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2009-10-01 -Short Attention Span Theater-

Millionaire Michael Moore: 'Capitalism Did Nothing for Me'...

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Posted by GolfBravoUSMC 2009-10-01 10:48|| || Front Page|| [1 views ] Top

#1 Then give away all your money to the poor and go dig ditches, you fat fuck.

Posted by DarthVader 2009-10-01 11:02|| 2009-10-01 11:02|| Front Page Top

#2 #1 Then give away all your money to the poor and go dig ditches, you fat fuck.
Posted by: DarthVader 2009-10-01 11:02

Well said, Darth. I ask all my liberal friends (who think Moore is right) what he would be doing if it were not for the money he "begs, borrows, etc." to produce his "documentaries". He might actually have to work for a living.

Posted by WolfDog 2009-10-01 11:12|| 2009-10-01 11:12|| Front Page Top

#3 By the looks of him, he's given a hefty portion of his money to McDonalds.

Posted by Woozle Uneter9007 2009-10-01 11:13|| 2009-10-01 11:13|| Front Page Top

#4 I can't believe anyone takes this buffoon seriously. Capitalism is the only reason he's able to do what he does. Which is to say that if it weren't for capitalism, Moore would have to find work doing something else (perhaps as a food taster for his Dear Leader, The 0ne? Sorry, I couldn't resist) other than bash the very system that makes his livelihood possible (and a rather cushy livelihood, at that).

The irony is so blatant that it almost ceases to be ironic at all. What a joke.

Posted by eltoroverde 2009-10-01 11:30|| 2009-10-01 11:30|| Front Page Top

#5 I don't get it. Isn't making a profit the whole incentive for releasing the movie? Maybe Mr. Moore should make a documentary exposing himself...(sorry for the disturbing mental images that statement created).

Posted by abu Chuck al Ameriki 2009-10-01 12:17|| 2009-10-01 12:17|| Front Page Top

#6 I can't imagine how big his carbon a$$print must be.

Posted by BrerRabbit 2009-10-01 12:24|| 2009-10-01 12:24|| Front Page Top

#7 "Look, you know, I mean, I make documentary films," said Moore. "So, clearly, I'm not loaded in the way you described. But I do well, obviously because my films do well."

Sad really - he believes his own bullshit.

Posted by CrazyFool 2009-10-01 12:50|| 2009-10-01 12:50|| Front Page Top

#8 Moore's lake house is assesed at $647,200

His Traverse City riverfront house is on the market for $259,000.

Posted by Parabellum 2009-10-01 12:57|| http://sidemeat.wordpress.com/]">[http://sidemeat.wordpress.com/] 2009-10-01 12:57|| Front Page Top

#9 This is a guy who needs to wake up in a North Korean concentration camp, after telling the other inmates that he "tastes like chicken".

Posted by Anonymoose 2009-10-01 13:56|| 2009-10-01 13:56|| Front Page Top

#10 His daddy was upper management at one of the US car companies, eh? No wonder American cars back then sucked.

Posted by Cornsilk Blondie 2009-10-01 14:37|| 2009-10-01 14:37|| Front Page Top

#11 Technically, we are a crony capitalism welfare state ergo the premise of his ignorant movies is all wrong.

I wish he would just move to cuba or something and leave us alone.
The man is just one big fat walking fallacy.

Posted by newc">newc 2009-10-01 14:51|| 2009-10-01 14:51|| Front Page Top

#12 Yeah, mike is a bona fide phony, from the very beginning : he's not '"working class" (his father was upper management, with golf membership and all), he's not "from Flint" (he's from a neighbouring, wealthier, residential town), and the premise for is first "documentary", "Roger and I" (think that's how it translates back to english)is that he, an humble car assembly line worker-turned moviemaker, couldn't get an interview with the Big boss of GM; turned out that 1) he was an "assembly line worker" only for a very short period of time and had gotten the job only in anticipation to the movie (as he already was an "activist-journalist" that notably had gotten out of Mother-Jones because they were not supportive enuff of the sandinistas - IE oit leftwing enough to his taste), AND, he HAD gotten a full interview from that boss, but chose instead to pretend he got the cold shoulder treatment. His very first movie, and his all career, actually, is built on a deliberate lie.
But then again, even his whole public character is a fabrication, so, why not???

Posted by anonymous5089 2009-10-01 16:21|| 2009-10-01 16:21|| Front Page Top

#13 Moore as a symptom of the culture of narcissism

Truth about Bowling for Columbine

MOOREWATCH - Watching Michael Moore's every move

SHOOTING MICHAEL MOORE a film by Kevin Leffler

Posted by anonymous5089 2009-10-01 16:49|| 2009-10-01 16:49|| Front Page Top

#14 A couple of weeks ago he told Howard Stern that he might be worth a "million dollars" if you count his house. No freaking way. His docs are cheaply produced, and have raked in hundreds of millions. His percentage of that would be large. Mel Gibson made $300,000,000 on "Passion of the Christ" alone, given that he financed and produced same. Moore is loaded.

That said, I don't condone the sale of derivatives; those sales bear no similarity to risk paper like commodity options. Capitalism hardly means selling anything that some pigeon might buy. Panderers like Moore aren't the only ones who believe that.

Posted by Blackbeard Ebbaique4750 2009-10-01 17:15|| 2009-10-01 17:15|| Front Page Top

#15 Look, you know, I mean, I make documentary films," said Moore. "So, clearly, I'm not loaded in the way you described. But I do well, obviously because my films do well."

Doesn't sound as if he understands capitalism, does it. The only way he could qualify as not loaded is when compared to some of his elitist liberal friends in Hollywood.

Posted by rjschwarz 2009-10-01 19:16|| 2009-10-01 19:16|| Front Page Top

#16 Someone who WAS born in Flint MI and did something useful with his time unlike some...

Posted by Bright Pebbles 2009-10-01 19:32|| 2009-10-01 19:32|| Front Page Top

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