Moore makes many a derogatory insinuation abut Dr. Sanjay Gupta, who works for CNN.  For details about Dr. Gupta, who went to Iraq as a journalist and ended up using his skills as a neurosurgeon to save lives on the battlefield, you can read this story.  Conversely, during the Iraq War Michael Moore was safely ensconced in his Manhattan penthouse.  Gupta was up to his elbows in the blood of dying soldiers, while Moore sat at home, watched TV, and sucked chocolate icing off his fingers.

You know all that footage from Iraq that Mikey used in Fahrenheit 9/11?  He paid other cameramen to go get it for him, because he didn’t have the balls to get his fat ass over there and put himself in harm’s way.

When you listen to the contempt evident in Moore’s voice, keep this in mind when he speaks with such righteous indignation regarding the war in Iraq.  Gupta was there.  He saw it and smelled it and witnessed it firsthand.  Mikey watched it on TV in his living room.

Update 2 from Lee: Here’s a transcript of Wolf Blitzer interviewing Colin Powell on the eve of the war in 2003.  Say what you what about what subsequently happened in Iraq, but the idea that the media just sat there with its thumb up its ass before the war is just ridiculous.  If Colin Powell, the Secretary of State and a true American hero, can be kept in the dark/be misinformed about the truth in Iraq, it is the height of dishonesty for someone like Moore to insinuate what he does in this interview, that the media were complicit.  You can reasonably argue that the media dropped the ball, but Moore literally makes the insinuation that the media were intentionally not “doing their job” and holding Bush’s feet to the fire. 

Of course, the second someone in the media does their job and holds Moore’s feet to the fire he goes of on an angry spittle-flying rampage like the petulant narcissistic sociopath we all know him to be.  (And, on a personal note, I’d like to thank you, Michael.  This intrerview reminded me what a worthless piece of shit you are, and rekindled my desire to keep writing this website for the rest of my life.  Or, given your chronic weight issues, the rest of yours at least.)

Also, here is the CNN Transcripts page.  When a transcript of the interview is posted, you’ll most likely find it here.