Posted on 09/03/2009 12:27:13 PM PDT by presidio9
Apparently science has discovered the one force in nature that can silence Michael Moore: The Oprah Winfrey Show.
With the premiere of his new film, Capitalism: A Love Story, looming on September 16 at the Toronto Film Festival, normally you’d expect to find Moore filling up every inch of media, shocking the bourgeoisie with his trademark Angry Guy Banging on the Palace Walls shtick, providing Matt Drudge with a new outrageous quote every news cycle.
But Moore has been strangely silent in this run-up and the LA Times‘ Patrick Goldstein has learned that he plans to keep a lid on it for weeks to come no less.
When Goldstein called Overture Films, Moore’s distributor to arrange an interview, he was told that the filmmaker would sit for interviews after the premiere, but the pieces would all be embargoed September 23, the day the film opens in New York and Los Angeles.
Why? Because Moore is doing a sit-down interview with Oprah Winfrey, which won’t air until Sept. 22. And if Oprah wants an exclusive, she gets it, since when it comes to books, movies or music, no one offers a better promotional platform than La Winfrey.
There is perhaps no bigger winner here than Barack Obama, who is trying to persuade America that his health care package is not a socialist takeover of their lives. He will get a precious few weeks wherein Michael Moore is not clogging up the airwaves with his caricature of Middle American GOP fears. A conspiratorial mind might even wonder of Miss Winfrey is slyly doing her old pal on Pennsylvania Ave. a solid.
But for Moore himself, it turns out, even when you are peddling an attack on the entire economic underpinnings of our civilisation, there is no place to get that message out like the couch of the Grande Dame of the Midwest, Our Oprah.
Based upon the title, 3/4ths of the cabinet will be in that movie.
That’s gonna be a pretty big freezer, Oprah.
Will they discuss the $50million a year Oprah makes? Or is some capitalism good?
The media never embargos stories of vital interest to national security. They only sit to protect copyright.
Hopefully this film will flop as bad as his last one did. Two flops in a row make the investor’s nervous and less likely to pony up for another film.
Buy stock in Twinkee’s and Krispy Kreme, Mikey Moron is back in town.
Amusingly enough, he looks little different there than normal.
Don't tell me, let me guess. Michael Moore attending a family reunion?
Oh, ya’ll quit picking on Mike. His stuff is usually pretty funny. The GM film was hilarious, with the old f*rt who ran GM dodging like crazy. Sicko was both funny and maddening. Bowling for Columbine sucked. I never could figure out what his point was, bullets are bad or something like that. All in all, I would much rather get my dose of liberalism from somebody like him, rather than have to sit thru an Obama speech, or listen to Keith Overbearingman.
parsy, who hates BO’s speeches which are as boring as Castro’s
Nobody would intentionally invite Michael Moore to anything.
He is like a drug whacked cousin nobody wants to admit to.
“Roger & Me” was an open attack on the capitalist system. “Sicko” was an attack on personal health insurance that offered a whitewashed Communist system as a preferrable alternative. No thanks.
Michael Moore is a lying, fat limosine liberal.
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