Michael Moore says Borat emboldened him to go to Guantanamo

Filmmaker Michael Moore met "Borat" Creator Sasha Baron Cohen at last fall's Toronto International Film Festival. Cohen was there to screen "Borat: Cultural Learnings of America for Make Benefit Glorious Nation of Kazakhstan." Cohen told Moore he had drawn inspiration from the filmmaker's documentaries.

Moore said Cohen thanked him for helping to provide the courage for his own daring adventures on in "Borat".  "If (Cohen) says I was an inspiration for those things, I now have to up the ante for him," Moore said. So we sailed into the mined waters of Guantanamo Bay with sick 9/11 workers and a bullhorn." (AP)