The Dick Cheney movie is the leftist propaganda Michael Moore wished he'd made

Don’t be fooled. “Vice” isn’t really about former Vice President Dick Cheney.

Sure, Adam McKay’s film chronicles Cheney’s rise from what it calls a “dirtbag” to the second most powerful man in the world. Christian Bale’s transformation into the title character is a marvel to behold.

That’s not the point.

“Vice” is an all-out assault on conservatives, capturing how Hollywood views roughly half the country. Why else would the film name check Fox News, Rush Limbaugh, Antonin Scalia, Climate Change, solar energy, President Ronald Reagan and many more off-topic targets?

Once the film makes this clear, it veers from an intriguing biopic to plain propaganda.