Michael Moore: Bush Knows Osama's Location, Won't Go After Him

MRC ^ | Monday, May 12, 2003 | BrentBaker

[fight_truth_decay]

To the astonishment of Bob Costas, Friday night on HBO far-left crank/movie producer Michael Moore claimed, during an interview on Costas' show, that the Bush administration "absolutely" knows where Osama bin Laden is located and doesn't go after him "because he's funded by their friends in Saudi Arabia!"

Moore speculated: "Do you think that Osama bin Laden planned 9-11 from a cave in Afghanistan? I can't get a cell signal from here to Queens."

Setting up the May 9 interview on HBO's On the Record with Bob Costas, which airs at 11:30pm EDT/PDT, Costas played a clip of Moore at the Academy Awards after winning for his "documentary," Bowling for Columbine: "We live in a time where we have a man sending us to war for fictitious reasons [edit jump] We are against this war Mr. Bush. Same on you Mr. Bush! Shame on you!"

During the pre-taped interview, Moore asked Costas: "What happened to the search for Osama bin Laden?"

Costas naively suggested: "Obviously they're pursuing Osama bin Laden as we speak."

Moore challenged the premise: "Really, you believe that?"

Costas: "Yes."

Moore: "You do believe that?"

Costas: "Sure. And if they could find him, and perhaps they eventually will, they'd be gratified by that."

Moore: "You don't think they know where he is?"

Costas, clearly astonished as Moore's paranoid thinking: "You think they know where Osama bin Laden is and it's hands off?"

Moore: "Absolutely, absolutely."

Costas: "Why?" Moore: "Because he's funded by their friends in Saudi Arabia!

He's back living with his sponsors, his benefactors. Do you think that Osama bin Laden planned 9-11 from a cave in Afghanistan? I can't get a cell signal from here to Queens, alright, I mean, come on. Let's get real about this. The guy has been on dialysis for two years. He's got failing kidneys. He wasn't in a cave in Afghanistan playing-"

Costas jumped in: "You think he's in Saudi Arabia, not Afghanistan, not Pakistan."

Moore: "Well, could be Pakistan, but he's under watch of those who have said put a stop to this because-"

Costas tried to nail him down on culpability: "Including, at least by extension, the United States, he's under the protective watch of the United States?"

Moore confirmed: "I think the United States, I think our government knows where he is and I don't think we're going to be capturing him or killing him any time soon."

At that point, HBO jumped to another segment of the taped interview.

For HBO's Web page for Costas' show which has replaced, for three months, Bill Maher's program: http://www.hbo.com/ontherecord/

As noted in the March 23 CyberAlert, John Fund documented how Moore's Bowling for Columbine, "a merry dissection of America's 'culture of fear' and love of guns, is filled with so many inaccuracies and distortions that it ought to be classed as a work of fiction." Plus, Oprah played an excerpt from the portion of Moore's film which listed the awful things the U.S. has supposedly inflicted on the world, such as: "1981: Reagan administration trains and funds 'contras.' 30,000 Nicaraguans die." Oprah declared that the presentation "resonated with a lot of people, me included." See: http://www.mediaresearch.org/cyberalerts/2003/cyb20030323.asp#7

[johniegrad]

ROFL. This fat pig just makes sh*t up as he goes along. I guess he thinks people will believe him because of who he is. Who is he anyway?

[bigfootbob]

I know Costas is a lib, but what the hell has he been thinking lately. Didn't he jump into little timmy robbins/Baseball Hall of Fame dust-up? I used to think Costas was one of the premier sportscasters, now he's quickly advancing towards my personal BLACKLIST.

[HankReardon]

While watching PBS Gore Vidal was asked at a NYC gathering if he thought WMD's would be found. He answered that they will find them if they have to plant them first. He recieved thunderous applause after this statement. Moore's statements are just as whacked. Leftist are very selective about what they "choose" to believe, that is why they are not able to comprehend reality.

[CIBvet]

Will someone PLEASE re-post that great graphic of Michael Moore with the pig-snout on his fat puss. Think I saw it yesterday .... It was hilarious!! ROFLMAO

Should be obligatory on every Moore discussion thread from now on ... knew I'd be sorry if I didn't save it.

[Cordova Belle]

...and in a healthy society, all three would be buried under such an avalanche of disdain that they wouldn't attempt to say anything.

[OldFriend]

When they do those commercials showing your brain on drugs, there ought to be a picture of Michael Moore.......

[mhking]

Somebody please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, pretty please, beat Michael Moore severely with a large steel object.

[onyx]

Michael Moore would HATE to see his comrade and hero Osama found. MM is anti-American and why anyone who not a Leftie would give him a platform is beyond me.

[eyespysomething]

Who is he anyway?

You said it yourself:
fat pig

[azhenfud]

The less of Moore, the better....

[optimistically_conservative]

Moore thinks OBL was behind the attacks on 9/11?

Hmmmm ... this causes a lot of problems for me, one might say a paradox ...

Everything Moore says is a lie.

Listen to this carefully, Moore says, I am lying.

{ You say you are lying,
but if everything you say is a lie,
then you are telling the truth, but ...
you cannot tell the truth
because everything you say is a lie.
You lie -- You tell the truth --
But you cannot --
Illogical!
Illogical! }

Please explain. Only liberals can explain their behavior.
Please explain.

"I am not programmed to respond in that area."

[michigander]

So, does Moore have, like, inside information, that, you know, the rest of us, like, don't have? You know?

I think he read this article.

[Taffini]

Moore: I can't get a cell signal from here to Queens


I always thought moore liked queens

[elhombrelibre]

I have another idea. Someone should make a mockumentary about this fat blowhard and show how this lowbrow has gotten rich by lying about the US and pretending to be of the people.

[.38sw]

I guess Michael Moore never heard of satellite phones. I believe that OBL had one of those so wasn't too worried about cell signals. Costas should have asked Moore to back up his assertion; did he? I didn't see the interview. People just let this bag of putrid mush make all sorts of assertions and allegations with that nasty smirk on his face without challenging him to back it up.

[SpinyNorman]

Osama is hiding out in Michael Moore's rectum. There's room for Saddam, Uday and Qusay in there too.

Not to mention the permanent residence of his big fat greasy head. That would explain the hairdo.

[Taffini]

Will someone PLEASE re-post that great graphic of Michael Moore with the pig-snout on his fat puss. Think I saw it yesterday .... It was hilarious!! ROFLMAO


Pig snout! Pig snout! We want the pig snout!

[Poohbah]

"Do you think that Osama bin Laden planned 9-11 from a cave in Afghanistan? I can't get a cell signal from here to Queens."

That's because your fat ass blocks the signal, dude...

Not quite accurate. Rather, the enormous gravitational pull induced by Michael Moore's large mass actually curves space-time around him and redshifts the frequency of his cell phone signal, thus causing the cell tower to reject it as a spurious emission (which, in truth, it is).

[js1138]

Proof that cell phones cause brain damage.

[Huck]

To his credit, Costas sounded completely dumbfounded by the mind-boggling absurdity of his claims. He just let Moore make a total ass of himself.

Reminds me of Mean Gene Okerlund (sp?) interviewing Roddy Piper or Paul Orndoff. "OOoh, Not a piledriver?!!", Okerlund would say, with that "you can't possibly mean that" tone of voice. LOL. But this is fine. The fat jackass is really losing it. I am sure the du-ers find this completely credible.