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MORGAN SPURLOCK: JERK

By Michelle Malkin  •  March 26, 2006 04:27 PM

***update: Spurlock sputters***

Tom Elia talks back to the left-wing documentarian, who turned an appearance at a public high school into his own profanity-laced HBO comedy special (hat tip: zombie):

In posters for the popular 2004 documentary ”Super Size Me,” filmmaker Morgan Spurlock is pictured with his mouth stuffed full of McDonald’s french fries.

On Friday afternoon at Hatboro-Horsham High School in eastern Montgomery County, administrators say he put his foot in his mouth during an entertaining and humorous but profanity-laced, politically incorrect address to about 700 students.

As he talked about the making and aftermath of ”Super Size Me,” the Academy Award-nominated filmmaker — who ate three meals a day at McDonald’s for 30 days — mocked ethnic groups and joked about the ”retarded kids in the back wearing helmets” and teachers smoking pot in the balcony.

There actually were special education students in the back row.

Teachers led them out during the hourlong presentation.

While most students laughed, gave Spurlock a standing ovation and mobbed him for autographs, some administrators and teachers were offended. A speech Spurlock was to make Friday night at the high school for community members was canceled, and Spurlock might not be paid for his appearance.

”If you put the whole package together, the use of the F-word and poking fun at teachers and the comments about special-needs students, it just wasn’t appropriate,” Superintendent William Lessa said.

He suggested Spurlock’s routine was better suited for a comedy club. ”Our high school has a certain mission, and what he was saying didn’t match that.”

Update: Spurlock sputters.

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