Updated August 9, 2004 at 8:30 pm

From tonight's City edition of "Public Affairs."
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Soros, Obama, Fundraising and Giangreco
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Jeff Berkowitz: George Soros is a fundraiser for Barack Obama. He has been. He is way, way far to the left. Is that a problem for Barack Obama?

Pete Giangreco: No, people aren’t voting for George Soros. They are voting for Barack Obama.

Berkowitz: So, Barack [Obama] will take money from people who are far to the left. That’s not a concern?

Giangreco: He takes money and sometimes doesn’t agree with them--

Berkowitz: Are there boundaries? Are there boundaries from where he should not be taking money?

Giangreco: Absolutely. I don’t think they are taking money from the tobacco industry, some of the big drug companies or the

Berkowitz: [George] Soros is fine? Moveon.com is fine? Michael Moore is—

Giangreco: I don’t think we are taking money from Moveon.com

Berkowitz: Well, Soros is connected with Moveon.com.

Giangreco: I think there is a lot of—

Berkowitz: Soros is connected with Michael Moore. You think Michael Moore is Okay?
Would Barack Obama accept support from Michael Moore?

Giangreco: Probably. We don’t agree with everything Michael Moore has said--

Berkowitz: Really, even though Moore has said that the insurgents, the terrorists in Iraq are analogous to the Minuteman, the American revolutionaries—
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Pete Giangreco, interviewed on Public Affairs, recorded on July 24, 2004 and as is being cablecast tonight, through-out the City of Chicago at 8:30 pm on Cable Ch. 21
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