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Moore v O'Reilly
O'Reilly, riding the coattails of Moore's successful Fahrenheit 911, ached to get another go at the unabashedly liberal filmmaker. He got his chance. Access the transcript here: http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,127236,00.html
Source: USA Today, 2004-07-31
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Filmmaker Moore, talker O'Reilly spar in Boston By Mark Memmott, USA TODAYBOSTON — Controversial filmmaker Michael Moore's already sizzling presence at the Democratic convention reached the boiling point Tuesday when he appeared on the Fox News cable network in a spirited debate with host Bill O'Reilly.
Moore also came under fresh attack from Republican Party officials, who fired off a series of press releases in an effort to make Sen. John Kerry answer for some of Moore's most controversial opinions.
Taped the day before, the Fox encounter was a verbal slugfest between the left-wing Moore and the right-wing O'Reilly. The two took shots at each other — passionately but not rudely — for 12 minutes on The O'Reilly Factor. It was perhaps the hottest face-off so far at a largely news-free and debate-free convention.
At one point O'Reilly accused Moore, director of the anti-Bush film Fahrenheit 9/11, of being Saddam Hussein's "biggest defender in the media."
"That's insulting," Moore said.
O'Reilly repeatedly pressed Moore to apologize to the president for saying Bush lied to the nation about whether there were weapons of mass destruction in Iraq before American troops entered that country.
"Actually it's President Bush that needs to apologize to the nation," Moore said.
After O'Reilly said the Bush administration made a mistake when it based the rationale for war in part on weapons of mass destruction, Moore got the host to agree that parents of American soldiers killed in Iraq shouldn't be satisfied with the explanation "we're sorry."
The lightest moment of the exchange, ironically, came after Moore asked O'Reilly three times whether he would be willing to "sacrifice his child" to fight with U.S. forces in Iraq.
"I would sacrifice myself," O'Reilly said.
"Can we sign him up? Can we sign him up right now?" Moore shouted with glee. "Where's the recruiter?"
"You'd love to get rid of me," said O'Reilly.
"No," Moore said, his voice softening. "I want you to live. I want you to live."
Moore, who had appeared on The O'Reilly Factor twice before, and the host have been sparring from afar for months. O'Reilly had accused Moore of "ducking me" by refusing to appear on the show after the host started to hammer Fahrenheit 9/11.
Moore said he wouldn't appear until O'Reilly saw the whole film. O'Reilly left a preview of the movie halfway through. He said the movie started late and he had to get to another commitment.
O'Reilly said Tuesday that he saw the movie soon after it arrived in theatres last month.
The Moore appearance on the show happened because the host saw the filmmaker walking down a Boston street. "We were driving by and I said 'stop the car,'" O'Reilly said Tuesday. "I jump out and go cantering across the street shouting at him. It was all arranged in an hour."
Moore said when he saw O'Reilly on Monday he asked the host three questions about the second half of Fahrenheit 9/11. "He flunked all three," Moore said Tuesday. "Then he said he went to the movie with his wife, who loved it. When he brought in his wife, I said, 'OK, that's enough.' So I did the show."
Also Tuesday, the Republican National Committee put out five press releases under the headline "Moore questions about the heart and soul of Senator Kerry's campaign." On the GOP's Web site, the releases were packaged with a photo of Moore at the Democratic convention Monday night, sitting with former president Carter. The aim: to embarrass the Kerry campaign by spotlighting some of Moore's more controversial opinions.
One quoted Moore writing that "'The Iraqis who have risen up against the occupation are not "insurgents" or "terrorists" or "The Enemy." They are the REVOLUTION, the Minutemen, and their numbers will grow — and they will win."
A Kerry spokesman, Chad Clanton, said in an e-mail statement that "We're bogged down in Iraq, health care costshave gone sky highand people's paychecks are shrinking. And the Bush campaign wants to talk about movies? No wonder Bush and Cheney have lost credibility with the American people."
Moore said "the more they do those things the larger the turnout will be for Kerry in November."
Today, Moore will go to Crawford, Texas, where Bush has his ranch. He has invited the president to a screening of Fahrenheit 9/11.
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User Originated Comments:
From: NastyNeil
2008-03-27 00:00:00
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