Comments on: Michael Moore’s Problems Are Our Fault

By: Your Crazy Morning Turns Into Crazy Evening

Your Crazy Morning Turns Into Crazy Evening — Tue, 03 Aug 2010 10:33:20 +0000

[...] Got a love/hate relationship with Michael Moore? Then read Matt Taibbi’s piece about how his problems are our fault. [True/Slant] [...]

By: marcg

marcg — Thu, 05 Nov 2009 03:41:27 +0000

White America is like a child. A child with power but a child nonetheless.

Mike Moore’s movie, this piece and the comments are just another exhibit in a seemingly endless string of examples demonstrating this fact.

Ever since the white American working class sold out the Black American working class with slavery, the whites have been getting their asses kicked by the rich. Was so in 1700. Is so in 2009.

Too bad Mike and Matt spend a lot of film and ink on everything but this lone fact.

By: adaptiveoptics

adaptiveoptics — Sun, 25 Oct 2009 06:21:15 +0000

It does seem troublesome that people have a difficult time seeing around these problems, to some solution. The problem sits deeply within us, it is not altogether something that has been done to us by others.

I think solutions here will not come from people on TV. We have to reexamine ourselves, and what it truly means to be living amongst other human beings.

By: Your Monday Random-Ass Roundup: No More About Nobel. « PostBourgie

Your Monday Random-Ass Roundup: No More About Nobel. « PostBourgie — Tue, 13 Oct 2009 06:03:27 +0000

[...] Matt Taibbi ponders some of the criticism directed at Michael Moore’s new movie, “Capitalism: A Love Story”: [...]

By: tvrmx

tvrmx — Tue, 13 Oct 2009 05:28:42 +0000

It’s such a uniquely liberal thing to get tripped up on writing things off that don’t live up to certain stylistic standards. (Especially for us kids of the 80s, who get embarrassed too easily.) Republicans aren’t distracted by these things as much, because they have no style.

By: taylor

taylor — Tue, 13 Oct 2009 03:47:33 +0000

Television viewers are not monolithic, and so do not think as one simply because they are served up a fresh batch of trash every day. Allow me to defend reality program consumption using the paraphrased Russell Simmons defense (with which I totally agree): these shows are on based on a market that demanded them. They are a reflection of culture, they are not shaping culture. To say so is to devalue our choice and the nuances within our massive, majority population. If there’s any difference between watching Judge Judy, and watching Sunday football, please do illustrate it for the world.

By: ernie

ernie — Mon, 12 Oct 2009 23:38:20 +0000

some good thoughts on what we can do to end this crisis

http://www.frontlinethoughts.com/pdf/mwo100909.pdf

By: deleted account

deleted account — Sun, 11 Oct 2009 20:45:41 +0000

Pardon the fuck outta me, but where did you get your stats Mikey? 70% of us are happy idiots content to take it up the ass while we eat peanut butter and jelly for the fifth time this week and ride our Big Wheels to work? You need to get out of the house once in awhile and off the damn computer. People of all socioeconomic groups, including the clueless, are petrified. That in turn makes them/us really, really mad. You apparently are still tuning into the MSM for your news and entertainment. They WANT us to think the majority is okie doke with the status quo. Witness the above post where people demonstrated outside insurance offices in 150 cities and there was nary a mention on any media outlet bigger than a bread box. Witness also the shortage of bullets this country is experiencing. I really don’t think there’s going to be a big bunny slaughter anytime soon, do you?

By: noslanttruth

noslanttruth — Sun, 11 Oct 2009 20:19:30 +0000

Matt, you’re a good-hearted guy who happens to write about particular financial flashpoints; you’re a specialist who explains various Wall Street esoterica. Michael Moore is a good-hearted guy who happens to make movies about the evolution of the economy; Moore is a generalist who connects the dots to form a broad image of our society. What you refer to as Moore’s ego is simply Moore placing himself in the big picture. Moore’s call to action at the end of ‘Capitalism’ stems from his realization that each one of us is part of the picture and if we want a different picture, we each must see/speak/act. The ‘Rolling Stone’ editor you quote can dream on, dream on…and you should thank your fellow editors at ‘Rolling Stone’ for supporting your own shtick.

By: scathew

scathew — Fri, 09 Oct 2009 13:11:33 +0000

Moore – the liberal, liberals love to hate.

I think people feel if they hate “Moore” it shows how “serious” and “rational” they are. By hating Moore they show that they are not of the so-called Chomsky-loving wingnut crowd, but the more serious “Tom Friedman” sort. The pragmatic, realpolitik, types. The type that though believing in peace in their hearts, has no trouble finding good reason to lob cruise missiles at the next convenient “enemy” (also often known as the “cruise missile left”). The same people that think NPR is giving them the hard hitting truth.

I’m not saying that Moore isn’t oft full of crap, but you are dead on in pointing out how a flawed response is better than no response, and frankly it takes a few screws loose these days to get jazzed up enough to make a difference.

So, have at it Moore, `cause those disparing you aren’t doing diddly to make the world better (nor am I for that matter but…). Same goes to you Matt – it’s damn nice to hear liberals saying it how not only it is, but how it feels.