Moore stands with the starving masses.
Posted on 09/15/2009 6:24:24 AM PDT by Old Teufel Hunden
In-your-face filmmaker Michael Moore came to Pittsburgh instead of Hollywood last night to show his latest rabble-rousing documentary, "Capitalism: A Love Story" to its first American audience, a spirited group of union workers energized by the AFL-CIO convention Downtown. A last-minute change of plans and an invitation from the convention's organizers brought Mr. Moore to the city, where he emboldened a crowd with stories of union struggles and victories, then led what he called a "march in support of single-payer health care" down Penn Avenue. The crowd of 1,400, by organizers' estimates, then filed into the Byham Theater, where Mr. Moore's populist film elicited more hoots and cheers. Critics have said "Capitalism" stands to be the Oscar-winner's most controversial documentary yet; it not only denounces capitalism as a flawed economic system but also as one that is morally evil. The Pittsburgh audience groaned when images of Ronald Reagan and corporate leaders flashed on the screen and cooed during the documentary's darker moments, like when a tearful woman talks about losing to foreclosure the home she helped design and build on her family's farm. Speaking at the David L. Lawrence Convention Center before the premiere, Mr. Moore touched on a range of issues and lamented an economic system that, he said, puts the interests of a rich and powerful few above just about everyone else.
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The first line should read “Shove it up my ass film maker Michael Moore ...”
At over 400 pounds, you bet he’s in your face, especially when the last bear claw is on the line.
You bring up a good point. All of these commentators throughout the years that have made fun of Rush Limbaugh’s weight problem. How many of them have ever referred to Michael Moore? At least when Rush was heavy he dressed well and did not look dishevelled and unkempt. Like Moore does all the time because he thinks it makes him look to be a man of the people. All it does is make him look disgusting.
VENICE (Fortune) -- If anyone has profited from the free-enterprise system in the past 20 years, it's Michael Moore. Since 1989, when his "Roger & Me" pioneered the docu-comedy form of nonfiction film, Moore's movies, TV shows and best-selling books have given him an eight-figure net worth....
Now, there's no reason a popular entertainer, even one whose subjects are the gun lobby, the march to war in Iraq and the health-care industry, should live like a monk. It's just a little ironic that the man who made his career attacking corporate America should be a pretty big business himself.
Moore’s populist pose is typical leftist pretense. He is a Marxist fake.
Moore stands with the starving masses.
The crowd of 1,400??????
Are the organizers counting Moore as 10 people all by himself?
“”The richest 1 percent have more financial wealth than the bottom 95 percent combined,” Mr. Moore shouted.”
parsy, who says, if true, something is wrong
Capitalism - Oingo Boingo
There’s nothing wrong with capitalism
There’s nothing wrong with free enterprise
Don’t try to make me feel guilty
I’m so tired of hearing you cry
There’s nothing wrong with making some profit
If you ask me I’ll say it’s just fine
There’s nothing wrong with wanting to live nice
I’m so tired of hearing you whine
About the revolution
Bringin’ down the rich
When was the last time you dug a ditch, baby!
If it ain’t one thing
Then it’s the other
Any cause that crosses your path
Your heart bleeds for anyone’s brother
I’ve got to tell you you’re a pain in the ass
You criticize with plenty of vigor
You rationalize everything that you do
With catchy phrases and heavy quotations
And everybody is crazy but you
You’re just a middle class, socialist brat
From a suburban family and you never really had to work
And you tell me that we’ve got to get back
To the struggling masses (whoever they are)
You talk, talk, talk about suffering and pain
Your mouth is bigger than your entire brain
What the hell do you know about suffering and pain . . .
(repeat first verse)
(repeat chorus)
There’s nothing wrong with capitalism
There’s nothing wrong with capitalism
There’s nothing wrong with capitalism
There’s nothing wrong with capitalism
So I take it Oingo Boingo were conservative. Who would have thunkit from listening to “I Want Candy”... I always thought the lead singer was hot.
That was “Bow Wow Wow”. You need to brush up on your 80’s dude. ;)
Oingo Boingo was fronted by Danny Elfman, who is now does all of the music for Tim Burton’s movies.
You’re right. I guess I screwed up.... : ) There were too many groups that decade. They all seemed to run together...
a.k.a. they were paid for their time.
Give Moore a break. After all, he’s only a lad.
Rank and file union members should realize that the “filthy capitalists” who Moore excoriates in this film are the people who give them jobs. Sending these wealthy capitalists packing will not produce a worker’s utopia; ask anyone who worked in a government run business in the former Soviet Union or East Germany.
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