I talked to a EX-Cuban who worked at Rich's, she said most of them can't stand the democrats...is it any wonder after what they did to them at the Bay of Pigs, and also to little Elian?
Moore refused to return CNN press pass; berated staffers with profanity
THE NEW YORK DAILY NEWS brings us a quintisential Moore story from the convention yesterday:
Maybe it was his zeal to save American democracy from the sinister control of huge corporations. Or maybe, if you believe folks at CNN, Michael Moore was just being a jerk.
Whatever the case, I'm told that the acclaimed director of "Fahrenheit 9/11" initially refused to return a hard-to-get convention floor credential yesterday to CNN - a subsidiary of the Time-Warner media conglomerate - after being interviewed in the Fleet Center on the cable net's CNN "American Morning."
Reliable CNN sources said Moore punctuated his refusal with an eruption of abusive profanity at a female guest-booker and male staffer who attempted to retrieve the floor pass, dropping the F-bomb and muttering the C-word.
Yesterday, Moore and his associate producer, Joanne Doroshow, vehemently denied the account, saying that Moore surrendered the coveted credential when asked and never hurled abuse at the CNN staffers.
"Oh, my God, I never use that kind of language," Moore told me. "It's a complete lie."
But I'm told that when Moore's interview with CNN anchor Bill Hemmer ended, a producer politely asked Moore for the credential, and Moore erupted profanely within the hearing of multiple witnesses.
Then, with CNN's credential around his neck, Moore circled the floor doing interviews with other broadcast outlets - while CNNers huddled trying to figure out how to retrieve the pass.
An unlucky female booker trailed him to obtain it, even following him into an elevator.
"F- c-!" Moore allegedly muttered - though it was unclear if Moore was referring to her or was still seething about his interview with Hemmer.
Half an hour after the interview, I'm told, Moore confronted Hemmer on the floor and berated him for suggesting that some people might like to see the controversial director in the White House, but that others might want to see him dead.
"Can you think of any other interview in the history of television where a politician or a movie director was asked about people wanting to see him dead?" Moore asked me. "I bet you can't! ... One of the top CNN people apologized to me and told me I would be getting another call of apology from someone higher up."
But a CNN spokesman said: "There's no apology, and there's no apology forthcoming. CNN expects an apology from Mr. Moore to the female staffer he abused."
Moore finally did return the coveted floor pass. |
