MICHAEL MOORE/O'REILLY SHOWDOWN AT CONVENTION [Drudge has embargoed transcript of interview]

Drudge Report ^ | July 27, 2004

[John Jorsett]

Click here to go to the interview.

[smith288]

M: Right, I would not sacrifice my child to secure Fallujah and you would?

O: I would sacrifice myself.

M: You wouldn’t send another child, another parents child to Fallujah, would you? You would sacrifice your life to secure Fallujah?

Typical leftist...Soliders like to be called "children". THEY LOVE IT.

Like we grabbed 8 yr olds off the street and threw fatigues and an M16 on their back...

WHAT A WAIST OF TIME to try to reason with suck extremism called the Michael Moore.

[talleyman]

Just read the transcript. NO FIREWORKS! I REPEAT...NO FIREWORKS.

I agree - O'Reilly was pretty lame. He's really drunk the Kool-Aid on the WMD deal. Just where did the tons of stuff the Jordanians intercepted coming from Syria originate? What about the fact that Wilson lied? The numerous ties between terrorist groups and Iraq? The hangar full of suicide vests in Iraq? Lame, Bill, lame...

[Prolifeconservative]

"What a painful read. I don't know which is dumber."

I had the same take!

[CompSciGuy]

Moore really undervalues O'Rielly's statement of self sacrifice, focusing on getting him to say that he'd sacrifice his child. Which is dumb logic (again) because I am sure NONE of those parents of dead servicemen and women would have chosen to sacrifice their children. It was the serviceman or woman's choice. Kudos to Bill for the attempt at enlightening a pathetic waste of time like Moore.

Being an ardent student of History I realize that people like Moore are necessary in this village of America. After all every proper village needs its idiot.

[WestVirginiaRebel]

O'Reilly didn't have to be at his best to make Mooreon look like an idiot. Mikey evaded the questions and basically acknowledged that he wouldn't have done anything after 9-11.

[finnman69]

zzzzzzzzzzzzz. O'Reilly let himself get bogged down, he could have brought up so many of the lies.

[kabar]

O'Reilly needed to attack Moore's own lies, instead he basically agrees with everything he says and retorts with poor arguments.

Agree. O'Reilly did a piss poor job. The fact that Mr O couldn't even refute Moore's silly argument about Bush lying says it all. The discussion went downhill from there.

[Prolifeconservative]

All the ammunition O'Reilly could have trotted out on WMD's and he ends up being drawn in to Moore's stupid contention - "but would you send your child over there to fight."

O'Reily fell right into it......

[Prolifeconservative]

All the ammunition O'Reilly could have trotted out on WMD's and he ends up being drawn in to Moore's stupid contention - "but would you send your child over there to fight."

O'Reilly fell right into it......

[Texas Federalist]

O'Reilly loses the argument by accepting two leftist arguments as truth:

1. There were no WMD's in Iraq and
2. A justification for going to war was that Iraq was an imminent threat.

O'Reilly is a moron.

[untwist]

It appears that O'Reilly blew it. First, the premise that it was all an "accident" is wrong. Were there not 3 nuclear warheads found just a week ago? There were WMD's and something happened to them. What about Salman Pak? Why do you have an airplane fuselage in the middle of the desert if not to train terrorists! What about the totally lying and devious way Moore used the clip of Bush on the golf course, appearing to be talking about al Qaeda when he was referring to the Palestinian terrorism? O' Reilly knows this stuff and if this transcript is accurate he really let a great opportunity to crush this pustule get away.

[Stellar Dendrite]

"O'Reilly is a moron."

We already knew this to be true, he "apologized" on GMA for them not finding WMDs.

[atomicpossum]

I don't like the idea of watching the schoolyard bully pick on the fat dumb guy. It isn't fair.:)

Yes, but in this case the schoolyard bully IS the fat dumb guy, so it's okay.

[Prolifeconservative]

I am sending DRUDGE a personal "thank-you" note for putting this stupid confrontation out there immediately. I don't have to waste my time watching the NO SPIN ZONE tonight. Fox was really trying to build this thing up.

[Democratshavenobrains]

It just shows the lengths that idiot Bush haters like Moore and his DU fan club will go to in order to keep calling Bush a liar, in spite of all his vindication.

[marajade]

This wasn't tne entire transcript was it?

[kabar]

Agree. Saddam had WMD and used it against the Kurds and Iranians. He had his nascent nuclear program taken out by Israel in 1981 and then tried to revive it in the 90s. The UN has documented that Saddam has not accounted fully for his stocks of WMD.

Saddam did not observe the truce fire conditions of the Gulf War. We have been bombing him almost daily for over a decade to enforce the no-fly zones. Iraq wqas on the State Department's list of state sponsors of terrorism for over 10 years. The Americans who have died in Iraq have died for the United States and the WOT. A liberated, democratic Iraq contributes to our security and safety.

[F16Fighter]

"O'R got tongue tied and didn't go for the throat..."

Worth repeating: O'REILLY CHOKED!!

[SelmaLee]

I agree it is a waste of time to try to talk these liberal out of their 'beliefs'.

The mention of 'the children' fighting in Iraq is one of the talking points for today - I've heard that term used by many of them today.

[marajade]

Aside from the fact that we were aleady technically at war... they were shooting at our planes in the no fly zone... That to me is reason enough to do what we did...