from SLATE: >The opening and closing credits to Capitalism: A Love Story, Michael Moore's >latest film, reveal an ironic twist. It turns out the movie was funded by some >of the very companies it bashes, Ira Stoll notes at the Future of Capitalism >[http://www.futureofcapitalism.com/2009/09/how-goldman-backed-moores-capitalism-movie]. > Paramount Vantage, which co-produced the movie, is owned by Viacom, "on whose >board sit none other than Sumner Redstone and former Bear Stearns executive >Ace Greenberg, who aren't exactly socialists," Stoll writes. And New York >magazine reminds us that Capitalism executive producers Bob and Harvey >Weinstein had Goldman Sachs raise $1 billion for their company. At one point >in the film, Moore arrives outside Goldman Sachs headquarters in a armored >money-transport truck and demands that the bank return their profits to >Americans. But "If Mr. Moore appreciates any of the irony here," Stoll writes, >"he sure doesn't share it with viewers."<
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