Michael Moore calls Reporter a lier

[booley]

No matter how one feels about Michael Moore, my point in posting this isn't actually about him specifically.



So lets examine this exchange...

Reporter-I heard from some guys say your worth 50 million

Moore-No I am not.

Reporter-Well lets assume that's true anyway. Aren't you a bad person based on this thing I can't back up?

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OF course even if true it misses the point.

IS moore outsourcing jobs? Is Moore wanting the bottom 99% to sacrifice so he doesn't have too? Does Moore spend money to keep our horrible for profit medical system in place? Does he think there should be a separate legal standard for him and corporations then for people not as rich? When people lose their homes and jobs because a corporation wanted to maximize profits or just didn't care enough not too, does Moore label them parasites"?

The reporter was more interested in reinforcing a fantasy world where Occupy: Whatever is about having money and dirty hippies wanting to take said money then about actually reporting.

The idea that if you have money then you can't agree with the Occupiers is a straw man and complete BS

The problem isn't having money. The problem is fucking over your fellow human beings to get that money.

[ltfred]

"Here’s the personal version: suppose that you’re a professor/columnist who advocates higher taxes on high incomes and a stronger social safety net — but you yourself earn enough from various sources that you will pay some of those higher taxes and are unlikely to rely on that stronger safety net. A remarkable number of people look at that combination of personal and political positions and cry “Hypocrisy!”

If you remember the 2004 election, which unfortunately I do, there were quite a few journalists who basically accused John Kerry of being “inauthentic” because he was a rich man advocating policies that would help the poor and the middle class. Apparently you can only be authentic if your politics reflect pure personal self-interest — Mitt Romney is Mr. Natural.

So to say what should be obvious but apparently isn’t: supporting policies that are to your personal financial disadvantage isn’t hypocrisy — it’s civic virtue!

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If people can’t comprehend what it means to work for larger goals than their own interest, if they actually consider any deviation from self-service somehow a sign of phoniness, we, as a nation, are lost."

What Krugman said.

krugman.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/11/04/i-do-not-think-that-word-means-what-you-think-it-means-hypocrisy-edition/

[Admiral Lithp]

"Stop lying."
"What else do you want us to do?"

That was pretty funny.

[N. De Plume]

“Is that what you do? Sell rumors? You’re just punk media is all that you are.”

Ain’t that the truth.

Nov 5, 2011 17:38:56 GMT -5 Admiral Lithp said:

"Stop lying."
"What else do you want us to do?"

Just don’t lie.

Not lying—a real foreign concept to the guy, isn’t it?