Paranoid much?

As read on Foxnews.com this morning:

NEW YORK — Filmmaker Michael Moore’s (search) bodyguard was arrested for carrying an unlicensed weapon in New York’s JFK airport Wednesday night.

Police took Patrick Burke, who says Moore employs him, into custody after he declared he was carrying a firearm at a ticket counter. Burke is licensed to carry a firearm in Florida and California, but not in New York. Burke was taken to Queens central booking and could potentially be charged with a felony for the incident.

Moore’s 2003 Oscar-winning film “Bowling for Columbine” criticizes what Moore calls America’s “culture of fear” and its obsession with guns.

*UPDATE* I have removed my comments about the bodyguard story, because it appears to have been innaccurate.

Here is an e-mail I received :

Date:  Thu, 20 Jan 2005 10:52:38 -0800
From:  Gavin de Becker
To:  para@moorewatch.com
Subject:  Time is of the essence

Please post the correct information now, as you already have 74 (and
growing) comments entered from people wrongly thinking and claiming things
as outrageous as:

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Patrick Burk carried a gun “through Customs”
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Patrick Burk is Moore’s employee
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Moore “allowed his employee to...”

The story as you have it posted is libelous to a young man whose profession
will be predictably be damaged by the errors.  Every major news agency that
considered and investigated this story passed on it.  Do a web search and
you’ll find only one newspaper in the world that published it (in India).
The Fox News web site story contains many errors - and repeating a libel is
libel.

Most important of all, the man arrested is -not- Michael Moore’s bodyguard.
Though I understand how the story would be of great interest to your site if
true, since it isn’t true, you have a duty to remove it and correct it.
Please advise me that you have received this email.

Thanks -

gavin

It should be noted that the link is still active at FOXNEWS

Update:

MSNBC apparently didn’t pass on the story either.

Newsday Newspaper has the story also.

So does the Miami Herald, the San Jose Mercury news, The Tuscon News, KESQ Channel 3 in Los Angeles, The Akron beacon journal, The Chicago tribune, The Seattle Post, USA Today.

I guess you could say a lot of people didn’t pass on the story. I wonder why we were contacted? Certianly we’re small fish right? Irellevant is the word I hear bantied about quite often. Hmmmm.

But still........
One of these days, Moore is going to have actually to do a documentary on himself. But what would he call it?