transcripts "Moore admits Disney halt was a stunt"?

who has the transcripts? I know somebody had them here. thanks!

That might help track down the transcripts you're looking for.

2 days ago i believe

Here's what was said:

MOORE: What I know is, is that Michael Eisner went and had a meeting with my agent, Ari Emanuel at Endeavor, and told him at this meeting that there is no way he will allow Miramax to distribute Michael Moore's film, because, in doing so, it will anger Jeb Bush and put Disney at risk in Florida. They were up for millions of dollars of task abatements, tax incentives, whatever.

BROWN: They deny -- they don't deny the meeting, obviously, with the agent. They deny that they said that. No doubt in your mind that was said?

MOORE: No, no doubt at all.

BROWN: OK.

MOORE: Oh, absolutely not.

In fact, I got a phone call immediately after the meeting. I was told this. And we decided, along with Miramax, to do our best to try and convince Disney to do the right thing. And we have spent months trying to do that. We have been very quiet about this.

BROWN: This has gone on pretty much a year, hasn't it?

MOORE: Yes, that's right.

BROWN: Why not a year ago just go find another way to get the movie out there?

MOORE: Because a year ago, we were already making the film. We already had a deal. We had a contract with Miramax to distribute the film. And this happened all after we did this deal.

And Miramax felt very confident that Disney, once they saw the film, would distribute it.

http://www.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0405/05/asb.00.html

:shrug:

I went to www.michaelmoore.com and didn't see an update.

the transcripts posted in this thread is what i was looking for...I appreciate it

It's a stunt in the sense that he has known for a year that Disney wasn't going to release this film. Which is fine since he apparently has other distributers lined up. But he held that information to the last minute in order to make it look like Disney was blocking his completed film from being viewed. And thereby generating a lot of free publicity while getting to play the martyr.

I suspected something like this from the beginning.