Activist filmmaker Michael Moore isn’t worried about the NSA tapping his phones.
“I never worry about that, I assume that’s been the case for a long time,” he told us at the “12-12-12” premiere at the Ziegfeld on Friday, joking, “I’ve never asked for my file because they charge you like a dollar a page to copy it. I’d be broke, and the copy machine would be broke by the time they got through my file.”
Moore, who won an Oscar in 2002 for “Bowling for Columbine,” thinks NSA leaker Edward Snowden is “an American hero,” even though many have called him a traitor.
“He should be given some kind of peace prize,” Moore told us. “We had a right to know what was going on. We’re not criminals, the American people. The American people are not terrorists, and we have a right to be left alone and a right to be left alone that’s protected by the Constitution . . . If you take it to its logical conclusion, the government will try and take more of these rights away, if we let them. People have got to stand up.”