Tough guy alert.
Via Newsbusters:
The Washington Post promoted Michael Moore’s latest book in Sunday’s Outlook section. Justin Moyer’s promotional piece was headlined “We read so you don’t have to,” but it reads like a cover blurb. He called him a “reliable liberal gadfly,” which is apparently what the Post calls someone who thinks Cuba had a lot to teach the United States. Just “liberal”?
Moyer plugged the book, “to be released later this month to a nation always ready to laud or excoriate him.” The “highlights” begin with Moore threatening the safety of Fox News anchor Bill Hemmer:
On Fox News’s Bill Hemmer: Moore was at the 2004 Democratic National Convention when the news anchor, then at CNN, told him on air that he’d “heard people say they wish Michael Moore were dead.” Moore took umbrage and dropped the hammer on Hemmer. “You made my death seem acceptable,” he says he said off-camera. “I want you to think about your actions if anything ever happens to me. Don’t think my family won’t come after you, because they will.”
One can bet that Moore doesn’t tell the whole story of that interview. Does he mention Hemmer prefaced that by saying others think he’s the greatest living American? The interview came on Monday morning of the Democratic convention in Boston, on July 26, 2004. Moore was probably furious because Hemmer didn’t bow and pay him homage.