Politics
In an interview broadcast on ABC, the documentary filmmaker and producer Michael Moore said he personally advised President Hugo Chávez on the speech the Venezuelan President delivered at the United Nations (UN).

In his program, American television host Jimmy Kimmel asked Moore about his experience in the Venice Film Festival and Moore told him that one day at 2 o'clock in the morning he went to a floor at the hotel where Chávez was staying to know what the origin of the noise was. "Then, a man opened the door, a President's bodyguard (referring to Foreign Minister Nicolás Maduro). Chávez was right behind him."

"A bottle and a half of tequila later," Moore said that he advised President Chávez about his upcoming speech at the UN General Assembly. The filmmaker added that it was not appropriate that Chávez has called former US President George W. Bush "the devil." The documentary director told him that he could use more hopeful words. When I saw Chávez's speech a few weeks later, I wondered: "where is my part of the deal? I should ask him for a year of free gasoline."