If you have seen his first, “Roger and Me,” the documentary where he stalks Roger Smith, the then-Chairman of GM, confronting him in parking lots and lobbies over plant closings, you need see no other Michael Moore “films.” They are all just variations on a theme.

The hilarious part is that the greatest failing of Smith (and later Rick Wagginer, whom Obama “fired” when he bailed out GM) was the effort to minimize the pain for the UAW workers in the Rust Belt states. They closed too few factories, not too many. They should have been running to the Sun Belt Right-to-Work states before Toyota and Honda and Nissan. The company might have restructured and prospered.

But instead, Roger and Rick tried to save the union jobs and towns, and what did they get for their trouble? Hated, derided, mocked – and the company suffered for it.

And all the while that fat slob Moore is blaming them for trying – and getting rich in the process. These are perverse times in which we live, my friends.

Seriously: I’ve seen lots of documentaries made on budgets of less than $1 million that look far better — just in term of basic cinematic quality — than this turkey that supposedly cost $20 million to make. At one point in the picture, Moore is interviewing a congresswoman and wants to get a reaction shot — him asking the question, her answering it. Normally, you would have a two-camera set-up for this, but as the viewer of “Capitalism: A Love Story” can’t help noticing, Moore is using only one camera. Why? Because he couldn’t afford to hire two cameramen on his budget of $20 million? Because he does’t understand how to shoot an interview? Or (as I suspect) because he’s just a lazy stupid slob who was trying to cut corners on production costs in order to maximize the amount of cash available for his own salary and expenses?
Just put it this way: I don’t think Michael Moore was flying coach class, drivng rented Toyotas, staying in budget motels and eating from the dollar menu at Mickey D’s while traveling during the production of “Capitalism: A Love Story.”

I have yet to see a Moore film but I a, guessing he uses the typical ploy of establishing that, if something he is against contributed to a complex negative outcome, it was the sole cause of that outcome.

Of course greed helped bring about the mortgage debacle but bigger causes were Fannie and Freddie allowing the banks to issue risk free loans, the CRA pressuring banks to make unsound loans and the Fed not allowing interest rates to rise to market levels, The banks exhibited greed in two ways: their mortgage departments collecting fees for unsound loans knowing that they could unload them with little risk to themselves and their investment departments turning around and actually investing in the worthless paper backed by these loans.

“Subtlety? Nuance? No, Michael Moore imagines an audience full of idiots who need to be told what to think, and who must have every point made for them explicitly, then have that point pounded into their dull brains over and over and over again.”

Maybe an audience for Moore’s work at this point IS full of idiots and he just knows his market. Think of the repetition and concurrent “blaming” like the applause sign in a live studio or the laugh track in a recorded show: the audience needs to be led because it’s a social group that gravitates toward such manipulation. His redundancy of theme in such a blunt, overt manner is (besides a propagandistic technique) the signal to nod your head among peers for “getting it”.

I watched 2016, Obama’s America, and was very impressed. Now, there’s a documentary that deserves an award but won’t get it from the Hollywood crowd.

All true. The man is a Nihilist.

This.

Moore loves capitalism for himself, but not for anyone else. His “common man” act is exactly that, and the common man should tell him to go take a flying f*ck at a rolling jelly doughnut.

Exactly. The guy is a better capitalist than I am, at least in terms of his ability to sell a product and amass millions. But we’re supposed to believe he hates capitalism?

“…and anyone who makes a profit…” Don’t forget that the leftist, himself, is allowed to make profits, and deserves no scorn. The average leftist earns an income far greater than the average Joe. But he’s entitled to it, you see. Four legs good, two legs better.

Exactly. He need not imagine his audience is full of idiots. They are his fans.

He’s a Marxist. He may also be a nihilist, but first and foremost he is a devotee of Marxism.

All those candy bars don’t leave much room for reflection.

Well put. That’s the spirit. It is not as if the Bush administration, that so deranged the leftist, sprang from nowhere. It’s smart to turn the tables on those who take refuge in blaming the previous administration.

Hayek’s startlingly au courant “The Road to Serfdom,” though written in the early years of the 1940′s in Europe, holds forth an idea that I think is an important concept. Hayek’s idea on hatred of capitalism and of the rich has an unpleasant ring of truth to it.

In the chapter entitled “Why the worst get on top,” he begins thus: ““It seems to be almost a law of human nature that it is easier for people to agree on a negative program – on the hatred of an enemy, on the envy of those better off – than on any positive task.” He completes the thought thus: “The fact that German anti-semitism and anticapitalism spring from the same root is of great importance for the understanding of what happened here, but this is rarely grasped by foreign observers.”

Whatever his flaws, Moore is a force to be reckoned with. We, too, by demonizing and belittling Moore, trivialize our opposition to him and his ideas. Just one more thought on the formidable Moore, isn’t he about due to make another documentary. Think about what he’d do it on this time.

Why do you hate Honeybaked Hams!

If you consult your Obama to English 2013 ed. dictionary you will find that “rich” translates to “white devils”

Well, if Michael Moore hates the rich (and so are we to hate the rich), does that mean he hates himself? And are we to hate him? Just sayin…