Posted on 10/04/2009 9:40:33 PM PDT by pissant
Michael Moore, champion of the working class, used non-union stagehands to film "Capitalism: A Love Story."
The porcine provocateur is promoting his anti-Wall Street jeremiad by giving free tickets to unions, but the American Federation of Teachers has turned them down because Moore didn't hire any members of the International Alliance of Theatrical Stage Employees.
"Michael Moore and one of our sister unions, IATSE, are in discussions about concerns the union has," the AFT told ABC News. "The AFT has decided against accepting tickets until those issues are resolved."
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Classic Liberal do-as-I-sayism.
And in a related item, Michael Moore’s next movie will be “Hypocrisy: A Love Story.”
Union help costs money....It’s all about his bottom line.
Capitalism?
crickets......
What a hypocrite Moore is. If you haven't had the chance to see it on the big screen, rent Jerry Zucker's 'An American Carol' and watch Mikey get skewered. It's worth every cent.
Moore has used non union help for years. The left is loaded with hypocrites like that.
I am sure all of their differences will be amicably resolved in time for the 2010 elections.
They will make kissy face in the interest of defeating the dreaded Republicans.
Michael Moore reminds me of Al Gore in so many ways.
His hypocrisy is very consistent, extreme, continual, never apologized for, never addressed by the left, and constantly pointed out by the right.
Michael Moore and Al Gore live in Bizarro World. How can they continue in their positions of influence, year after year?
Un-freeking-believable.
My thoughts exactly.
The answer is the corrupt (communist-controlled) media. Yeah, I said and I meant communist-controlled.
The real Michael Moore
Working-class hero image is carefully scripted
Don’t be fooled by his various claims to have made no more than $19,000 a year, $15,000 a year or $12,000 a year before his first hit, “Roger & Me,” the author says.
In fact, Moore didn’t even grow up in Flint, but rather nearby Davison. His father was not the working stiff struggling to make ends meet that he portrays, but a General Motors employee who worked from 6 a.m. until 2 p.m. and played golf every afternoon at a private country club and who had four weeks of paid vacation and retired comfortably at the age of 53.
Before “Roger & Me” hit it big in 1989, Moore had already received an advance from a New York publisher for $50,000, another $50,000 from Mother Jones magazine upon termination as an editor and a $20,000 grant from Ralph Nader. After “Roger & Me,” he became fabulously wealthy by nearly any standard.
When Moore flew to London to be interviewed by the BBC or to promote a film, he flew the Concorde and stayed at the Ritz. But, according to the book, he would also keep a room at a cheap hotel down the street where he would meet with journalists to maintain his image as a “man of humble circumstances.”
His 10-acre, waterfront home today is on Michigan’s Torch Lake, one of the three most beautiful lakes in the world, according to National Geographic. He was accused by authorities of despoiling a wetland – just like many of the greedy, robber-baron land-grabbers he criticizes – when he tried to expand his private beach.
Moore also owns a penthouse in New York City. That was his official residence until 2003 when he switched to Michigan. That coincided with the success of “Bowling for Columbine,” which brought him millions in profits – profits that would have been taxed at a rate of 7.7 percent in New York, as opposed to 3.9 percent in Michigan, saving him hundreds of thousands of dollars.
Schweizer reports that Moore, like Rosie O’Donnell, detests guns in the hands of ordinary Americans but surrounds himself with armed guards when he is out in public.
One of the secrets to Moore’s success, writes Schweizer, is his virulent anti-Americanism, which has wide appeal abroad. Moore, for instance, has sold twice as many books in Germany alone as he has sold in the U.S.
“Moore’s books and films sell well overseas because anti-Americanism is a popular idiom,” writes Schweizer. “Says Andrian Kreye of Munich, Germany’s Sueddeutsche Zeitung, ‘German readers feel safe regurgitating anti-Americanism so long as it’s an American who says it first.’”
Schweizer reveals in “Do As I Say (Not As I Do)” that Moore owns tens of thousands of shares of stock despite claiming he owns none. Most surprisingly of all, however, is the revelation that among those stocks are substantial shares of the much maligned Halliburton.
http://www.wnd.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=47233
And his movie is flopping as hard as his belly onto his lap when he sits down quickly. I wish nothing but ill on that cretin.
Moore AND Letterman. What a great month this is turning out to be.
No - he uses Union labor all the time: He hires himself. :)
He’s a member of SAG, the WGA and the Director’s Guild.
So he’s not a hypocrite at all. :)
Moore Celebrates Anti-Capitalism Movie ... at Ritzy Penthouse
NYC city screening:
As Michael Corkery, a blogger at the Wall Street Journal, noted, filmgoers picked up their tickets at “Bank of New York Box Office,” milled around the “Morgan Stanley Lobby” with glasses of champagne, and took their seats in the “Citi Balcony” — a scenario that was a bit problematic, considering the point of Moore’s documentary.
After Party:
The event, hosted by Esquire, doubled as the launch of the magazine’s “Ultimate Bachelor Pad,” a fully tricked-out, 11-room, nine-bathroom, 9,200-square-foot signature penthouse in SoHo, filled with flatscreens, sleek, modern furniture and luxury brands — each room meticulously designed around an advertisers’ theme. (The Hugo Boss bedroom! The Heineken lounge! The Lufthansa kitchen!)
By the time Moore arrived, the party was in full swing, with revelers enjoying the 360-degree views of Lower Manhattan on the 3,000-square-foot terrace, top-shelf themed bars, sipping signature cocktails (there was a guy hired to blow dry ice on one pomegranate-and-melon-martini thing) and devouring skewers of filet mignon.
Esquire even hired models to strip down and slip into the obligatory hot tub.
According to the Los Angeles Times, “Capitalism” is being co-financed by John Malone, “master of the tax-free deal, a champion of unfettered free markets, completely disdains government and most federal regulations and has expressed a fondness for Rush Limbaugh” who was recently “slapped with a $1.4-million fine by the Justice Department for illegal stock purchases.”
Moore is a disgusting blob of hypocritical lying suet.
champion of himself and 5 dozen donuts
This guy is a media creation along the lines of certain black “reverends”, and we contribute to their influence by not ignoring them. I’m not personally a fan of Rudy Giuliani, but while mayor of NY he didn’t bow to the black self-designated “leaders”. They were out of the picture for years, as they should’ve been, because he acted as though they didn’t exist. We should give it a try, where possible & practical.
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