Whoever booked Penn obviously expected him to represent the opposing view to Rhys-Davis. Penn made it clear he doesn't like Bush ("very much") and was opposed to the war, but in the end thought Moore's antics are so over-the-top it makes him want to be a Republican. It was hilarious.PENN JILLETTE: the more I read about Michael Moore, the more I think that maybe Michael Moore is just a tool of Bush, because I did not like the Iraq war. I did not like Bush very much. At the Academy Awards, when Michael Moore was speaking, all of a sudden I got this real Republican urge just flowing through me.
And everything I‘m reading about this movie, and hoping people die over there, Americans die over there to punish us, it starts leaning me way over the other way. So if I have a conspiracy to go with, I‘m going to go with Michael Moore is just trying to make Bush look really, really good.
Maybe I am being pedantic but Penn was speaking in past tense when he said that which leads me to believe that he no longer feels that way about Bush and Iraq.