Moore dropped out of the University of
Michigan–Flint following his first year (where he wrote for the student
newspaper The Michigan Times). At 22 he founded the alternative weekly magazine
The Flint Voice, which soon changed its name to The Michigan Voice as it
expanded to cover the entire state. In 1986, when Moore became the editor of
Mother Jones, a liberal political magazine, he moved to California and The
Michigan Voice was shut down.
After four months at Mother Jones, Moore was fired.
Matt Labash of The Weekly Standard reported this was
for refusing to print an article by Paul Berman that was critical of the
Sandinista human rights record in Nicaragua. Moore refused to run the article,
believing it to be inaccurate. "The article was flatly wrong and the worst
kind of patronizing bullshit. You would scarcely know from it that the United
States had been at war with Nicaragua for the last five years." We don’t even have to wonder what the
reaction would have been had Moore been the target of such censorship. You don’t agree with my view so you refuse to
publish me…
Hmmmm I see a pattern developing.
Yet Moore makes a living creating stories as
“truths” based on his uneducated and skewed perspective on life in America of
what built America.
Moore claims that Mother Jones fired him because of
the publisher's refusal to allow him to cover a story on the GM plant closings
in his hometown of Flint, Michigan. He responded by putting laid-off GM worker
Ben Hamper (who was also writing for the same magazine at the time) on the
magazine's cover, leading to his termination. Moore sued for wrongful
dismissal, and settled out of court for $58,000, providing him with seed money
for his first film, Roger & Me.
So he got started really buy suing someone for
firing him for insubordination.
Following the Columbine High School massacre, Moore
acquired a lifetime membership to the National Rifle Association (NRA). Moore
said that he initially intended to become the NRA's president to dismantle the
organization, but he soon dismissed the plan as too difficult. Gun rights
supporters such as Dave Kopel claimed that there was no chance of that
happening; David T. Hardy and Jason Clarke wrote that Moore failed to discover
that the NRA selects a president not by membership vote but by a vote of the
board of directors.
MICHAEL MOORE: Eh, no, it’s not about cursing. It’s
about a profound question, which is, who are we? I mean, really, who are we, as
a people, as Americans? You know, we are responsible at this point for so much
death and destruction in certain places in this world that will be such a black
mark on our soul for so many years to come, and we just want to try and not
think about it, forget about it, stay away from it as far as possible. You
know, there’s a lot of guilt.
This is Dinesh D’Souza’s resume.
Born in Mumbai, India, D’Souza came to the U.S. as
an exchange student and graduated Phi Beta Kappa from Dartmouth College in
1983.
Dinesh D’Souza has had a 25-year career as a writer,
scholar, and public intellectual. A former policy analyst in the Reagan White
House, D’Souza also served as John M. Olin Fellow at the American Enterprise
Institute, and the Robert and Karen Rishwain Fellow at the Hoover Institution
at Stanford University. He served as the president of The King’s College in New
York City from 2010 to 2012.
D’Souza is a political commentator, filmmaker, and
author. D'Souza is affiliated with a number of organizations and publications,
including the American Enterprise Institute, the Heritage Foundation, the
Hoover Institution, and Policy Review. He also served as a policy advisor to
President Ronald Reagan and, during 2010–2012, as president of The King's
College, a small Christian school in New York City.
In 2012, D'Souza released 2016: Obama's America, a
film based on his 2010 book The Roots of Obama's Rage, both of which posit that
Barack Obama's attitude toward America derives from his father's
anti-colonialism and from a psychological desire to fulfill his father's dream
of diminishing the power of Western imperial states. The film has been the
highest grossing conservative documentary film produced in the United States.
In January 2014, D'Souza was indicted on charges of
making illegal political contributions to a 2012 United States Senate campaign.
On May 20, 2014, D'Souza pleaded guilty in the U.S. District Court for the
Southern District of New York to a charge of using "straw donors" to
make illegal political campaign donations. The charge carries a sentence of 10
to 16 months according to the plea agreement reached between D'Souza and
federal prosecutors. So indeed he isn’t sqeaky clean.
From WND.com:
“Let’s assume Dinesh D’Souza is guilty, and I mean
100 percent guilty. What is he guilty of? Circumventing FEC dictates by directing
[$15,000] to a Senate candidate of his choice. Big deal,” Bozell told WND.
“First, in a multi-million Senate campaign, this is
a fraction of a fraction. It ‘buys’ a can of soda pop, and that’s about it.
Second, and more importantly, compare this ‘crime’ with Bill Clinton, who
raised millions of dollars from questionable at best, and illegal at worst
sources, including felons and Chinese Communist generals. Compare it to Barack
Obama, who raised millions upon millions from who-knows-who-or-where to this
day. Nothing ever came of their fundraising abuses, abuses one thousandfold
larger than anything attributed to D’Souza. And yet he was arrested and forced
to post a $500,000 bond.
D'Souza demonstrates a willingness to give a full
airing to his opponents makes a strong contrast to liberal filmmakers like
Michael Moore. And when he does this, he doesn’t follow it up with a ridicule
filled attack on the statements of his opponents.
D’Souza on Moore:
"Michael Moore is unfortunately going through a
divorce and so his financials, and it shows he's fighting over nine homes and
he's got tens of millions of dollars," says D'Souza. "In other words,
anti-capitalism is a good racket. These people make money by denouncing
capitalism within the capitalist system. And Michael Moore is not alone. You've
got Obama railing about CEOs flying around in corporate jets. Well, Obama has
the biggest corporate jet of all. And the difference is, the CEOs pay for their
own jets, and we the taxpayers are paying for [his]."
In 2011 Moore was broadcasting from "Occupy
Oakland."
"So, let's not use the old definition where we
think -- when we say capitalism, we're talking about 2011. 2011 capitalism is
an evil system set up to benefit the few at the expense of the many. That's what
happened, and that's what people are tired of. Which is too bad for the
capitalists because I think a lot of people, perhaps in this crowd, probably
used to support the 'old-style' of capitalism," Moore said on CNN.
So by that rationale all the money that Michael
Moore made PRIOR to 2011 through the evil capitalist system is okay?
From Forbes on Celebrity net worth in 2014:
How Michael Moore Made His Money – Filmmaker and
Author
Estimated Net Worth: $52 Million
Moore is giving his estranged wife Kathleen millions
of dollars in their divorce to buy her silence. An insider says he doesn’t want
anyone to know that he is a 1-percenter himself. He reportedly has a staggering
net worth of some $50 million, lives in a 10,000-square-foot waterfront mansion
in Michigan with its own boat dock – and has another pricey home in Manhattan.
“Michael has denied he is in the top 1 percent of
wealthiest Americans, but the truth is he is one of the very rich – the people
he loves to hate,” said the source.
So anyway, I am just profiling two political film
makers. Why is it that Moore is taken
seriously as an authority of any kind? I
mean he really has no basis for BEING an authority and he is a hypocrite of
epic proportions.
What he does have is the right to his opinion and the American people have a right to buy tickets to his movies or not, hopefully much more “not”. We have the right to reject the opinions of someone who so grossly lives “do what I say and not what I do.” This is just one example of the left living high society lavish lifestyles based on the greatness of capitalism while denigrating “Wall Street” and people like the Koch brothers. At least they don’t hide behind the curtain and pretend that they are anything that they are not. Here are a few more who denigrate capitalism and America. How about them?
Here is a very short list of the liberal left
celebrities who say they represent “equality” and “fair share” yet who have
made their millions in the evil capitalist system of America. How can anyone continue to listen to them as
they talk out of both sides of their mouths? I don’t get it…
Matt Damon: $65 million
Oprah Winfrey: $2.9 Billion
Jane Fonda: $120 Million
Tom Cruise: $350 Million
George Clooney: $180 Million
During a recent interview with Diane Sawyer, Hillary
Clinton claimed that Bill and her were “dead broke” when they left the White
House. And then Hillary told the
Guardian that they are not “truly well off” despite having earned about a hundred
million dollars since leaving the White House and owning a couple of luxury
homes. Hillary Clinton net worth is about $21.5 Million. How would be that dead broke sound to you?
It is sort of like when a person moves to a
community and builds a new home, starts a business and then opposes all “new
development”. It was fine when they
wanted to move it but after they got there they wanted the door to close behind
them.
Marie Antoinette once said, “Let them eat cake.” How does that cake taste? A speaking of cake, let’s talk about
pie. Just because your neighbor has a
larger piece of the pie than you do does NOT mean he has taken part of your
piece. The pie isn’t finite. Everyone can have a large piece if they are
willing to work for it. Don’t let them
tell you otherwise. It is a big fat lie and it doesn’t work that way. In fact the irony is that MY piece of the pie
and your piece of the pie is smaller because the left wants to continue to take
chunks out of the piece of the pie you and I have worked for and give it to
someone else who has NOT worked for it.
