Daschle won't like this--Michael Moore now says in the Washington Post that Daschle is fibbing and that there was a hug/apology with/from Daschle:
"Daschle denies hugging Michael Moore." We just can't resist passing along that headline from last week's Rapid City Journal in South Dakota. (A shame; we would have loved to see a picture.) The hubbub started after a Time magazine cover story said Senate Minority Leader Tom Daschle met the controversial filmmaker at "Fahrenheit 9/11's" Washington premiere. Moore's quote: "He gave me a hug and said he felt bad and that we were all gonna fight [Bush] from now on. I thanked him for being a good sport." Nuh-uh, says Daschle. "I know we senators all tend to look alike. But I arrived late, and I had to leave early for Senate votes. I didn't meet Mr. Moore," he told South Dakota reporters in a conference call. Moore's reps said he stands by his comment.
Daschle's alibi doesn't make a lot of sense and it seems odd that Moore would continue all this if there wasn't something to it. Anyway, I'm no longer in Daschle's camp on this one. It's a tossup what happened in that theater.
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