'Michael Moore is a slimeball'

2004-10-14 10:26

Kennebunkport - Former President George H W Bush called filmmaker Michael Moore a "slimeball" for what he said were lies about the Bush family in Fahrenheit 9/11.

Bush sat down for an interview with WCSH-TV and didn't hold back when asked his opinion of Moore, one of the nation's best-known leftist activists.

"Total ass, slimeball," Bush said. It's "outrageous, his lies about my family."

Bush was interviewed last week and the interview aired Wednesday evening.

Moore's Fahrenheit 9/11 attacked President George W Bush's handling of the war on terrorists, his decision to go to war in Iraq and highlighted the Bush family's ties to the Saudi royal family.

The movie claimed high-ranking Saudi nationals were allowed to flee the United States immediately after the attacks at a time when American airspace had been closed to commercial traffic.

The September 11 commission found there was no evidence of Saudi flights before national airspace reopened on September 13, 2001, and no evidence of political intervention.

- AP