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Michael
Moore and Fred Thompson in the battle of
Cuba
Yahoo!
News.
New York, May 16 (ANI): US filmmaker Michael
Moore has challenged Republican presidential
candidate Fred Thompson for a debate over
health care issues.
Both of them have been taking a dig at
each other ever since Thompson wrote in
the National Review on May 2, an article
on the Treasury Department's investigation
into whether Moore violated the US trade
embargo against Cuba by seeking free treatment
for 9/11 responders there.
Moore has now blasted Thompson in a letter
over his fondness for Cuban-made Montecristo
cigars.
"While I will leave it up to the conservatives
to debate your hypocrisy and the Treasury
Department to determine whether the 'box
upon box of cigars' violates the trade embargo,
I hereby challenge you to a health care
debate," the New York Daily News quoted
the letter posted on the Drudge Report,
as stating.
Moore said that he was ready to debate
Thompson over the "hundreds of thousands
of dollars" that the latter received
from the health care industry in campaign
contribution, and his "inexplicable"
desire to cut funding for AIDS research.
"Our debate would provide you an opportunity
to appeal to the right wing of the Republican
Party by continuing to attack me; it would
give me a chance to discuss health care
and tell you exactly what happened in Cuba,"
Moore wrote in the letter.
"Like [on] 'American Idol,' we could
even have the country vote to determine
which one of us wins the debate," he
told the 'Law and Order' star. (ANI)
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