“Capitalism is actually legalized greed”
By Johnny Roosh
…says Michael Moore on Leno, promoting his next documentary “Capitalism: A Love Story.”
Um, Michael, greed actually is legal. I’m sure you’re donating all the revenue from your film to charity then, right?
[crickets]
I can’t wait to go see his latest film because what with the economy and all, I’m a little short on cash and I’m sure a film extolling the evils of greed is…free…right?
[crickets]
Moore explained that his vision of democracy is redistributionist, and he gave no voice to the idea that self-reliance and hard work can propel one to great wealth.
“…we live in a democracy,”
“We’re supposed to have like fairness and equality.
Exactly. One citizen, one vote; and the American dream is *like* still widely available to *like* anyone willing to like do the work, at least *like* for now.
“And you know when you have a pie on the table … there’s 10 slices and one guy at the table says nine of those slices are mine…”
Gee Michael, I wonder who that guy is?
“…and the other nine of you, you can fight over the last slice. I mean that’s essentially the kind of economy we have now.”
Well, not everyone can be Michael Moore, can they?
What Michael doesn’t seem to understand is that the reason the one guy gets the nine pieces is that the other nine people don’t “go” for them, and in fact the one guy actually bakes the pie and gives the one back to the other nine.
It’s called a salary.
In America however, the recipe for the pie is public information. Anyone can bake themselves their own pie, and Moore has been doing it for a long time.
Typical liberal: A prescription for thee but not for me:
“Many people find it tough to swallow Moore’s jokes about the wealthy and then watch him fly first class at his publisher’s or film distributor’s expense to his posh home in New York City’s Central Park West, where he also sends his teenage daughter to an elite private school.”
Michael Moore is a talented filmmaker who like many in Hollywood have confused their success in the entertainment industry with an almighty ordination to entreat and admonish the minions at their feet with the gravity of their omniscient wisdom.
“Hey look everybody, it’s Madonna, arriving via private jet and limousine convoy to teach us how to ‘Go Green!'”
Moore’s hypocrisy is legendary, from investments he has made, people he has hired and then stiffed, to his own conspicuous enjoyment of the larger, juicier fruits of capitalism.
One can only imagine the sacrifices a 500-pound man has imposed on himself.
But the Hungry Hippocrit doesn’t care who knows all of this as there is always an ample supply of sycophants, unconscious objectors and serial protesters to stand in line and pay full price to see his drivel.
Which is to say, his hypocrisy hasn’t cost him a penny, so he doesn’t even bother to lift a hammy finger to conceal it.
…which pretty much makes him…a capitalist…pig.
September 21st, 2009 at 8:35 am
Michael Moore is actually a self-promoting fat guy with twice as many bad ideas as good ones.
September 21st, 2009 at 10:00 am
Name one good idea he’s had. Besides parleying class envy into a lucrative career, that is.
September 21st, 2009 at 10:03 am
A good idea; Blood In The Face was a great documentary.
September 21st, 2009 at 10:03 am
I know one good idea Moore has had…..he bought himself a mult-million dollar penthouse in NYC, then said it is the HQ for a non-profit so he could get it tax exempt. I call that ingenious.
September 21st, 2009 at 10:39 am
Blood In The Face? Haven’t seen it, but Mr. Moore’s involvement seems to have been minimal:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blood_in_the_Face_(1991_film)
Academy Award-winning American filmmaker Michael Moore helps out with the interviews.
September 21st, 2009 at 2:09 pm
Most of the people he mocks deserve to be mocked. But O.J. wasn’t innocent, Bush and Gore weren’t flip sides of the same coin and the Bush administration didn’t have a hand in 9/11. Those are all colossally stupid assertions he threw his (considerable) weight behind.
September 21st, 2009 at 3:06 pm
That’s because he’s not mocking people, he’s mocking an ideology.
There is something funny, tho, in Moore’s thesis that capitalism is bad because it makes the wrong people wealthy.
September 21st, 2009 at 4:45 pm
I’d love to hear MM’s rationalization about why he is so well off but is nevertheless exempt from the roasting he gives to the “greedy” rich. Blog readers might find it instructive to see “Michael Moore Hates America”, a smackdown of the man done using many of his own techniques, including attempting to interview him (naturally) with out success.
September 21st, 2009 at 4:59 pm
Perhaps Moore’s view of his wealth is that he “earned” it, so it’s legitimate, while all the greedy rich were merely lucky or really good at being greedy so they don’t deserve it. I believe there’s a tendency for the left to see “the rich” as Thurston Howell III while the right sees the rich as being more like those described in the book “The Millionaire Next Door.”
September 21st, 2009 at 6:04 pm
The Nation‘s Kristine Vanden Heuvel wrote this:
Just days ago, Glenn Beck led the astro-turf 9-12-09 “Taxpayer March on DC.” Compared to the millions who have marched for civil rights, equal rights, and gay rights, and against the war, Beck’s 70,000 would be small stuff — except for the tens of thousands waving Confederate flags, anti-gay hate signs, and shouting “White Power!”
There are more idiots on Left than the Right these days. What’s a clown to do?
September 22nd, 2009 at 5:17 pm
Ms Heuvel doesnt seem to know the definition of astro-turf. And I would love to hear more about the tens of thousands waving confederate flags and shouting white power. Other than those in her echo chamber, no one else is going to believe her, and if she lies about that, what else will/has she lied about? How does that article serve a purpose?