World Net Daily reports that filmmaker Michael Moore, the darling of France, fabricated an interview in his book "Stupid White Men".

In his book, Moore wrote he'd once been "forced" to listen to [Fox News analyst and Weekly Standard Executive Editor Fred] Barnes commenting on the PBS news show "The McLaughlin Group."

Barnes, according to Moore's account, whined "on and on about the sorry state of American education" and wound up by bellowing: "These kids don't even know what 'The Iliad' and 'The Odyssey' are!"

In an article in the Weekly Standard, the editor then tells his side of the story:

Moore's interest was piqued, so the next day he said he called me. "Fred," he quoted himself as saying, "tell me what 'The Iliad' and 'The Odyssey' are." I started "hemming and hawing," Moore wrote. And then I said, according to Moore: "Well, they're ... uh ... you know ... uh ... okay, fine, you got me -- I don't know what they're about. Happy now?" He'd smoked me out as a fraud, or maybe worse.

The only problem is none of this is true. It never happened. Moore is a liar. He made it up. It's a fabrication on two levels. One, I've never met Moore or even talked to him on the phone. And, two, I read both "The Iliad" and "The Odyssey" in my first year at the University of Virginia. Just for the record, I'd learned what they were about even before college. Like everyone else my age, I got my classical education from the big screen. I saw the Iliad movie called Helen of Troy and while I forget the name of the Odyssey film, I think it starred Kirk Douglas as Odysseus.

Of course Michael Moore is a proven liar. It has already been proven that Moore's Oscar winning "documentary" Bowling for Columbine was filled with staged and fabricated scenes.