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The Awful Truth

I borrowed a DVD of the 2000 season of Michael Moore's The Awful Truth and watched it yesterday. When it originally aired I did not get the Bravo channel but three years later it is still relevant and funny as hell.

Some of my favorite segments include The African American Wallet Exchange, Holiday INS, and of course Bush Bowl '00 in whih Moore sent someone to Florida to cheer on Jeb to catch up to little brother Dubya in executing prisoners.

Another good one is his show on Iraqi Sanctions. Moore took over a small-town gas station and started his own Gasoline for Food Program to help Iraqi civilians. He put an ad in the local paper and invited people to bring food for the Iraqis in exchange for gasoline at $0.60 a gallon. The gas station had a life-size cut-out of Saddam to greet the patrons and big paintings of the dictator on the walls of the gas station. The signs at the station said "Our Misery = $aving$ for You" and "Undercutting the Infidel Since 1999."

I don't know how this show stayed on television. I was a regular viewer of his NBC show TV Nation but that show did not last long.