This sounds like Glen Beck's style of making connections:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xWL-pfCao-U

only Stoll gets it backwards: their funding of Michael Moore's
movies/books means they are secret communists.

s

On Sat, Sep 26, 2009 at 10:18, Jim Devine <[email protected]> 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."<
>
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