When is Michael Moore going to out the news anchor?

[AmerDem]

The one he spoke about receiving pressure from the white house on their news reporting. If I remember right he wrote this about 2 weeks ago and mentioned that if the news anchor didn't come forward in 1 week he was going to post his name and story. So far I heard nothing.

Anyone else?

[Gato Moteado]

1. i hadn't heard anything about this......

i'm interested in finding out who it is.

[AmerDem]

2. yea, it was in an open letter

Sorry don't have a link to it.

[AmerDem]

3. anyone with info?

[Ducks In A Row]

4. never heard of it

google doesn't have anything. where did you hear it?

[Xenus Sister]

5. I know where it came from, a Boston speech

Moore mentioned this in an AMAZING speech at a Take Back America meeting in Cambridge Tuesday July 27, 2004.

Democracy Now has a transcript and a video (well worth watching because the fire and anger in his voice does not come off when reading the transcript.
http://www.democracynow.org/article.pl?sid=04/07/28/1335239&mode=thread&tid=25



3rd paragraph. I quoted early so you can get a bigger sense of the speech.

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I got to tell you, I have traveled across this
country quite a bit in the last year. It ain't a 50/50 country.
People are angry. They want Bush out of the White House. They
want to be able to send their kids to college. (applause) they
want to be able to go to the doctor. This isn't a 50/50 country.
(applause). Speak the truth. Come on. Take a real poll. Take a
real poll! (applause)

A few weeks ago I was flipping around on the dial and I came
across a NASCAR Race on FOX and there was NASCAR champion Dale
Earnhardt Jr. telling Fox... They said what did you do, what did
you do the night before while you were getting prepared for the
big race? He said, “Well, I took my crew to go see Fahrenheit
9/11.” And then he said, and “I think all of
America should see this movie.” I fell off the couch! (applause)
I said a little prayer for George W. Bush. I'm thinking oh, my
God, I hope he's not watching this race now and eating pretzels!
Whoa. I thought, man, if the movie has gone that far
into middle America, and this is where the country's at, how come
we don't know this? How come this isn't being reported? What's
wrong here?

Well, we have our conventional wisdom and our conventional wisdom
tells us that the paradigm that we have been following over the
last 20 years is the one we must follow and that's the one we are
worried about. Thank you. Oh, it doesn't hurt to
report the truth. It's ok. You know. I was on one of those
morning talk shows and after we went to commercial, the person
who was interviewing me said you know, you know, you are right, I
mean when the war started, it was very difficult here to book the
people we wanted to book, ask the questions we wanted to ask. In
fact, I got a memo about my tone of voice. And apparently the
brass had received a call from the Dick Cheney’s office and
said that he didn't like my tone of voice. And I got a memo
on it to watch my tone of voice. Well you've got to tell that
story! You've got to tell that story. I can't. Well why? They
can't fire you. You are like one of the most well-known people in
America. And, you know, you've got to tell this story. If you
don’t tell it, I’m going to wait like maybe another week.
What's today? Within the week, I will put this on my
web site. I'll tell the whole story and I’ll name who said it.
(applause) so this person is unnoticed now and I am doing it in a
friendly way. Because this is a good person. You know? Just that
I think the people deserve the truth and they need to know how
the decisions get made behind the curtain. Who is pulling the
strings here? Who's calling the shots? It's like, you know,
coming from where I come from politically, you know, we always
are in this place of yeah, you know, the man this and the man
that and this corporation and this and that and there's probably
a part of us that says oh, you know, it's really, there's, maybe
it's not that bad. You want to believe it isn't that bad. You
know?

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I want to know who it is too. I was betting Katie Couric with my husband.

[AmerDem]

6. many Thanks for the repost

Now if he will finally spill the beans!

[ItsMyParty]

7. From the clues in his speech

He said it was a morning talk host. I see someone said Katie Kurick; but I'm also wondering if it was Matt Lauer. Anyone know who on that show interviewed him?? I doubt it was any of the weenies on the other networks. Who has interviewed Moore in the morning????

[keyzersoze13]

8. Possibilities

I know he was interviewed by Matt Lauer for Dateline. Matt was pretty hard on him, but he could have just been representing the other side. He was also on The Early Show, but the woman there seemed very hostile. Don't know if he was on GMA or anything like that, but he was everywhere for a few weeks, so it really could be anyone. Maybe someone on CNN or MSNBC, with their recent Foxification it could be possible.

[Shopaholic]

9. I'm wondering if it could have been Charlie Gibson

from ABC

[lanparty]

10. Let's see what Dan Rather has to say ...

... once he officially is gone from NBC ;-)