CNN.com - Transcripts: Are Media Ganging Up on Michael Moore?; Interview With Bob Edwards

CNN.com - Transcripts: "KURTZ: Welcome to RELIABLE SOURCES, where today we turn our critical lens on the movie that everyone in the media seems to be talking about. I'm Howard Kurtz.

'Fahrenheit 9/11' is Michael Moore's latest and most intensely political film, skewering George W. Bush over the war in Iraq.

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GEORGE W. BUSH, PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES: Now watch this drive.

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KURTZ: And love it or hate it, the partisans and the pundits have plenty to say.

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PAUL BEGALA, CO-HOST, 'CROSSFIRE': It is a deeply patriotic movie, and I think every American ought to see it.

TUCKER CARLSON, CO-HOST, 'CROSSFIRE': There's nothing deeply patriotic about Michael Moore.

BEGALA: It's deeply patriotic.

CARLSON: ... who has attacked this country.

BEGALA: He loves this country, and it's a -- the movie is a love letter to America. ROBERT NOVAK, CO-HOST, 'CROSSFIRE': He is a demagogue. He's anti-American. He lies.

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Just a big, fat, unshaven bully.

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KURTZ: But journalists aren't just writing reviews of the box office smash, they're digging into what they say as Moore's cinematic distortions. "