Flying for Columbine? Michael Moore's Bodyguard Arrested on Airport Gun Charge


Filmmaker Michael Moore's (search) bodyguard was arrested for carrying an unlicensed weapon in New York's JFK airport Wednesday night...Moore's 2003 Oscar-winning film "Bowling for Columbine" criticizes what Moore calls America's "culture of fear" and its obsession with guns.


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I know this is off-topic, but the irony is just too rich for me to resist. Here is the leading proponent of the theory that middle America is irrationally obsessed with fear of crime and has a crazy desire to be armed. But he, himself, has an armed bodyguard.

Oh, well. Perhaps Moore is "different" than we mere mortals. Maybe he is a higher order of being, and thus not subject to the same moral laws. Or something.
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UPDATE:
The company that (apparently) employs this bodyguard says he isn't "Michael Moore's bodyguard." I don't know what they mean, exactly--that he has never guarded Moore, or just that he was never directly employed by Moore? There have been other reports that Moore has armed bodyguards, and if those stories are true the issue remains the same--as far as Moore is concerned. I didn't include the bodyguard's name in my snip of the Fox News piece, and I don't see any reason to do so now. The issue is Moore's apparent hypocrisy (if these reports are true), not the fact that some fellow, who may or may not ever have guarded Moore, makes his living as a bodyguard and carries a gun. As far as I'm concerned, he's welcome to it, as long as he obeys the law.