Michael Moore Desperately, Flailingly, Shamelessly Denies He Is the ‘1 Percent’
by HollywoodlandFrom CNN:
In an interview with Piers Morgan, Michael Moore was asked a question from a Twitter user who pointed out the seeming incongruity of the filmmaker’s personal wealth and his criticism of capitalism. Morgan seemed intrigued by the line of questioning and pressed Moore on the issue. After saying “that’s not true” to the assertion that he’s worth millions, Mr. Moore had this to say:
Well, then, if you believe that about me, then that’s really something, isn’t it? That, even though I do well, that I don’t associate myself with those who do well. I am devoting my life to those who who have less and who’ve been crapped upon by the system. And that’s how I spent my time, my energy, my money on trying to upend this system that I think is a system of violence; it’s a system that’s unfair to the average working person of this country, and it was a mistake to ever give me a dime, from the day Time Warner, actually, gave me money to buy Roger & Me… I hope they rue the day that they ever allowed me up on the movie screens.
Mr. Moore has, in the past, charged up to $40,000 for speaking engagements.
Mr. Moore owns a $1.9 million dollar home in New York and a $1.2 million one in Michigan.
Mr. Moore has sued both the magazine Mother Jones and the Weinstein brothers, seeking $2 million and $2.7 million, respectively. The latter was for further compensation than his director’s fees for the 2004 blockbuster documentary ‘Fahrenheit 9/11′. The film’s production budget was $6 million.
Mr. Moore protests a smidgen too much.
Watch more of the interview here.
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I'm sorry, but it's like listening to Jabba the Hutt.
What a fat, unfunny joke.
I guess being worth 20 million doesn't put him in the 1% category. It puts him in the .1% category!
" from the day Time Warner, actually, gave me money to buy Roger & Me… I hope they rue the day that they ever allowed me up on the movie screens."
I know we do ….
He's a stereotype. The guy who says "I'm on your side" to both sides, exploiting one and taking cash from the other, when all he's really out for is himself. He's Neuman, from Seinfeld. At least that's who should play him in the movie. Apologies to Wayne Knight.
took the words right outa my keyboard…
He's so desperate to remain self-righteous that he can't admit the simple truth! He's in the top 1 percent.
But that would mean he's benefited from capitalism and that takes him off his self-appointed moral high ground.
Such intellectual self-delusion is typical of a party that has no real moral standard and mocks Christians who do.
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/6/66/Jab...
is this a rare picture of MM without his baseball cap?
It's funny to see Moore pretty much throw a temper tantrum "I'm not! I'm not!" then he resorts to an even lamer argument that he's our man on the inside. Gee Mike thanks for having to get rich and live in big houses all for us. Yeah take that capitalism!
Not a 1%? Ah-hah hahhahhahhahhahhahhahhahhahhahhahhahhah….
Ah-hah hahhahhahhahhahhahhahhahhahhahhahhahhah….
Ah-hah hahhahhahhahhahhahhahhahhahhah…. Seriously, you pretend to be a 99%er if that's even an accurate term, but you're really the elite, another useful idiot, a reality averse, selfish, hypocritical, commie crap-sack.
Michael Moore —- 1% wealth category, 99% weight category. What a puke.
Let's see…Rosie O'Donnell's male twin says that he gives his money to the poor??? Fine…show us your tax return….it should tell the facts about your contributions and your tax bill (you know, the one you claim you can and should pay more of?) If Porkchop isn't in the 1%….he can easily prove it.
Just look at him squirming, trying to deflect the question. He knows he's busted. I'm glad Morgan wouldn't let him off the hook.
Michael Moore is the worse kind of leftist hypocrite. He's a millionaire who claims to be for the "little guy." What a joke. Not only does he own stock in huge corporations (including Haliburton), he is also known to be a tyrant to work for, as well as a cheapskate.
That is a terrible insult to Jabba
Hippo Crit
If he gets Leia to wear a metal bikini and a choke collar with chain and stand beside him, I'll click the video link. Until then, I refuse.
At least he is not denying he is fat.
We expect him to deny the 1% thing. Otherwise he would become a target for the mobs he is inciting.
He's afraid Roseanne's guillotine has his name on it.
Well, I don't know about you guys, but I most certainly "rue the day" I ever gave this blowhard a buck (I used to be a fan of "Roger & Me." The shame, the shame….).
Has this idiot not blown his credibility entirely by now? What on earth is he even talking about?
Well, he is 99% fat…
I'm not sure what the 1% is….
1983 Leia or 2011 Leia?
Okay, the visual on this is just getting too weird.
He also desperately, flailingly, shamelessly denies he's fat and obnoxious.
83 Leia. Good grief not 2011 Leia!
Michael Moore lied? Stop the presses!
Hypocrisy is just oozing out of his every pore. And believe me Michael, we already rue the day when you appeared on a movie screen.
You do realize that that lying sack of adipose tissue in fact got, not one, not two, but three face-to face interviews with Roger Smith? Before he shot most of his (hah!) "documentary" footage?
This is Moore wearing his sailor hat:
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/d/d8/Sta...
Michael charges $40,000 per speaking engagement? That's outrageous.
Scare-a Palin charged at least $100,000 to speak to the poor and unemployed:
http://www.politico.com/news/stories/1009/28873.h...
Republicans – Hypocrisy is our middle name.
He owns a $1.2 million in Michigan? Go to Zillow.com and check out home values in Michigan, you can get a great home deal in Detroit for $10k.
Piers Morgan must love when Breitbart picks up something from his show, it probably increases his viewership x1,000.
Don't give fatass a dime of your money.
My favorite part of the interview was when the flea-bagger called in and asked Michael if he ever left his home in California and then Michael replied that he in fact lived in Michigan.
Baggers – too stupid to look at Wikipedia. We don't need to make you repubs look like idiots – you do a damn fine job all on your own.
Where did you get your definition of hypocrisy, Alannis Morrisette? You shouldn't listen to her, she's almost always wrong.
Hypocrisy is when you call out others for behavior that you engage in yourself. Pretty sure I've never heard Sarah Palin rail against Capitalism.
This is an article about moore not palin. Nice try at changing the subject though.
You work for Time/Warner???
You must be part of the 1%.
What he didn't donate the movie to incentivize Time Warner, to encourage them to distribute it?
Gave me money? AKA 'I sold it to them for a mutually agreed upon price which I negotiated. I'm sure they would have been happy to get the rights to it for free
He didn't donate all the proceeds?
I'm shocked, shocked to find that gambling is going on in here!
In Louisiana, we call this crayfishing. For those unfamiliar with crayfish, they swim backwards.
I have two questions: Who the he!! would pay $40,000 to hear this turd do a speech?, and Who the he!! would attend his speech?
'I hope they rue the day that they ever allowed me up on the movie screens.'
We already do, Mike. You're annoying, untruthful, and unentertaining.
Mikeflaherty2 – Apparently gets masochistic joy out of trolling.
Look up "Hypocrisy" in the dictionary. Palin doesn't make a fortune calling rich people evil and greedy.
Libs. Too stupid to know that anyone can put whatever they want into Wikipedia.
I pretty much rue any day I see him flappin' his pie-hole on camera.
Whether Moore's fees for speaking engagements are outrageous or not is completely irrelevant. They were only brought up to point out that he is a long, long way from being a regular guy.
Beyond your unwholesome obsession with the woman, what Sarah Palin charges for speaking engagements compared to Moore is entirely irrelevant to anything being discussed in the article. Again; the fees were only mentioned as evidence of Moore belonging to the millionaire's club he claims to be railing against.
Hypocrisy is condemning other people for activities you yourself engage in. In order for your example of hypocrisy to be valid it would require a) for the writer of the article to have condemned Michael Moore for charging so much for speaking engagements and b) for him to either charge a similar amount or to have defended Sarah Palin for doing so.
As nothing of the sort was said or implied, what you have done is swung wildly and missed comically.
Leftists – Self Beclowning Cluelessness is our middle name.
Go fly a kite, you miserable wretch.
Taken from celebrity networth.com:
"Michael Moore is a controversial documentary filmmaker with a net worth of $50 million. "
Capitalist Piggy 1%er
You work for Time/Warner too???
No?
Jesus, I wish you people would learn to read.
All these multimillionaire libs who really want us to think they are "one of us" could follow the lead of St Francis (12th century) – who gave away all of his wealth.
What are the chances of Michael doing that?
"I don't think I'm rich; therefore, I'm not." What a crock of BS, but perfect for the libs and MSM. I'll bet Trumka doesn't think of himself as rich, either.
But if a conservative said "but I don't think I'm rich" he'd be ripped a new one. Double-standard, as always.
You shouldn't apologize for doing whatever it takes to keep your sanity …
He's a mean, greedy small man in a big body. His lack of a generous heart shows in his work and in his words. I actually feel kind of sorry for him. Almost.
LOL!
It's all the same all the time with liberal "thinkers." Deflect, deflect, deflect!!!!!
Liberal trolls … too stupid to understand the point; too self-righteous to admit they're wrong; too idiotic to function in the land of reality.
In fairness, I suspect he has been paid millions, but is no longer among 1% in terms of net worth–too emotionally needy to save and invest.
troll
Why so lonely mr troll?
The question should be "DID YOU FLY A PRIVATE JET HERE ???? "
I know, I feel the same way. Probably liberal collages trying to indoctrinate the young. Sad, isn't it?
According to Celebrity net worth. Michael "Jabba the Hut" Moore it worth 50 Million dollars.
http://www.celebritynetworth.com/richest-celebrit...
But apparently is is worth more (no pun) if you look at his residuals.
I wonder what his cut off for the 1% is?
Does anyone knwo what the criteria is?
incidentally if you start to google What is Michael Moore… The first thing that pops up is "what is michael moore's net worth"
Interesting, no?
fecal impaction
I don't trust anything Moore says. I never have. It's been proven time and again on many different websites that he's a liar and a manipulator. He just strikes me as a very unpleasant and abrasive individual who won't even give one inch to anyone on the right. It doesn't matter what kind of conservative they are. Paleo, neo, Reagan celebrant, Romney supporter, Paul booster…Why doesn't he show respect to those who disagree with him? John Nolte celebrates Moore's films (I'm not sure why, though). Do you think that Moore would say anything nice about Nolte?
Maybe he thinks it's a function of body weight.
Namely pounds per million.
With that scale, he's definitely in the bottom end of the 99%.
Michael Moore would have made a good carpet bagger. "Just put your mark on this little paper, and we'll give you 40 acres and a mule…'cause we're your friends…"
Dude—you are so totally disgusting to look at. Why don't you go get the stomach band, and for Christ's sake, go see a dentist! Gross!
I don't understand the 1% mantra anyway. The vast majority of Americans are very comfortable, not only by their own measure, but by every historical measure. And most of these fleabaggers of OWS come from homes that are very comfortable, except for maybe the meth-head runaways. Even the professors and entertainers priming the pump are more than comfortable. Their gripe is what again, they don't want to pay back the student loans they signed for?
Whatever it is, it's so childish, leftist, and illogical that they are among the maybe 1% who agree with them.
That's right, Student Activities Funds.
Nope, AB73, It's actually "Project, Project, Project."
Fleabaggers, college professors, unionistas, left-over students from the Undemocratic society, OWS morons. You know, the stupid and useless.
Less than ZERO.
It is called free market capitalism. One of her speeches is worth $100k vs $40 for Moore.
If someone offered $100K to you to speak would you do it?
I wish you people would learn not to be stupid. BTW Michael Moore probably has stock in Time Warner along with Haliburton
Because Nolte unlike most liberal media movie critics tries to judge most films on their merit. Other then that I agree with everything else you said. Moore is known a documentary film maker but he is anything but he edits and stages things so he gets exactly the results he wants.
hy·poc·ri·sy (h-pkr-s)
n. pl. hy·poc·ri·sies
1. The practice of professing beliefs, feelings, or virtues that one does not hold or possess; falseness
i.e. making a movie bashing Big Auto for being anti-union and then specifically using non-union labor to make a movie bashing capitalism….that you sell on Amazon. http://abcnews.go.com/Business/michael-moore-snub...
I console myself with the thought of all the money Moore made for George W. Bush through Laemmle Theatres and the Carlisle Group…
Uhm I think Rosie is pretty much a male too…………..other than that you're 100% correct.
but, but, you don't understand. I earned that money. I deserve it because it proves I'm smarter and more talented than all the rest of you. That's why you need me to keep all my money so I can look out for all of you little people. I'm talking about those OTHER fat cats who need give up their money.
Annual income of $383,000 is 1%, in 2009. I think he qualifies.
When I look at Michael Moore I see an enormous bag of offal. I wonder if his fortune has dwindled because of how much he has to pay for sex.
Oh come on you know he donated that money to his; gardener, maid, chef and the security guards that protect his McMansion….
2011 Leia? oh man that visual caused me to just shudder…
Do Michael & Al Gore share the same chef ?
I've read about MMFlint's tenure at Mother Jones; it seems he's not warmly remembered there. Keep in mind that most of his "documentaries" before and after Canadian Bacon/TV Nation were he & a crew of maybe 3 people at most walking onto others' property and annoying them. In other words, not a man associated commonly with directorial leadership and sage judgment (in fact reputed to be personally harsh and tyrannically demanding, like an incompetent version of Steve Jobs)
Part of the 1% most obese people in The United States. Too bad they don't have gastric bypass surgery in Cuba.
Cause they don't do lap band surgery in Cuba!
Ignoring reality is simply another manifestation of that mental illness called liberalism. With true childish tenacity, this dimwit is able to naively cling to mutually contradictory positions. He's laughable and pathetic. So what else is new?
Moore hates himself so he takes it out on you and your core beliefs, your family, your community and your country. He's an unattractive fat fcuk with a chip on his shoulder. But step back…a little further…further…and he's just a cog in a huge industry run by malcontents whose goal is to crush you under the weight of their sickness. These nuts are not going down without taking everybody with them.
Misery loves company, so they're organized as hell. They've learned to make a fortune out of mental illness.
Sarah Palin doesn't rail against rich people. Moore does.
So, no hypocrisy. Just a silly child (you) trying to fling the word around in the vain hope that something will stick.
Someone missed naptime.
Douchebaggers – stupid enough to BELIEVE Wikipedia.
doesn't that make them twins ?
he took that job over from Larry Flint
'I hope they rue the day that they ever allowed me up on the movie screens.'
And there was clapping from the 99%. Go figure.
and here is in the kitchen interviewing Kelly LaBrock:
http://www.slashfilm.com/wp/wp-content/images/wei...
the makings of a mutant killer family in the backwoods movie…
You know how much money you have to make to be in the top 1%? At least $343,927 with an average of $970,000.
2 points:
1. Now considering his two houses alone cost $3.1 million, Moore denying that he is part of the "1%" is patently absurd.
2. When Obama considers the 'wealthy' to be $250k and above, he is including a fair portion of the 99% in his assessments, no?
Amazing that anyone actually believes him. Never trust an anti-capitalist capitalist. Especially one that big of a hypocrite.
You sure enjoy taking aluminum bats to strawmen.
Not to mention, these shortsighted rabble rousers like Moore seem to think their “siege” on those other than themselves will go unopposed. I don't think it will come to that, but if it did or does, I have a feeling the actual outcome is a scenario they have not even considered.
Hypocrisy????? Really dude????
Republicans aren't out there telling us that we should only make a limited amount of income from their Learjet…
Do you fail at everything? http://www.funlol.com/532/Bad_Ways_To_Kill_Yourse...
There are a lot of people waiting on your rebuttal….
Sorry, he missed that penthouse in NYC…. worth $1.9 million AND his $1.2 million dollar home on Torch Lake.
OccuPUPPETS, too stupid to know that they are zombiepuppets for filthy, rich elitists.
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Michael Moore, Code Pink, and Soros' Tides Foundation are the financial backers of the OWS newspaper.
Does the #Occupy Movement Speak for You?
HELL NO!
Well fat boy here with what 15 million or so is not in the 99% group either!
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