Hypocrisy: Apart from a healthy appetite, what do the 1.3-billion-strong Red Chinese have in common with filmmaker http://www.wvwnews.net/story.php?id=2590 creed while practicing capitalism.
The paradox of New York City, home to Wall Street, arranging for the Empire State Building to shimmer in the red and yellow of the http://www.wvwnews.net/story.php?id=4282 flag to celebrate 60 years of tyranny is bad enough.
What about a documentary filmmaker who has lined his pockets with millions by tearing down a corporate CEO, celebrating http://www.wvwnews.net/story.php?id=5093: A Love Story”?
http://www.wvwnews.net/story.php?id=1238 may have long since toned down its state-sanctioned cult of personality surrounding the greatest murderer in world history, Mao Zedong. But as far as political freedoms go, it remains very much a communist country.
Its adoption of capitalist economics, however, has turned it into an economic powerhouse, though you’ll never hear its safely entrenched dictators admit as much.By the same token, you’ll never see Michael Moore doff his ever-present baseball cap to the economic freedom that brought him a fortune. “Capitalism did nothing for me,” he claimed as he entered the movie house in Washington, D.C., where his film premiered Tuesday night.
Moore was asked about amassing “a fortune of over $50 million,” thanks to filmgoers shelling out cash to capitalist theater chains and capitalist DVD stores in capitalist countries.
He complained of having to “pretty much beg, borrow and steal,” that “the system is not set up to help somebody from the working class make a movie like this and get the truth out there,” and that Disney “tried to kill” his highest-grossing movie, “Fahrenheit 9/11,” for which he reportedly got $21 million.
Moore’s health care documentary, “Sicko” — for which he took half the profit, according to Vanity Fair — ends with Americans arriving in communist Cuba, where they finally get the care they desperately need.
If you think that story rings true, just give it a try sometime.
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