Bentway is misguided.
He thinks he's going to get a govie handout if he pulls for them.
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Michael Moore's Support of Occupy Wall Street Fraught with Hypocrisy
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COMMENTARY | Michael Moore, the purveyors of documentaries such as "Fahrenheit 9/11," "Sicko" and "Capitalism: A Love Story," has graduated from producing political rants on film to just giving political rants.
Moore recently addressed Occupy Oakland, in which he praised the violent demonstrators whose recent clashes with the police have provided disturbing video footage on TV and on the Internet. Moore told the crowd of 500 that they had "inspired millions" and had "killed apathy."
Moore has a singular problem in his attempt to cast himself as one of the toiling masses. He is, by every measure of wealth and income, one of the evil "1 percent" that the occupiers have been venting their rage against.
At first Moore tried to lie about his wealth, telling CNN interviewer Pies Morgan that he was not worth millions of dollars despite the success of his various movies. This claim did not pass the laugh test, so Moore later confessed that he is, indeed, one of the dreaded "1 percent." He admitted to paying a $1 million in taxes, endowing a $1 million charitable foundation and paying another $1 million for a luxury car, a swank New York apartment, and some more charitable donations from out of the sale of his first film "Roger and Me."
Since then, Moore has become even more fabulously wealthy. However he proudly suggests that he has not invested his money very wisely, opting for a low interest savings account rather than a stock portfolio.
Moore is not the first rich person to embrace the "Occupy Wall Street" movement or to rail against the capitalist system from which he has benefited so handsomely. But he is the first, so far as it is known, to try to maintain what he considers his working class roots from Flint, Michigan. He has inveighed against greed even while suing his former backers, the Weinstein Brothers, over profits from "Fahrenheit 9/11."
To be sure, Moore made his loot making propaganda films attacking American society and not though starting companies that make things, unlike a Steve Jobs or an Elon Musk. In a sense, then, his claims of virtue run hollow for two reasons. The first is that he is very rich, despite his proletariat pretensions. The second is that, unlike many on Wall Street who have helped to finance new industries, he has created nothing of value. |
