Ta Mok has even been given credit for putting Pol Pot on trial and sentencing him to life under house arrest--as opposed to summarily shooting him in the head, which is the Khmer Rouge's usual idea of justice.
Pol Pot was tried and sentenced to house arrest by Ta Mok.
Man on the Moon does not indicate, for example, that Kaufman came up with the idea for the Saturday Night Live call-in vote, nor that he had numerous chances to nix the whole thing.