The same day that I wrote my post about the attack on Michael Moore, Gregg Kilday of the Risky Biz blog caught up with Moore on the phone. Here’s a bit from the resulting post, Moore Comes Out Swinging:

…Moore, never one to shy away from a righteous fight, isn’t playing defense. I talked with him by phone Sunday night–I was in Cannes and he was in New York, putting the final touches on his film–and he displayed his usual mix of passion, outrage, humor and bravado. “Why would they do it now? I have no idea,” he said of the government maneuver. “Were they just sitting around there and somebody said, ‘Hey, this is opening in Cannes next week. We have to do something.’ Are they that divorced from reality or the popular culture to know that isn’t the right thing to do? I think maybe they thought, ‘We’re going to chance it here to try to paint him with some Castro brush or whatever.’ I think when people see the film, there is going to have to be a lot of rewriting done on the initial stories that went out last week in terms of what really happens in the film and what we really did.”