Workers of the world, and filmgoers everywhere, have Michael Moore. Even CEOs have Moore. A highlight of the film is Moore's only showdown with a CEO, Phil Knight of Nike. Knight, who had read Moore's book, hears the filmmaker is in town and invites him to visit Nike's Portland, Ore., headquarters. Once there, Moore is genial and warm but keeps his hard-line stance.
Knight declines but remains congenial.
Moore is indefatigable and tries to persuade the executive to open up a plant in Flint. Knight insists that Americans simply don't want to make shoes for a living. While the cameras roll, he presents Moore with his very own pair of American-made black Nikes. The scene that Moore didn't put in the movie is what immediately followed. Literally five minutes after they handed me those shoes, a PR person bursts in and says, 'They just discovered 35 bodies near San Diego.