Susan Sarandon says White House denied security clearance

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Academy Award winner Susan Sarandon, who is well known for her liberal political activities as well as her acting, told an audience Sunday that she was denied access to the White House recently. In a discussion with filmmaker Michael Moore at the Tribeca Film Festival, Sarandon said that on a recent visit to the White House, she was denied security clearance for reasons unknown to her. The Huffington Post reports:

After an audience member asked the pair if they believed they were “under surveillance,” Sarandon said she didn’t just believe it, she knew it. “I’ve had my phone tapped … I’ve gotten my file twice under the Freedom of Information Act,” she said, before mentioning the security clearance snafu. She said she had no idea why the clearance was denied, and jokingly asked the questioner if he knew the reason. (The Huffington Post has reached out to the White House for comment.)

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Moore, responding to a separate question, said he had been the target of a “disinformation campaign,” possibly engineered by the federal government. “I was told this by some people in the Bush administration. They went bonkers when ‘Fahrenheit’ came out and thought it would throw the election to Kerry,” he said, referring to his 2004 documentary “Fahrenheit 9/11,” which came out five months before the election that pitted sitting president George W. Bush against Senator John Kerry. “The reason I’m a poster boy on Fox News and Rush Limbaugh is because my films reach a large group of people in the middle, not just on the left.”

Moore’s scalding remarks about “Waiting for Superman” came in response to still another questioner, who asked whether he planned to “follow in the footsteps” of Guggenheim. “Well, I wouldn’t follow in those footsteps, because I hated that film,” Moore said. “The point I was left with with ‘Waiting for Superman’ was that teachers and their unions are the problem, and they are not the problem.” (Moore declined to say what subject he would tackle in his next film.)

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