Michael Moore: Looking for the pixie dust

I call it Progressive’s Pixie Dust Syndrome, the belief that if progressives can just convince Obama to do the right thing, then he will! Pixie dust will then be spread across the land and all will be well, as errant Dems come to their senses and we all sing “Cumbaya” together. Sadly, Michael Moore [...]

Michael Moore gives up on Democrats. “Wusses.. I’m sick of them”

“These Democrats are a bunch of wusses,” Moore told Raw Story in a hard-edged interview Wednesday. “They don’t have the courage of their convictions. They won’t stand and fight.”

It’s more than that. For the most part Congressional Dems are complicit, because they basically agree with the Republicans on most issues but have to [...]

More on Capitalism A Love Story

Joseph Childers thinks Michael Moore blew a huge opportunity to get some truth and real debate out there.

Michael Moore has wasted not just millions of dollars and two hours of my time. He’s wasted a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity We are at an unprecedented moment in history right now: where the corrupt and immoral economic [...]

Marc Cooper finds Michael Moore’s Capitalism muddled

There’s no story line. The citizen’s arrest of a corporation was clever 20 years ago when Moore did Roger and Me but timeworn and predictable now. The economic problems here did not start with Reagan or end with the election of Obama. But most importantly, Moore slams capitalism but offers no solution and doesn’t [...]

America’s love affair with capitalism a fatal attraction?

Byron DeLear, who I knew when we both lived in LA and he ran for a House seat as a Green, just kicked off his debut in Examiner with a column on Michael Moore’s new movie.

The failures of the S&L crisis, Enron, subprime mortgages, Bear Stearns, Lehman, AIG, reveal a deeper social pathology; [...]

Michael Moore’s “Slacker Uprising” to be distributed free on Net

“This is being done entirely as a gift to my fans. The only return any of us are hoping for is the largest turnout of young voters ever at the polls in November.” – Michael Moore

Slacker Uprising