Michael Moore Describes Himself as 'Bigot' Against Wall Street
Appearing as a guest on Wednesday's Colbert Report on Comedy Central to plug his memoir, Here Comes Trouble, left-wing film maker Michael Moore used a provocative choice of words to describe his feelings toward Wall Street and conservatives who oppose regulations against businesses as he declared that "I'm a bigot against people like you that support Wall Street and corporations..."
Moore seemed to play along with host Stephen Colbert's regular shtick as an exaggerated conservative commentator, since the liberal activist smiled and laughed during much of the segment as he sparred with the faux-conservative over corporations.
Below is a transcript of the relevant exchange when Moore chose to describe himself as a "bigot":
STEPHEN COLBERT: What excites me about this is that parents can read this book, stories from your childhood, and use it as a cautionary tale to make sure our children don't turn into you because, Michael, you've got to know at this point it is over. Liberalism has lost, and you stand as a walking, living, breathing, cautionary tale. A decaying Don Quixote still tilting at his windmills. With every turn of the spar, you are driven down into the mud. Send yourself a letter while the post office is still here, Michael. It's over. It's over, Mickey. Your response.
MICHAEL MOORE: I'm afraid it's your side that's over. You have - your, not you personally, but your people -
COLBERT: Oh, "your people." That's racist. Go ahead, go ahead, yeah, yeah, you can't tell any Irish people apart. Go ahead.
MOORE: I'm a bigot against people like you that support Wall Street and corporations and (INAUDIBLE)
COLBERT: The job creators. You hate job creators. Go ahead.
MOORE: The job elimators, which iswhat your people are, and, yes, I am a bigot against all of you.
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So Michael Moore is bigoted against democrats
Submitted by Dave. on Thu, 09/15/2011 - 8:53am.
Who knew?
-Dave
Vote for the American in November
In general
Submitted by jon_torlin on Thu, 09/15/2011 - 9:01am.
I would have just called him a bigot in general.
-Jon
You beat me to it...
Submitted by Iron Tigers Vet on Thu, 09/15/2011 - 9:19am.
This walkin', talkin' twinkie with ears is a disgrace to the human race. I honestly never thought there were people in the world THIS stoopid... he proves me wrong every day.
Dave, EXACTLY what I was going to post!
Submitted by MaximusBraveheart on Thu, 09/15/2011 - 9:21am.
WS is full of crony capitalist & cheating, lying thieves. That defines many union leaders, big bank leaders, key WS people, socialist progressive Dems and some government is the answer/god RINOs too.
Get out of the way! Hollywood & universities, stop teaching hate & lies. It is corrupting our nation and its moral fabric which is necessary for a free, constitutional nation to remain free & free from tyranny BY government. We can see the results already.
-- Maximusbraveheart -- Is TRUTH knowable? Moral Relativism is the abandonment of Truth. Truth is knowable. Truth conforms to Reality. Reality is observable by evidence & witness in this day & from history. Relativism is Sesame Street play land.
fat boy got the bigot part right.
Submitted by hbnolikeee on Thu, 09/15/2011 - 9:17am.
Now all he has to do is realize that he is a moron and we're getting some place.
Michael almost got it right...
Submitted by SamC on Thu, 09/15/2011 - 9:17am.
He meant to say he's a big idiot, not a bigot. He just left out a few letters.
Moore is rapidly becoming a
Submitted by Beukeboom on Thu, 09/15/2011 - 9:25am.
Moore is rapidly becoming a prime contestant in the "Mr. Irrelevant" competition.
Obama and Wall ST.
Submitted by USA4freedom on Thu, 09/15/2011 - 9:28am.
Obama and Wall ST. MONEY
Washington Post
July 22 2011
Headline:
Obama campaign attracts Wall Street money, despite tensions.
First line:
About A THIRD OF THE MONEY HIS TOP FUNDRAISERS HAVE BROUGHT IN THIS YEAR HAS COME FROM THE FINANCIAL SECTOR, suggesting that strained relations with Wall Street have not hurt the president’s ability to attract donations there for his reelection campaign, according to data released Friday by the Center for Responsive Politics.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/obama-campaign-attracts-wall-stre...
Open secrets.org
July, 2011
Headline:
Financial Sector Helps Barack Obama Score Big Money for Re-election Fight
First line: PRESIDENT BARACK OBAMA HAS RELIED MORE ON WELL-CONNECTED WALL STREET FIGURES TO FUND HIS RE-ELECTION than he did four years ago when he campaigned as an outsider and an underdog
http://www.opensecrets.org/news/2011/07/financial-sector-helps-barack-ob...
Obama in 2008 top bundlers of campain money came from
Lawyers/Law firms………………….$15,600,000.
Securities & Investment……………..$10,250,000
TV/Movies/Music…………………...$ 3,700,000.
Business Services……………………$ 2,900,000
Real Estate…………………………..$ 2,650,000
http://www.opensecrets.org/pres08/bundlers.php?id=N00009638
Obama’s top Contributors 2008.
*U of Cal.
*Goldman Sachs (Wall St. investment bank)
*Microsoft *Google
*JPMorgan Chase (investment bank)
*Citigroup (one of the worlds largest financial firms)
*Time Warner (worlds largest media co. Time, HBO, Turner Broadcasting, CW network, the WB, CNN,
*Sidley Austin LLP (law firm with over 1,600 lawers)
*Stanford U
*National Amusements (company that owns 1500 movie screens & **Note** controls CBS andViacom) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Amusements
*WilmerHale LLP (law firm with over 1,100 lawers) *Skadden, Arps (law firm lobbyist)
*Columbia U
*UBS Bank (investment bank)
*IBM
*G.E. (Financial, owes NBC, too much to list, here is a link..) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/General_Electric
*Morgan Stanley (investment bank)
*Latham & Watkins. (law firm with over 2,000 lawers)
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Financial News Wall Street Journal
April 26 2011
Headline: Financiers SWITCH To GOP.
http://www.efinancialnews.com/story/2011-04-26/financiers-switch-to-gop
In part it states:
Loeb is part of a shift in political allegiance within the world of hedge funds that also includes such big names as Steven Cohen's SAC Capital Advisors and Kenneth Griffin's Citadel Investment Group.
MANAGERS AND EMPLOYEES OF HEDGE FUNDS DIRECTED A MAJORITY OF THEIR CONTRIBUTIONS TO THE GOP IN THE 2009-2010 ELECTION SEASON, A PATTERN NOT SEEN SINCE 1996, WHEN THE INDUSTRY WAS MUCH SMALLER.
Washington Post
July 22, 2011
Headline:
Obama campaign attracts Wall Street money, despite tensions.
First line:
About A THIRD OF THE MONEY HIS TOP FUNDRAISERS HAVE BROUGHT IN THIS YEAR HAS COME FROM THE FINANCIAL SECTOR, suggesting that strained relations with Wall Street have not hurt the president’s ability to attract donations there for his reelection campaign, according to data released Friday by the Center for Responsive Politics. http://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/obama-campaign-attracts-wall-street-money-despite-tensions/2011/07/22/gIQApIugTI_story.html
Open secrets.org
July, 2011
Headline:
Financial Sector Helps Barack Obama Score Big Money for Re-election Fight
First line:
PRESIDENT BARACK OBAMA HAS RELIED MORE ON WELL-CONNECTED WALL STREET FIGURES TO FUND HIS RE-ELECTION than he did four years ago when he campaigned as an outsider and an underdog http://www.opensecrets.org/news/2011/07/financial-sector-helps-barack-obama.html
Ronald Reagan, 1962: I did not leave the Democratic party, the party left me.
Insert: your name, 2008, the Republican party.
Universities giving to Obama!
Submitted by MaximusBraveheart on Thu, 09/15/2011 - 10:35am.
That is just wrong! I am going to tell a friend about this... father gave $1M to one below.
University of California $1,648,685
Harvard University $864,654
Stanford University $595,716
Columbia University $541,002
Link: http://www.opensecrets.org/pres08/contrib.php?cid=N00009638
University of California $1,648,685
Goldman Sachs $1,013,091
Harvard University $864,654
Microsoft Corp $852,167
Google Inc $814,540
JPMorgan Chase & Co $808,799
Citigroup Inc $736,771
Time Warner $624,618
Sidley Austin LLP $600,298
Stanford University $595,716
National Amusements Inc $563,798
Wilmerhale Llp $550,168
Skadden, Arps et al $543,539
Columbia University $541,002
UBS AG $532,674
IBM Corp $532,372
General Electric $529,855
US Government $517,908
Morgan Stanley $512,232
Latham & Watkins $503,295
-- Maximusbraveheart -- Is TRUTH knowable? Moral Relativism is the abandonment of Truth. Truth is knowable. Truth conforms to Reality. Reality is observable by evidence & witness in this day & from history. Relativism is Sesame Street play land.
Book Title
Submitted by chuckshick on Thu, 09/15/2011 - 9:33am.
I heard the original title of his memoir was: "Are You Going to Eat That?"
Moore is playing along with Colbert's tired shtick?
Submitted by lgeubank on Thu, 09/15/2011 - 10:27am.
It wasn't bad enough we had one unfunny dork doing Colbert's rote, mechanical shtick, now we've got two?
Colbert's routine got tired roughly five minutes after he started it. He apparently never gets tired of being "the poor man's Borat," but he is boring the rest of the world to death.
Colbert has secured his position as the most annoying, irritating, unfunny, moronic Johnny One-Note in the history of the English-speaking world.
spot on...
Submitted by USA4freedom on Thu, 09/15/2011 - 10:30am.
spot on...
Ronald Reagan, 1962: I did not leave the Democratic party, the party left me.
Insert: your name, 2008, the Republican party.
Is Bigot another word for big fat idiot?
Submitted by NJRightWinger12 on Thu, 09/15/2011 - 12:13pm.
Then if thats the case, yeah, MM, go ahead and be the biggest, fattest idiot you can be!
Is Bigot another word for big fat idiot?
Submitted by NJRightWinger12 on Thu, 09/15/2011 - 12:13pm.
Then if thats the case, yeah, MM, go ahead and be the biggest, fattest idiot you can be!
"I'm a bigot against people
Submitted by rbosque on Thu, 09/15/2011 - 2:12pm.
"I'm a bigot against people like you that support Wall Street and corporations..."
He does realize that Twinkies and Ding Dongs are made by corporations right? That his "books" and "movies" are also published and distributed by corporations too right?
Everytime this oaf gets on a plane, gets in a limo, sucks down a gallon of ice cream or even watches TV, he's contributing to corporate revenue....
Dumbass.
Mr. Moore
Submitted by John21 on Thu, 09/15/2011 - 2:21pm.
Mr. Moore is a proven "Bigot" against anyone that doesn't follow the far left liberal democrat line. He is also rude, ugly and stupid. When he departs the world it will be putting clorine in the gene pool, thank god no women would ever which to breed with such a dirtbag.
You...Are...Dumb.
Submitted by WhatTheHuh on Thu, 09/15/2011 - 3:45pm.
"I'm against Wall Street and big corporations. Now excuse me while I use the corporation apparatus to hawk my book and make movies."
Can there be a bigger hypocrite (figuratively and literally) after Al Gore than Michael Moore?
I would add "hypocrite" to the list.
Submitted by drsamherman on Thu, 09/15/2011 - 10:13pm.
I don't see any reports of him giving away all of his money to charities or to the federal government, so he sunk to the same level as Warren Buffett and most major Hollyweird stars. Once you start believing your own public relations, you are in some serious trouble and as delusional as they come.