Nutroots Of the World Unite!
Oooh, joy. Michael Moore is planning to make a movie about the economic crisis. And who is he turning to for info? Financial reporters? Economists? Business analysts? How about the business geniuses of Daily Kos:
I am in the middle of shooting my next movie and I am looking for a few brave people who work on Wall Street or in the financial industry to come forward and share with me what they know. Based on those who have already contacted me, I believe there are a number of you who know “the real deal” about the abuses that have been happening. You have information that the American people need to hear. I am humbly asking you for a moment of courage, to be a hero and help me expose the biggest swindle in American history.
That would be TARP, right? Or the CRA? Or Freddie and Fannie? Or the Federal Reserve. Right? Right?! Hmm. Somehow, I don’t think that’s where this will go.
All correspondence with me will be kept confidential. Your identity will be protected and you will decide to what extent you wish to participate in telling the greatest crime story ever told.
The important thing here is for you to step up as an American and do your duty of shedding some light on this financial collapse. A few good people have already come forward, which leads me to believe there are many more of you out there who know what’s going on. Here’s your chance to let your fellow citizens in on the truth.
If you have any info that would help, please contact me at my private email address: [email protected].
For the rest of you on my email list who don’t work in the financial industry, you’re probably wondering, “What the heck is this all about? I thought he said he was making a romantic comedy!”
Well, I just can’t say much right now. I’m sure you can understand why. One thing I can tell you is that you’re gonna like this movie when I’m done with it. Oh, yeah…
So, again, if you work for a bank, a brokerage firm or an insurance company—or if you have seen things or heard things that you believe the American people have a right to know—please contact me at [email protected].
Thank you in advance for your help!
Yours,
Michael Moore
Now, I’m probably talking out of my ass here, since I don’t work in the movie industry. But if I were interested, as a writer, in learning the story of how the financial collapse happened and I were advertising for interview subjects, I would probably put anonymous ads in financial magazines or craiglist or something. I would not want to selectively pick out people who post, write and comment at one of the most liberal websites in the world. Or one of the most conservative, for that matter. But then again, I would be interested in the truth, not in constructing a slick polemic targeted at George Bush, Republicans, rich bankers, freemasons and capitalism in general.
Your Uncle MikeS is about to save you $10 on a movie ticket. I’ll summarize the probable movie for you. This was all the fault of Republicans and evil bankers. They forced people to buy homes they couldn’t afford so that they could lose hundreds of billions of dollars in foreclosures. They deliberately crashed the stock market so we would also lose our 401k’s and not be able to retire. Even now, they are planning the next wave of financial catastrophe.
There is a good story to be told in the financial collapse. There are certainly villains and idiots aplently. A good film-maker—such as Alex Gibney, who made Enron: The Smartest Guys in the Room could make a compelling film that would educate and enrage at the same time. But Michael Moore is no Alex Gibney. And now that he’s about to venture into economics, expect plenty of analysis to skewer his nonsense.
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Boy, there’s tons of accountability when all of your sources can remain totally untraceable and anonymous.
Hey mikkel:
Yawwwwnn…
So, where in the movie will he lambast the “Stimulus Plan” for being voted on after almost no one in the Congress read it? I believe there was a section in F411 that covered that very phenomenon with the PATRIOT ACT. People have been talking about the “culture of fear” when it comes to tracking down and defeating people in this country actively seeking and succeeding in killing Americans, but when they are faced with a bill that will bankrupt future generations of Americans (of which I believe I’m still a part of) and bring us into trillions of dollars in debt, how do they respond? “We must do it to avert catastrophe and prevent another Great Depression.” Sounds like fear to me.
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Who else thinks that this next piece will be just another manifesto for socialism?
Nah, I’m betting it will be just another manifesto for Moore. He’s gotten much less subtle about being his own favorite subject.
I wonder if he’ll interview any of the people who bought more house than they could afford because the Fed handed out cash like candy. Maybe he’ll interview some of the geniuses who started packaging debt and selling it. And maybe he’ll do the research first and then come to a conclusion, rather than having his conclusion first and then trumping up “facts” to support it.
And maybe I’m a Chinese Jet Pilot.
You know, it just occurred to me. Moore, man of the people, champion of the little guy, defender of the downtrodden, is going to make a movie about how bad the economy is and how all these poor working-class stiffs are getting screwed…
... and then he’s gonna charge said working-class stiffs to tell them how he thinks they got screwed.
Oh this just wonderful, Moore and his professional political flounders weighing in on the economy. Now if the film flops, will Moore ask for a bail out?
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Incidentally, I loved “Enron: The Smartest Guys in the Room.” One of the best docs of the decade.