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please help debunk a rumor

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Hello all,

Some help debunking a rumor if you please. I heard on the radio a couple of days ago that, "Michael Moore is an NRA life member, even though he does not agree with their politics." I am giddy at the fun-poking prospects but need some hard evidence first. I've checked snopes and googled in general but found nothing. Did anyone else hear this? Any suggestions for further inquiry?

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Moore purchased a life membership on [size="-1"]Dec. 19, 2000.

Yahoo search "moore nra life member" first result.

[/size][size="-1"]http://www.nraila.org/Issues/Articles/Read.aspx?ID=105[/size]
 
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Some info, but no confirmation. You'd have to ask the NRA, but they may not discuss the identity of their members (at least I hope not).
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http://www.nationalreview.com/kopel/kopel040403.asp
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In Bowling, Michael Moore brags that he is an NRA "Lifetime member." So it might be expected that Moore would inform viewers about the NRA's noble anti-slavery history. But Moore's connection to the NRA is bizarre; he told Tim Russert that he joined the group so that he could be elected its president and make it support gun control. This is aggrandized self-delusion, rather like Barbra Streisand announcing that she was becoming Catholic so that she could be elected Pope and make the Church support polygamy.
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[size=-1]Nowhere is that more apparent than when Moore sandbags ailing NRA President Charlton Heston; first by tricking him into thinking this would be a fair interview by a fellow NRA member, then by increasingly hostile, in-your-face questions nobody could answer. Moore says the segment was filmed in early 2001, just days after he purchased an NRA Life membership on Dec. 19, 2000.[/size]
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