Michael Moore on Gibbs’ ‘Professional Left’ Comment: ‘An Odd, Odd Lashing Out’

Preceding his highly anticipated Special Comment tonight (anticipated because, for once, it would address problems on the left), Keith Olbermann did his best to find the one person that, to him, identified the “professional left,” in order to get as close to an official comment as possible. That person was director Michael Moore, and while he wasn’t particularly angry at the Obama administration, he was confused by their actions.

“I don’t know if I’m professional left here,” Olbermann opened the segment, “but I’m sure as hell you are.” Moore, understandably, was humored by the title. “I’ve never heard the left heard to with the word ‘professional’ attached,” Moore joked, “I don’t know if I should take offense at that. It implies that we’re organized.”

As for Press Secretary Robert Gibbs‘s assertion that the “professional left” was now opposing President Obama, Moore called it an “odd, odd lashing out” and was grateful there wasn’t “an emergency slide nearby.” Then he got serious:

“What’s bothering them is that liberals and the left have been right from the beginning… [they enacted] more offshore oil drilling, they expanded the war in Afghanistan… everything then we’ve tried to push them to do has come back to bite them in a profound way.”

But, for the most part, Moore kept it light. After making his serious point, he hoped Gibbs wouldn’t write any fundraising letters (which he imagined would go something like “Dear biggest Obama supporters: you suck, send us money please”) and even gave a shoutout to, of all people, David Frum, agreeing with a point he once made that, while Republicans fear their base, Democrats hate it.

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