Mocking Michael Moore, CCRKBA Hits Hollywood Hypocrite
1/24/2005
To: National Desk
Contact: John Snyder of the Citizens Committee for the Right to Keep and Bear Arms, 202-326-5259
WASHINGTON, Jan. 24 /U.S. Newswire/ -- "In mocking anti-gun film-maker Michael Moore, we're conferring upon him a Hollywood Hypocrite Award," John Snyder, Public Affairs Director of the Citizens Committee for the Right to Keep and Bear Arms (CCRKBA), announced here today.
Moore, said Snyder, "certainly deserves the hypocrisy designation. He promotes an anti-gun owner philosophy for the general public at the same time that he employs gunmen for his own precious personal protection."
Two years ago, Snyder recalled, "Moore received an Oscar for his anti-gun pseudo-documentary, 'Bowling for Columbine,' in which he conveyed the idea that gun owners generally are paranoid. Yet he has not responded to last week's news that he protects himself with armed bodyguards.
"This Hollywood Hypocrite really takes the cake. He campaigns against the rights of law-abiding American gun owners while one of his bodyguards, Patrick Burke, gets arrested at JFK airport for carrying an unlicensed firearm, ironically violating the same kind of gun law that Moore favors!
"The Hollywood Hypocrite Award should balance out the Oscar, and perhaps lend a little needed perspective to the saga of Mendacious Michael Moore."
With more than 650,000 members and supporters nationwide, CCRKBA is one of the nation's premier gun rights organizations. As a non-profit organization, CCRKBA is dedicated to preserving firearm freedom through active lobbying of elected officials and facilitating grass-roots organization of gun rights activists in local communities throughout the United States.
