Goody Goody Gumdrops

Posted by MikeS on 08/22/09 at 01:16 PM

I know it’s been quiet here for a while.  But that’s because Moore has been comparatively quiet.  No longer.  Enjoy the trailer for his new film:

Now here’s a funny thing.  When it comes to bailouts and influence peddling, Moore and I are ... oh I can’t say it.  Come on, Mike.  Man up.  We’re ... on ... sort of ... maybe .. in a small way ... to some degree ... as far as it goes ... on ... well, not the same page.  But at least we’re both reading books.  How’s that?  That OK?

Bailouts are disgusting and the conflict on interest between our former Secretary of the Treasury, the heads of Fanny/Freddie, Congress and Wall Street were repulsive.  In the financial crisis, companies with political connections (or union payrolls) became “too big to fail” while companies without such pull were left to suck eggs.  A good film-maker could produce a searing indictment.

The thing is, that system of bailouts and influence is not capitalism.  If anything, it’s a reimagined version of the mercantilism that Adam Smith fought so hard against.

Now granted, this is just a trailer.  But it seems like Moore intends to head, predictably, into the “blue vs. white collar” schtick that has defined his economic thinking for his entire career.  Capitalism bad; socialism good.  Money men bad; workers good.  Repeat.

Anyway, we’ll see what happens when the movie comes out (October 2).  In the meantime, maybe we’ll ramp things up in September with a look back at Mike’s previous movies.

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Posted by Rann Aridorn  on  08/23/2009  at  09:54 PM (Link to this comment | )

Money men bad; workers good.

And yet again, he will almost certainly attempt to make this point by abusing and harassing workers.

Other peoples’ and his own.

Posted by ZK273  on  08/25/2009  at  09:11 PM (Link to this comment | )

You gotta love the irony of Mikey using capitalist venues in order to decry capitalism.

Posted by Rann Aridorn  on  08/26/2009  at  10:50 AM (Link to this comment | )

Yeah, how much is he going to be charging the workers he’s championing for his DVDs and movie tickets, again...?

Posted by brusobug  on  08/26/2009  at  08:48 PM (Link to this comment | )

Workers don’t buy his films.  His films are geared for upper middle class and upper class lefties.

Posted by crichton  on  09/06/2009  at  10:15 PM (Link to this comment | )

As per usual, moore outsources the release of his new “film” overseas:

VENICE (Reuters) - Capitalism is evil. That is the conclusion U.S. documentary maker Michael Moore comes to in his latest movie “Capitalism: A Love Story,” which premieres at the Venice film festival Sunday.

Blending his trademark humor with tragic individual stories, archive footage and publicity stunts, the 55-year-old launches an all out attack on the capitalist system, arguing that it benefits the rich and condemns millions to poverty.

Capitalism is an evil, and you cannot regulate evil,” the two-hour movie concludes.

“You have to eliminate it and replace it with something that is good for all people and that something is democracy.”

Main Entry: cap·i·tal·ism
Pronunciation: \ˈka-pə-tə-ˌliz-əm, ˈkap-tə-, British also kə-ˈpi-tə-\
* Function: noun
* Date: 1877

: an economic system characterized by private or corporate ownership of capital goods, by investments that are determined by private decision, and by prices, production, and the distribution of goods that are determined mainly by competition in a free market

Main Entry: de·moc·ra·cy
Pronunciation: \di-ˈmä-krə-sē\
Function: noun
Inflected Form(s): plural de·moc·ra·cies
Etymology: Middle French democratie, from Late Latin democratia, from Greek dēmokratia, from dēmos + -kratia -cracy
Date: 1576
1 a : government by the people; especially : rule of the majority b : a government in which the supreme power is vested in the people and exercised by them directly or indirectly through a system of representation usually involving periodically held free elections

Moore has become the almighty when comparing apples to oranges. Any freshman general studies student knows that democracies and economic systems are not synonymous.  Enough said.

Essentially we have a law which says gambling is illegal but we’ve allowed Wall Street to do this and they’ve played with people’s money and taken it into these crazy areas of derivatives,” Moore told an audience in Venice.

Michael Moore lives in the mostly white and wealthy resort town of Traverse City, MI.  Mayhaps he’s missed this establishment, mere minutes from his home:

$50 Says Moore’s Been Here And Lost Money On The Tables...

Amid the gloom, Moore detects the beginnings of a popular movement against unbridled capitalism, and believes President Barack Obama’s rise to power may bolster it.

Democracy is not a spectator sport, it’s a participatory event,” he told a news conference. “If we don’t participate in it, it ceases to be a democracy. So Obama will rise or fall based not so much on what he does but on what we do to support him.

I guess that he missed the town halls that have been going on for the past couple of months.  Perhaps he’s missed Obama’s falling approval numbers on health care, cap and trade and the economy.  Perhaps the most idiotic thing he’s ever said is that Obama won’t succeed or fail based on what he does, but on whether we support him or not.  HUH!?!

The film re-visits some of Moore’s earlier movies, including a trip to his native Flint where his father was a car assembly line worker and was able to buy a home, a car, educate his children and look forward to a decent pension.

But he doesn’t revisit Flint when it’s time to hold his annual film festival which he proclaims raises millions of dollars for--you guessed it--the mostly white and mostly wealthy resort town of Traverse City, MI.  Whatta guy…

Same Old Same Old...

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