Origin of Michael Moore quote

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Poster Fred Hansen attached this famous quote to his email -

"This started out as a documentary on gun violence in America, but the largest mass murder in our history was just committed -- without the use of a single gun! Not a single bullet fired! No bomb was set off, no missile was fired, no weapon (i.e., a device that was solely and specifically manufactured to kill humans) was used. A boxcutter! -- I can't stop thinking about this. A thousand gun control laws would not have prevented this massacre. What am I doing?"
Michael Moore


I'd encountered it once before but had forgotten about it since. Did it originate within his anti-gun documentary or from an interview?

If I recall the timeline, Moore, suddenly enlightened, could have shelved Boweling for Columbine after the Sept 11 attacks or re-edited the entire feature to cleary state that his original premise had been wrong. He didn't do so and even if Columbine is supposed to offer conflicted messages, the anti-Constitutionalist gun control industry found enough ammo for their jihad. I refuse to see this obscenity.

Jeff

 

[Fred Hansen]

It appeared on Mikey's blog www.michaelmoore.com on the 22nd of September, 2001; it can be found here

It is from a weblog that Mikey entitled 'Tears Down The West Side Highway'. The biggest laugh in that piece is the entire TWO paragraphs that Mikey dedicates to himself when he describes having to convince a member of the NYFD that he (Mikey) isn't a hero, just a loveable schlub. :barf:

I walk across the street to pay my respects. A lone fireman spots me coming and approaches me, arms outstretched. He grabs me and hugs me. He says, "Mike, thanks, thanks for everything you do for the..." I am stunned and embarrassed by this, and I cut him off. "Stop," I say, "I haven't done ****. I am here to thank you and to tell you how horribly sorry I am..." He cuts me off. "Shutupwillya! Lemme say what I need to say..."

He continues to thank me, I can't take this -- I HAVE DONE NOTHING BUT RETURN A DAMN RENTAL CAR -- and I break down in tears. "Oh, don't go gettin' mushy on me, Mike -- c'mon, we're Irish!" He laughs, I laugh, I grab him and hold him and these two big Irish lugs and crybabies make for quite a sight in the middle of a Manhattan street. Kathleen and I sign their book and we take down the name of the fund for the nine families of our neighbors. "Don't forget," our fireman friend says as we leave, "We need your prayers more than we need the donations."

Forgot to add another :barf:

Of course there aren't enough :barf: in all the world to express how much Mikey makes me want to :barf:, but you get the idea.