Michael Moore hands out 300 free lunches in San Francisco. "Bankers love free lunches."

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ksy140vTysU&feature=related

Michael Moore Promotes New Film In SAN FRANCISCO
http://cbs5.com/entertainment/michael.moore.sf.2.1191864.html

Filmmaker Michael Moore handed out more than 300 free lunches in San Francisco's Justin Herman Plaza Thursday afternoon to promote the release of his new movie "Capitalism: A Love Story."

The controversial filmmaker, whose latest work examines the Wall Street meltdown and financial crisis, also discussed the movie with onlookers and took questions from a gathering crowd.

He said he handed out the boxed meals because "Bankers love free lunches."

"The top 1 percent of the country controls more financial wealth than the bottom 95 percent combined," he told the crowd. "They believe it's actually morally and politically justified that if there's a pie on the table and 10 people sitting are around it, it's OK for one person to take nine slices of that pie and let the remaining people fight over that one last slice."


Michael Moore blames capitalism for meltdown
http://imgs.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2009/09/18/MN0V19OTKP.DTL&type=printable

Two weeks before his movie "Capitalism: A Love Story" opens nationwide, filmmaker Michael Moore swept through San Francisco on Thursday with a rally, a Commonwealth Club appearance and an unlikely new antagonist: Democrats.

When Moore criticized Sen. Chris Dodd, D-Conn., this week on NBC's "The Jay Leno Show" for getting "sweetheart loans" from a mortgage company he was charged with overseeing, Moore said he got a call from a top Democratic Party official telling him to "back off." (Dodd was cleared by a Senate ethics panel.)

But Moore, a longtime supporter of a single-payer health plan, didn't back off.

In an interview with The Chronicle, he chided House Speaker Nancy Pelosi for not being aggressive enough in pushing health care reform and ripped President Obama's financial team as "the foxes guarding the henhouse."
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The reason people aren't backing Obama on the public option, Moore said, is that "he's only going halfway with this public option. He needs to remove the private, profit-making insurance companies from the table."
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The Los Angeles Times noted the irony this week that one of the financial backers of Moore's film is media magnate and chairman of Liberty Media John Malone, a "champion of unfettered free markets."

"Much of the humor in my work is steeped in irony," Moore said, smiling. "This just adds a new and wonderful layer.

"The John Malones of this world, their only real concern is the bottom line. They're in business to make money. I make them money. It's the only reason I get a pass to put my movies into theaters because I make them millions and millions of dollars."

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..... When he had a group go into Philip Morris headquarters at Christmas and start singing "Deck the Halls", then break into smoker's cough during the "Fa la la la" part.

I can't imagine where the debate on everything that's happened since 11/7/00 would be without him.

Mike, :yourock:

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Those folks don't know it's food unless they see those items.

the actual metaphor.

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