B for Bush-bashing?

Megan Basham has quite the screed against the film V for Vendetta. I'll leave it to you to gauge whether her points have merit. I am sympathetic to some, while not to others. The most interesting bit of her piece is however not related to her views, but those of the creator of the graphic novel:

Incidentally, after reading the script, creator of the V comic book, Alan Moore, insisted Warner Bros. remove his name from the project. He told MTV, "[My comic] has been turned into a Bush-era parable by people too timid to set a political satire in their own country… [The film] is a thwarted and frustrated and largely impotent American liberal fantasy of someone with American liberal values standing up against a state run by neo-conservatives — which is not what "V for Vendetta" [the comic] was about."

This is an interesting quote, as I have thus far understood Moore to be a leftist. Perhaps he is a leftist in the tradition of Orwell, a socialist who was no less able to criticize the excesses of socialism. It is more likely that this distancing from Hollywood is simply a repeat of earlier experiences Moore has had with the film industry.