MSNBC once heralded itself as “the place for politics,” but on Super Tuesday in the heat the contest for the Republican presidential nomination, it was a place where viewers were treated to the antics of left-wing documentary filmmaker Michael Moore.
During the network’s Tuesday coverage, Moore explained so-called “Operation Hilarity,” an effort to get Democrats to vote for former Pennsylvania Sen. Rick Santorum over former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney because Santorum was viewed as the GOP opponent most likely to help Obama get re-elected.
“I said my friends were doing that,” Moore said. “I actually didn’t vote because I’m prohibited biologically from voting for a Republican, so I was unable to vote that day. I think what’s happening tonight — you know, everybody keeps saying, you know, Romney’s going to be it, Romney’s going to be it, every time we have a night like this — and if he loses Ohio, I think this is going to quickly go from dog-on-car to man-on-dog.”
Moore continued to pontificate, offering his theories about why each candidate was flawed, and why the American public couldn’t possibly accept them.
“I don’t know why the punditry keeps thinking Romney is going to pull this off,” Moore said. “Santorum has surprised everybody from the first time in Iowa. And I don’t know, I would take it a little more seriously.”
“But again, like you said, Chris, if he keeps coming back to sex, like he can’t get his mind off sex and contraception, and — I just heard just before I came on here, that Rush Limbaugh now, 35 advertisers have pulled out of Limbaugh. I don’t mean ‘pulled out of him.’ That’s another form of contraception. But not a very effective one actually — I think — I don’t know how — I don’t know what the strategy is here, but the last time I checked most Americans believe in birth control. They tend to like sex.”
Moore staggered through the end of his segment before MSNBC anchor Rachel Maddow cut him off to give viewers more election results.
“And I just — I don’t want to get too — that’s why I’m trying to be serious about the Santorum thing,” Moore concluded. “There’s a tendency to get giddy about how this is going to be a cakewalk for Obama. There’s eight months to go. And did I just say there’s eight months? No! No! No! We have to do this for eight more months?”
