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Michael Moore Loves his Country Again

September 7th, 2009 · 2 Comments

mike mooreIs there anything, anything at all, that the hate peddler Michael Moore likes about his country?

If there is, I’ve never heard him say it.

Reuters writes about Moore’s new America bashing movie, Capitalism: A Love Story:

Blending his trademark humor with tragic individual stories, archive footage and publicity stunts, the 55-year-old launches an all out attack on the capitalist system, arguing that it benefits the rich and condemns millions to poverty.

“Capitalism is an evil, and you cannot regulate evil,” the two-hour movie concludes.

And for those who don’t understand why some of us are a tad concerned about the motives of the Obama administration, there is this confession:

Amid the gloom, Moore detects the beginnings of a popular movement against unbridled capitalism, and believes President Barack Obama‘s rise to power may bolster it.

“Democracy is not a spectator sport, it’s a participatory event,” he told a news conference. “If we don’t participate in it, it ceases to be a democracy. So Obama will rise or fall based not so much on what he does but on what we do to support him.”

Moore also warned other countries around the world against following the recent U.S. economic and political model.

By the way, I don’t think it’s unbridled capitalism that Mr. Moore and his radical loons oppose, but rather capitalism in any form.

When Moore fear-mongers about the bogeyman of capitalism he shows his ignorance (denial?) of history. Capitalism and the free market economy are responsible for freeing more people from the chains of poverty than any other economic system ever invented by man.

The truth is capitalism doesn’t create inferiority, it reveals it. And this is precisely why egalitarian socialists like Moore hate economic systems based on competition (and why they oppose valedictorians, national academic standards and kickball).

Moore, of course, is a hypocrite. He himself is a great benefactor of the capitalist system having gotten very rich by selling celluloid slanders to malcontents, social outcasts and people who are unwilling to do the hard work necessary to successfully compete in a capitalist economy.

What’s more, he criticizes the gluttony and greed of wealthy (white male) Americans yet he’s morbidly obese while children are starving in American inner cities.

Hey, Mikey, give that 8th slice of pizza to a starving kid or shut your pie hole.

Tags: Opinion · The Economy

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