Pete Townsend has always been my favorite late 60’s rock musician. Now I know why:

“Michael Moore has been making some claims, using my name, which distort the truth.
“I greatly resent being bullied and slurred by him just because he didn’t get what we wanted from me. It seems to me that this aspect of his nature is not unlike that of the powerful and willful man at the centre of his documentary.
“He says that I refused to allow him to use my song Won’t Get Fooled Again in his latest film because I support the war. I have never hidden the fact that at the beginning of the war in Iraq, I was a supporter. But now I am less sure we did the right thing.
“I had not really been convinced by Bowling For Columbine and had been worried about its accuracy. To me, it felt like a bullying film. Once I had an idea what Fahrenheit 9/11 was about, I was 90 per cent certain my song was not right for them and pointed out that Won’t Get Fooled Again is not an unconditionally anti-war song.”

I even like his taste in movies: Townshend refused to let the Oscar-winning director use the song, because the rocker didn’t enjoy Moore’s previous films Bowling for Columbine and Roger and Me.
So, because Pete didn’t roll over and give Moore all he wanted, he’s now an enemy. I am waiting for Moore’s war room to start the attacks, saying Pete didn’t write the songs, that Michael did, while he was the King of Englanders back then. Well, he won’t exactly say he was King, he will just insinuate it, play some creepy music, and then move on to his next non-point.

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