WTF Is It Now?!?

Beat on the brat with a baseball bat, oh yeah....

It’s Bush-bashing time on the Riviera. A number of films being shown at the Cannes Film Festival this year were inspired by the Sept. 11 attacks and other violence in America — and George W. has emerged as a favorite target of some festival-goers.

Michael Moore's documentary is widely considered to be the front runner for the prestigious Palme d’Or award, and Moore’s anti-Bush comments have been lapped up by the foreign press.

“To use the dead of that day as the cover to push their right-wing agenda, to shred our Constitution, to take away civil liberties ... to try and distract people from Enron, ‘because we need to focus on the war on terrorism,’ ” Moore said. “I think it’s immoral, I think it’s abhorrent. . . . You’re being hoodwinked — and it’s despicable.”

But at least one filmmaker was quick to point out that most anti-American sentiment is directed against its government — not its people.