as a thing, and I wasn't counting on that.

Dennis: I was thinking bad along the lines of 'Epic Movie' or '1/2 Hour News Hour.'

Matt: I actually think it looks worse than Epic Movie and Meet the Spartans and all those things.

Dennis: Really? No!

Dennis: Those are the lowest.

Matt: Because the humor is on par, but the politics are so fucking ham-fisted.

Matt: This looks like a cross between Postal and Dracula: Dead and Loving It.

Matt: This is worse than anything. You are wrong.

Matt: This movie is mankind's greatest atrocity.

Dennis: Is that your pull quote?

Matt: It's my suicide note.

Matt: I'm just glad Anne Frank isn't alive to see it, because she'd be like, "Fuck it. I give up. We're not all basically good after all."

After that, I conceded defeat.