Moore mentioned this in an AMAZING speech at a Take Back America meeting in Cambridge Tuesday July 27, 2004.
Democracy Now has a transcript and a video (well worth watching because the fire and anger in his voice does not come off when reading the transcript.
http://www.democracynow.org/article.pl?sid=04/07/28/1335239&mode=thread&tid=253rd paragraph. I quoted early so you can get a bigger sense of the speech.
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I got to tell you, I have traveled across this
country quite a bit in the last year. It ain't a 50/50 country.
People are angry. They want Bush out of the White House. They
want to be able to send their kids to college. (applause) they
want to be able to go to the doctor. This isn't a 50/50 country.
(applause). Speak the truth. Come on. Take a real poll. Take a
real poll! (applause)
A few weeks ago I was flipping around on the dial and I came
across a NASCAR Race on FOX and there was NASCAR champion Dale
Earnhardt Jr. telling Fox... They said what did you do, what did
you do the night before while you were getting prepared for the
big race? He said, “Well, I took my crew to go see Fahrenheit
9/11.”
And then he said, and “I think all of
America should see this movie.” I fell off the couch! (applause)
I said a little prayer for George W. Bush. I'm thinking oh, my
God, I hope he's not watching this race now and eating pretzels!
Whoa. I thought, man, if the movie has gone that far
into middle America, and this is where the country's at, how come
we don't know this? How come this isn't being reported? What's
wrong here?
Well, we have our conventional wisdom and our conventional wisdom
tells us that the paradigm that we have been following over the
last 20 years is the one we must follow and that's the one we are
worried about. Thank you. Oh, it doesn't hurt to
report the truth. It's ok. You know. I was on one of those
morning talk shows and after we went to commercial, the person
who was interviewing me said you know, you know, you are right, I
mean when the war started, it was very difficult here to book the
people we wanted to book, ask the questions we wanted to ask. In
fact, I got a memo about my tone of voice. And apparently the
brass had received a call from the Dick Cheney’s office and
said that he didn't like my tone of voice. And I got a memo
on it to watch my tone of voice. Well you've got to tell that
story! You've got to tell that story. I can't. Well why? They
can't fire you. You are like one of the most well-known people in
America. And, you know, you've got to tell this story. If you
don’t tell it, I’m going to wait like maybe another week.
What's today? Within the week, I will put this on my
web site. I'll tell the whole story and I’ll name who said it.
(applause) so this person is unnoticed now and I am doing it in a
friendly way. Because this is a good person. You know? Just that
I think the people deserve the truth and they need to know how
the decisions get made behind the curtain. Who is pulling the
strings here? Who's calling the shots? It's like, you know,
coming from where I come from politically, you know, we always
are in this place of yeah, you know, the man this and the man
that and this corporation and this and that and there's probably
a part of us that says oh, you know, it's really, there's, maybe
it's not that bad. You want to believe it isn't that bad. You
know?
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I want to know who it is too. I was betting Katie Couric with my husband.