Could Michael Moore Be The Left’s Answer To Glenn Beck?

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by Glynnis MacNicol | 10:14 am, October 15th, 2009

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Maybe Michael Moore and Glenn Beck should get together and have a tea party. Moore appeared on the Today show this morning to talk about the yesterday’s 10,000 Dow, and Wall St. bonuses, and the coming populist rage. Watch this clip and see if his tone rings a bell.

‘I don’t know how many gated communities these people who are taking this 140 billion dollars in bonuses — I don’t know how many castles with moats around them they can build. But I’ll tell ya something: There’s an anger that’s building out there. … They burned down our economy … and now they’re getting rewarded for it. … My hope is that when the congressional switchboard opens in about an hour, that everybody watching this just calls their member of Congress, and say that they’ve had it — that they want this stopped.’

Now just switch in a random Obama czar for “these [Wall St.] people” and add some chalk boards, maybe a red phone, and voila! It’s the Left’s answer to Glenn Beck. MSNBC should really consider giving Michael Moore his own show.

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Moore’s talent is in making movies, not in the daily grind of a television or radio show. Sure he acquits himself rather nicely sometimes on the talk-show movie promotion circuit, but after a month or two of only being able to devote an hour to a particular topic, (or worse, a series of ten minute segments,) he’d soon be out of his depth. It’s like hiring a gourmet chef to do fast-food.
m

Agreed. There’s a lot of people that MSNBC can get, but Michael Moore isn’t one of them.
ImNotBlue

Yes, I’m sure Michael Moore doesn’t live in one of those “gated community castles.” I’m sure lives in a shanty somewhere… quite modest. Riiiiight.

As if the story of his “release party” wasn’t convincing enough…
http://www.thewrap.com/ind-column/michael-moore-celebrates-capitalism-premiere-capitalism-fueled-penthouse_7568

Hypocrite.
CaptainAmerica

Liberals aren’t even going to see his movies anymore. Look at Capitalism. Out for 21 days and it hadn’t even hit $10M at the box office. Put a fork in the pathological liar and dishonest film maker.
Sue

Please, let’s get real and quit wasting time and print. The male who makes millions via capitalism and won’t share with us.
Jelperman

Wow, some real fucktards in this forum. Maybe if Sue, CaptainAmerica and I’mNotBlue would pick up a dictionary (or use Google) and look up the word “hypocrite”, they’d realize how stupid they really are.

The fact that Michael Moore is rich doesn’t make him a “hypocrite” unless you can produce a real quote where he says everyone should take a vow of poverty.
m

Yawn. There’s nothing contradictory with being a socialist and having money.
ImNotBlue

There’s nothing contradictory about a guy preaching that socialism is the “way to go,” while attending lavish parties (held by rich guys, for rich guys), and living in his own mansion… while complaining about other people’s wealth?

You don’t see the contradiction?

Okay… what about this… we’ll go on a more “style” level, since you apparently don’t understand “content.” Moore is well known for using “ambush interviews” in his movies to get his point across. The left-wing blogs have ranted and railed against O’Reilly and his producers using similar-style interviews. In fact, I’ve heard some of that ranting around these parts as well. So which is it? Is Moore allowed to do that stuff, and respectable for it… or should Moore knock it off, just like you suggest O’Reilly should?

Try that hypocrisy on for size.