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Michael Moore Refuses To Admit He Is Part Of The 1% To Piers Morgan

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Michael Moore is an Academy Award-winning documentary filmmaker who spends much of his time traveling the promote his political ideals. Given his background, Piers Morgan seemed skeptical of Moore’s claims that he, too, was the famed 99% behind the Occupy Wall Street protests. Before a studio audience in a special edition of Piers Morgan Tonight, the host pressed Moore to explain just how he wasn’t a part of the nation’s economic elite, and got little clarification other than Moore’s desire the corporation that pays him “rue the day” they ever gave him money.

RELATED: Michael Moore To Lawrence O’Donnell: Wall Street Occupiers Want ‘A Perp Walk’

The inquiry came from Twitter, where one user asked why Moore appeared so disgusted by capitalism despite benefiting greatly from capitalism. “I’m here talking against my own interests– what’s wrong with me?” he joked, but didn’t really answer the question, other than to claim that “for a documentary filmmaker, I do very well.” When Morgan pushed him to explain how “very well” did not translate to elite levels of wealth, he merely said he felt “blessed,” given his high school education level, and claimed that “they made a huge mistake, putting me on TV.”

Moore continued to bash the wealthy, distancing himself from “a system that is unfair to working people” and concluding of the people that funded his first film, “I hope they rue the day.” He did not give any numbers to explain how his lifestyle did not conform with theirs.

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  • Anonymous

    Yes you are…Mr. Moore. Be real. 

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_FSPIVAFYI672OH5NOKVRTEZA4U MadCharles

    Michael Moore is as big as the 99% and is one of the 1%. He has it all….

  • http://twitter.com/MissConservaGal MissConservaGal

    He sweats sitting in a chair.

    What a disgusting pig. And of course what a perfect example of modern day progressivism.  

    More for me but none for thee.

  • Bob

    It wouldn’tmatter anyway. I’m surprised Tabloid Piers can hear anything with his head jammed so far up Rupert Murdoch’s behind.

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_M5V6VTQAVLARF7XXO47Z5OCZWM TangledThorns

    No mention of Moore making money off other people’s suffering just by documenting them? Moore is a weak individual that plays to the simple minded.

  • BinaryTruth

    The 1% have more wealth than some entire countries. Michael Moore is a poor man compared to the titans of Wall Street who OWS are protesting.

  • Droopypants945

    The fact that he won’t own it, that he is so clearly lying, makes him seem so very untrustworthy.  Of course he is part of the 1%.  Whomever doesn’t believe that has some serious denial issues, or is plain stupid.

  • Anonymous

    dodge,duck,dip,dive, and dodge…..you go bob

  • Anonymous

    He is sympathetic to the middle class and his disavowal that he is in the upper class lacks class.

  • Anonymous

    He is sympathetic to the middle class and his disavowal that he is in the upper class lacks class.

  • occupy the GOP

    financially speaking, although michael moore does well, he is definitely not part of the 1%. he is not filthy rich like so many of those who are part of the 1%. and even if he was, his money is spent attempting to educate people about the travesties being committed by our capitalist system, a la wall street.

    moore said:
    “i am devoting my life to those who have less and who have been crapped upon by the system.” there is not a single member of wall street who would be caught dead saying something even remotely close to this… and that’s what is most important.

  • Anonymous

    Typical filthy rich liberal guru.
    Because his contribution to the cause is so great everyone is supposed to overlook the blimp size hypocrisy that drips off him like melted cheese.

  • Anonymous

    Typical filthy rich liberal guru.
    Because his contribution to the cause is so great everyone is supposed to overlook the blimp size hypocrisy that drips off him like melted cheese.

  • South Park Conservatives

    Fat boy is a fraud.

  • Anonymous

    you tell’em, he is just a rich, fat mother teresa

  • occupy the GOP

    the stupidity of your comment is what’s so ironic. the cumulative wealth earned by the top 1% is not even close to what moore earns from his documentary films. he might be a part of the top 10-15%, but he’s obscenely rich, like so many of those in the top 1%. 

    wake up.

  • JamesYouToo1980

    Cheer up Michael.  At least you’re 99% body fat.

  • occupy the GOP

    *NOT obscenely rich

  • MIKE

    So it’s like a fat person telling us what to eat.

  • Texan

    “bob” can you explain why it wouldn’t matter of the doughnut king isn’t part of the 1%?

  • Anonymous

    Hair-splitting?! This is why NO ONE in the UK likes Piers.

  • Texan

    Give “bob” credit. He got a “Murdoch!” in there.

  • BinaryTruth

    It’s a matter of numbers. What is Moore worth and does it actually qualify him – not just hyperbole – as part of the 1%? Take John Paulson, for example.  Founder and President of Paulson & Co. a hedge fund in NY.  He made $5 billion in 2010.  Bought over $3 billion in gold just to drive its price up.  Let’s see Michael Moore do that!  Now there’s a true member of the 1%.  He has more money than many people (like the clever types named “droopypants”) can even possibly understand.

  • http://www.storminsmorningjava.blogspot.com/ stormin1961

    that’s the best DUCK AND COVER move i’ve seen since those Bert the turtle cartoons.
    http://blip.tv/vintage-tooncast/duck-and-cover-179911

  • Texan

    That’s exactly what patsy is saying.

  • Anonymous

    Moore is worth millions. He should not be ashamed to admit that fact.

  • Anonymous

    and what % of the 1 percenters work in the financial market? you know on wall street

  • http://twitter.com/kabmn00 kevin

    It would better if this jerkoff would buy a bullet, made in the USA.

  • Anonymous

    The wealthiest 1% starts at $516,633.

    Michael Moore’s net worth is 50 million dollars.

    Moore makes much, much more than your average CEO. 

    #OccupyACalculator

  • http://twitter.com/MattBX Matt W

    Why are we still debating Michael Moore? Advice for liberals: The whole,”leading by example is an evil conservative plot” philosophy is a real loser for you. Whether its Buffet’s company owing a billion dollars in taxes, Gore leading the planet in carbon emissions, Obama with his 80 rounds of golf, or Michael Moore with his lawsuit against Miramax for an extra 1.5 million in corporate greedy profits……it doesn’t look good. You may think the, “I make up for my indulgent lifestyle by preaching frugality” excuse is a good one. But most people say, “you know what Mike, you may have a point. But how can I listen to a guy denounce capitalism in America when he ENRICHES HIMSELF through American Capitalism?”

  • occupy the GOP

    it’s hilarious that all the moore haters seem to have nothing relevant to say about him other than his weight. i agree, he’s fat and could stand to lose a few lbs. 

    the fact remains – moore is a credible (albeit fat) voice for the left-wing, and you repubs can’t stand it. when chris christie runs for president in 2016, you’ll all forget about your obsession with someone’s caloric intake. and i won’t be surprised because you’re all hypocrites.

  • BinaryTruth

    That is the exact opposite of what he just said. I would say a perfect example of modern day conservatism: fact-free, emotional and childish, ad hominem attacks. The crux of your insult is a fat joke, seriously? Only you know for certain, but I suspect you feel the shame of this likely hypocrisy.

  • Anonymous

    Nothing is preventing Michael Moore from sending more of his money to the federal government.  If he really believes in his professed socialist ideals, he ought to do so. — instead of trying to force his inane views on the rest of us. 

  • Anonymous

    sorry bud, but liberals set the rules…..we can still make fun of old white people and fat people.    moore is a credible voice for you lol

  • Michelle

    Kind of like you libs with Chris Christie. 

  • Anonymous

    That’s how delusional the left is.

  • I AM MYSTERION

    Drop your lawsuit against Weinstein if you are not a greedy pig and hire a union crew you fat piece of BLEEP! I am allowed to call him that as I have a belly as well.

  • occupy the GOP

    touche, it appears i should have done a google search prior to my post.

    it doesn’t change the fact that moore utilizes his wealth for the purposes of educating the public via his documentary films, which is commendable considering what the selfish members of his elite 1% club choose to spend their money on.

    know your enemy. michael moore isn’t it.

  • http://www.scoamf.com/2011/08/hitler-realizes-obama-is-stuttering.html Unicon

    Hah !!

  • http://www.scoamf.com/2011/08/hitler-realizes-obama-is-stuttering.html Unicon

    Micheal often eats at the Golden Corral…. just like the little people do !

  • Darladoon

    even if he IS in the 1%, he’s asking, nay begging, for radical change

    and he’s not “anti-capitalist”, he’s critical of capitalism.  there’s a difference.

  • Darladoon

    “i’ve put a lot of effort into changing the system”

    bingo, michael!

    he’s working against his own interests, indeed.  

  • http://www.scoamf.com/2011/08/hitler-realizes-obama-is-stuttering.html Unicon

    Ouch… that one’s gonna leave a bruise on poor occupy the GOP

  • occupy the GOP

    we all agree… michael moore and chris christie are fat. the difference is, us on the left can cite additional info opposing christie while you on the right are unable to conjure up anything opposing michael moore other than the fact that he is overweight.

    ALSO.. let’s not forget what roles these two men have. one is a political office holder and potential presidential candidate while the other makes movies. if you’re so threatened by michael moore, dont buy a ticket to his films. simple.

  • Darladoon

    you proved his point, michelle

    btw, you’re easily the most vapid and hostile person i’ve ever encountered on any
    blog….

  • Anonymous

    Can I let you in a secret that us evil conservatives know?  Michael Moore is great a pro at receiving corporate welfare.

    Michael Moore applied for and received tax credits for the film “Capitalism: A Love Story.”  Post filming he received a million plus back from Michigan taxpayers for the film.

    Michigan’s unemployment was at 14.6%  The state was slashing jobs, social programs, etc, and Moore gets money out of struggling tax payers as a tax credit.

    Perhaps he educates scam artists how to make money off of gullible, but well meaning liberals.

    http://www.mackinac.org/12024

  • Darladoon

    what criticisms of moore’s do you disagree with, cjd?

    nevermind is wealth, because he’s not sitting at home enjoying it.

    he’s out there attempting to change the system, and doing a darn good
    job of it, compared to the vast majority of americans. 

    it’s not like he’s making pathetic action films and flying to st. barthes every weekend…

  • Anonymous

    Then don’t respond to her.

  • NDanielson

    Well he could live on his fat bank account for much longer than he can live on his fat ass, or belly rolls, without paying a dime in income taxes for his entire fat, bloated life! Meanwhile he could get little clowns like yourself to run around and think that raising taxes will actually make your life any better, while looking like he really REALLY cares! He pays no income if he has no income and he will live like a king until he dies. What a guy huh? Just know: he really cares about YOU!

  • Anonymous

    The stupidity of you commenting on your own post instead of editing it makes anything else you say suspect.

    Who cares about the cumulative wealth of the 1%? We’re talking about Moore being a hypocrite.

  • Michelle

    If that were true, he would be voluntarily sending more to the IRS than he is required too.  He is a liberal hypocrite.

  • Anonymous

    I always enjoy a Turk smackdown.

    I don’t know what you do for work, but you should utilize these talents.

  • Anonymous

    This is uncalled for.

  • occupy the GOP

    i can admit a mistake when i make one. no bruises here. 

    in any case, i find it comical that a voice for the left-wing gets attacked, no matter what, regardless of their ability to shed light upon the misdeeds being committed by greedy individuals such as roger moore (roger and me) or any number of wall street bankers (capitalism: a love story).

    what you on the right lack is compassion and common sense. as a liberal, i have no problem siding with a republican or conservative who makes sense (jon hunstman). it must be in your DNA to fiercely disagree with anything a liberal stands for, even if it’s to the detriment of you and the majority of americans.

    you’re not part of the 1% (and never will be), so why are you defending them?

  • Darladoon

    but turk,

    what points of his are invalid because of his being wealthy?

    i don’t dispute his wealth, but his points about “the system” are certainly valid.

  • Darladoon

    it makes FAR more sense to ask that the federal government to REQUIRE the 1-2% to pay
    more in taxes than in hoping they’ll simply donate the money.

    only a naive moron (like yourself, michelle) would believe the latter.  

  • Texan

    he’ll change names and act like it never happened

  • NDanielson

    He could live off his wealth without earning another dime in his life and NEVER pay INCOME taxes again. He’s not at home enjoying his wealth??? LOLOLOLOLOLOL. Wow. He bravely fights in the streets everyday for rent control, food stamps, welfare, free cheese and free abortion for the disadvantaged of AMERICA. Wow. If he had balls he’d pay your landlord the difference in income on his property that you have stolen from him since the 1976 price controls you enjoy.

    You’re so lazy you don’t even bother with caps! Yes even Michael would protest supporting you, Darla.

  • http://www.scoamf.com/2011/08/hitler-realizes-obama-is-stuttering.html Unicon

    Go back and look at your uninformed comments on this thread. I constantly see this type of knee-jerk crap coming in from the left who post here.

    Turk slapped you silly with facts… there will be marks.

  • http://www.scoamf.com/2011/08/hitler-realizes-obama-is-stuttering.html Unicon

    Go back and look at your uninformed comments on this thread. I constantly see this type of knee-jerk crap coming in from the left who post here.

    Turk slapped you silly with facts… there will be marks.

  • NDanielson

    Damn, I thought that was me, squatter!

  • NDanielson

    He can live high on the HOG, live off of his fat ass, and his fat bank account, till he dies without paying another dime in income taxes, while claiming that you should pay more. How’s that? What a fighter for the little people, huh?

  • Anonymous

    For one thing he owns no stock and has never owned any stock.

  • http://www.scoamf.com/2011/08/hitler-realizes-obama-is-stuttering.html Unicon

    Felix and Turk both !!

  • Anonymous

    Lol.  I’m trying to get the Koch Brothers attention so I can do their evil bidding!

  • Anonymous

    Stop responding to Michelle. If you don’t like what she has to say, then stop talking to her Darla.

  • Anonymous

    You have some evidence he pays no taxes?  Please produce it for us will you?

  • Anonymous

    CEOs get huge compensation in company stock and other benefits.  

  • Anonymous

    I can.  He’s advocating for and supporting the 99% rather than fighting against them.  That’s a pretty big difference in my book.

  • occupy the GOP

    without people like michael moore, widespread truths would never be heard. i am totally fine with him taking advantage of a tax credit in order to fund his films and do not see any hypocrisy in it. the ends justified the means.

    you repubs are all so simple – “well, why doesn’t he just use his money and give it to poor people?” kinda the same argument you on the right had against warren buffet. don’t you realize that ideas, as they come to be understood by the majority of citizens, are what create action and drive collective will? hence, OWS.

    you attack moore for utilizing a tax credit but not corporations for sucking every last cent via tax loopholes? it’s ok, as long as it’s done with a ‘right-wing’ frame of mind, right? and you have the gall to refer to me as stupid.

  • Anonymous

    I enjoy smacking down the Turk! 

  • Darladoon

    squatters don’t pay for rent, dude

    i pay handsomely, even though i have rent control

  • Gee Orwell

    AHhhhhh, so some 1% are more equal than others.  M’kay.  Got it.  Hollywood bazillionaires who wring tax breaks out of poor, destitute local gov’ts whilst their execs and stars earn  millions and the gap between these entertainment industry “haves” and the “have nots” is HUGE (unpaid production assistants on movie sets, anyone?) are okey dokey with the libs.  But Wall Street?  THOSE millionaires are “bad” millionaires.

    So, what I understand from this is that you folks aren’t all that upset that some folks earn millions while others earn far, far less as long as you agree with their politics. 

  • Darladoon

    he’s not a hypocrite if he’s out there fighting against his own financial interests

    that’s plainly obvious.  

  • Darladoon

    (misses point by a mile)

  • Anonymous

    Apparently you don’t pay handsomely.

    Darla – What’s your current rent control rate?

  • Anonymous

    It’s only OKIYAR right?  You have no problem with the rich righties.  Why should you have a problem with a lefty being rich?

  • Anonymous

    In response to Yoda:

    Too bad I’ve yet to see you do so.

  • NDanielson

    Wow, does he own cd’s, gold, silver, bonds, mutual funds, options, futures, or real estate? Did he make a fortune off of foreclosures? How much did he make after suing for his $2.7 million, and grossing $222 million on his bogus Fahrenheit? Wow capitalism is very very good for M. Moore.

  • Anonymous

    perfect liberal comment……..”the ends justify the means”

  • Anonymous

    OMG! Capitalism! Off with their heads!

    CEOs also take the risk of losing these “profits” if the company tanks.

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_3VUFTUN5223ITCWO7CHS2CI44A David

    But he is with the 99.

  • http://www.scoamf.com/2011/08/hitler-realizes-obama-is-stuttering.html Unicon

    Please send me a copy of Yoda’s post if he ever does !

  • NDanielson

    Yes, Darla wants more rent control for all!

    But it’s hard to work against ones interests, when one has none, huh Darla?

  • Anonymous

    “i am totally fine with him taking advantage of a tax credit in order to
    fund his films and do not see any hypocrisy in it. the ends justified
    the means.”

    This is why everything you say is suspect. If you can’t call him a hypocrite, then your arguments are going to be false.

    I’ve called out Repubs when I don’t agree with them. You should call out members that represent your side of the aisle.

    Also, I support Paul Ryan’s Roadmap, which I believe attacked this loophole idea. Why don’t you rail against Obama who hasn’t put forth a credible tax plan? I’ll wait for the rebuttal.

  • Pablo

    Who are the 1%? Do you even know? Or do you just enjoy hating the people you think that number represents?

    Read and learn: http://finance.yahoo.com/blogs/daily-ticker/believe-not-wall-street-doesn-t-dominate-top-183915328.html

    Moore is more like the 0.1%. But as long as he says things you like hearing, he’s cool, right? Like Obama.

  • Anonymous

    A foundation that is controlled by MM holds around 380.000$ in Halliburton and other defense stocks.

  • Anonymous

    you been to his house, how do you know he doesn’t enjoy it……no he just makes films that distort facts. he is on your side of the political spectrum so you have no problem looking past his hypocrisy

  • Anonymous

    Thought you loved capitalism?  Only for conservatives?

  • MIKE

    Do you know what an analogy is? It might have fit Moore in more ways than what it was intended to but I’m sorry your little feelings were hurt.
    Never saw one of his movies and actually could care less about him. My politics are not influenced by anybody active in movie making. Like you I’m not that shallow.
    BTW if Christie did run there’s a good chance I would have voted for him. How many articles were there out there from the liberal press saying he couldn’t win because of his weight? Talk about being a hypocrite.

  • occupy the GOP

    moore’s weight is a rarity for liberals. for the most part, liberals are smart enough to adhere to a healthy diet. and you dare mention old white people? have you not seen who populates the tea party?

  • Anonymous

    WCinWI they usually get a nice severance package if the company goes down the tubes or they lose their job.  So if the  company wins it’s a win for the CEOs, if the company loses it’s a win for the CEOs.  

  • Pablo

    You should try it when you’re awake, Yoda.

  • Anonymous

    So Moore doesn’t have a Roth IRA?

  • Anonymous

    and darla, if it isn’t a problem, why cant he admit it?

  • Anonymous

    Fact: Fat liberal Michael Moore is always wearing some sports related teams cap but he never played sports. He was in the band like most of the liberals on Mediaite!!! Like most libs with some cash he will not pay taxes but will always cry for all others money in the case of revenue!!!

  • Dancenut1

    At least he gets his “fat ass” (so what) out there in the streets to protest! Have YOU???? or has Chris?

  • Anonymous

    meaning he won’t do it till everyone else does

  • Anonymous

    So you’re saying you can only advocate for the bottom 99% if you are poor?  Not surprised the right would want to place limits on who can advocate for and support the OWS movement.

  • Skl44759

    It is a matter of numbers. MM is worth $50M+. Check out this chart and tell me he is not in the 1%.
    http://www.businessinsider.com/wage-inequality-from-1979-1997-2011-10
    On top of that, I know a lot of bankers and they do not make anywhere near MM kind of $$.

  • Pablo

    Leading From Behind, I guess.

  • Anonymous

    That’s HILARIOUS!!!!

    That’s a ‘smackdown’?

    ‘utilize these talents’?

    So now you’re going from an obvious paid blog poster to a obvious paid blog poster recruiter!

    Dumb and Dumber!!!

     Perfect!!! HAHAHAH!!!

  • Anonymous

    There is no denying that Michael Moore is a morbidly obese multi-millionaire capitalist. Michael Moore IS the 1%.

  • Anonymous

    That is the exact definition of a hypocrite. Thanks for playing.

  • Anonymous

    Fact: I’ll throw in a couple of Koch brothers in Bob’s name!!!

  • Anonymous

    If they want to advocate policy change, then go to the WH. Run for office. Don’t occupy a tent.

    I feel bad for the state of NY because they’re going to have to subsidize costs if these individuals visit an ER if they stay out in the cold.

  • Anonymous

    @WCinWI:disqus 

    OMG! Capitalism! Off with their heads!

    No it’s only off with their heads if they’re from the left.  Advocating for right causes … good if you’re rich.
    Advocating for left causes …. bad if you’re not rich.

    Most of you haven’t a clue STILL what OWS is about.  We have no objection to capitalism.  What we object to is their ownership of our politicians and the political process, which they most certainly rig in their favor.

  • Pablo

    Wrong. He lies, you salute.

    One of the members of the “1 percent” Schweizer wrote about was Michael Moore.

    During the course of his investigation, Schweizer uncovered the fact
    that Michael Moore had set up a private foundation that allowed him and
    his wife to donate tax-free to any cause of their choice. Then it was
    also discovered that this same foundation had no outside managers or
    trustees, according to Schweizer.

    What seems curious is that, when he wrote Stupid White Men, Michael Moore also claimed that he owned no stock.

    One could imagine the surprise when Schweizer discovered that the
    now-champion of the “99 percent,” who “owns no stock,” reported to the
    IRS that his foundation “had more than $280,000 in corporate stock and
    close to $100,000 in corporate bonds.”

    But that’s not all.

    Upon further scrutiny, Moore’s IRS forms showed that his “savings
    account,” portfolios and investments included corporations such as:

    PfizerMerckGenzymeElan PLCEli LillyBecton DickinsonSunocoNoble EnergySchlumbergerWilliams CompaniesTransocean Sedco Forex (“the world’s largest offshore drilling company”)AnadarkoBoston Scientific.

    What’s more, Moore also owned shares in Haliburton that he sold “for a
    15 percent profit and bought shares in Noble, Ford, General Electric,
    AOL Time Warner, and McDonald’s.”

    Other investments have included Honeywell, Boeing, and Loral — all of which are defense contractors.

    Maybe Moore is on to something here. Maybe CNBC should take
    him up on his admonition and do an investigative piece on people’s
    finances. Who knows? They might discover something that went unrevealed
    in Schweizer’s book.

  • occupy the GOP

    no. that’s not the point at all. 

    it’s a matter of what the millionaires (hollywood OR wall street) do with their wealth. as long as the income gap remains unfairly disproportionate, it’s up to the uber-wealthy to recognize the system and the country that enabled them to garner their riches. michael moore is cognizant of how he got wealthy, and he advocates for others like him to speak up about what is happening.

  • Anonymous

    Please describe how Gore owning a ginormous mansion helps the earth. I’ll wait.

  • Anonymous

    thats what he says, it just sits in a savings account…….maybe he should loan it out to stimulate the economy

  • Anonymous

    If true, a real shame he’s lied about it.

  • occupy the GOP

    thanks darla, at least some of us here understand what hypocrisy means.

  • Texan

    Because, you dumb phuck. The lefties are the “protesters.” F n A.

  • Anonymous

    moore is a hypocrite, he has , say 20 million in a savings account, he wont pay taxes on that, just the interest it earns……he has his money safe and tucked away

  • Anonymous

    If they want to advocate policy change, then go to the WH. Run for office. Don’t occupy a tent.

    Why?  Why should they do it the way you think they should do it?  They’ve changed the dialogue in America from the right’s talking point the deficit to what much of America thinks we should be talking about.  Lack ot jobs and the growing disparity between the rich and the rest of the country …. and most importantly the disappearance of the middle class.

  • occupy the GOP

    so, what are your politics influenced by? this oughta be good.

    so i wonder why christie didn’t run? maybe it’s because he’s terrified of going up against obama? could that be it? nooooo. face it, right-wingers, you’re going to have to enjoy another 4 years of obama come 2012. there are no viable candidates to oppose him coming from the repub side. not one.

    if any of you had an ounce of sense, you’d be supporting jon hunstman. he’s the only candidate who is a true republican. the rest are just lunatic, far-right crazies. and the public knows it!

  • Anonymous

    “Documantary filmmaker?” Yeah, riiiiight. Try “skilled propagandist.” Michael Moore is our generation’s Leni Riefenstahl.

  • Texan

    he’s “educating” people

  • Anonymous

    chris cristie and the tea party…..the left says we can still make fun of these people, exactly you got it. a rarity for liberals lol now that was funny

  • Darladoon

    a-ha, then you’re for universal healthcare.  got it.  thanks.  

  • Anonymous

    Progressive Kitty:

    I don’t advocate the killing of anyone. Period.

    There are some people that cause harmful acts against society that I wish would through natural means, but I don’t advocate death by any means.

    You railed against Palin who was one person who was talkign about crony capitalism. The Republicans in her state thought she was too Democratic.Do you not get the silliness of pushing Palin out of race contention? Your hate for her is silly.

    Plus, if you do vote for Obama, you’re voting for Wall Street, as he has made more money off of Wall Street than any other candidate. So I’m glad that you’ll be in the ABO camp, right?

  • Darladoon

    like i said, cjd (btw, you have a really difficult time understanding reasonable arguments)
    it makes little sense to ask people to donate.  that’s like 3rd grade logic.

  • Anonymous

    I’ve no interest in defending Gore owning a mansion.  Should I, simply because he advocates for the left? That’s ridiculous.  

  • Darladoon

    ndanielson,

    why don’t you go rub your penis for awhile

  • Darladoon

    boy, conservatives really only want conservatives to be rich

    pretty disgusting, isn’t it?

  • Anonymous

    As Wayne Larrivee says in sports competition when someone has defeated his opponent:

    “And there’s your dagger”

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wayne_Larrivee

  • Anonymous

    We also should face the fact that he is the only one running who has both sanity and integrity …. and  that the thought of his occupying the WH doesn’t terrify us.

  • Anonymous

    screw it , let them freeze if they are to stupid to come in from the cold

  • Anonymous

    Yep.  It’s the old IOKIYAR argument.

  • Anonymous

    nope i understand reasonable arguments…..i just dont understand you. and maybe biden and obama should stop using the term “asking the rich to pay their fair share” huh

  • Anonymous

    did you go to the rachel maddows school of paraphrasing and spin darla?

  • Anonymous

    did you go to the rachel maddows school of paraphrasing and spin darla?

  • Anonymous

    I agree…but he should have just said that. Many 1 percenters support the 99%. No need to give the wingnuts ammo.

  • Anonymous

    Speaking of Hollywood:

    http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/president-obama-hollywood-meeting-253151

    Look at the comments on a center-left to liberal blog.

  • repwin2012

    Not just overweight…overpaid. Real leaders of real movements rise from among the oppressed (imagined in this case). Michael Moore is above it all. His repetitive “I do well” says all we need to know about this guy. For starters, he needs to redistribute enough of his wealth to bring himself down to the 1% income level. If I knew he was living it, I’d be a lot more inclined to buy his schtick.

  • Anonymous

    Darla – How much do you pay for your rent controlled home?

  • Texan

    Still can’t see the hypocrisy for the trees, huh?

  • Anonymous

    I wouldn’t be surprised at all that he lied. MM is the type that will say and do anything to stay relevant to the “progressives” in this country. He’s like the politically active version of Paris Hilton.

  • occupy the GOP

    your words are precisely what’s wrong with the conservative mindset. 

    you’ve essentially said that unless one is truly middle/lower class, then they needn’t share their opinions on how inequity is ruining this country. don’t you get it? he’s acting against his own interests by selflessly exposing the lies and corruption being handed out by the top wealth earners. kudos to him for doing so. you think lloyd blankfein gives two shits about you? michael moore cares infinitely more about your well-being than you’ll ever care enough to pay attention to.

    open your eyes.

  • lucysqr

    MM sends his daughter to an exclusive private school in Manhattan. No consorting with you poor commoners for the Moore family!

  • DEFENDER-90

    Liberals after there “healthy diet”like to supplemnt with Four Way Windowpane, Zip Pin Head and Microdot.

  • Anonymous

    I nor anybody on the right as a problem with MM being rich. The problem we DO have is the fact that MM, who uses capitalism all the time, spend his time promoting a political philosophy that will make it impossible for anybody else in this country to become rich. The fact MM wants socialism shows that he’s more greedy than any of the rich people you hate. 

  • Anonymous

    So that justifies it? Idiot. 

  • Anonymous

    What have you done with your pathetic little life… gramps?

  • Dmath25

    I have been at the OWS, and allot of these individuals not only want, but demand socialism. If you don’t believe me do your own research. This is a capitalistic society, accept it or go live in a socialist country if that is what you want and see how wonderful it is. My grandparents grew up in Cuba, and I know what they went through living in a socialist society is like. That is why I am now an American (legally by the way). If you don’t like it here and you want a socialist system…then nobody is stopping you. Renounce your citizenship to this country and get the f!*# out! 

  • Anonymous

    No…it just means he’s an honest broker since there’s nothing in it for him. Not all 1%ers are “evil.”

  • proud2tbagu

    You are to lazy and stupid to even talk to. Until you wise up my reply will be Fat ass welfare whore. That is what you are.

  • Anonymous

    You should have told that to the kvetching teabaggers who were infesting and disrupting townhalls in 2009.

  • william scalia

    This is a red herring non-controversy.

  • proud2tbagu

    Every stupid welfare sloppy fat woman in the country agrees with you.

  • Jason

    You’re a gigantic dumbfuck if you think that hypocritical fatass is on your side.

    You morons buying his shitty flicks that bash capitalism are no different than the idiots who spend all their money building their preacher a huge mansion while they can’t put food on their tables.

    Were all laughing at you.

  • Jason

    A rent control freeloader and a liberal?!!?!?!

    I’m shocked!!!!

  • Anonymous

    In the dictionary I use when I look up hypocrite it says see: Michael Moore.

  • Jason

    PRECISELY. Good call.

  • Anonymous

    MM is a fat over weight lying capitalistic bovine hypocrite. He has no interest in facts other than how big his ticket sale cheques are.

  • Jason

    You’re a dangerously stupid idiot. You have zero standards of behavior that remain consistent regardless of ideology. You can be bought off at the drop of a hat. I pity you and the rest of your feckless ilk. I would laugh at you, but your votes count, so I hate you for being so stupid.

  • Jason

    The only thing that’s plainly obvious is that you’re a brainwashed liberal.

    If someone you worship were showing up on TV, railing against animal abuse and writing books about it, you would be ok with them strangling puppies in their free time. As long as they say what you like to hear, right?  

  • Anonymous

    According to 2010 census figures, the median income in the USA was $46,363.  Mikey  Moore, Al Gore, James Cameron( all own many mansions and big carbon footprint vehicles)  and all the crooks should give up any money over the $46,363 and live in their socialist commie all equal dream.

  • Jason

    Are you attempting to rewrite the definition of stupid? Holy shit, you fucking liberals are dumb.

  • Anonymous

    commonly referred to as a hypocrite. 

    He made all his money being a “capitalist”.  Then to get fools like you to go see his false, corrupt movies he has to convince you that he’s just like you.  lol

    You bought it.  None of the riff raff stuff for him though.  Only on the surface – but that’s about how deep you and your’s are.  

  • Anonymous

    lol

    he graces you with his presence – not his money fool!  You lap it up like a puppy dog.

    Honestly, a fool and his money……

    He says a lot of things that are b.s.  You buying them indicates that you are not a deep thinker.

  • Anonymous

    credible to whom?  He’s a lying dirt bag – Hannity proved that a long time ago.

  • Anonymous

    Huntsman?  You like Huntsman because he isn’t a true republican.  Who are you trying to fool there sweets?

  • Anonymous

    Not so terribly long ago I saw Michael Moore in an interview, I think on MSNBC or CNN where he basically said the money of the 1%ers was a “national resource” and the wealthy should have their money confiscated for the good of “the people” (the 99%). Well, with a net worth of $50 million, Michael Moore should have HIS money confiscated for the greater good. Hell, why hasn’t he given it away already? According to him, it’s a natural resource, not his to keep.

  • Anonymous

    You figure a liar is telling you the truth, cause you’re so special?

  • Anonymous

    The left sure seem to love Huntsman. Since he’s running as a Republican, no wonder he’s polling at only 1%.

  • Anonymous

    Tell ellen (cause she doesn’t have a reply button) that Moore did not set up a foundation so he could pay taxes – like Buffett, like Gates.  

    except Moores “foundation” is completely private – no outsiders! lol 
    Keep buy his shtick there guys.  

  • Anonymous

    He should have said that – but he’s dishonest to the bone and that is mighty deep!  

    Many 1% support the 99?  Seriously, you believe that?  Anyone can say anything they want so they are left alone and not bugged.  

    I agree that 99% of the idiots down there are 99% nuts!  That is the dumbest damn thing that the left keeps peddling.   

  • Anonymous

    He may not be in the 1% but he’s the 1 reason McDonalds bosses are in the 1%.

  • Anonymous

    And you’re a liar.

  • Anonymous

    That’s SO deep.

  • Anonymous

    Darla, you always say that the 1-2% HAS to be FORCED (required) to pay more in taxes, but that statement makes no sense. People like Michael Moore and Buffett should LEAD BY EXAMPLE! Next time Moore is being interviewed by CNN, or MSNBC, or any media for that matter, he should whip out his check book and write the government a check for $49 million dollars! Challenge the rest of the 1%ers to do the same. He should be able to live just fine on that remaining $1 million. Then he can shame the rest of the Hollywood elite to give up their millions. The federal government won’t waste any of it, right?

    NO 1%er is going to voluntarily write a check to the government because they KNOW the government will waste most of it.

  • Anonymous

    Darla, must you be so immature? Penis comments? Really?

  • Anonymous

    Michael Moore IS a hypocrite.  He snubbed union workers making “Capitalism: A Love Story” and earlier for his 2000 music video for Rage Against the Machine.

    http://abcnews.go.com/Business/michael-moore-snubs-union-workers-making-capitalism-love/story?id=8715559

  • Anonymous

    No Darla, conservatives don’t want ONLY conservatives to be rich. Conservatives want EVERYONE to have the chance to live the “American Dream”, where anyone can start from nothing, and the sky is the limit. Once upon a time people in this country strived to live the Dream, and being successful was considered a good thing. Nowdays, people like Darla view success as EVIL, mainly because they don’t have the guts to go for the Dream.

  • Anonymous

    Michael is finished as a 99%er…the public is on to him. He’ll have to come up wth a new scam if he wants to keep pulling the wool over people’s eyes.

  • Anonymous

    I do shake my head in exasperation when I see all these multi-millionaire elites spewing their faux outrage about other multi-millionaires. I haven’t seen a single rich left-leaning liberal put their money where their mouth is.

  • Lulu

    This is the problem with the 99% – the 1% interested in more global governance and crony capitalism, support the 99% and they sing “global democracy”, “global governance” and bankers love that tune. The only legitimate protest right now is to end the FED. End the FED and we will end the income tax and illegal wars

  • Guest

    The Hollywood Reporter is reporting that “BO Holds Secret Meet and Greet with Hollywood Execs and Influencers”.  This meeting was held to shape his 2012 campaign.  I wonder if these Hollywood elites are wealthy people?!  I wonder if they live like the “common man”?!  I wonder if any of them own private jets?!  I wonder if any of them have big estates?!  I wonder if…

  • Anonymous

    Leftists are hypocrites: deriding racism when THEY are the BIGGEST racists; detesting RICH people when THEY either are rich people themselves or curry favor with them (OBAMO).

  • Ralph

    Moore says he’s advocating against his own interests, but that’s not exactly true.  He makes money whenever the extremes in each political party attack each other.  Moore’s financial, political, and ego interests are tied up in conflict, not resolution.

    His methods are not so wild.  Journalists have been chasing people with news cameras since the 1970s. 

  • http://twitter.com/Politi_Chick Diane

    LOL! When are people going to realize that Michael Moore is now a millionaire because he uses this topic to MAKE MONEY?? What has he done with the profits from his films? Did he distribute them evenly among everyone who worked on the film? Doubt it.

  • Pablo

    Why isn’t he paying off their student loans? Why isn’t he hiring them?

  • Pablo

    Oh, you’ve got Michelle beat for Most Vapid by miles. If this were a celebrity pie eating contest, she’d be Christina Ricci and you’d be…Michael Moore.

  • TruDat

    He wears a dirty baseball cap, and that’s all it takes to fool the dull-witted liberals into thinking he’s one of them.

  • Pablo

    I thought you said it’s a matter of what he does with his wealth. All you note that Moore does is flapping his gums which has nothing to do with his money. Oh, he’s a big fan of communists, too. Because he expects to be the ruling class…. Heh.

  • TruDat

    He won’t have to come up with a new scam; the idiots who fall for this propagandist will continue to fall for his schtick.

  • TruDat

    And you never will see these hypocrites put their money where their mouth is.

  • TruDat

    So true.  I’ve always wondered why these clowns think they’re going to transform America into a socialist country.  Why go through all the trouble?  Move your asses to Venezuela.

  • TruDat

    Fools like you, who just don’t get it or are too stupid to get it, is what frightens me.

  • Pablo

    Then why won’t he admit he’s part of the 1%? Because that would blow up the propaganda he’s trying to sell you. The good thing for him is those of you who refuse to see what’s so obvious to anyone not so dedicated to the TRVTH.

  • TruDat

    That’s a straight up lie.

  • Ralph

    They were fn crazy to put the DNC convention in Charlotte, NC.  Hatred of southern people alone will not win the swing states for them.  The DNC convention belongs in a fun city in a deep blue state, like New York or Los Angeles.

  • TruDat

    Thank you.  I knew Progressive Slut was lying but didn’t want to go through the effort of disproving her nonsense.  I think the jackass owns Haliburton stock.

  • TruDat

    All liberals lie.  The sooner you come to that realization the better off you’ll be.

  • TruDat

    That’s what your gynecologist said!

  • TruDat

    So you freely admit all these loudmouthed liberals like Buffett won’t put their money where their mouths are.  Thank you.

  • TruDat

    He’s only credible to delusional, left-wing, dull-witted, simpletons such as yourself.

  • Pablo

    You should have told that to the kvetching teabaggers who were infesting and disrupting townhalls in 2009.

    They were taking their grievances to the government, genius. That’s the point. That’s how you get policies changed, along with taking your complaints to the White House. Do you really think that 1% are going to be moved by the voluntarily homeless annoying city dwellers? 

  • Anonymous

    Just another liberal with the meme of do as I say not as I do …Warren Buffet wants the rich to pay what he referrs to as ” their fair share ” while at the same time he has a 10 year fight with the IRS over 1 billion in taxes he owes …..Al ( sex poodle ) Gore wants to restrict the little people’s carbon emissions while he jets around in private jets and lives in mansions that consume more energy in a month than most folks home do in a year. Turbo tax Timmy is head of the IRS. Moore says he is not in the top 1 % and yet he is worth tens of millions and by God if he thinks you cheated him he will sue you to get his share of that filthy money. As I see it  our socities ticks are angry that they don’t live the life styles of the rich and famous and honestly believe they are entitled to it ……without the effort …. * SHRUG *

  • Anonymous

    I wonder how many here know who that is …without googling

  • Anonymous

    drink long ….. drink deep ….its the red kind ….right

    http://archive.frontpagemag.com/readArticle.aspx?ARTID=6284

    On
    the back cover of my book, I include part of Michael Moore’s 990PF that
    he files with the IRS for a tax shelter he and his wife set up and
    control. The form clearly shows that Moore bought and sold shares in
    Halliburton and a number of other vicious, evil corporations. Look
    through the tax forms from 1998 to the present, and you will find more
    of the same.
    How is it possible for
    Michael Moore to say he doesn’t own any stock while his tax forms say
    otherwise? Since Michael Moore simply never lies, this must be a case of identity theft.
    Here is what must have happened. Someone set up a tax shelter and registered it at Michael Moore’s home address in Michigan

  • Anonymous

    Then why do their policies consistently direct income to the very top, instead of to the middle class, whose spending power is the key to strengthening the recovery? Why are they still stuck on advancing trickle down policies that DO NOT WORK?

    Why are we giving massive tax breaks to companies that hand out multimillion dollar bonuses but aren’t creating jobs?  

    Republicans love to claim that they “want to make EVERYONE rich,” but there’s a total disconnect between the rhetoric and the reality.

  • Anonymous

    Fact: This liberal says Michael Moore is batshit crazy.
    But he still makes as much sense and any of the Teapublican candidates in the running.
    John Huntsman is the best guy the Republican party could nominate.

  • Pablo

    He did. But after he was found out bashing Halliburton while owning Halliburton, he sold it…at a 15% profit.

    Proggies, why isn’t this corpulent champion of the 99% living in Zucotti Park?

  • TruDat

    And Rick Perry would be a wonderful Democrat candidate.

  • Anonymous

    “Many 1 percenters?”   Can you name 10 of them? 

  • Anonymous

    Moore is a hypocrite. He’s in the same class as other 1 percenters like Noam Chomsky, Ralph Nader. They all rant accent capitalism and the leech of the same system they complain about. Hypocrites. All of them.

  • Anonymous

    Just another liberal parasite gaming the system.

  • Anonymous

    He’s supporting their outrage at capitalism and then using that same system to enrich himself. He’s a hypocrite who needs his 15 minutes of fame.

  • Anonymous

    He’s in the top 1%. He’s a hypocrite.

  • Anonymous

    His films were full of lies and distortions.

  • Mia

    Michael Moore is 99% hypocritical turd. He says he’s not a millionaire yet he is. He’s not greedy – yet filed a lawsuit against the production company for profits from is pathetic movies. champions the unions yet doesn’t use union labor to work on his films… HOW does anyone lend credence to what this blob says?

  • Pablo

    It isn’t the government’s job to make anyone rich. You want to be rich? Then it’s YOUR job to make it happen.

    Why do you use the exGOPman handle when it’s so bloody obvious that you haven’t got a clue what conservative principles are? Do you think you’re fooling anyone?

  • Pablo

    What’s worse is that they simply refuse to get it. Facts bounce right off their pointy little heads.

  • Pablo

    …the kitty says on pure faith.

  • Anonymous

    Moore should have just came out and said that. He did say the fact that he is using his wealth to help the other 99% which is the truth 100 times over. Thank you Mike.

  • Anonymous

    Fact: Huntsman paints his nails is that why you like the brut!!!!

  • Anonymous

    In almost every documentary film he has made is about corporate greed.  He, like most of us are not fans of corporate communism.

  • Anonymous

    He is in the 1% but at least he is using his wealth to educate the rest of us with an open mind at to how corporate greed ruined capitalism.

  • Pablo

    You know, I’ve been hoping for a non-sequitur all morning! Thanks, stylin!

  • Pablo

    No he’s making money from his propaganda…like a good capitalist, and you chumps keep buying it.

  • Pablo

    How? He’s profiting greatly from selling his propaganda to the (really wish they were) the 99%. How is he using his fortune to help people?

  • TruDat

    Delusion at its best.

  • Anonymous

    Troll

  • TruDat

    Ask Obama’s owner, GE.  They don’t pay taxes, move jobs to China, and Obama puts their CEO Emmelt on his Jobs Council.

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_VYUK3HIJFCPFBZUHRHN6HCR5AA MarkfromSavannah

    Kitty – no worries there.  I won’t even watch one of his shit stained movies on cable television.  The point here is Moore is a millionaire quite a few times over yet atttempts to separate himself from the other millionaires by somehow implying his millions were made ‘the good way’.

    He’s no better than the ghetto pimps who stand in front of thousands of people in two thousand dollar suits telling them how bad the United States is, then climbing into their chauffer driver limousines to return to their gated million dollar home comunities.

    Moore is a shuckster, nothing Moore, nothing less!

  • Rio

    Widespread truths would never be heard?  If they are widespread, why aren’t they heard?

    Anyway, speaking of truth, remember Spinsanity?  it was a popular factchecking site a few years ago.   They did some interesting factchecking on Michael Moore’s “truths” in a blog they wrote titled:

    Dude, Where’s My Intellectual Honesty

    http://www.spinsanity.org/columns/20031016.html

    From the title, one could guess there would be issues to Michael Moore’ “truths” and there are, and they cover/factcheck a tremendous amount of Moore’s work and in this piece, encourage the reader to “check out companion piece listing all the errors we found in Dude, Where’s My Country.  They also provided several of their other factchecking pieces they did and they are:

    Moore’s Myriad Mistakes
    Moore Admits to Altering “Bowling for Columbine” DVD
    Moore Alters “Bowling for Columbine” DVD in Response to Criticism
    A Devotion to Distortion
    Forbes Finds More Falsehoods in Moore’s “Bowling for Columbine”
    Viewer Beware
    Dowd, Krugman and Moore Make Inflammatory Accusations
    Moore Problems
    One Moore Stupid White Man
    Stupid White Lies
    The Taliban Aid Trope Re-Emerges

    You might also want to google, michael moore lies, to find out more about Michael Moore truths.

  • SirWilhelm

    And what’s a Progressive, by any other name, but a Socialist in disguise, Kitty?Don’t you believe in re-distributing the wealth, Kitty? Isn’t that what Socialism, Communism, and Progressivism all have in common?

  • Dirk

    From “cheques,” I gather that English is not your first language.
    From your handle, it appears you want a stake in the Obama family fortune.

  • Dirk

    Makes one long for the days when oil execs Bush and Cheney ran the country and talked about bringing democracy to Iraq.

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_5735VWZNYZXI573SIVI4VGK7FE Bebop Smith

    Of course he is in the top 1%. And likely the .2% Piers mentioned. Anyone who makes more than $330k is in that club – monetarily. Yet he is not part of the sloganed 1% we rail against. The ones who control the wealth, jobs and our future. In that respect, he is one of us Joe Lunchpail’s.
    Wish he would have made that distinction instead of yammering around the question.
    And ’1%’ is just a marketing number. It’s the top .1% that is causing 99% of the problems – like owning congress and the banks.

  • Dirk

    So Reagan punked you twenty years ago. Time to wake up.

  • Dirk

    Sigh. OWS is not commie, it’s pro-middle class. You know, that thing that made America great in the 20th century.

  • Dirk

    If taxes were raised on the super rich, Moore would not “flap his gums” but pay the fees like a true patriot.

  • Dirk

    Protesting Wall Street greed = commies. That’s some sophisticated analysis you got there.

  • Dirk

    Michelle Bachmann is a pro at taking hundreds of thousands in tax dollars to support her farms.

  • Dirk

    Bush kissing a Saudi prince on the cheek, flying the Bin Laden relatives out of the country: perfect examples of “the ends justify the means.”

  • Rio

    It’s “Crockumentary” it’s in  the Urban Dictionary and they use Michael Moore as their example:

    http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=crockumentary

  • Big Taters

    His being fat is actually part of the issue of his hypocrisy. He is an extremely obese film maker that lectures us on healthcare, it’s worst aspect being cost and access, while 2008 saw 148 BILLION dollars on obesity related health care. His problem is NOTHING MORE than he EATS TO MUCH. His unwillingness to eat healthy and manage a responsible weight is one of the BIGGEST problems with healthcare and related costs in the US

    Lose some weight and lower your costs before you lecture the rest of us. This guy has no authority, no credibility and NO CLUE when it comes to healthcare or anything else for the matter. 

    You simple minded hack, you actually called someone “emotional and childish” and in the VERY NEXT WORDS accuse them of “ad hominem attacks”. Need a dictionary? Laughable to anyone of reasonable intellect. 

    Oh well, you simpletons on the left are not different than the ones on the right…

  • http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=1165541648 Greg Toombs

    He’s 99% of the planet’s body mass, so maybe that’s what he allows himself to think.

  • Harry Flashman

    Yeah, but he wants to have his cake and eat it, too.

    He and others like him want it both ways – they pander to the left but wallow in their riches like pigs. Do you see Moore giving his wealth away for social justice?

    I didn’t think so.

  • Anonymous

    Couldn’t have said it better myself.

  • G Tegs

    Have you bot seen the Marxist and anarchist sloganing by these people? You are kidding yourself that this fringe group of radicals represent the midle class.

  • Anonymous

    So how come libs keep bashing Rush Limbaugh for being fat?  He isn’t an officeholder?  He isn’t even all that fat anyomore. 

  • Wake up America

    The reason Moore aligns himself with the wackos is because he rips them off. He makes movies that promotes the ideology, the wackos pay to see it. Moore gets filty rich and the wackos go out there and promote the message. Russel Simmons does the same thing. He goes in his limo to the sites, gets the youth to believe that he too is in their corner gets them to get his credit card at 30% basically screws them but wackos are too dumb to realize this. So yes people like Moore and Simmons are snakes in the grass that slither among stupid people. No wonder they’re filthy rich.

  • We heir2freedom

    Point well made, Aggie95 (if that’s your real name)! 

    However, don’t expect the facts you so correctly stated bend the ideologically locked “minds” of the true-believing useful idiots on the left. They seem almost downright proud of their staunch ignorance when it comes to how they are being played by their Dear Leader and his malevolent minions.  

  • http://twitter.com/putic958473 John H Gibson

    No one has ever answered the question Morgan asked you, [ "what should be done to get thing going"] Please  surf my web site Gibson Flexoputic Appliances.ca. I am in that group you described having a patent, and not able to borrow the money to get it up and going. The economic situation we find ourselves in as the folks described, one answer is that the growing of the food we consume should never be taken out of the hands of the poeple and the sedentary lifestyle imposed upon our children should be prevented, so we can stand and take care of our selves.

  • Anonymous

    If he truly supported the 99% in the way they demand, he would no longer be a 1%er because he would have given so much of his money away to benefit the 99%. Instead, he sues to get his millions of dollars to support his ritzy lifestyle.

  • Rio

    Dirk, what have we here? a hot little MM groupie?  Greeting the Saudi prince by bowing, kissng is cheek or taking his hand is due to protocol:

    A more traditional greeting between men involves grasping each other’s right hand, placing the left hand on the other’s right shoulder and exchanging kisses on each cheek.,/blockquote>
    http://www.cyborlink.com/besite/saudi-arabia.htm

    The bin Laden family left after being interviewed by the FBI, after the flight ban had been lifted on a chartered flight the bin Laden family paid for.  The 911 Commission debunked that specific Michael Moore lie:

    http://www.snopes.com/rumors/flights.asp

  • http://www.facebook.com/tony.westover Tony Westover

    Ever the hypocrite, the Capitalist Aristocrat up in his ivory towers says that he’s down in the trenches with the people that he wants to keep down in the mud.

  • magicbeans

    Michael Moore  — “I’m a millionaire, I’m a multi-millionaire. I’m filthy rich. You know why I’m a multi-millionaire? ‘Cause multi-millions like what I do. That’s pretty good, isn’t it?”  Huh that sounds like capitalism.

    Why doesn’t he give it to the government or to the protestors so they can pay off their student loans? Because Michael Moore is a hypocrite. He is like the pigs in Animal Farm by George Orwell. He considers himself a special case. “All animals are equal but some are more equal than others.” He uses his money to promote stuff like hating capitalism and loving communism so he should be allowed a multi million dollar apartment, a few homes, and lots of food apparently. Open your eyes. He expects that if the system turns he will still be on top and living the good life. A one percenter *gasp!*  The rest of us will be the ”equal” which means everyone will have nothing. But the Sarandons, and Moores, and Mahers will still be filthy rich. And thats why you are called a useful idiot.

  • Bill T

    Just another hypocrite Marxist.  Money for me, but not for thee!

    Sigh.. it simply astounds me that all the people who follow these kind of people don’t see the hypocrisy. These narcissists need their codependents to support their egos and their paternalistic desire to tell everyone else how to live, without living that way themselves.

  • Bill T

    Just another hypocrite Marxist.  Money for me, but not for thee!

    Sigh.. it simply astounds me that all the people who follow these kind of people don’t see the hypocrisy. These narcissists need their codependents to support their egos and their paternalistic desire to tell everyone else how to live, without living that way themselves.

  • Rio

    That OWS bunch will probably someday see themselves in another MM Crockumentary or book  capitalizing on this movement.

  • Anonymous

    If capitalism is evil because it produces such inequalities in standards of living, why does he live such an opulent lifestyle unequal to the rest of us?

    By the way, when he “utilizes” his wealth to educate the rest of us, he gains far more wealth from it than he invested.  Otherwise, he’d go broke.  Basically, he’s getting rich off his customer’s backs so he can educate his customers as to how evil it is to be rich.  Is that actually OK with you?  Maybe I should try that.  So many suckers out there seem to want to give their money to rich people to tell them how evil it is to be rich.  I think I’ll just go pre-order me a yaught right now!

  • Michelle

    He doesn’t have to wait.  If he feels so strongly about it, why isn’t he doing it now?

  • bruce b.

    This is Michael trying to justify his hypocrisy. Who could admit to being a believer in this hypocrite?

  • Beautysleep123

    Oh he’s a fan of communism.  Just ask him about how “wonderful” the health care system is in Cuba.  He’s enough of a fan of totalitarianism to swallow Castro’s propaganda hook, line and sinker. 

    He made films about “corporate greed”, so it’s ok that he’s made greedy millions (both him and his corporation)?  Really?   Again, you don’t care about the greeedy millions this fat cat has made as long as his politics are correct and follow the collectivist party line. 

    Of course you are fans of “corporate communism”.  Moore is testament to your fan boy/girl status. With collectivism, politics determines success, and there YOU are defending Moore on the basis of his politics.  The commies call this Revolutionary justice.  All justice is relative.  If it serves the collective’s politics, it is just.

    Idiot.

  • Revdrebuzz

    He has a really nice house on one of the most exclusive lakefronts in Michigan, Torch Lake. You are in the 1% if you can afford to have such a huge status symbol.

    He is a world class, and world-sized hypocrite. A lying flim-flam man.

  • Anonymous

    you mean good “Corporate Capitalist”. lol  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HPk4NTp-Lmk

  • Anonymous
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  • Revdrebuzz

    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.

  • Anonymous

    Hey dirk my dads name is Barry and my name is Barry hence my name here. Cheques is the English and Canadian way of spelling it. Do you still need pictures on your food labels so you buy the right groceries?

  • mac691

    You might wish to check with Doug Shoen, Dem pollster.   He actually went down there, did a poll, and found OWS to be largely professional activists with a history of protesting..

  • Chayal Boded

    The fat bastard rat is trying to squirm out of being lynched by the very useless idiots he is trying to encourage. Waterboard him!

  • Anonymous

    I cannot stand Piers Morgan or Michael Moore…but congrats to Mr. Morgan for challenging that crapulent maggot bag of filth for being a big fat hippocrite.

    Funny that there are some on the left who are the 1%, or 10%, or within the 53% yet do not want to admit it.

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_IJ4I7WFS6DP3BSEF5DGRCTWFRQ Karl Magnus

    I suspect that Herr Doktor Josef Göbells would be proud of his student.
    What a load.
    Hey, if Cuba’s “healthcare system” really exists, why hasn’t Mikey had bariatric surgery there yet?
    Fraud

    ~(Ä)~

  • Anonymous
  • Gee Orwell

    The tax code has a provision so he can be “patriotic” and pay more, yet like most libs practicing their special brand of weapons-grade hypocrisy, Moore doesn’t.  Probably because he’s too busy suing the Weinstein Borthers for at least $2.7 million in what he claims are “rerouted” and unpaid profits on his oh-so-patriotic film “Fahrenheit 9/11″. The Weinsteins have already paid Moore $19.8 million for his backend profit participation in the movie – but it’s not enough for lard asz.

    Hey there Dirk, did you hear the word profit mention in the paragraph above?  I sure did.  Oh yeah, we’re dealing with the Animal Farm world of collectivists and THIS kind of profit is “patriotic”, soooooo, as long as his politics are correct, he’s would be allowed by collectvivists like you to keep his millions guilt-free.  After all, he’s a true patriot in service to what??? Oh yeah, in service to collectivist politics where some animals are more equal than others.

    See Dirk, in your world of collectivist gov’t, politics, and only politics, determines who gets wealthy.  The rest have to live with less.  Just wait for that – we (meaning the masses) have to learn to live with less.  And be ‘true patriots”.  Our “betters” in gov’t and connected industries, can be millionaires.  This has to happen because collectivist societies produce less wealth, so someone has to be “patriotic”.

    BTW, I love the appeals to patriotism coming from the left these days.  Look for more of it in the future. LOL

  • Johnsnare

    Moore has to be the biggest socialist phony of the twenty first century.  He is one wealth guy, and he is very content with that.  He knocks the American corporations, but he has profited very handsomely from the system.  There is a very old saying, Don’t shit where you eat…Does he ever list his charitable contributions?  I have never heard him mention one.  Why does he even get air time?  Go back to Michigan, you fat, overweight creep.

  • Anonymous

    Mikey Moore.  Hypocrite.  Wants all the perks of the elite, yet portrays himself as ‘the common man’.  Likes to talk ‘union’, yet has paid his workers less than union scale, saying ‘he couldn’t afford it’.

  • Anonymous

    The political left and right, in America, are so funny. They think they are different from one another…really, really different.  Nothing could be further from the truth.

  • Gee Orwell

    Protesting Wall Street greed = commies.– while ignoring gov’t greed and corruption (check).  Focusing on an “Emmanuel Goldstein” while ignoring the true source of your economic problems (check). Being ok with those who share your politics becoming insanely wealthy, while focusing on the designated “bad guy” (check).  Yup, you’re an idiot.

    Dirk, did you know that government was responsible for issuing 71% of the subprime mortgages which contributed to the housing crisis?  Yes, those patriots.  The one’s you support by your idiotic focus on “Wall Street”.  The “Wall Street” which made the bulk of it’s political contributions to one Barack Obama, and profited mightily from that lobbying.  They got the bailouts. And many in their ranks became appointees in the current administration. 

    Because that’s how it works in lefty governments like Odumbo’s. That’s why vena,l greedy politicians like Barney Frank chastised anyone wanting to regulate Fannie and Freddie Mac during the Bush Administration.  Oh yes they did want to regulate what looked more and more like a Ponzi Scheme ready to crash, BUT guys like Franklin Raines were making MILLIONS in bonuses for pushing loans on people who really couldn’t pay – all in the name of keeping the real estate boom going (and the campaign contributions coming), and all in the name of “helping” more poor and minorities get loans for houses.  Houses they couldn’t afford.

    There’s your greed, Dirk.  The gov’t basically filled up troughs full of nice, warm slop and then were shocked, shocked when pigs showed up.  And yes, some of those pigs came from Wall Street.  And they supported Barack Obama because they knew he’d play their game.  They showered his campaign with $$$$.

    It’s called crony capitalism, and YOU, Dirk, want to ditch the capitalism and keep the cronyism.  Idiot.

  • Anonymous

    You are too stupid for words. Both Dick Cheney AND Michael Moore hate your guts and are laughing at you, Dirk. 

    Fess up, you are in high school, eh?

  • jim

    Obama think that he is lucky to be top 1% like Michael Moore.  No hard work involved. 

  • caconservative

    Hollywood in general refuses to admit their part of the 1%. They like to hide behind of the facade of Liberalism while reaping as mush capitalist rewards as possible. They are the definition of hypocrite!

  • http://profiles.google.com/leavemymonkeyalone Joe Simmons

    Watch the first few seconds of this clip from “My Fair Lady” if you wish to understand Mr. Moore’s conundrum:
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iWXQUDfQz5I&feature=related

  • MarkVasquez

    I don’t think he is trying to justify it.  He is FUNDING it by getting all these idiots to pay money they don’t have to watch his crap movies. 
    He wants the “corporation that funded him to rue the day”.  When in fact is it his audience who funds him.  Secretly he is laughing at them, wanting them to rue the day. 

  • MarkVasquez

    I don’t think he is trying to justify it.  He is FUNDING it by getting all these idiots to pay money they don’t have to watch his crap movies. 
    He wants the “corporation that funded him to rue the day”.  When in fact is it his audience who funds him.  Secretly he is laughing at them, wanting them to rue the day. 

  • Jim

    If he is with us, the bottom of 99%,  why doesn’t  he donate some of his money to our GOV to help us out?  Actually, he tried to avoid Michigan state TAX 2 years ago.  He is as greedy as those bankers in wall street. 

  • Svazquez319

    This reminds me of Rosie Odonell ranting and raving no more guns for anyone ban guns…….
    Yet her bodyguards carried guns.

  • http://twitter.com/Politi_Chick Diane

    Being a “hero” to the 99% has been very lucrative. He’s a genius.

  • Anonymous

     Um Johnsnare, I live in Michigan and we had him long enough. We do not want him back. He is a useless, manipulative lier. The only thing I have never been able to understand is how he manages to continually bite the hand that feeds him yet just gets richer for it. He is the biggest (literally and figuratively) hypocrite around.

  • Anonymous

    MM is just another fat lying lib 1%er.

    “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.

    He certainly does represent the Lollipop Guild!

  • One pissed off liberal

    Well, technically every living soul out of liberal Hollywood could be considered a supporter of the 99%ers. 

    However, when it comes down to a choice between liberal Hollywood parting with their vast heaps of cash, and unimaginable lifestyles of excess, they would slit the throat of every OWS demonstrator with a dull butter knife before they would part with what they have now.

    So I guess they could be called supporters in a “yes, but not really” sort of way.

  • Anonymous

    Rosie had that bigot Tracy Morgan on the other day and she asked him about his gay rant where he said he would kill his son if he were gay by saying “When I heard about it, I knew you didn’t mean it because I knew your intent.  You get on a stage with a microphone and you are trying to make people laugh, and something comes out that’s an ad lib and it’s not what you feel or think.”

  • One pissed off liberal

    Wow….BINGO alert.

  • Anonymous

    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.

    Case closed!

  • Altollew

    Go look at his multi-million dollar home in northern Michigan.

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_L7OBLR6XXO5U5LLPWYOGH3L7LE joe

    Mike Moore is just trying to get people to go to his movies……and laughing ALL THE WAY TO THE BANK!!! Anybody who falls for his hypocrisy is simple-minded,gullible, or ignorant! If he really felt the way he “talks” he would be giving his money from his movies to charity and enjoy being the “poor” that he makes movies and talks about.

  • Rmilter

    Moore is an American hero. He may be part of the one percent when it comes to income, but what is wrong with that? Do YOU have a problem with Capitalism? Moore’s problem is not with Capitalism it is with greed, deregulation, and outright fraud.

  • Fat Bastard

    Git in mah belly!

  • egm11

    if ole fat azzed moore is so with the 99%, why hasnt he given 99 percent of his wealth to them.  michael moore is nothing more than a loud mouth hypocrite who takes advantage of any situation to advance michael moore.

  • egm11

    what michael moore is, a self appointed money maker who brags about making it and then complains because no one else has any.  michael, give your money to the movement.  that would be your bowel movements, they not only stink up the planet, as do you movies but clog up the water treatment plant. leave room of the other progressive turds to go down the same drain as you and obama.

  • AliveStillKickin

    As a baby, Moore was dropped on his head damaging all reasoning cells of his brain and in the ensuing operation….the only doctor in  Dogtown was a veterinarian   and only pig’s blood was available for a transfusion.
    Thus….a Fat, Brain-damaged   Frankenstupid was born.

  • Anonymous

    I see him doing it. His activism is not just a shtick.

  • Anonymous

    I see him doing it. His activism is not just a shtick.

  • Anonymous

    Yes…many 1%ers support the 99% and their grievances. They don’t have to like their tactics.

  • Anonymous

    Because the world is not as simplistic as your pea brain tries to reduce it to. 

  • Anonymous

    I never mentioned commies.

  • MontyPyth0n

    Im sorry, didn’t Moore do an entire documentary on how much he hates capitalism???? I believe it was called Capitalism: A Love Story (obviously a sarcastic title)

    I do not have a problem with Capitalism, but Moore does.

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Brian-Kirkland/100000195274498 Brian Kirkland

    I don’t know, for a guy who looks as if he never saw a cream puff he didn’t like to be lecturing people about being greedy takes what Ms. bachman would call Chutz- Pah. Has Moore given all of his wealth away? Besides dressing like a lump (except for the Oscars), how does he live? I don’t begrudge him a thing, but I’m not sure he’s walking the walk.

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_SIYF5565LXG7BBKTKGSSFWU7TA The Rock

    Michael Moore is the 1% not 99% as he is claiming and Michael lives in bubble world and his planet as well. Moore’s hypocrites are always showing he is a dumbnut and he’s a disgrace to all of Michigan. 

  • orest goyan

    Moore thought he was referring to the 1% of Americans who were physically fit, and NOT  OVER WEIGHT !

  • Cozymoon72

    Could Mike Moore have danced around any more than that?
    He is for capitalism as long as he makes money but doesn’t want you to live the system that made HIM money.

  • Anonymous
  • Anonymous

    I’d like to address the following comment to all the snot-nosed, lazy, fraudulent, loan dodging, ignorant, moronic, occupying, potentially professional students. I’m 53 years old, grew up in a trailer park without a deadbeat dad, worked my way through college & paid my student loans, in full, afterwards. I started my own company 26 years ago and just last year managed to clear $200k. Am I a millionaire/billionaire??? You little prima donnas want to take from me and my family, what I’ve earned through sweat, toil and risk??? Bring it!!!

  • Anonymous

    Agreed!  I was looking at Trulia.com at some Hollywood mega-star’s homes that were for sale and was amazed at how many mega-homes were all around them in the satellite photos.  WHERE did ALL that money come from?!?  Do you think all those people support the so-called 99%ers?  By their definition, I am a 99%er, but I think they are mostly idiots that don’t want to look for a job.

  • Ralph53

    Michael Moore’s net worth is $50 million. I will believe he cares about the “working class” when he sends me a check for $10,000.

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_74M2JEAGLOZXWWILBBR6A6FLF4 Jessica

    Dirk there is no use, most people these days spew out terms like communist, socialist,fascists etc and have no idea what they actually mean.  Nor can even give an example of past countries or societies that followed those ideas.  

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_74M2JEAGLOZXWWILBBR6A6FLF4 Jessica

    Good god I feel like I just stepped onto a fight on the jungle gym.  Left,right though your views oppose each other you’re pretty much the same!  All this talk about being patriotic is ridiculous, you don’t have to be part of a particular political party to be patriotic, or to see that our government isn’t doing its job the way it was initially established.  I love this country, but good God not the idiots that run it or ruin it with such hate.   

    No, I don’t agree with Michael Moore, or any celebrity(actor, sports player, etc) making millions of dollars a year when so many people have harder jobs that take actual skills.   Bickering at one another is doing nothing but making matters worse.  Why are you fighting each other? Does it make you feel better about the total horror going on with our country?  

  • caconservative

    Kinda’ reminds of you of Jesse Jackson, Rev.Wright, and Al Sharpton playing their little shakedown scam using racism, instead of corporate greed as the villain.

  • Anonymous

    According to statistical ratings of who is part of the 1%, my wife and I are in the top1%. We most definitely support the #OCCUPY movement and last night I drove to the Occupy Oakland to support it.

  • Anonymous

    here a interesting read of who is the top 1%  Moore would be the lower part of the top 1% Most of those are doctors and lawyers who invested very well and work had and had decades of education.  The 0.01% are all connected to banking. http://sociology.ucsc.edu/whorulesamerica/power/wealth.html

  • Kawipoo

    In weight he is all of the 99%

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/David-Edwards/588445226 David Edwards

    How the hell did you accumulate $200k worth of debt where did that come from

  • Exitbullet

    i had no idea that people had to use their OWN money any other way than they want to.  Amazing. 

  • Art

    I remember when this clown was a lowly prop maker for the studios…… and yes he IS an idiot and unprofessional, when our Company declined to do business with him, he had the balls and actually asked me if I knew who he was and I told him yes and that his business wasn’t welcome here.

    …now that’s American!!!!
     

  • Anonymous

    Hannity, I know its Hannity, asked Moore if he was a millionaire. Moore refused to answer that. This why Moore annoys me, he bitches about a system that made him a millionaire, hypocrite. If he feels about making so much money then why doesn’t he give it away.

  • Anonymous

    This guy is worth 50 million. I’d say that puts him in the 1% quite easily. His modus operandi is to create these silly films he calls “documentaries” and write books to make more money. That right there is the pure definition of a capitalist entrepreneur. If in fact he was so benevolent in his interests he would take a yearly stipend to survive on and give the rest to charity. WHEN and IF that happens, let me know because it’ll be a cold day in hell.

  • Anonymous

    He said he cleared 200k….. i.e. black line profit. Moron.

  • Anonymous

    So it’s ok to be a capitalist if you rail against it, but not ok if you go along? I’m totally confused by your comment. Unless of course you were for it before you were against it. Nice logic.

  • Anonymous

    You are SO awesome! I am sure you also sent it extra voluntary tax money just like Warren Buffet told you to right? If you support the OWS “movement” thats fine. Driving to Oakland? Laughable.

  • Jazzbeau123

    scrzbill: Wondering if your support for Occupy Oakland was of a financial nature which, then,lends your haughty ‘fiscal conservative..social liberal dribble to surmise you have an ounce of something not affected.

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_7M4IF4LSGVDSIIGNY67PARKRHY B

    So you and Michael Moore wish to economically cut your own throat? I doubt you could survive such an act.

  • Pmfsc3

    Typical liberal cannot answer a logicical question so resorts to name calling.  Pablo asked a legitimate question.

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