Michael Moore pays medical bills for one of his harshest critics

Filmmaker Michael Moore has come to the rescue of his harshest critic.

For several years now, Jim Kenefick has been railing against the Oscar-winning director on Moorewatch.com. Recently, Kenefick wrote about the difficulty he was having paying his wife's medical bills. Fellow conservatives guided him toward a cheaper health insurer, but Kenefick said he still had trouble making payments.

"Someone e-mailed me and asked if an 'anonymous' benefactor could offer to pay my first year's premiums - $12,000," Kenefick wrote on his site.

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"I knew he was using me," said Kenefick. "Moore is going to try to make me into one of his little puppets."

While I find the timing...interesting...he did in fact call and was completely normal and gracious about it. You can hear for yourself.

Thank you, Michael. I appreciate the help and I always have. You know that, of course, because I posted right here on the site that I was grateful to the guardian angel long before this became an issue for the press to feed on. I hope that your Cannes screening goes well, but more importantly I hope you’ve used your power to tell the truth this time. I’d love to support this movie, as I’m no friend of the HMO.

In case anyone doubts it, that’s definitely him. Even if I didn’t recognize the voice, he used phrasing that was identical to the original emails I got from the third party. This also puts to rest the doubts I’ve seen all over the ‘net that it was even Mike in the first place. Now we all know.

Man...what is in that film? Am I crazy or did he sound...nervous? I guess we’ll all find out why he did this when the film shows tonight at Cannes.