On Sep 26, 2009, at 11:18 AM, Jim Devine wrote:
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."<
Oh please. How can you make a big movie without these sorts of people.
Stoll - a repulsive neocon, by the way - forgot that Murdoch's Harper
Collins published a Moore book a few years ago.
Doug
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