Please sir, can I have some Moore?
I hope your wallet is ready for this!
Everyone is a bit of a hypocrite sometimes. I catch myself being hypocritical, even. But for all that, there’s nothing I despise more than rank hypocrisy, especially from those who tell us how we should all live our lives, because they are better than we are, smarter than we are or more pious than we are.
And of course, Michael Moore is all of the above.
But most especially, he is a hypocrite:
Filmmaker Michael Moore has been approved to receive a refundable tax credit of up to $1 million from the State of Michigan Film Office for his 2009 documentary, “Capitalism: A Love Story,” and a Republican state senator in Michigan wants her state’s money back. Two years ago, Moore attacked the movie-subsidizing program for giving “free money” to corporations.
Yes, sir! Michael Moore had the absolute gall to attack this very program, and now he’s at the trough, reaching his greedy, fat, overpaid hand into the pockets of taxpayers and demanding money from the very system he’s decrying … in this very movie!
Let’s face it, anybody can have an “off-day” and slip into some petty hypocrisy, but overtness of this is appalling.
And the movie was rubbish, too.
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April 13, 2010 at 09:03 -
Well, he’s a Democrat. Expecting him to have principles is like expecting a crocodile to have a conscience. See also Al Gore, etc…
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April 13, 2010 at 09:28 -
Ah, the prodigal son !
Kill the fatted calf
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April 13, 2010 at 10:23 -
If you have seen one Michael Moore film you have seen them all.They are all about one thing… Michael Moore.
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April 13, 2010 at 11:02 -
I see the Tories are launching their manifesto from Battersea power station.
I’m surprised some enterprising blogger hasn’t used the famous Pink Floyd album cover for “Animals” with the giant inflatable Pig.
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April 13, 2010 at 11:56 -
In his speech David Cameron claims to have “googled” Battersea power station. Surprisingly the above album cover wasn’t mentioned.
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April 13, 2010 at 16:15 -
How did he ever win a documentary as he did not make one?
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April 13, 2010 at 17:07 -
Michael Moore.
America’s very own Butter Mountain.
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April 13, 2010 at 17:44 -
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April 13, 2010 at 18:43 -
Tub of Lard. Appeared on Paul Merton’s team on Have I Got News For You in place of no-show Roy Hattersley.
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April 14, 2010 at 19:35 -
So they gave it to him, did they? Like you say, he can’t claim not to have known as he was applying while making the film.
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