Michael Moore's New Film: "Capitalism: A Love Story."

This movie is a Joke. Moore Hates Capitalism, yet wants everyone to be capitalist and spend money on his movies, books, and other Junk. WHAT A HYPOCRITE!!!

Have you seen it yet, Poliwonk?

What else would expect from someone liek Polywonk

There is obviously some forms of capitalism that Moore thinks are OK, so no, Moore does not hate Capitalism. Maybe what he hates are people who have so little regard for capitalism and the country that they corrupt both of them so there is no profit left for anyone else, all the barriers to entry for business are poltically too costly, and a global labor pool makes the working man a concentration camp worker.

Howard Stern asked Michael Moore if he's making millions. Michael said that he does very well but he's really not worth millions of dollars. He said that he might be worth over a million if you include the house. He said that he saves his money in a savings account that gets like 1 percent interest. (HERE)

"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."
Michael Moore

I'm interested to see it.

I bet its as good as SICko

"Sick in the World", which is on DVD from PBS is better.

Thanks, I ll check that out

Among the many things I love, capitalism is one.

Regulation is another.

I think regulation didn't make it to the health care debate because of Moore, and others who framed the debate.

Moore should study the Wall Street regulations, and then decide if he missed something big about the key players in health care delivery.

Moore is a mentally disturbed individual. He rakes in the money from capitalism but slams it . Right....

But if he did not have any money and slammed it he would be jealous, right. Just how does anyone make a point with a mind that is hermetically sealed?

Why doesn't he make a movies about all the people who risk their lives to come here?

U S A greatest place in the world!

UH.... Nora?
We're #37 in healthcare. (Number: Thirty-Seven.)
We're not even in the top 33%... Not even in the top third.

USA is a wonderful place to live. We can do better.

Folks won't be moving here because the health care if better.
But...who wants all those sick people coming into the US anyway. Let them stay in their own countries, right?
Right!
Wilka

should be IS...."the health care IS better...

(sorry)
W

Thanks for pointing this out. I like some of Moore's stuff, "SickO" was fantastic and this looks like it might be even better!

Very interesting.

I want to see this, looks good; and sicko was excellent

oh i want to see this, too.... have not even seen sicko but want to...

Featured in the Triple Name Club.

Love MM. He may be slightly loony, in the closed minds of the right wing folks, but I do love out of the box thinkers. Without free thinkers, we'd all be running off pamphlets on the printing press in the back room, and having kids hand them out on the corners, instead of blogging in cyberspace.
I do plan on seeing this. I've heard really good things about it.
Wilka

You know, I never used to be a Michael Moore fan, but the older I get, the more I like the old curmudgeon. He is right about so many things, and is not afraid to expose the truth. The trailer is a hoot, and very well edited. Can't wait to see the film.

"Capitalism: A Love Story "opens toninht at over 1,000 theaters nationwide.

Google "Michael Moore lies" and read about the inconsistencies, fabrications and outright lies that Moore has used to build his arguments and his "documentaries".

HERE is one of the articles you will find.

HERE is another....and ANOTHER ("Should a 400 lb man advise us on the evils of over-consumption?
Should the resident of a million-dollar apartment claim to be a poster boy of the working class?
Should a person who thought that Enron was a great investment, that Ralph Nader, Wesley Clark and John Kerry would win, and that North Korea's Kim Jong was changing for the better, advise us on ANYTHING?"

(and "Bowling for Columbine....
A look at Bowling for Columbine (my main analysis to date). In producing his Oscar-winner, Moore altered history, misled his viewers, and edited the footage and audio in such a way as to reverse the meaning. In one case, he took a speech of a person he desired to target; the problem was that the speech was in fact conciliatory and mild. So he spliced in footage from another speech, cut out paragraphs, and spliced the beginning of one sentence to the ending of another. In another, when he wanted to criticize a political advertisement, but it wasn't as pointed as he wanted, he spliced together two different political ads, then added titling which was in neither.")

The Bowling for Columbine "documentary".

More lies from Moore

BY SALLY PIPES

Friday, July 6th 2007, 4:00 AM

Be Our Guest
In "Sicko," Michael Moore uses a clip of my appearance earlier this year on "The O'Reilly Factor" to introduce a segment on the glories of Canadian health care.

Moore adores the Canadian system. I do not.

I am a new American, but I grew up and worked for many years in Canada. And I know the health care system of my native country much more intimately than does Moore. There's a good reason why my former countrymen with the money to do so either use the services of a booming industry of illegal private clinics, or come to America to take advantage of the health care that Moore denounces.

Government-run health care in Canada inevitably resolves into a dehumanizing system of triage, where the weak and the elderly are hastened to their fates by actuarial calculation. Having fought the Canadian health care bureaucracy on behalf of my ailing mother just two years ago - she was too old, and too sick, to merit the highest quality care in the government's eyes - I can honestly say that Moore's preferred health care system is something I wouldn't wish on him.

In 1999, my uncle was diagnosed with non-Hodgkin's lymphoma. If he'd lived in America, the miracle drug Rituxan might have saved him. But Rituxan wasn't approved for use in Canada, and he lost his battle with cancer.

But don't take my word for it: Even the Toronto Star agrees that Moore's endorsement of Canadian health care is overwrought and factually challenged. And the Star is considered a left-wing newspaper, even by Canadian standards.

Just last month, the Star's Peter Howell reported from the Cannes Film Festival that Mr. Moore became irate when Canadian reporters challenged his portrayal of their national health care system. "You Canadians! You used to be so funny!" exclaimed an exasperated Moore, "You gave us all our best comedians. When did you turn so dark?"

Moore further claimed that the infamously long waiting lists in Canada are merely a reflection of the fact that Canadians have a longer life expectancy than Americans, and that the sterling system is swamped by too many Canadians who live too long.

Canada's media know better. In 2006, the average wait time from seeing a primary care doctor to getting treatment by a specialist was more than four months. Out of a population of 32 million, there are about 3.2 million Canadians trying to get a primary care doctor. Today, according to the OECD, Canada ranks 24th out of 28 major industrialized countries in doctors per thousand people.

Unfortunately, Moore is more concerned with promoting an anti-free-market agenda than getting his facts straight. "The problem," said Moore recently, "isn't just [the insurance companies], or the Hospital Corporation and the Frist family - it's the system! They can't make a profit unless they deny care! Unless they deny claims! Our laws state very clearly that they have a legal fiduciary responsibility to maximize profits for the shareholders ... the only way they can turn the big profit is to not pay out the money, to not provide the care!"

Profit, according to the filmmaker-activist, has no place in health care - period.

Moore ignores the fact that 85% of hospital beds in the U.S. are in nonprofit hospitals, and almost half of us with private plans get our insurance from nonprofit providers. Moreover, Kaiser Permanente, which Moore demonizes, is also a nonprofit.

What's really amazing is that even the intended beneficiaries of Moore's propagandizing don't support his claims. The Supreme Court of Canada declared in June 2005 that the government health care monopoly in Quebec is a violation of basic human rights.

Moore put me, fleetingly, into "Sicko" as an example of an American who doesn't understand the Canadian health care system. He couldn't be more wrong. I've personally endured the creeping disaster of Canadian health care. Most unlike him, I'm willing to tell the truth about it.

Pipes is the president and CEO of the Pacific Research Institute and author of "Miracle Cure: How to Solve America's Health Care Crisis and Why Canada Isn't the Answer."

Read more: http://www.nydailynews.com/opinions/2007/07/06/2007-07-06_more_lies_from_moore.html#ixzz0Sn4x07pj

That he has the nerve to state that capitalism never did anything for him is enough a lie to make me more than skeptical of anything else he has to say. Of course, if he means that from a perspective of consumerism because he's bought into every ad of junk food that's ever been propagated, I suppose he has a point. Without that kind of capitalsm he might have at least been a healthy moron.

He's just "lost" 60 pounds. That's about a 3rd grader.
I wish him the best in getting healthier.
Wilka

Where did you get that information? Are you implying that I don't wish him luck in getting healthier? Here's a recent article written about him and his weight loss with a picture. From this picture, he has a long way to go.

I see you totally ignored my reference of his statement that capitalism never did anything for him. Weight loss or not, are you saying he's not a big, fat liar?

Never mind about the first question. I read that interview to which I linked, and he answered that he lost around 70 pounds since last Christmas, and he has about 70 more to go. (Of course, that's if you believe him, and it looks to me as if he has a lot more than 70 pounds to lose for any semblance of what might be considered healthy.)

Still waiting for an answer to the last one, though...maybe by the time he loses the next 70 pounds?