Alex Massie Alex Massie

The Madness of Michael Moore

Not, I suppose, terribly surprising that Michael Moore’s latest “documentary*” should receive an enthusiastic review from the Guardian, but even by Moore’s lofty standards this new venture sounds exceptionally stupid:

Capitalism: A Love Story is by turns crude and sentimental, impassioned and invigorating. It posits a simple moral universe inhabited by good little guys and evil big ones, yet the basic thrust of its argument proves hard to resist… Moore’s conclusion? That capitalism is both un-Christian and un-American, an evil that deserves not regulation but elimination.

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