Michael Moore is at the DNC trolling around and Salon posted this good little article about a speech he gave.

Some highlights:

Moore admonished the crowd that it would take unrelenting hard work to remove the Bush administration in November. "They will not go easy. Believe me, they're better fighters than we are. They eat hate for breakfast. They're going to fight, smear and hate all the way. So we have got to get out there and counter it with the truth." The right-wing likes to claim the flag as its own, added Moore, but they're not true patriots -- "they're hate-riots."

But Moore saved most of his scorn for the media, which he called "the unstated villain" in his record-breaking film. "A lot of them are mad at me right now -- I'd be mad too. We outed them as shills for Bush, as cheerleaders for this war, and in the case of the decent ones, as journalists who fell asleep on the job and didn't ask the hard questions they should have.

 

Moore ended his speech with an appeal to Nader voters to return to the Democratic fold this year. The filmmaker, who campaigned for Nader in the 2000 presidential race, said he "tried to explain to Ralph this time that you've already done your job. The Democratic Party of 2004 is not what it was in 2000. Even the Al Gore of 2004 is not the Al Gore of 2000. Your message was carried this year by Howard Dean and Dennis Kucinich and they already pushed the party to where it should be, with the majority of Americans.

"So my appeal to Nader voters is that we have a different job this year. It is so misguided, so wrong, so uncool to be doing this."

Moore endorsed Kerry as this year's peace candidate. "One thing I know about John Kerry -- he will not invade a country like Bush. This is a man who was shot three times. My dad was in the Marines in the South Pacific in World War II and he always said if you've been there, you don't want to see anyone else go, unless it's absolutely the last resort. In my heart, I believe John Kerry when he (too) says that."