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Michael Moore’s ‘Capitalism’ Flops: Even Liberals Stay Away in Droves

by John Nolte

After nearly two months in theaters and all the hype that normally surrounds a Michael Moore film — much of it free thanks to a fawning media, “Capitalism: A Love Story” has flopped. Production costs, advertising costs and whatever Michael Moore takes above the line makes spinning a measly $14.2 million theatrical haul into anything other than a flop impossible.

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Oh, you can be certain Moore’s fellow travellers in the entertainment media will try: “It’s the 5th highest grossing political documentary of all time!” But that’s like saying , “This is the fifth best car accident I’ve had this month!” A good rule of thumb is that after theaters take their cut, 55% of ticket sales make it back to the studio, and there’s no way $8 million is anything more than a sea of red. (more…)

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Tags: Capitalism: A Love Story., Fahrenheit 9/11, michael moore, Sicko
Posted Nov 18th 2009 at 9:36 am in Film, Politics | 264450148 Comments2009-11-18+17%3A36%3A17John+Nolte

Hollywood Receives Government Help — Why No Salary Caps?

by Dan Gifford

When Uncle Sam fought WWII, Hollywood backed him with patriotic movies and war bond drives and moral boosting celebrity appearances. When Uncle Sam fought Communists, Hollywood was a mixed bag. His GIs in Korea got support. His GIs in Vietnam, not so much, as some damned his war with movies of faint praise that depicted Imperialist aggression by ugly Americans against peoples who just wanted be free from capitalist exploitation.

Hollywood on Uncle Sam’s terrorism fight? Don’t even ask.

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But now that it’s Uncle Obama on the warpath against the most diabolical villain in the populist panoply, Hollywood is back to showing its anti-Axis resolve against this most indefensible of enemies.

That enemy (for now anyway) is the army of the overpaid — those individuals who represent an unholy axis of unsupervised greed with incomes that evoke envy in the psyche of the ordinary workin’ mench at the mercy of The Man. And why not? According to human resources expert Patrick R. Dailey, top corporate salaries are now 411 times the amount of the lowest paid worker. In 1980, that ratio was 42 to one. By comparison, star actors are often paid more than 1,000 times the amount of the lowest salary on the set. No matter. (more…)

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Tags: Capitlaism, hollywood, Lawrence O'Donnell, michael moore, Obama
Posted Nov 3rd 2009 at 6:44 am in Celebrity News, Politics | 25414649 Comments2009-11-03+14%3A44%3A15Dan+Gifford

NewsBusted: What is President Obama’s Halloween Costume?

by NewsBusters

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Tags: Ambulance Fees, Halloween, Illegal Alien Costume, Iranian Foreign Minister Mottaki, Media Research Center Staff
Posted Oct 30th 2009 at 6:34 pm in Media Criticism, Political Humor, Top 5 | 25565827 Comments2009-10-31+01%3A34%3A15NewsBusters

Michael Moore: Epic Failure or Right-Wing Double Agent?

by John Nolte

Besides being intellectually dishonest, anti-liberty and just plain wrong, the Daily Kos, HuffPo, Keith Olbermann, Rachel Maddow and Michael Moore all have another thing in common: a smidgen of my respect for being upfront regarding their political agendas. Each fights dirty and dishonestly, but at least they’re in uniform — unlike those left-wing spies hiding pompously behind “objectivity” at CNN, MSNBC, The New York Times, Washington Post, ABC, PBS, NPR, CBS and NBC.

I digress…

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I like Michael Moore. I like his movies and while there are a number of stories floating around describing him as an awful human being, he seems affable enough during television interviews and personal appearances. Most of all, I like him because he lays completely bare his anti-all-things-freedom agenda for the world to see. He’s my ideological enemy, but unlike the coward Bill Maher who hides behind libertarianism and the coward Jon Stewart who hides behind being a “comic,” Moore makes no secret of the Statist goals he shamelessly pursues.

Too bad for his side he sucks at it. (more…)

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Tags: Bowling For Columbine (2002), Capitalism: A Love Story (2009), Fahrenheit 9/11 (2004), michael moore, Roger & Me (1989)
Posted Oct 21st 2009 at 5:06 pm in Entertainment, Political Humor | 250666105 Comments2009-10-22+00%3A06%3A54John+Nolte

Michael Moore’s Audacious Lies

by Dan Gifford

If the evil men do lives after them, the legacy of dishonesty, demagoguery and hypocrisy that Michael Moore has been enabled to legitimize in film and the body politic will endure for a long time after he quits making documentaries as he says he may. That hopefully means his disingenuous indictment of capitalism now making him millions in theaters will be the last time he’ll project his puerile class warfare demons onto a movie screen and insult our intelligence by calling it a documentary.

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Don’t get me wrong. Moore came up with a clever shtick that can be amusing, but he doesn’t make real documentaries. He makes sophomoric agitprop that violates the Oscar’s rule against fiction in that form which other documentary makers must apparently follow — a double standard point I’ve made to the Academy awarders twice. Only the first of those letters is listed below because of space limitations, but a key point made in that second note is that there should be a separate category for Moore’s type of fabricated political schlock if such stuff is going to be receiving awards . Sans that, “anything goes with documentary film … there are no standards … it’s all a game,” as University of Texas film professor and indie producer John Pierson put it. (more…)

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Tags: "Manufacturing Dissent", "Roger and Me", "Shooting Michael Moore", Academy, Bowling for Columbine
Posted Oct 20th 2009 at 1:13 pm in Film, Politics | 24694297 CommentsMichael+Moore%27s+Audacious+Lies2009-10-20+20%3A13%3A25Dan+Gifford

Why Do Women Have Sex?

by NewsBusters

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Tags: ACORN, Burger King, Burritos, Cindy Sheehan, Congressional Budget Office
Posted Oct 16th 2009 at 6:34 pm in Political Humor, Video | 24832613 CommentsWhy+Do+Women+Have+Sex%3F2009-10-17+01%3A34%3A00NewsBusters

Debating Leftists is Like Debating Charles Manson

by Leigh Scott

Keith Olbermann’s recent hour-long commentary was quite revealing. Like Michael Moore’s “capitalism hasn’t done anything for me” comment, the outpouring of support and sympathy for serial pedophile and admitted rapist Roman Polanski, and President Obama’s shenanigans at the U.N. and G-20, it drove home a simple, powerful point…

These people don’t know what they are talking about.

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They do not know their kiesters from a hole in the ground. They are a few fries short of a happy meal and a few cards short of a full deck. Their phasers are permanently set on “clueless.”

Once you come to this realization, as many of us have, you are forced to approach their ideas and spokespeople from a position of reality. Not from some sanctimonious position of civility and “debate.” (more…)

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Tags: Barack Obama, Charles Manson, Congress, health care, michael moore
Posted Oct 12th 2009 at 5:04 am in Entertainment, Featured Story, Politics | 242858329 Comments2009-10-12+12%3A04%3A58Leigh+Scott

What Makes Anderson Cooper Happy?

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Tags: Anderson Cooper, Barbie Movie, iran, Kelly Osbourne, Liberal Media
Posted Oct 9th 2009 at 6:11 pm in Media Criticism, Political Humor, Video | 24423818 CommentsWhat+Makes+Anderson+Cooper+Happy%3F2009-10-10+01%3A11%3A35NewsBusters

Michael Moore On ‘Hannity’

by Big Hollywood

Parts II , III, and discussion points after the jump:

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Tags: 9/11, Al Gore, Christianity, God, Hannity
Posted Oct 6th 2009 at 11:31 pm in Celebrity News, Entertainment, Film, Politics, Religion, Video | 241982117 CommentsMichael+Moore+On+%27Hannity%272009-10-07+06%3A31%3A51Big+Hollywood

Althouse: ‘Am I wrong to see Moore as an anti-Semite?’

by Big Hollywood

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Ann Althouse:

“The most striking thing in the movie was the religion. I think Moore is seriously motivated by Christianity. He says he is (and has been since he was a boy). And he presented various priests, Biblical quotations, and movie footage from “Jesus of Nazareth” to make the argument that Christianity requires socialism. With this theme, I found it unsettling that in attacking the banking system, Moore presented quite a parade of Jewish names and faces. He never says the word “Jewish,” but I think the anti-Semitic theme is there. We receive long lectures about how capitalism is inconsistent with Christianity, followed a heavy-handed array of — it’s up to you to see that they are — Jewish villains. (more…)

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Tags: bankers, Capitalism: A Love Story., Christianity, Jewish, michael moore
Posted Oct 6th 2009 at 6:47 am in Film, Politics | 240742137 Comments2009-10-06+13%3A47%3A42Big+Hollywood

Socialism and Christian-Bashing Crash at Box Office

by John Nolte

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Tough times for leftie Hollywood. Nothing’s gone right this week. None of this is their fault, of course. In order to understand that it might not be a good idea to rally around a child rapist, bash religion in a religious country or trash capitalism in a capitalist country you have to live in the real world…

Steve Mason:

Michael Moore’s CAPITALISM tanks!

Ricky Gervais has launched his second consecutive box office bomb as The Invention of Lying (Warner Bros) only mustered $2.2M or so to start the 3-day. The comedy should finish #5 with approximately $6.5M for the weekend. … (more…)

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Tags: "Invention of Lying", box office, Capitalism: A Love Story., michael moore, Polanski
Posted Oct 3rd 2009 at 8:32 am in Film, News | 239942265 Comments2009-10-03+15%3A32%3A59John+Nolte

‘NewsBusted’ 10/02/09 — Comedy News from the Right

by NewsBusters

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Tags: Chris Brown, David Paterson, Dementia, FCC Diversity Czar, global cooling
Posted Oct 2nd 2009 at 6:33 pm in Media Criticism, Video | 2393908 Comments2009-10-03+01%3A33%3A50NewsBusters

A Day Spent With Michael Moore

by Steven Crowder

I know that to many of us Conservatives, the name “Michael Moore” is simply more off-putting than upsetting. He’s not really a key player anymore, so we often don’t even give him the time of day. I do think it’s important to know one’s enemy however, which is why this mini-documentary is incredibly important. Follow me into the belly of the beast, no pun intended.

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Tags: capitalism, Crowder, interview, michael moore, Video
Posted Oct 2nd 2009 at 5:44 pm in Political Humor, Video | 23945424 CommentsA+Day+Spent+With+Michael+Moore2009-10-03+00%3A44%3A12Steven+Crowder

Michael Moore Goes After…Himself?

by Cam Cannon

Last weekend, Michael Phillips and A.O. Scott reviewed, among other films, Michael Moore’s latest farce, “Capitalism: A Love Story.” I don’t know their track records or political leanings, but Phillips for one noticed that Michael Moore is growing tiresome. He didn’t mention the blatant hypocrisy of a multi-millionaire who has reaped the benefits of capitalism calling for its demise, but still, he’s getting tired of the schtick, which leaves me hopeful.

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A.O. Scott raved about the movie, and I agree on one hand that Michael Moore has finally chosen the most logical topic for his kind of film. At least Michael Moore has the nerve to finally say it: he doesn’t like capitalism. It’s absurd, it’s ridiculous, it’s akin to Lieutenant Kaffee rising and sleeping under the very blanket of freedom that Colonel Jessep provides, then questioning the manner in which he, Colonel Jessup, provides it. I’m sure Goldman Sachs would rather Mikey just thank them and go on his way… but I digress… (more…)

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Tags: A.O. Scot, ann coulter, capitalism, Capitalism: A Love Story., Colonel Jessep
Posted Oct 2nd 2009 at 4:13 pm in Celebrity News, Entertainment, Film, Politics | 23691429 CommentsMichael+Moore+Goes+After...Himself%3F2009-10-02+23%3A13%3A20Cam+Cannon

Michael Moore Kills Capitalism with Kool-Aid

by Michael Covel

A friend recently invited me to a private screening of Michael Moore’s new film, Capitalism: A Love Story. The September 16 invite, not surprisingly, leaned in a certain direction:

“Moore takes us into the homes of ordinary people whose lives have been turned upside down; and he goes looking for explanations in Washington, DC and elsewhere. What he finds are the all-too-familiar symptoms of a love affair gone astray: lies, abuse, betrayal and 14,000 jobs being lost every day. Capitalism: A Love Story is Michael Moore’s ultimate quest to answer the question he’s posed throughout his illustrious filmmaking career: Who are we and why do we behave the way that we do?”

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Considering Moore was going to be there for a Q&A after (moderated by Arianna Huffington), I quickly signed on. Now before painting a picture of Moore’s new film, let me be honest: my belief set is essentially libertarian (”Government out of my bedroom and my pocketbook”). Not only do government solutions not excite me, they scare the living blank out of me. Remember when George Bush declared, “I’ve abandoned free-market principles to save the free-market system to make sure the economy doesn’t collapse”? He might as well of said, “Hide your money, kids — ’cause I’m coming to take it!”

Oh sure, in theory I would like to see everyone with their own homestead, money in their pocket for regular shopping frenzies, and no health worries despite eating at Burger King 24/7, but arriving at those goals is not exactly doable unless government robs Peter to pay Paul and/or starts up the printing press. (more…)

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Tags: capitalism, Capitalism: A Love Story., Donohue, friedman, michael moore
Posted Oct 2nd 2009 at 5:03 am in Featured Story, Film, Politics, Reviews | 23883067 Comments2009-10-02+12%3A03%3A41Michael+Covel

‘Capitalism: A Love Story’ Targets Both Right and Left

by Carl Kozlowski

Firing a red-hot cannon blast at both parties and the excesses of America’s capitalist system, filmmaker Michael Moore’s latest documentary “Capitalism: A Love Story” is also his most stylistically and emotionally mature work to date. Launching with a string of film clips that parallel the fall of the Roman Empire to our present societal hot mess, the film serves up big laughs with its harrowing vision of just how far off the rails our present economic crisis has taken the nation.

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Moore has made plenty of claims that “Capitalism” is the summation of two full decades of work, harking back to the 1989 release of his seminal “Roger & Me,” and that this film is lobbing bombs at the figures involved. Yet much of the time, the film has a mournful, yearning approach in showing Moore’s desire that America return to the capitalism of the pre-Jimmy Carter years: he shows that the system’s promises worked out splendidly throughout most of the nation’s history, and in particular from the boom years after WWII all the way through Ford before the nation hit Carter’s infamous assessment of “malaise” in the late ‘70s. (more…)

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Tags: "Roger and Me", Barack Obama, bush, Capitalism: A Love Story., michael moore
Posted Oct 1st 2009 at 6:39 am in Reviews | 23412263 Comments2009-10-01+13%3A39%3A03Carl+Kozlowski

Hollywood Activists, Or How Norma Rae Got Norma Raed

by Ned Rice

The cruel exploitation of the impoverished masses has been a staple of Hollywood storytelling since the earliest days of movie making. In fact, thanks to big-screen classics from The Grapes of Wrath to Slumdog Millionaire you might say that grinding poverty has been a real gold mine for Tinseltown. Given Hollywood’s progressive politics you might also think that a good chunk of the vast box office earnings inspired by the world’s poor might by now have filtered down to the same unwashed throngs who are, in a sense, responsible for it. And in most cases you would be wrong.

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Crystal Lee Sutton, 68, died a couple of weeks ago of brain cancer. You might know her better by her Hollywood name: Norma Rae. Crystal’s life story was the inspiration for the 1979 Sally Field blockbuster that grossed $22 million (in 1979 dollars), four Oscar nominations, and two Oscars including Best Actress for the aforementioned Ms. Field. Norma Rae’s character is #15 on the American Film Institute’s list of all-time greatest screen heroes; Norma Rae is rated 16^th of their “100 Most Inspiring Movies of All Time.” Given all this you probably think that Crystal Lee Sutton died in relative comfort, content with her life’s work and unencumbered by material concerns such as medical bills. Well, guess again. (more…)

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Tags: actorvists, capitalism, Crystal Lee Sutton, michael moore, Norma Rae
Posted Oct 1st 2009 at 5:03 am in Celebrity News, Featured Story, Film, Politics | 233402110 Comments2009-10-01+12%3A03%3A36Ned+Rice

Michael Moore’s Latest Mocks American Capitalism

by Ted Baehr

If only he would use his talent for goodness instead of evil!

The bumbling fictional spy Maxwell Smart often used this phrase to describe some of the super-villains he faced on the TV spy show “Get Smart” in the 1960s. The same statement may be applied to Michael Moore, the filmmaking darling of the Left who has made another polemical documentary, “Capitalism: A Love Story.” This time, Moore calls for the replacement of America’s capitalist system with a socialist system, including, of course, pro-communist proposals to share all wealth or profits equally.

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A talented filmmaker (see our full review here where we list most of the major problems with Moore’s new subversive, Marxist diatribe promoting his radical utopian nightmare), Moore begins his latest movie by comparing the United States to the Ancient Roman Empire, where, according to his sometimes pompous and condescending narration, society became divided between the super rich and the super poor (clearly an exaggeration). He then discusses the post-war economic boom in the United States in the 1950s and early 60s. (more…)

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Tags: Barack Obama, capitalism, Capitalism: A Love Story., michael moore, Obama
Posted Sep 30th 2009 at 6:44 am in Film, Politics | 23668283 Comments2009-09-30+13%3A44%3A11Ted+Baehr

Michael Moore: Mainstream Media Boosts Dishonesty

by Billy Hallowell

Somewhat fresh off the trail from despicable attempts to distort the events and facts surrounding Columbine, 9/11 and the American health care system, filmmaker Michael Moore is back to perpetuate new mis-truths and to face off with a new “villain” – capitalism. In case of shear irony, in his new film entitled, “Capitalism: A Love Story,” Moore sets out to unravel the very system that gives him notoriety, fame and, no doubt, opulence.

Fortunately for Moore, we live in a free society. Despite the fact that his films are comprised of antics and obnoxious absurdities that only small-minded Americans would believe in their totality, he has every right to continue his idiocy. It is the coverage of Moore and his half-witted films that cause one to question the media’s promotional motives.

Mainstream outlets can’t seem to get enough of Moore, as they offer him positive coverage galore and provide him with valuable air time to push his insidious projects. Meanwhile, conservative film projects receive little to no praise – or even attention, for that matter. (more…)

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Tags: American media, capitalism, documentary, media, michael moore
Posted Sep 28th 2009 at 8:55 am in Featured Story, Film, Media Criticism | 231138158 Comments2009-09-28+15%3A55%3A11Billy+Hallowell

Daily Gut: ACORN: The Movie

by Greg Gutfeld

So when two scrappy DC journalists bring down a President, it’s turned into “All the President’s Men,” winning accolades and Oscars. When an unemployed single mother of three takes the fight to an energy giant, it becomes a blockbuster vehicle for Julia Robert’s cleavage. And when a former Vice President exposes man’s inhumanity toward Mother Earth – “An Inconvenient Truth” crowns him the most majestic whistle blower ever.

But when two amateur journalists (in their early twenties, poorly dressed as sex workers, with under two grand in their budget) casually take down a sleazy behomoth that leeches off American taxpayers, you’d think Hollywood and the media would be all over this. I mean, what Hannah Giles and James O’Keefe did to Acorn – leading to the House approving to cut off all their funding – is the whistle blowing film to end ALL whistle blowing films. These two kids did what Michael Moore could never come close to accomplishing: uncovering lurid incompetence, affecting policy, and saving Americans millions of dollars. (more…)

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Tags: ACORN, ACORN: The Movie, All The President's Men, Hannah Giles, hollywood
Posted Sep 18th 2009 at 12:18 pm in Daily Gut, Entertainment, Political Humor | 228874121 CommentsDaily+Gut%3A+ACORN%3A+The+Movie2009-09-18+19%3A18%3A40Greg+Gutfeld

Michael Moore: Artists Unite and ‘Make the Country a Better Place’

by Big Hollywood

Michael Moore gets it. He understands that politics follows the culture, not the other way around. He knows this so well that his to artistic call-to-arms is as matter of fact as it is sincere. (more…)

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Tags: Barack Obama, capitalism, michael moore, ObamaCare, pop culture
Posted Sep 15th 2009 at 9:36 am in Celebrity News, Politics | 22540666 Comments2009-09-15+16%3A36%3A11Big+Hollywood

(Perhaps) The Last Words I’ll Write About Michael Moore

by Michael Wilson

For better or worse, I have spent the last six years or so as a “go-to” authority on Michael Moore. In 2002, he said some things about my country that I was hurt by and some things about life that I held to be untrue. I set out to make my first film, a little documentary called “Michael Moore Hates America” and began a journey that would be at times inspiring and disheartening. Hundreds of thousands, if not millions of people have seen that movie, but I’m now ready to close that chapter of my life with a few words about Mr. Moore and his opus on the death of American capitalism.

In the 1980s, Michael Moore was broke. He saw things he believed to be wrong in the world and set out to tell a story about them. His first movie “Roger and Me” was a success. He followed it with a bomb called “Canadian Bacon” and then rebounded by winning Oscars and smashing box office records. He built a better life for his family and put his daughter through private schools by creating and marketing a product a lot of people bought. He became a multimillionaire because of the power of the unrestrained liberties we know in America as Capitalism and Freedom of Speech. (more…)

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Tags: capitalism, michael moore, “Capitalism: A Love Story”, “Michael Moore Hates America”
Posted Sep 10th 2009 at 5:03 am in Entertainment, Featured Story, Film, Politics | 21943464 Comments2009-09-10+12%3A03%3A20Michael+Wilson

Pay Attention Hollywood: The Fate of ‘Hillary the Movie’ is No Partisan Issue

by David Bossie

Tomorrow, the Supreme Court will take the highly unusual step of convening a special session to rehear arguments in the case Citizens United v. Federal Election Commission. This case has enormous implications for all Americans, but those of us who are filmmakers who depend on the First Amendment should pay particularly close attention.

On the last day of the June session, the Supreme Court unexpectedly decided to order a rehearing of our case in order to reexamine two cases that are the pillars of some of the more restrictive provisions of campaign finance law, and that, I believe, are unconstitutional infringements on the First Amendment. (more…)

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Tags: "Hillary the Movie" McCain-Feingold, Austin v. Michigan Chamber of Commerce, Celsius 41.11, Censorship, Citizens United v. Federal Election Commission
Posted Sep 8th 2009 at 10:41 am in Art, Entertainment, Law, Politics | 21954222 Comments2009-09-08+17%3A41%3A38David+Bossie

Let the Media’s Michael Moore Lovefest Begin

by Christian Toto

Director Michael Moore has a new movie coming soon – “Capitalism: A Love Story.”

It could only mean one thing – OK, many, many things:

Rave reviews from at least 80 percent of film critics. And I’m being conservative.
More press coverage than any documentary filmmaker could ever dream of.
Few, if any, labels associated with him in the press. Liberal? Nah, he’s a muckraker, an iconoclast, a rebel, a truth teller…
Oscar buzz aplenty. Feel badly for any other documentary filmmaker who did great work this year. Chances are you won’t be taking home the Oscar for your troubles. Better luck next year.
More softball questions thrown his way by alleged journalists – this time, Oprah herself will get in on the action.

Moore, who won the Best Documentary Oscar for “Bowling for Columbine” and gave us the factually challenged “Fahrenheit 9/11,” has helped shape the film industry for better and worse. (more…)

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Tags: bush, Capitalism: A Love Story., hollywood, michael moore, Oprah
Posted Sep 7th 2009 at 1:14 pm in Entertainment, Media Criticism, Politics | 216938128 Comments2009-09-07+20%3A14%3A55Christian+Toto

Michael Moore: Obama’s Rise to Power Helps Fight Against Capitalism

by John Nolte

Michael Moore’s “Capitalism: A Love Story” premieres at the Venice Film Festival today. Reuters has most of the details, the usual-usual from the 55-year old mega-millionaire. But buried below the usual-usual is the real story — a point of agreement with we right-wingers:

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.

Well, let’s hope Ted Kennedy’s enjoying his day on the slopes because Mr. Moore and I just found some common ground.

Here are the other bullet points. To save you time, the following words are not used together in describing the film: ”personal” and “responsibility” — “taxes” and “too high” — “Michael Moore” and “gave all his wealth to the federal government.” (more…)

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Tags: Capitalism: A Love Story., michael moore, Obama, stimulus, Ted Kennedy
Posted Sep 6th 2009 at 8:45 am in Film, Politics | 218714241 Comments2009-09-06+15%3A45%3A11John+Nolte

Mr. President, Please Don’t Bogart the Blunt

by Leigh Scott

After a long day at work on a commercial shoot, I decided to unwind with a little internet and cable television. Politics and punditry are my hobby, not my main source of income, so I indulge in a little cable news and internet sites as time permits. I’ve always felt it important to see the world outside the “echo chamber” of like-minded folks, so my television sits for far too many hours on MSNBC and the Huffington Post is bookmarked on my browser.

What struck me from a few hours of watching leftist television and reading leftist gobbledygook is how far detached from reality these people are. It’s not a simple case of them having a few points wrong, or looking at things from a bizarrely biased perspective; they truly make statements and cling to ideas that have no basis in reality. As conservatives struggle to find apt metaphors to explain their opponent’s mindsets and delusions, I think I may have figured it out.

The left in our country is high. Completely stoned out of their minds. (more…)

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Tags: Cap and Trade, Cash for Clunkers, FDR, michael moore, Obama
Posted Aug 30th 2009 at 7:03 am in Featured Story, Politics | 210310213 Comments2009-08-30+14%3A03%3A43Leigh+Scott

New Trailer: Michael Moore’s ‘Capitalism: A Love Story’

by Big Hollywood

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Posted Aug 21st 2009 at 8:33 am in Video | 20912259 Comments2009-08-21+15%3A33%3A42Big+Hollywood

‘NewsBusted’ 8/11/09 — Fake News from the Right

by NewsBusters

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Tags: Cash for Clunkers, Cokie Roberts, Cuba, health care, michael moore
Posted Aug 11th 2009 at 7:06 pm in Political Humor, Video | 2039667 Comments2009-08-12+02%3A06%3A17NewsBusters

It’s the End of the World As We Know It, and Michael Moore’s Cashing In

by Jason Killian Meath

Michael Moore is a big fat idiot — or, is he? Actually, he is a big fat Academy-Award winning capitalist who is making a movie sarcastically called “Capitalism: A Love Story.” In it, he’ll use his magical megaphone to expose, in his words, “an economic system that is unfair, it’s unjust and it’s not democratic. And now we’ve learned it doesn’t work.” So… will he also park his little white ice cream truck in front of movie theaters and chastise patrons who wish to pay for a ticket? Will he offer the film for free — perhaps even share part of the proceeds with all of us? Of course not, he’s a millionaire.

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We’ve seen this film many times before from Mr. Moore. The Bush years were kind to him as he tapped into the fears of Americans as they questioned the post 9-11 world, or worried whether there were bogey men hiding in the front offices of America. Now, he’s able to exploit the recession and all the hardships we endure in one great big Mike Moore spectacular! In Moore’s world, free enterprise is unfair, health care is unfair, the 2nd amendment is unfair, life is unfair, paychecks, layoffs, mortgages and democracy itself is unfair — and America is the bad guy. (more…)

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Tags: bush, Capitalism: A Love Story., Fahrenheit 9/11, Manhattan, michael moore
Posted Aug 6th 2009 at 8:41 am in Entertainment, Film, Politics | 19817866 Comments2009-08-06+15%3A41%3A57Jason+Killian+Meath

Michael Moore’s Anti-Americanism Doesn’t Always Sell Overseas

by Pam Meister

This week, as the buildup to the upcoming movie “G.I. Joe” continues, the L.A. Times claimed that…

Yet overseas, where big action films often earn 60% or more of their ticket sales, rah-rah American sentiment doesn’t play well. So those references have vanished from the advertising.

Big Hollywood’s John Nolte gave that theory a thorough fisking, providing numbers showing that while “rah-rah America” movies aren’t guaranteed big foreign box-office returns, they aren’t automatically guaranteed to fail. He also points out that many “anti-rah rah” movies have even less appeal.

Oh, is it still okay to say “foreign?” Just checking, seeing as many schools are replacing “foreign language” departments with World Language departments. We’re all just one, big, happy World Family, right?

Okay, back to the topic at hand. John’s post got me to thinking. If anti-war movies such as “Rendition” and “A Mighty Heart,” despite the hype and the A-list star roster didn’t bring in the beaucoup bucks, how about anti-American movies made by one of the biggest anti-Americans on the planet, Michael Moore? (more…)

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Tags: A Mighty Heart, academy award, Bowling for Columbine, Cannes, Capitalism: A Love Story.
Posted Aug 5th 2009 at 7:07 am in Featured Story, Film, Politics | 198370117 Comments2009-08-05+14%3A07%3A22Pam+Meister

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