Moore not returning to RNC Convention

[LTR]

http://www.editorandpublisher.com/eandp/news/article_display.jsp?vnu_content_id=1000621811

NEW YORK Following all the commotion last night, Michael Moore will not be returning to Madison Square Garden for the Republican National Convention, E&P has learned. According to editors at USA Today, which is publishing his daily column this week, Moore told them that he was choosing not to return again.

However, they said he would continue to write his daily column and they stressed that in no way did they second-guess their decision to have him write the commentary.

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"We had hoped we would be able to put Moore in place where he could actually listen to speeches and not disrupt anything," Ken Paulson, USA Today editor, told E&P today. "The idea was not to put him in the line of sight while giving him the opportunity to observe. Now Moore doesn't plan to return to the convention. I think he saw the down side of his attending. We will have the four days of his column and I hope people will take time to read what he wrote.

"We never want to be the story. Ann Coulter tired of our editing suggestions and she quit," Paulson added. "We are just a newspaper trying to be balanced day in and day out."

[LuminousX]

1. Bummer

[Child_Of_Isis]

2. It's probably a good decision

It could be said that he was averting attention from the convention, on purpose. Which of course, would have ended up as a 'blame the dems' issue.

[physioex]

3. I agree with Moore's decision....

However I don't understand why McCain had to bring up a movie? Why weren't they standing on their record? It's rather pathetic to talk about an individual who is just sitting there....

[marlakay]

4. I think it makes a good statement

It says that WE didn't do that at OUR convention to any of THEIR people in the news or people who showed up. They weren't in speeches. I think having him not returning makes that statement.

[liberal N proud]

5. The repukes win by him not returning.

With them taking time out of their speeches to recognize him that just shows how big of an impact he has made on their show.
I thought it was great that Rudy called him out, I thought it would be great if every speaker called him out. It would be a riot.

[UnapologeticLiberal]

6. What happened last night?

I watched (or rather, was subjected to by my Republican roommate) the RNC last night, but I did not hear anything about Michael Moore. Was he arrested?

[physioex]

7. No....No...

McCain called him "disingenuous filmmaker" and he was booed by the crowd. Pathtetic they have to bring up a movie.....