Editor’s note: Robert Struckman, a Billings native who previously worked as a reporter in Missoula and Billings, now lives in Maryland with his wife and two children and is the speech and editorial writer at the AFL-CIO. He recently interviewed filmmaker Michael Moore and is allowing Last Best News to reprint the email exchange here:
Documentary filmmaker Michael Moore had visited people at the AFL-CIO office in Washington, D.C., but I hadn’t had a chance to talk to him. Everyone who did talk to him said he was “surprisingly nice,” which I thought was kind of funny. He does have an “angry liberal” persona in his films, but isn’t the criticism of him just another tool of those who want to discredit humanism? Anyway, when I reached Moore, he was recovering from a bout of pneumonia. Continue Reading →
