This morning at around 9:30am PST, I posted a flashback story written by ABC News in October of 2009 that revealed a more mercenary side of director Michael Moore the public never sees. My decision to post this was in reaction to the populist director’s appearance on MSNBC with Rachel Maddow last night, where he made something of a fool of himself whipping out a pair of handcuffs. “This is war!” he thundered, and then went on to predict that those in Wisconsin and Michigan currently using the legislative process to put an end to budget-busting collective bargaining, would eventually find themselves in handcuffs.
Well, according to ABC News, Moore was found to have made the choice to hire non-union crew while filming his flop “Capitalism: A Love Story.” Worse still, those non-union personnel didn’t receive health care benefits … from, you know, the multi-millionaire director of “Sicko” — an incredibly dishonest (albeit entertaining) propaganda film calling for Cuba-style socialized medicine here in America.
A little after 10AM, Governor Sarah Palin tweeted out the story and asked a very good question:
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And now we get to the fun part. Would anyone like to argue that what you’ll see below — Michael Moore’s series of desperate tweets over the last couple of hours, doesn’t represent a form of damage control in reaction to the former-Governor Tweeting our timely resurrection of the ABC News story? (And I have yet to mention this story about Moore pressuring his writers not to join the WGA.)
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Hey, Michael, it’s great that you’re so generous to all your employees … now.
It’s just too bad that after you had already spent two decades railing about the “selfishness” of big business and wealthy types, that you had to get busted by ABC News before you decided to hold yourself to your own standards.
Tweet away, Michael. But when you thought no one was looking, the real Michael Moore revealed himself. Oh, and good luck using your millions to sue for more millions. Because you’re a proud socialist who thinks the wealthy aren’t taxed enough, I have no doubt you’ll donate any winnings directly to the U.S. Treasury.