I'm watching Michael Moore talking to Larry King right now and I can't seem to stop nodding. Larry King is far from my favorite, but he does manage to cover a lot of ground with Michael Moore during this interview (it almost makes up for Tori Spelling).
Michael Moore made news recently for endorsing Barack Obama, despite a longheld crush on Hillary Clinton. Ostensibly, this is the reason he was invited to the show.
Here are some of my favorites:
http://transcripts.cnn.com/...
On the election:
John McCain equals four more years of Bush.
I have not heard Senator Obama try to make people afraid to vote for Senator Clinton because she's a woman.
Reacting to Reverend Wright (Honestly, I can't believe I'm hearing this on a cable news network):
And I do not believe, as a white guy, that I am in any position to judge a black man who has had to live through that. And I would never refer to him as -- in the way that Senator Clinton just did. You know, I can say that I would disagree or that I wouldn't use the language that he used or whatever. But to go after him like this, I just think it's a diversionary tactic, it distracts us from the real issues.
Here Moore makes a connection from the marginalization of Wright's generation in terms of race to the passion of Clinton's female supporters of the same age:
If you're a 50, a 60, a 70 -- I've had letters from women in their '80s and actually a 90-year-old woman who said to me, you know, I lived in a time where, as a woman, had my mother decided to go and vote, she'd be arrested -- arrested and thrown in jail because she wanted to vote in the United States of America.
So women feel this -- a similar sense of trying to undo what's been wrong for so long. And women, to this day, don't -- they're not paid the same, in terms of what men are paid. They don't have a lot of the same opportunities that men have.
And so I understand that anger, too, and that frustration and that outrage.
Reacting to the panderer-in-chief candidates push for a gas tax freeze during the summer, Moore looks at the bigger picture:
KING: You think gas prices are going to keep going up?
MOORE: I would assume so, because we're already at a peak here, where the actual -- the ability to manufacturer and produce oil -- we're at the limit now. And now we're going to be producing less and less each year for the next 10, 15, 20 years. And if there's only, some say, 40, 60 years of oil left that we can get out of the Earth, there's a calamity waiting to happen somewhere down the road. There's no discussion about it. We just lost eight years to try and do something about it.
It's a wide-ranging interview with Moore. They discuss the candidates, the war, Moore's new film about the 2004 election and health care among many other topics. Oh, a caller just defended Clinton's vote on Iraq saying that war was supposed to be the last resort and that she did the best she could with limited information. Moore knocks that one right out of the park.
Okay, I can't type and listen at the same time, so I'm signing off so I can tune in to the show. Sorry this is so brief!