The Madness of Michael Moore

Richard

Roger & Me pretty good? You mean the film based entirely on socialist dogma, ignorance and most of all on one big, straight-out lie?

The premise was that Roger Smith would not see Moore. Since Moore did not have an appointment that is hardly surprising, and to suggest a minor TV personality should get to meet a senior executive with GM without an appointment is ignorant. So Moore tries again to arrange a meeting, the premise of "Roger & me" being that he could not arrange a meeting.

Before the film was completed Moore did meet Smith, so that premise is also a lie.

As for the idea that GM killed the town, try talking to the unions. They killed the town. They are now driving GM towards its second bankruptcy in a very short time.

freedomscaresme

Typically programmes like this conclude that the banking crisis (and subsequent bailout) is caused by Capitalism.

To draw this conclusion indicates a failure to understand how the banking system works. All banks are part of the State in that they are able to issue liabilities guaranteed by the taxpayer. No other companies have deposit insurance. This enables risky lending.

I guess people prefer to see what they want to see, than reality.

Hal

I disliked Roger and Me, because Moore undercut a good argument that GM's fecklessness had destroyed the city of Flint with cheap mockery of some ordinary people. The color-consultant lady and the woman raising rabbits for food in her backyard are presented as ridiculous figures. The security guard at GM headquarters in Detroit, whose job it was to keep strangers from wandering up to the CEO's office, also comes in for ridicule. All of them were simply trying to get by. The movie's attitude seemed to be one of concern for mankind, but little sympathy for actual people.

I'm a liberal, and Michael Moore does not speak for me.

Ruckweiler

This fat slob should be grateful for capitalism. Only in capitalism could this refugee from a bathtub become wealthy.

Ray

No doubt Moore will be relying on a 'capitalist' media outfit to market his film though. And depositing his royalties in a 'capitalist' bank that earns his account interest by lending to 'capitalist' entrepreneurs.

stuart

I haven't seen Roger & Me, but I'd say I'm with Richard. The poster has Moore holding a mike to an empty chair and the premise was that he couldn't get an interview with Smith, but apparently he interviewd Smith twice.

That's not just dishonest, it's annoying.

THX1138

Sicko was okay !

The best documentary on captalisim gone feral is Enron- The Smartest Guys in the Room (has a great soundtrack too) from the same team who made Taxi to the Dark Side a must see for anyone interested in the current torture debate in the US.

Ridcully

"The movie's attitude seemed to be one of concern for mankind but little sympathy for actual people."
Hal, I think you just put the mindset of the Left into a nutshell.
Getting back on topic, Michael Moore may indeed be an odious twerp but I find it hard not to have a certain grudging regard for a man who has got rich by telling the Unthinking Left exactly what they want to hear.

David

I used to like Moore, but then I realised his schtick is taking the mickey out of people who are just trying to do their job and make a living. He can't get access to senior staff, so he goes after the receptionist at the desk, or the clerk.

He's quite nasty. His best work was in Team America, though.

Johnathan Pearce

I like the way Moore is supposed to hate free enterprise for being "un-American". What has the nationality issue got to do with it?

And of course he's made a pile of money from the very free market he affects to condemn. The guy is a fraud.

David

"What has the nationality issue got to do with it?"

I suspect he's riffing on the way the American right tend to describe things they don't like as "Un-American".

gordon brown's unpatriotic teeth

Hats off to Michael Moore!
He's entrepreneur who has made millions peddling twaddle to gullible leftists.
(He knows his customers!)