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Fred Thompson tackles Hollywood mythumentarian Michael Moore in Thompson's latest commentary for ABC Radio. Moore is working on a new "documentary" asserting that Cuba has a better healthcare system than the U.S. In "The Myth of Cuban Health Care," Thompson nails him for falling for Cuba's lies - and nails the gullible Hollywood Left for pretending Castro is some kind of hero:

The other thing that irks me about Moore and his cohort in Hollywood is their complete lack of sympathy for fellow artists persecuted for opposing the Castro regime. Pro-democracy activists are routinely threatened and imprisoned, but Castro remains a hero to many here. According to human rights organizations, these prisoners of conscience are often beaten and denied medical treatment, sanitation or even adequate nutrition.

If Moore wants a subject for a real documentary, I would suggest looking into the life of Cuban painter and award-winning documentarian Nicolás Guillén Landrián. He was denied the right to practice his art for using the Beatles' song, "The Fool on the Hill," as background music behind footage of Castro climbing a mountain. Later, he was given plenty of free Cuban health care when he was confined for years in a "mental institution" and given devastating, repeated electroshock "treatments."

There are many other artists and activists who have enjoyed similar treatment. I suspect we'll see movies with sympathetic portrayals of terrorists held in Guantanamo before we ever hear about the torture of true Cuban heroes. Even Andy Garcia's brilliant fictionalized movie about the real Cuban experience, "The Lost City," was given the Hollywood silent treatment. My bet, though, is that we'll hear lots about how Michael Moore showed that Cuba's socialized medicine is better than ours.

You can read the whole commentary here.

By taking on Michael Moore, Thompson has assailed one of the celebrity-heros of the American Left, a guy who was given a prime seat at the 2004 Democratic National Convention and whose lie-filled movie, Fahrenheit 9/11, was embraced by that party's MoveOn.org wing. Thus does Thompson score more points with conservatives.