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Moore under fire
01/09/2004 07:42 - (SA)
New York - Filmmaker Michael Moore said he will return to the Republican national convention where delegates roundly booed his presence on opening night.
Moore is covering the convention this week as an opinion columnist for USA Today and arrived at Madison Square Garden in time for Senator John McCain's primetime speech on Monday night.
When McCain alluded to Moore's anti-Bush documentary Fahrenheit 9/11 delegates began chanting and booing in the direction of the filmmaker, who was in the media section of the convention hall.
"I now know what the Christians probably felt like walking into the Coliseum," Moore said on Tuesday in an interview with The Associated Press.
Moore, who seemed to relish the tumult, said he would return despite the chilly reception "because I'm here to cover the convention and I'm here to write about what I see".
Moore's presence attracted attention from the beginning of his arrival.
According to Mark Benoit, Moore's spokesperson, it took Moore and his group almost 45 minutes to get through security checkpoints because of the throng of reporters and television cameras that followed him.
- AP
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