Well, Mikey made it a day before he found out how people hate his lying guts. So now he is not returning to cover the convetion. I guess it is easier to spew lies like he does when you are not actually there. That way you have plausible deniability.
GOP 2004: Moore Won't Return to Madison Square Garden
By Joe Strupp
Published: August 31, 2004
NEW YORK Following all the commotion last night, Michael Moore will not be returning to Madison Square Garden for the Republican National Convention, E&P has learned. According to editors at USA Today, which is publishing his daily column this week, Moore told them that he was choosing not to return again.
However, they said he would continue to write his daily column and they stressed that in no way did they second-guess their decision to have him write the commentary.
Last month, Ann Coulter, who had been hired by USA Today to write a column at the Democratic National Convention, quit after the editors requested many changes in her first submission.
After entering the Garden Monday night with USA Today credentials, Moore was criticized by Sen. John McCain in his speech, setting off prolonged boos and taunts in the arena.
"We had hoped we would be able to put Moore in place where he could actually listen to speeches and not disrupt anything," Ken Paulson, USA Today editor, told E&P today. "The idea was not to put him in the line of sight while giving him the opportunity to observe. Now Moore doesn't plan to return to the convention. I think he saw the down side of his attending. We will have the four days of his column and I hope people will take time to read what he wrote.
"We never want to be the story. Ann Coulter tired of our editing suggestions and she quit," Paulson added. "We are just a newspaper trying to be balanced day in and day out."
Paulson said the paper, from the start, declined to request a floor pass for Moore, knowing that would likely set off tumult.
Owen Ullmann, the paper's deputy editorial page editor, said "I was not surprised that he would attract attention but was surprised by the extent of the media frenzy. Regrettably the security people ushered him into an area that caused a media frenzy." Now, he added, "it's Moore's call on how he plans to cover it." |
