Via Glenn Reynolds' link, I learned that the Hezbollah-supported Michael Moore has hired veteran Democrat dirt digger extraordinaire Chris Lehane to do what people like that do:

Michael Moore is so afraid of a loose, informal, web-based movement of hardworking American citizens who would dare to question him, that he has now hired a man as reviled as Chris Lehane to protect his movie and the box office glory he so desperately, desperately craves

An AP report states:

his ferocity strikes fear into opponents´ campaigns. ...

Lehane referred to himself as a "master of disaster."

Chris Lehane and Mark Fabianni are good at what they do. They know how to get their clients out of a jam by going on the attack and changing the issue. During the Clinton years they were responsible for digging up dirt on Senators, Congressmen and Special Prosecutors who dared investigate the numerous Clinton scandals including Whitewater and Vince Foster. They did the same to those who were pursuing Gore’s 1996 fundraising scandals. And don’t even get me started on the DUI leak from Kennebunkport, Maine (Chris Lehane’s hometown).

(Hey, and let's not forget the Kerry intern scandal....)

John Cole is less subtle in his assessment of Lehane:

Lehane is without a doubt the sleaziest human being in politics (move over Blumenthal), a thoroughly reprehensible loud-mouthed little punk who is now only the second person to make me physically angry every time I see him on tv (Michael Savage, who I saw twice on MSNBC, is numero uno- even Lehane can't shake a stick at that disgusting piece of bile). I wish Lehane had been in the studio with Matthews, because I bet he would have puched the little twerp. At anyrate, I would love to see John Kerry make it so this smug punk never works in politics again.

As odious as Chris Lehane is, I am convinced he's working for our side.

Oh, he might not think he's working for our side. But objectively he is. Even liberal reporters recoil from him as if he were a stinking rummy with his dick hanging out of his haggard pants.

He's kind of like a metrosexual Nosferatu. Every time this lisping nightwalker appears, I get the willies something awful.

I am convinced he has the power to command rats and vermin with his voice. Somebody must take his simpering seriously, I figure.

It's a mystery to me how someone so bereft of charm, grace, or rhetorical persuasiveness could have possibly worked himself up to such a high position in media relations.

Lehane, by the way, blamed George W. Bush for his stolen laptop.

Kerry was smart to get rid of him.

Was Moore dumb to hire him? Moore and Lehane seem to be cut from the same cloth.

I have no idea whether this an indication of Democratic Party strategy, although John Cole argues that the Moore-Lehane alliance is "evidence that the DNC is reaching out to embrace Moore, and fully intends to use his agitprop to their political advantage."

I guess we'll stay tuned, like it or not.

I will say this: my tolerance for Michael Moore ended with Bowling for Columbine, and my intolerance was cemented firmly into place with his September 11 remarks. If the Democratic Party embraces him, that will mean that they have finally rejected liberalism in favor of anti-American leftism.

MORE ON MOORE: Christopher Hitchens makes an offer that I suspect Michael Moore's hired goons will be certain to refuse:

[A]s for the scary lawyers—get a life, or maybe see me in court. But I offer this, to Moore and to his rapid response rabble. Any time, Michael my boy. Let's redo Telluride. Any show. Any place. Any platform. Let's see what you're made of. (Via Glenn Reynolds.)

....Moore is just he mirror image of what he despises. He is the O'Reilly... the Bush of the left.

After leaving the theater and walking by the black man now shaking his head at what Moore had wrought and the people with bring-down-Bush clipboards, I made my way back to New Jersey through the PATH train at the World Trade Center where, most of you know, I was on 9/11. And now I was shaking my head. Michael Moore did not present bin Laden and the terrorists and religious fanatics (from other lands) as the enemy who did this. No, to him, our enemy is within. To him, our enemy is us. And that's worse than stupid and sad and it's most certainly not entertaining. It's disgusting. (via Glenn Reynolds.)

AND STILL MORE: (Also via Glenn Reynolds) Roger L. Simon points out that Moore can't -- won't -- even answer a simple question put to him by a 17 year old:

....[H]e asked the budding mogul what he thought of Hezbollah being involved in the distribution of Fahrenheit 911. "Shockingly," Moore shined him on with some comment about some people believing there were Martians on Earth (or the equivalent). But Ledeen came armed with a follow-up, having phoned Moore's distributor who had already affirmed the rumor. Then the "courageous documentarian" simply stonewalled and changed the subject.