For our fortieth anniversary, the editors of Rolling Stone have interviewed twenty artists and leaders who helped shape our time. Over the next four weeks, every day, we’ll be debuting exclusive audio clips from the Q&As, giving you unparalleled access to some of the most important personalities in history.
Today we present the most polarizing liberal presence of the last two decades, Michael Moore. Depending on who you talk to, Moore is either the most loved or reviled man in America, a distinction he shares with only one person: his arch-nemesis, George W. Bush. Moore, whose plea for gun control, Bowling for Columbine, now seems more relevant than ever in the wake of the Virginia Tech massacre, sat down with our Eric Bates to discuss the aftermath of the 2004 election and eight years of Republican steering, the big problem we face forty years from now and why Al Gore might be the messiah. Here are four audio excerpts, and for the magazine’s definitive profile, pick up your own copy of our Fortieth Anniversary issue, on newsstands now.
Check back tomorrow for the next installment of our twenty-part audio interviews, featuring some of the most iconic and influential pop culture figures of the last 40 years. Want a hint at tomorrow’s interviewee? He told us this:
Even if somebody doesn’t like what you do and they’re booing, and they’re giving you the finger and jumping up and down and yelling, “fuck you” — that means you’re communicating. You’re getting through. A direct bull’s-eye.

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