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Michael Moore's next movie should be called "Hypocrisy, a personal story".

Michael Moore and Subsidies: A Love-Hate Story

"These are large, multinational corporations — Viacom, GE, Rupert Murdoch — that own these studios. Why do they need our money, from Michigan, from our taxpayers, when we're already broke here? I mean, they play one state against the other, and so they get all this free cash when they're making billions already in profits. What's the thinking behind that?" Moore asked.

Moore's own Web site has a February 2009 story announcing that Paramount Vantage, a subsidiary of Viacom, and Overture Films co-financed "Capitalism: A Love Story." Overture Films is a division of Liberty Capital, which is a 1-percent shareholder in Viacom, which posted a $463 million profit in the third quarter of 2009.

In one of the more popular scenes in the movie, Moore stands with a bag in front of a Wall Street bank and says, "We want our money back."

Yet Moore's image as a Robin Hood for the downtrodden has been tarnished since it was reported last week that his anti-capitalism movie may receive $1 million in tax credits, subsidized by Michigan taxpayers.