"I refuse to live in a country like this, and I’m not leaving."- Michael Moore

[Lorax7844]

http://www.variety.com/review/VE1117940961.html?categoryid=31&cs=1

"By returning to his roots, professional gadfly Michael Moore turns in one of his best films with "Capitalism: A Love Story." Pic’s target is less capitalism qua capitalism than the banking industry, which Moore skewers ruthlessly, explaining last year’s economic meltdown in terms a sixth-grader could understand. That said, there’s still plenty here to annoy right-wingers, as well as those who, however much they agree with Moore’s politics, just can’t stomach his oversimplification, on-the-nose sentimentality and goofball japery. Whether "Capitalism" matches "Fahrenheit 9/11" or underperforms like Sicko" will depend on how much workers of the world are ready to unite behind the message."

Above is a link to variety's review of Capitalism: A Love Story. It's an ah-right review, I'll wait to hear what Ebert and a few critics I like have to say.

However I just wanted to share the best line:
"I refuse to live in a country like this, and I’m not leaving."
-Michael Moore

Damn straight Michael, if Bush couldn't get rid of me then I'm a part of this country for the rest of my life. It's my home and I'll be damned if I'm not going to fight to make it better.

[Lorax7844]

1. kick

[GreenPartyVoter]

2. Thanks for posting that :^)

[kenny blankenship]

3. There speaks a Great Heart

But if I were his cardiologist I'd advise him to move away from teh Big Krazy.

[Lorax7844]

4. Bachmann Is the Big Krazy

good call

[Hekate]

5. I LOVE that line. Kudos to Michael Moore, yet again.

:applause:

[Lorax7844]

6. kick

[Selatius]

7. I think it's terrible that people to the left like Michael Moore are somehow considered fringe.

Yet, the people who push radical ideas like privatization or deregulation like they have been imported from Augusto Pinochet's mind are all over the TV networks and radio waves. Then again, capitalist industrialist scumfucks own and operate those networks.

[Lorax7844]

8. He's going to be on Oprah to promote this next month

The more people that see him, the less the "fringe" tag sticks.

[sabrina 1]

12. Yes, but in a way that's our fault.

Lots of money has been spent by special interests, like the Health Insurance Ind. to paint MM as 'fringe'. Too many on the left worry more about what the right will think of us when they single out people like MM, so they 'go along' and confirm the lie.

He was never 'fringe', he was a person willing to use his considerable talents to tell the truth at a time when many of our elected officials were too scared to do so.

I never viewed him as a fringe element, when I saw the attacks from the right, I realized that he was a real threat to those who prefer a compliant citizenry that asks no questions, and MM was likely to rouse them out of their apathy. Aynd that made him even more interesting to me.

We should never allow this to happen. We should fight back and support our own, the way they do. But Dems in general for some reason, are not very good at that.

Meant to say that it has been confirmed that Michael Moore was targeted by the Health Insurance Ind. after he made 'Sicko'. They initiated a campaign against him, even going so far as to warn Congress members not to 'speak well of the movie' or, they would find their opponents in up-coming races better funded than they would be, and see negative ads all over the place.

I don't expect any better from Corporations or the rightwing, so no surprise or disappointment there, but I couldn't be more disgusted with or disappointed in Democrats who 'distanced' themselves from MM, caving as they always do, to intimidation from the right.

Imo, he is an American hero, he tells the truth and is intimidated by no one. We need more of him.

[Lorax7844]

18. Agreed 100%

[Vinca]

9. Although I love Michael Moore and the sentiment about not leaving . . .

Michael can afford medical care and I can't. I feel as if this country is pushing me out the door.

[troubledamerican]

10. +1

[Deja Q]

17. +2

[asdjrocky]

11. Lol, love that quote.

[Coventina]

13. Kick for a true American hero. n/t

:kick:

[Deja Q]

16. All he does is talk. Wake me when he does something of substance.

Then I'll consider calling him a hero.

Until then, he's the left wing equivalent to Bill O'Reilly.

[lunatica]

14. That line is every bit as good as any Mark Twain line!

May Michael Moore grow just as famous in time.

Here's a good Twain comment that is timeless (for obvious reasons):

When the smoke was over, the dead buried, and the cost of the war came back to the people ... it suddenly dawned on us that the cause of the Spanish-American war was the price of sugar ... that the lives, blood, and money of the American people were used to protect the interest of the American capitalists.

--Mark Twain

[azmouse]

15. That is a great line that I heartily agree with.

[asdjrocky]

19. I think I'm going to put that on a t-shirt.

The more I see it, the more I like it.

[ccharles000]

20. Michael rocks!