Disgrace of 'stupid' windbag
PORCINE provocateur Michael Moore has left Britain in a huff after horrifying audiences and feuding with theater owners on his live tour.
Moore, who staged a show called "Michael Moore - Live!" in support of his book "Stupid White Men," shocked the crowd at North London's Roundhouse Theater a couple of weeks ago by ranting that passengers on planes hijacked on Sept. 11 were "scaredy-cats because they were mostly white," reports the London Independent.
Moore made racial remarks to the effect that if more blacks had been on board they would have been able to overpower the hijackers easily.
The Independent columnist said she felt "so enraged at one point we almost walked out," adding, "God save us from such stupid white men."
Then, on his second-to-last night, the wide-bottomed windbag raged against everyone connected with the Roundhouse and complained that he was being paid a measly $750 a night.
"He completely lost the plot," a member of the stage crew told the London Evening Standard. "He stormed around all day screaming at everyone, even the 5-pound-an-hour bar staff, telling them how we were all con men and useless. Then he went on stage and did it in public."
At his last appearance, staffers refused to work or even open the theater's doors, forcing the lardy lefty to make a groveling apology so that the show, already an hour late, could go on. The next day, Moore packed up and left the country without so much as a goodbye or thank you to anyone.
Roundhouse chairman Marcus Davey told the London Times Moore's outburst was provoked by a death threat from a neo-Nazi group and that they'd tightened security. Moore reportedly changed hotels after getting the threat.
"He went off the rails a bit," Davey said. "The pressure had got to him. He started blaming the Roundhouse for certain things. He said something about high ticket prices, but his company set [them]. He criticized security, but his company was responsible for security."
It wasn't the first time Moore has tussled with the help at his public appearances. In March, the San Diego Union-Tribune reported a weary janitor at a local school where Moore was signing copies of his book late into the night had to summon police to have the rumpled radical removed so the janitor could clean up and go home.
Last fall Moore came under fire for beating up on Alzheimer's-stricken NRA president Charlton Heston in his documentary "Bowling for Columbine." Instead of apologizing to Heston, who had politely invited Moore and his camera crew into his house, Moore called the actor a "bully and coward."