Moore is also probably in the 1% of people over a certain weight !!

I apologize in advance.

He’s actually part of the 34%… of obese adult Americans.

I’m interested to know how many of you that hate the 1% know how much you have to make to make it into that category.  Is it 5 million?  1 million?  Actually it’s only $350,000.  Yeah that’s a good living here in Utah, but you aren’t living the high life in NY or CA on that.  Now hate away!

He is 99% fat!

Moore is not a communist by any means! And who gives a shit if he’s part of the 1%!? The whole point is that this country is RUN and controlled by the 1%. Moore is definitely not holding back the 99% like the Republicans or pretty much any other rich are.

$350K a year? hell, that’s what many Hollywood libs make per week. OWS- why are you not demonstrating in Hollywood and Beverly Hills?

“ Moore is definitely not holding back the 99%”

Yes he is because based on your ideology, his income is not being distributed to the other 99%.

Didn’t ya read the OWS memo?

“Stocks, he maintained, were an evil “casino, and so he abstained from investing there:”

Yet many of Bernie Madoff clients were rich celebrities.

““I believed the concept of making money off your money had created a greedy, lazy class who didn’t produce any product, just misery and fear among the populace.”

Yes, that’s why so many people have their money in interest bearing accounts.

Man, is this tub of lard a load of crap.

Who gives a shit??? Moore does you dunce. That is why he LIED. Gawd you’re a moron. And Moore has said many times he agrees with a lot of the communist philosophies. There is nothing wrong with that, but to lie about it IS. Which you are doing. Why so dishonest?

Give it a few years. We’re heading to 50%.

Libs: ” You have been too successful and for that , you must be punished!!!!!!”

Michael Moore has lied, and he is being hypocritical. Who is really surprised besides his devoted and blind fans. 

In order to be like MM, you have to be able to lie and believe the lies you tell, like when he said the bin Ladens and Saudis pulled strings with the President, and were flown out of the country during the no-fly period right after 9/11.

I miss the days when being successful was something to be proud of.  Now you are told you are selfish and must feel guilty about it.  It’s a sad commentary about where we’ve gone as a nation. 

clearly moore enriches himself off the infrastructure built by we the movie-going public. moore and the rest of the hollywood elites should only be allowed to keep 100k per year and the rest of the money be given back to us in the form of free movie tickets and treats.

just like you libs keep spouting off about the productive ones in our society…

MM  is 100% obese.

Moore is the only one who qualifies to be both.
1% Brains
99% Fat

Yes, as Liz Warren would say: “MM became rich depending on the roads, bridges and White Castles that others built. He did not succeed by himself.”

Thank God for Michael Moore.  It is nice to see so many of his fans on this site promoting his great works which have identified so many wrongs with the Republican party and other Nazi sympathizers.  You know, I can’t name one Republican who has done one tenth of what Michael Moore has done for America.  But, I guess that’s why so many Americans flock to his movies.

Michael Moore is a selfish, self seving TOAD.  BTW how many minorities does Moore employ?  Would the answeer of ZERO surprise YOU?  What a dupliticous Jerk!

You must have been born an idiot.  Try reading moron, that might help.

Well, if anyone knows about 1% brains, it’s you.

Your ridiculous little opinion has been noted

I could eat a bowl of alphabet soup and SHIT a better argument than that

Have you considered suing your brains for non-support?

Michael, is that you?

Heck, that’s what some Hollywood folks make per episode. Didn’t Sheen and the Friends cast get a boatload of cash per episode?

“Michael Moore Caves …”

Been to Mammoth Cave and Carlsbad , but have no interest in this tourist attraction .

I am not ashamed of being successful at my craft. I may not make loads of money, but I do good work and am rewarded justly. So, if that makes me a capitalist and not an OWS slug, so  be it. Long live capitalism. So there, Michael Moore….

 We have read your posts….and have all deciced to make you Queen Of The Flea Baggers.”

Well….That response surey would have only taken 1% of my brains to conjure up
:).

LOL This article is all over the place. Claiming Moore is a communist hypocrite, bringing up the bible, linking to your own past articles as support for your claims. Wow!

Why don’t you and Mookie move into the same trailer park with the rest of the Flea Baggers and live in filth for the rest of you lives.  They maybe you will find happiness.

Don’t forget, the 1% includes:

-ALL major league team owners and nearly all sports players
-every hollywood degenerate tv or movie “star” – and even many second and third-rate pathetic excuses for actors
-fat-a$$ michael moore, fat-a$$ rosie odonnell, fat-a$$ oprah, fat-a$$ whoopi goldberg, fat-a$$ roseanne barr…..
-all bundlers for the OBOZO campaigns
-the majority of the current US Senate (more d-cRAT socialists than repubs)
-every head of every union
-OBOZO
-every silicon valley ceo that supports d-cRAT socialism, lead by those at Governmentoogle
-most “talking heads” on the lamestream socialist fake-news broadcast media
-every crony capitalist to the OBOZO-regime, with ge’s immelt at the top of this very long list
-nearly all PEU members in the peoples republic of california, when all lifetime benefits and pensions are included
-nearly everyone who has ever been a member of congress, when all lifetime benefits and pensions are included

and many, many others not on wall street or in banking.

“surely”

They’re probably not protesting in Hollywood and Beverly Hills, because Hollywood and Beverly Hills didn’t cause our economic collapse and because plenty of those in Hollywood and Beverly Hills aren’t claiming that they don’t want to pay higher taxes. 

Moore never claimed NOT to be part of the 1%.  Plus, Moore is not opposed to government helping the less fortunate and is not opposed to paying taxes.   Moore made a film indicting Wall Street banksters for the devastation to our economy.

What right wingnut loon web page or radio talking head did you hear that bullshit from?

You are a clueless mindless fool.

Nobody is asking you to feel guilty for career and financial success.  They’re just asking you to understand that others are not experiencing that career and financial success.  And, they’re asking that you pay taxes without complaining.

then let him send in more money, noboby is stopping him

Why would you feel the need to feel shame?  The shame Michael Moore wishes to heap is on those who destroyed our economy and were rewarded extra-generously for doing so.  Plus, many of those who destroyed the economy are adamantly opposed to having to pay higher taxes on the reward that they reaped.

I’m an idiot for pointing out the obvious FACT that Moore lied about his vast wealth? Good logic you have going there. ;) Let me quote the above post………

Christian Rome Casper:
“And who gives a shit if he’s part of the 1%!?”

tatboy:
“Who gives a shit??? Moore does you dunce. That is why he LIED.”

Try reading that moron…….

Yes he did… you’re a liar!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zQwt_GiiVi8

Now go away you LIAR!!!!!!!!!!!! You are a liar! You and the truth have NEVER met. There are few things lower in life than a liar!

The latest numbers from the IRS — based on 2009 tax returns — show what it takes to be among the top 1% of income earners: adjusted gross income of $343,927 or more. The 1.4 million Americans with this elite status reported 16.9% of all the country’s taxable income.Read more: http://www.kiplinger.com/features/archives/how-your-income-stacks-up.html#ixzz1cCJJYGSI
Become a Fan of Kiplinger’s on FacebookHow many times do I have to smack you liberals down before you learn?

The devastation of our economy is because we have a complete ninny for a president!  One who wasted 500 million dollars  on a useless Solar Panel Co. after being warned by his own advisers that it was in deep trouble.  103,000 more people in the unemployment line as of September.  Housing market at it’s lowest ebb since the 1930s.  I could go on and on….but I don’t want to keep you away from Fatso’s entertaining “movies.”

Well I make about $35,000 so I wasn’t speaking of myself.  And why shouldn’t people complain when the gov’t is WASTING the money they get as it is.  And now they are asking people to pay them more money so they can waste that.  I don’t think people mind paying for necessities at all.  The gov’t needs to drastically cut spending as the FIRST step, but Barry’s answer is to spend even more money.  That’s lunacy to anyone with a brain. 

We all pay taxes if we work.  You probably don’t…probably have foodstamps and a  new baby each year so you can afford that new Gov. Motors car.  Just another “entitler.”

Funny, Gloves!

and you’re just a liberal ass kisser that will defend and follow this crazed bunch into hell…which would be a good place for all of you.  Where so you get your sorce of garbage?  The left loonie web sites, and MSNBC?

Stonepark, I had that same thought recently. Why not an Occupy Beverly Hills? There are certainly enough people there in the “1%”.

Have you heard any of them volunteering to pay higher taxes? I haven’t.

And that would probably be around 300 pounds.

We know for sure that Moore is in the top 1%.  He’s among the top 1% of fat guys who rarely bathe.  There are areas of the human anatomy that need to have regular contact with soap and hot water, or they cause a person to incoherently complain about everything and everybody around them.  Unfortunately the smell that is generated by this lack of hygiene causes others keep their distance.  It’s a vicious cycle.

and you wishing liberals to hell makes you a stereotypical religious conservative nutjob that gives the part a bad name

Like I said, if anyone knows about 1% brainpower, it’s you.

Ah, another of the 1%ers.  Keep ‘em coming geniuses.

You mean like Chris Dodd and Obama giving those banks and insurance companies money with no strings attached? You mean like those guys?

Mr. Martel, you are a writer/reporter. You are paid to write articles about the news at hand. That means, articles/news without your personal opinion included.  Once you add your personal opinion, your article is no longer unbiased.

You state that MM is in your thinking, a communist. Why you felt the need to label MM a communist, when your job was to write an article on what MM said in an interview, is baffling.
I for one am not a fan of MM, but I’m also not a fan of reporters/media who go off on a personal attack instead of sticking to the job they are paid to do.

Mr Martel. You might want to read the following over a few dozen times. Pay particular attention to Impartiality, Fair Play, & Decency. They describe you and the far too many other newsmedia like you, quite well.

“The Oath They Never Took”

“Truth indeed came once into the world with her divine Master, and was a perfect shape most glorious to look on: but when He ascended, and His apostles after Him were laid asleep, then straight arose a wicked race of deceivers, who … took the virgin Truth, hewed her lovely form into a thousand pieces, and scattered them to the four winds.”*

John Milton, in his Areopagitica, written over 340 years years ago, seems to be preparing us for some disenchantment with the media.

Indeed, today there are complaints from all segments of society about newsmedia incompetence, about over-hyping and trivializing the news, of strong and incessant ideological bias in the reporting of the news and even outright political propaganda being packaged and disseminated as the bona fide news of the day (and week).

This untenable track record has caused one reader to write:  “It seems our news media needs a Hippocratic Oath more than our doctors do….” (“Post Needs Oath,” by Mr. Gerald Rinell, Washington Inquirer, 1/18/85.)

Is it too much to ask, that journalists do something to show they’re trying to do an honest job so we can trust them? After all, don’t we pay for it in one way or another? Just ask the advertisers in your refrigerator or in your closet or in your garage.

But, while not as “official” as an oath, nevertheless through the years there have been codes of ethics drawn up and endorsed by editors and journalists alike.

This is the outline of American Society of Newspaper Editors (founded in 1922) “Canons of Journalism”:
Responsibility (of newspaper and journalist)Freedom of the Press (“a vital right of mankind”)Independence (fidelity to the public interest)Sincerity, Truthfulness, Accuracy (good faith with reader)Impartiality (news reports free from opinion or bias)Fair Play, Decency (recognition of private rights, prompt correction of errors)

And in the early 1950′s a group of distinguished private citizens, “The President’s Commission on Freedom of the Press,” conducted a thorough study of the press under grants by Time, Inc. and Encyclopedia Britannica, Inc. Drawing largely from the industry’s own efforts at self-evaluation, they arrived at an excellent philosophical model of what the press should be and what it should do:
The newsmedia should provide “a truthful, comprehensive and intelligent account of the day’s events in a context which gives them meaning;”The newsmedia should serve as a forum for the exchange of comment and criticism, as “common carriers” in the realm of public discussion;The newsmedia should give a representative picture of the various groups which make up society;The newsmedia should present and clarify the goals and values of society, andThe newsmedia should provide “full access to the day’s intelligence.”

The Hon. Sam Ervin eloquently sums up for us the vital importance of legitimate journalism in his introduction to the (1973) Georgetown Law Journal’s Media and the First Amendment in a Free Society:

“It is no exaggeration to say that the first amendment contains the most important elements of individual freedom; the liberties of speech and press are the basis on which other freedoms stand.
“The framers of the Bill of Rights believed, in the first place, that a free flow of information and ideas was the best of all protections against the worst form of tyranny, that of the mind…

“To say that great freedom is conferred upon the press and broadcast media is to imply that great responsibility is likewise conferred.  In order to understand that responsibility, one must return to the two main purposes of the first amendment–the creation of free thought and the stimulation of public discussion.

“The heritage of a free society, then, requires of the publisher and broadcaster that they disseminate such information as will enable recipients to arrive at the truth and as will assist them in making decisions on issues confronting the country. The information must be accurate; it must be presented objectively and interpreted fairly; and it must, if an expression of editorial opinion, be answerable.”

I sincerely wish the news business would once again recognize their obligation to their public and measure their performance by the standards they once enshrined–the oath they never took.

* John Milton, Areopagitica; a Speech of Mr. John Milton, For the Liberty of Unlicenc’d Printing, To the Parlament of England, (London, 1644), pp. 137-8.

– Don F. Ridgway, “The Oath They Never Took,” The Washington Inquirer, (March 1, 1985), p. 6.

You are a total hypocrite supporting Moore and then claiming to support OWS. Moore is a confessed Communist, who lies about Capitalism. He’s a typical Left-Wing Elitest. Moore like Obama have the same mindset as Stalin, Lenin and Mao. Like all good Communists they have their riches so they don’t want anyone else to get rich too. They believe there is only so much wealth, it’s static and doesn’t grow. Capitalist believe wealth grows which is true. The United States is a great example. No Country in the History has ever built as much wealth and high standard of living as we have. If the Commies would keep their hands off the wealth builders we would continue to expand but they don’t want us to get rich like they are. Communism is responsible for over 500 million deaths, Mao killed 300 million of his own, this is always the way Communism ends up because of the Elitest trying to protect their wealth. We must suffocate Communism and Marxism before it kills us.

Yes he said he only invested in labor but he bought property, that’s not labor, property is money making money through inflation. Moore’s full of crap like all Marxists.

The problem is you and Moore don’t know who really destroyed our economy. It wasn’t the top 1%, it was the lower 50% of parasites who refuse to work with the exception of the elderly and disabled. the lower 50% that don’t pay taxes but who reap 80% of the government largess.

I like to see Michael Moore sqirm when he’s in the 1% rich. It’s this great country that got him there. i wish he’d dress better. he’s needs to get help it least it would bring one job to someone

If you go to the top of the page, you will see this story is under “columnists.”

Why would you copy and paste all of that stuff because you disagree with her editorial?

She was kinder than I would have been.  I would have thrown in some jabs about him owning stock in Halliburton, Pfizer, Merk, Sunoco, McDonalds, and Boeing after declaring that he doesn’t make money off of stocks.

Profiting off of war, big oil, and and big pharma.  All the while duping gullible people into thinking that he’s some sort of Tom Joad.

Then I would have thrown in this uncomfortable video of being confronted about it by Canadian progressive filmmakers just for a chuckle or two:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3XjTeLhjldU&noredirect=1 

Btw, what’s the unbiased word for big fat liar?

Frances I’m boycotting all of your articles from now on and I’m calling on all others from the left to do the same.  Your attempt to delegitimze Michael Moore by labeling him as a communist in order to feed red meat to the masses needs to be shunned by decent Americans.  Take it to FOX Nation where it belongs.

“…They are not inherently evil or anti-American, and to insinuate as such is an insult to many patriotic Americans who identify with communist values.”
Frances, Frances…
“Communist values” Communist countries still have a top 1%. Are you ignorant or are you to young to remember what the Soviet Union looked like or the aftermath of the Berlin Wall coming down? There will always be a class of individuals who suppress other people and benefit financially from it.  Maybe this is where Moore has subscribed to his religious values and you are confusing it with ‘communism’. Such as feeding the poor, provide shelter for the homeless, and the widows set up alternative housing for domestic abuse, Christian (or any religion) or communism? Which one expects nothing in return? 

According to the OWS protestors it doesn’t matter how you earn your 1% cred., they still want your money.  Moore knows the hypocrisy of this, so is it any wonder he was loathe to admit he was part of the club? Hard work or trust fund – hand it over, baby.

It’s clear from your response, you cannot read well enough to comprehend.

Hey, can you boycott all the articles here? Thanks.

When Michael Moore sits on the ground what do you call it?

Ans:  “Mt Moore”; “the moving tourist attraction!”

“1%” represents wealth and the control of wealth, not yearly income.

Dipshit.

Ad hominem at its finest. You are pathetic.

Lol.  A good old fashion boycott.

Good luck trying to shape the world in your image, progressive_kitty.  We can’t have people going around having different worldviews than you, can we? 

Wish Mediaite would have actually given you the whole post.

Life Among the 1% …a letter from Michael Moore

October 27th, 2011

Friends,

Twenty-two years ago 
this coming Tuesday, I stood with a group of factory workers, students
and the unemployed in the middle of the downtown of my birthplace, 
Flint, Michigan, to announce that the 
Hollywood studio, Warner Bros., had purchased the world rights to
distribute my first movie, ‘Roger & Me.’ A reporter asked me, “How
much did you sell it for?”

“Three million dollars!” I proudly exclaimed. A cheer went up from the
union guys surrounding me. It was absolutely unheard of for one of us in
the working class of Flint (or anywhere) to receive such a sum of money
unless one of us had either robbed a bank or, by luck, won the 
Michigan lottery. On that sunny November day in 1989, it was like I had won the lottery – and the people I had lived and struggled with in Michigan were thrilled with my success. It was like, one of us had made it, one of us finally had good fortune smile upon us. The day was filled with high-fives and “Way-ta-go Mike!”s.
When you are from the working class you root for each other, and when
one of you does well, the others are beaming with pride — not just for
that one person’s success, but for the fact that the team had
somehow won, beating the system that was brutal and unforgiving and
which ran a game that was rigged against us. We knew the rules, and
those rules said that we factory town rats do not get to make movies or
be on TV talk shows or have our voice heard on any national stage. We
were to shut up, keep our heads down, and get back to work. If by some
miracle one of us escaped and commandeered a mass audience and some loot
to boot — well, holy 
mother of God, watch out! A bully pulpit and enough cash to raise a
ruckus — that was an incendiary combination, and it only spelled
trouble for those at the top.

Until that point I had been barely getting by on unemployment,
collecting $98 a week. Welfare. The dole. My car had died back in April
so I had gone seven months with no vehicle. Friends would take me out to
dinner, always coming up with an excuse to celebrate or commemorate
something and then picking up the check so I would not have to feel the
shame of not being able to afford it.

And now, all of a sudden, I had three million bucks! What would I do
with it? There were men in suits making many suggestions to me, and I
could see how those without a strong moral sense of social
responsibility could be easily lead down the “ME” path and quickly
forget about the “WE.”

So I made some easy decisions back in 1989:

1. I would first pay all my taxes. I told the guy who did my 1040 not to
declare any deductions other than the mortgage and to pay the full
federal, state and city tax rate. I proudly contributed nearly 1 million
dollars for the privilege of being a citizen of this great country.

2. Of the remaining $2 million, I decided to divide it up the way I once
heard the folksinger/activist Harry Chapin tell me how he lived: “One
for me, one for the other guy.” So I took half the money — $1 million
– and established a foundation to give it all away.

3. The remaining million went like this: I paid off all my debts, paid
off the debts of some friends and family members, bought my parents a
new refrigerator, set up college funds for our nieces and nephews,
helped rebuild a black church that had been burned down in Flint, gave
out a thousand turkeys at Thanksgiving, bought filmmaking equipment to
send to the Vietnamese (my own personal reparations for a country we had
ravaged), annually bought 10,000 toys to give to Toys for Tots at
Christmas, got myself a new American-made Honda, and took out a mortgage
on an apartment above a Baby Gap in 
New York City.

4. What remained went into a simple, low-interest savings account. I
made the decision that I would never buy a share of stock (I didn’t
understand the casino known as the 
New York Stock Exchange and I did not believe in investing in a system I did not agree with).

5. Finally, I believed the concept of making money off your money had
created a greedy, lazy class who didn’t produce any product, just misery
and fear among the populace. They invented ways to buy out companies
and then shut them down. They dreamed up schemes to play with people’s
pension funds as if it were their own money. They demanded companies
keep posting record profits (which was accomplished by firing thousands
and eliminating health benefits for those who remained). I made the
decision that if I was going to earn a living, it would be done from my
own sweat and ideas and creativity. I would produce something tangible,
something others could own or be entertained by or learn from. My work
would create employment for others, good employment with middle class
wages and full health benefits.

I went on to make more movies, produce TV series and write books. I
never started a project with the thought, “I wonder how much money I can
make at this?” And by never letting money be the motivating force for
anything, I simply did exactly what I wanted to do. That attitude kept
the work honest and unflinching — and that, in turn I believe, resulted
in millions of people buying tickets to these films, tuning in to my TV
shows, and buying my books.

Which is exactly what has driven the Right crazy when it comes to me. How did someone
from the left get such a wide mainstream audience?! This just isn’t
supposed to happen (Noam Chomsky, sadly, will not be booked on The View today,
and Howard Zinn, shockingly, didn’t make the New York Times bestseller
list until after he died). That’s how the media machine is rigged — you
are not supposed to hear from those who would completely change the
system to something much better. Only wimpy liberals who urge caution
and compromise and mild reforms get to have their say on the op-ed pages
or 
Sunday morning chat shows.

Somehow, I found a crack through the wall and made it through. I feel
very blessed that I have this life — and I take none of it for granted.
I believe in the lessons I was taught back in Catholic school — that
if you end up doing well, you have an even greater responsibility to
those who don’t fare the same. “The last shall be first and the first
shall be last.” Kinda commie, I know, but the idea was that the human
family was supposed to divide up the earth’s riches in a fair manner so
that all of God’s children would have a life with less suffering.

I do very well — and for a documentary filmmaker, I do extremely well. That, too, drives conservatives bonkers. ”You’re rich because of capitalism!” they
scream at me. Um, no. Didn’t you take Econ 101? Capitalism is a system,
a pyramid scheme of sorts, that exploits the vast majority so that the
few at the top can enrich themselves more. I make my money the old
school, honest way by making things. Some years I earn a boatload
of cash. Other years, like last year, I don’t have a job (no movie, no
book) and so I make a lot less. 
“How can you claim to be for the poor when you are the opposite of poor?!” It’s like asking: ”You’ve never had sex with another man — how can you be for gay marriage?!” I
guess the same way that an all-male Congress voted to give women the
vote, or scores of white people marched with Martin Luther Ling, Jr. (I
can hear these righties yelling back through history: ”Hey! You’re not black! You’re not being lynched! Why are you with the blacks?!”). It is precisely this disconnect that prevents Republicans from understanding why anyone would give of their time or money to help out those less fortunate. It is simply something their brain cannot process. ”Kanye West makes millions! What’s he doing at Occupy Wall Street?!” Exactly — he’s down there demanding that his taxes be raised.
That, to a right-winger, is the definition of insanity. To everyone
else, we are grateful that people like him stand up, even if and especially because it is against his own personal financial interest. It is specifically what that Bible those conservatives wave around demands of those who are well off.

Back on that November day in 1989 when I sold my first film, a good
friend of mine said this to me: “They have made a huge mistake giving
someone like you a big check. This will make you a very dangerous man.
And it proves that old saying right: ‘The capitalist will sell you the
rope to hang himself with if he thinks he can make a buck off it.’”

Yours, 

Michael Moore

Ahhhh, cry for me libturd!

That’s all ya got, child?

Thought so!

After your pathetic response toA live, you showed what a 100% (-) you are!

You’re at mediaite, Jayson2.  I’m not sure if you’re aware of what mediaite does.   

In case you’re confused, here are a couple of suggestions for you:
http://www.ap.org/

http://www.reuters.com/

What is so funny about rich libs is that they so desperately want to be part of the 99% but they can’t because they are mostly 0.002%ers!

Rosy O”Donnell wants to be a 99% so bad, she changed the definition of a 1%er.

She claimed on her show that she was indeed a “99%er”. How can someone as rich as she be a 99%er? easy, she changed the definition to be “you weren’t rich growing up.”

LOL

No joke- that’s the rich libs definition of a 99% in the lib world!

You must have a truly empty feeling – in your skull!

LOL

Now they change the definition- I love it!

Go ahead and boycott his articles. That will teach him!

psst…by the way…. Moore is a communist…..

Definition of Communism

1.
a
theory or system of social organization based on the holding of all
property in common, actual ownership being ascribed to the community as a
whole or to the state.
2.a system of social organization in which
all economic and social activity is controlled by a totalitarian state
dominated by a single and self-perpetuating political party.

Based on Moore’s documentary’s, interviews, and policies he supports, he seems to fit that mold.

In fact the top 1% starts at around $375k per year….. Damn those dirty…um…er…. THOUSANDAIRES!!!!!!

You do realize that that last graf is complete and utter nonsense, right?

Frances Martel, where has Moore called for the “…nationalization of the banks, railroads, and industries like steel and auto”? If you cannot back up this assertion, you really don’t deserve to be writing for mediaite as you appear clueless about how to be objective. This is not your personal blog, you know?

You say that as if the economic collapse and tax rates have anything to do with each other. They don’t. 

I’d really like to see where Moore called out Barney Frank and Chris Dodd. Show me, please.

Is that why these losers are voluntarily homeless? So that people will pay their taxes quietly and without complaint?

I have an answer: No. 

 Mr. Martel you are a hack that writes from a deep bias.  This article is an embarrassment to this web sight.  You should be ashamed. 

I’m well aware of what mediaite does. My mistake it seems, was using the words writer/reporter instead of the word columnist, so you could better understand basic second grade english.

I could care less what MM does or how much money he makes, it’s of no interest of mine. What I do care about is a “columnist” labeling MM or any other person, a communist, simply because it’s the “columnists” opinion.

I can only think from your response, what MM does, or make financially, is more important to you than what you do, or make financially for yourself. 

Frances Martel is right in everything she posted.

Here is Michael Moore in one fell swoop advocating the nationalizing of ALL transportation, including seizing the car companies:

“These idiots don’t deserve a dime. Fire all of them, and take over the
industry for the good of the workers, the country and the planet.”
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/michael-moore/saving-the-big-3-for-you_b_147970.html

We already know he wants healthcare nationalized and cites Cuba as a model of healthcare preferable to what we have in America – see “Sicko.”

And how does he plan to fix Wall Street?  Create a “National Bank, a peoples bank”, of course!
http://www.michaelmoore.com/words/mikes-letter/heres-how-to-fix-the-wall-street-mess-from-michael-moore

No need to mock my intelligence because you disagree with me. 

See my post below.  Michael Moore advocates communist ideals.  What’s wrong with pointing that out?   

YOU”RE putting a negative connotation to the word “communism”, not her.  Regardless of how she feels about communism, she went out of her way to point that out.

Michael Moore’s views line up – in lock step with communist ideals.  Get over it.

What a convoluted bunch of crap.

Except it’s all a lie. Moore has investments on many stocks. You could have found that out with an easy Google search and lot looked so stupid. He even had money in Halliburton. I love how he is able to play you fools so easily.

Well. I just went through a few years worth of the most generous celebrities list and Michael Moore did not appear on any of them, but Rush Limbaugh did.

I’m calling on the feral cat to boycott all of Mediate’s articles.  Losing her would be like losing that silly gnat that was circling my peaches this moning.  Losing Frances would be like losing one of my peaches.

Thanks for doing Frances’ job for her, turk. Calling a liberal a Communist is a bit like calling a conservative a racist. If you don’t back up the claim when and where it is made, then don’t make the charge. I’ve repeatedly called out Garofalo and Olbermann for doing this exact thing.

Regarding Michael Moore in general, he is a bit of a strange bird. You can search for my screen name and his, and you’ll see me saying this over the years. Moore’s documentaries make good points, but Moore himself is not always honest and clear thinking. His “where is the rapist?” question and the “I could stab you through the screen door” interview in “Bowling For Columbine” (I think it was) is one example of his quirkiness. His statement that the missiles being built in Colorado Springs being trucked through the city at night so no one could see them was an example of bad journalism and ignorance. Of course the missiles are trucked at night. They are big and there are less people on the road. Moore never mentioned this practicality. He had his narrative, true or false, and he wasn’t going to let facts get in his way. Ditto for his interview with Charelton Heston. Moore waited until the very end of the interview as Mr. Heston was walking away to ask about the little girl in the picture Moore was holding. Heston not returning was portrayed as him not caring. In truth, Moore was a coward for not presenting the photo at an appropriate time. That was disgraceful.

Regarding the links you posted, again thanks for putting them up. I read them, and still it does not make the case that Moore is a Communist. He was calling for the auto-makers and other industries needing bailouts to be nationalized. The government was already going to give them the money. Not nationalizing them is like the President sending soldiers to fight but not calling it a war. These sentiments regarding the bailouts were shared by many, not just Moore.

Regarding nationalizing the transportation sector in total, yeah, that is pretty hard-core socialism. It does seem to be one small point in the overall scheme of things.

In my opinion, what has happened here is that Frances Martin unthinkingly stepped in the pile of propaganda the right is continuing to try and push: that Liberalism equals socialism equals Communism. Communism is far-left Liberalism with an authoritarian government. Republicans of 21st century Americans are also Liberals, just conservative ones. Progressive taxation is just more liberal than is the flat tax. It is not categorically different. Flat taxes are still used to fund the police, the courts, and education if flat taxes are carried out at the local level. Everyone pays. Everyone uses the services as they need. The only way to escape Liberalism entirely and to be honest about this “socialist” name calling is to enact a Libertarian “government”. Then you pay private insurance for fire protection for your home and health protection and for judges for courts, etc. But I don’t see how that is any different from the richest of us controlling everything. It already happens with lawyers. Rich clients can bury the poor in legal demands that they just can’t afford to fight. Score one for the rich; Lady Liberty is peeking under that blindfold.

Build walls around a community, have only expensive lots available, put up a gate at the entrance and voila! You have a gated community. Put private schools inside and hire a private security force and the rich do not need to help fund the public police, the courts, the roads, the schools, etc. They take themselves out of society. It is a class war they fight by ceasing to be a part of their communities.

None of this is Communism. It just looks that way when you are blinded by the propaganda being put out by those who do not want to part of America but want to look good while taking all the toys we’ve all helped them get and going home. It is Unamerican. It is uncivil. And it is unconscionable to defend them.

Presumably Mickey Maroon would like the state to seize & redistribute his financial assets. (Slava kommunismu!)

As for the “last..first” quote, if he bothered to include the context, he might have noticed that there’s nothing “communist” about it; it’s not about economics.

Finally: his “…greedy, lazy class who didn’t produce any product, just misery and fear….” sounds less like like financiers than like the ever-expanding federal fiefdoms whose commissars seek ever to impose more & more Rules on everyone, Rules which no legislator has passed but which are held as sacred & unalterable as those old Laws of the Medes & Persians.

Thanks for being civil, shonangreg.  I’m not doing Frances’ work for her, I think she’s more than capable of doing it herself.  I just happen to agree with her on this.

I don’t consider liberals or people on the left to be commies, Marxists, socialists, fascists or any other form of far left ideology.

I’m also aware that those words are sometimes thrown around with reckless abandon by people on my side to denigrate the democrat party. 

Communism has a very negative connotation to it(as it should) due to the history.  I think that’s why there’s such a push back when one points out that someones political views mirror that of communists.

We’ve gotten to the point in this country where if a word makes us uncomfortable, we change it as if it makes the meaning somehow different. 

That’s how taxes become “revenue enhancements” or wars become “overseas contingency operations” and printing money becomes “quantitative easing.” 

Read the platform from the Communist Party USA website that Frances added and tell me what is different between their views and Moore’s?  I see none.

So if we take the emotion out of the word “communism” and look at the definition, Michael Moore espouses a communist political view.  Especially when you consider his fawning over Castro and quotes like –

(Moore On Wealthy People’s Money) “That’s Not Theirs, That’s A National Resource, It’s Ours”
http://www.realclearpolitics.com/video/2011/03/02/moore_on_wealthy_peoples_money_thats_not_theirs_thats_a_national_resource_its_ours.html

Frances is a peach at Mediaite!

I don’t recall any of us on the right threatening a boycott here.  It’s not serious, but it’s funny.  Speaking for myself, I love being outraged at Tommy Christopher’s lefty posts.  I read all of them.  Lol.

After I read that boycott stuff I clicked on every advertisement on the site and refreshed the browser a few times.

you might want to get a grasp on history.  The mess we are in right now can be traced back to Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac.  Both pushed down our throats by Democrats, Acorn and a community organizer named Barack Obama.  The same democrats that are  consistently backed and pushed in our faces by the elitist Hollywood hypocrites.  The idea that Wall Street created the mess we are in is a complete fabrication.  These protesters are idiots.  

that’s not what they were protesting initially ASSHOLE, MORON, DIPSHIT.  Your clearly not that bright are you.  It just amazes me that the most vitriolic and hate filled comments all come from the liberals. Very telling is it not. Well you will all be crying after the next election when Bam Bam gets the boot.

What do you think it is that they were protesting initially?

Nitwit…

What is that? “You, Stonepark3, are just the kind of person who issues ad hominem attacks. For shame, you scoundrel.”

For all you obama lovers out there, look at OWS, the news, the comments on nearly any web site and then try to say the clown in the white house isn’t stoking class warfare. And it’s because he has nothing but failed marxist ideals to rely on. Those have failed miserably and he has no where left to go. These leftist/proggresive/marxist criminals have done more to destroy this country since they took over the house in 2007 and barry got in the white house than any external enemy ever has. Who was it that said, if America ever fell it would be caused by rot from within?

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It appears that 1% of your brain can’t figure out the “edit” button!! Lol!!

Moore doesn’t have to apologize for being in the 1% club, because he fights for the other 99%!!

Your rhetoric is so hostile that we all know what you really think about this black dude in the white House.

And this is where Mr. Martel loses any semblance of credibility he had:
 
“For one, if the Bible is the launchpad for Moore’s belief system, how does he explain the near 100 million deaths and “disappearances” socialism/communism have caused around the world? We need not even go that far– how does Moore explain the fact that Marxists governments universally ban the practice of religion by their subjects?”
 
*Yawn* This kind of shameless conflation of totalitarianism with socialism has been shot down too many times at this point.

This is what the author of this article failed to report…..  THIS  is what Michael Moore left out of his statement:

Clearly feeling the pressure to come clean, the schlockumentary filmmaker took to his blog Thursday to set the record straight – kind of:

Twenty-two years ago this coming Tuesday, I stood with a group of
factory workers, students and the unemployed in the middle of the
downtown of my birthplace, Flint, Michigan, to announce that the
Hollywood studio, Warner Bros., had purchased the world rights to
distribute my first movie, ‘Roger & Me.’ A reporter asked me, “How
much did you sell it for?”

“Three million dollars!” I proudly exclaimed. A cheer went up from the
union guys surrounding me. It was absolutely unheard of for one of us in
the working class of Flint (or anywhere) to receive such a sum of money
unless one of us had either robbed a bank or, by luck, won the Michigan
lottery.

Moore went on to explain what he did with his jackpot:

1. I would first pay all my taxes. I told the guy who did my 1040 not
to declare any deductions other than the mortgage and to pay the full
federal, state and city tax rate. I proudly contributed nearly 1 million
dollars for the privilege of being a citizen of this great country.

2. Of the remaining $2 million, I decided to divide it up the way I
once heard the folksinger/activist Harry Chapin tell me how he lived:
“One for me, one for the other guy.” So I took half the money — $1
million — and established a foundation to give it all away.

3. The remaining million went like this: I paid off all my debts, paid
off the debts of some friends and family members, bought my parents a
new refrigerator, set up college funds for our nieces and nephews,
helped rebuild a black church that had been burned down in Flint, gave
out a thousand turkeys at Thanksgiving, bought filmmaking equipment to
send to the Vietnamese (my own personal reparations for a country we had
ravaged), annually bought 10,000 toys to give to Toys for Tots at
Christmas, got myself a new American-made Honda, and took out a mortgage
on an apartment above a Baby Gap in New York City.

4. What remained went into a simple, low-interest savings account. I
made the decision that I would never buy a share of stock (I didn’t
understand the casino known as the New York Stock Exchange and I did not
believe in investing in a system I did not agree with).

It really is something when a man lies to cover up his lies.

After
all, in 2005, Peter Schweizer in his book “Do As I Say (Not As I Do):
Profiles in Liberal Hypocrisy” included a copy of Moore’s schedule D
from one of his tax filings showing that the schlockumentarian at one
point owned almost 2,000 shares of Boeing, nearly 1,000 shares of
Sonoco, more than 4,000 shares of Best Foods, more than 3,000 shares of
Eli Lilly, more than 8,000 shares of Bank One, and more than 2,000
shares of Halliburton.

As Schweizer told MSNBC’s Joe Scarborough on November 3, 2005:

PETER SCHWEIZER: Well, Michael Moore has said at least half-a-dozen
times, I don`t own a single share of stock, because he considers
investing in the stock market to be dirty money.

Well, I guess he is technically correct. He doesn`t own a single share
of stock. He owns tens of thousands of shares of stock. And what is
interesting is, is looking at the portfolio.

Michael Moore, yes, the same Michael Moore, owns shares in defense contractors like Boeing. He owns…

(CROSSTALK)

JOE SCARBOROUGH: No. Well, hold — hold on. No way. You are telling me…

SCHWEIZER: Yes.

SCARBOROUGH: … that Mr. “Fahrenheit 9/11″ profits off of the war, because Boeing profits off the war, that he despises?

SCHWEIZER: Yes, that`s exactly right. He owns shares in Honeywell.

And, believe it or not, Joe — it`s on the back cover of the book —
he, in recent years, has owned shares in Halliburton, the Darth Vader of
corporate America.

SCARBOROUGH: OK. Hold on. I got to stop you, Peter…

(LAUGHTER)

SCARBOROUGH: … because this guy said that he doesn`t invest on Wall
Street. Are you telling me that he just is just lying to us?

SCHWEIZER: It`s a flat, bald-faced lie. When he says that he doesn`t
own shares, I pulled IRS forms from a tax shelter of his. And he has
hundreds of thousands of dollars on the stock market.

Right now, for example, he is preparing a film on pharmaceutical
companies, attacking the health care industry. In recent years, he has
owned shares in Tenet Healthcare, which runs HMOs, Pfizer, and Eli
Lilly. He is a complete hypocrite on this front.

SCARBOROUGH: And we have got to go to a break, and I want to talk to you on the other side.

But, just before we go to the break, are you telling me again that Michael Moore has owned stock in Halliburton?

SCHWEIZER: Yes. That`s what his IRS forms — and he signed his own IRS forms.

So Moore’s own IRS forms show that one of his tax shelters owns thousands of shares of stock.

But that’s not what he wrote Thursday: “I made the decision that I
would never buy a share of stock (I didn’t understand the casino known
as the New York Stock Exchange and I did not believe in investing in a
system I did not agree with).”

As such, he’s lying again.

Also of note, Moore discussed the $3 million he made from Roger and Me, but he didn’t say a word about earnings from subsequent films.

As our friends at Celebrity Net Worth note:

Fahrenheit 911 raked in $230 million in theaters and another $3 million
in DVD sales. After the theaters take their traditional 50% cut, that
leaves roughly $130 million. Take away marketing, production and
distribution expenses and Moore is conservatively left with $80 million.
Moore was able to secure a deal from Miramax which guaranteed him 27%
of his film’s net revenues, or roughly $21.6 million. Michael also was
entitled to 50% of the profits of Sicko which are estimated to be $17
million.

Moore didn’t discuss any of this in his piece Thursday, nor did he mention his current net worth is $50 million.

I guess he’s not interested in telling the whole truth yet.

Read more: http://newsbusters.org/blogs/noel-sheppard/2011/10/28/after-lying-about-his-wealth-national-tv-tuesday-michael-moore-admits#ixzz1cIeoV6oR

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Oh…I get it. You’re not really a capitalist if you make money from the system, don’t invest in stocks and you remember when you weren’t one of the 1%.  Oh yeah…and you think communism is swell.

The numbers listed are from regimes that rose to and held power under the socialist/communist banner.  After decades of defending these regimes from claims of inhuman treatment of their populations, leftists, facing documentation that proves the crimes now simply deny that these countries were ever socialist.  I guess that’s supposed to be clever but it really isn’t.  

And when North Korea finally falls apart and we learn even more about the atrocities there, their current defenders will quietly switch tactics and insist it was never a true communist country.  

Millions died as their governments pursued a communist utopia.  That’s the simple truth.  

I was wondering if he would ever admit he was a millionaire,and part of the problem.I can understand the ppl protesting on Wall Street for all the bail out money. But in Canada we have bailed out nobody,our banks R not run by a bunch of crooks. So wonder Y these ppl have taken root in our city? Hope they get good and cold.

Michael Moore is contradicting himself.

They should be protesting in DC. That is the source of all of the problems.

Just pump out as much anti-American propaganda as you can and maybe you too can become part of the 1%.

Well since his films are full of lies and half truths then why are we surpriesed that his statements are full of lies and half truths.

* you’re

And be careful not to leave out question marks at the end of questions – especially when arguing about somebody else’s intelligence – as you stand a greater chance of looking like an idiot or a child, or both.

Moore doesn’t embrace bad pieces of communism or socialism. I’m sure he wouldn’t advocate the unexplained kidnapping of 100 million people. He stands up for the worker. The actual engine of this economy. Not rich people that may or may not be job creators. People on the right defend the excesses of capitalism. Few if any were serious about Wall Street reform. They ultimately support the highly anti-capitalist ends of evil capitalism which leads to bailouts. Even Romney said a bailout wasn’t off the table.

I’ll believe unions are people when Texas executes one.

You are all scum, Michael Moore is not a communist and the 1% is NOT The people that make over 350k thats the people in the top tax bracket which is about TEN % of Americans but a selective few make so much more that they own more then half the wealth in this entire country and THEY are the 1% 

Can’t hit him for anything else..so go for the weight problem. lol!!!!!!!!!

Actually, you can google it. It would be best to try it before namcalling- as much of the MSM is not based on facts.