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Live in Chicago? Wanna see CAPITALISM: A LOVE STORY with post-screening Q&A with Michael Moore? Capone has the details!!!
Hey everyone. Capone in Chicago here.
Just a couple more days until I hop a flight for Fantastic Fest, and I'm already realizing there are a few Chicago-area events that I'm missing while I'm away from home. But somehow I think the films I'll be seeing in Austin--both scheduled and secret--will more than make up for it. But probably the thing I'll most regret missing is happening this Friday. Much like what is happening in Austin this week, Chicago is getting an advanced look at Michael Moore's CAPITALISM: A LOVE STORY, which opens Friday, October 2. Only the Chicago screening has a little something extra--a post-screening Q&A with Michael Moore himself.
I'll admit, I was kind of surprised to hear that Moore actually requested that I moderate the Q&A with him. I've met him once before for an interview when he was doing press for SICKO a couple years back, and we had a great talk, but I honestly figured the guy meets dozens of journalists a day. But the sad fact is that I'll be in Austin when the screening and Q&A take place, but that doesn't mean I can't get a few AICN readers into the film even if I can't go.
I have 50 admit-2 passes (or 100 seats) to give to readers to an early screening of CAPITALISM: A LOVE STORY on Friday, September 25 at 8pm at the AMC River East Theaters, 322 E. Illinois Street in Chicago.
To secure a pass, send an email to capitalismchicagoRSVP@gmail.com. If you win, you'll get a bounceback email telling you as much. I believe this will be a first come-first win situation, so send that email ASAP. Since this is not an exclusive Ain't It Cool screening, if you win, you need to arrive to the screening early to make sure you get into the movie. And if you aren't 100 percent sure you can make it, please don't enter this contest. We want a full house for Michael Moore. Good luck, everyone.
-- Capone
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Don't believe everything he tells you.
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Capitalism has been pretty damn good for him too. Wouldn't you agree?
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Ask him how much money he has. Ask why he uses "creative" editing to skew the truth in what he "reports" in his movies. Ask him why he won't move to Cuba if he likes it so much. Ask him to investigate SEIU, ACORN & the Apollo alliance for his next movie. Ask him why he still portrays the "average" guy, when in reality he is not. Tell him capitalism has been pretty good to him and ask him why he wants to taint it's image. Thanks.
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... by people frequenting a fanboy site while hiding behind Internet pseudonyms. In 3... 2... 1...
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FAT FAT
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for dishonoring an Iraqi war vet's word. Why shouldn't we call him out on being the fat pig that he is? A gadfly, jerk off, fat pig, capitalist in sheep's clothing.
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... healthcare [insurance ] reform, please consider this: There are literally millions of americans who hate their jobs and would like nothing better than to start their own entrepreneurial businesses. But they stick with what they've got beause of employer based healthcare insurance. Does not every "free market capitalism" pundit wax poetic over the virtues the entrepreneurial U.S. economy?
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Hilarious that people think Moore's not a capitalist. The title is not meant to be literal people! Of course he's a capitalist, just not a rabid free market worshiper who thinks the market is the answer to everything. Its excesses need to be regulated and curtailed (thanks Raygun, Clinton and Bush for doing away with all of that nonsense!) and the corruption it has created needs also to be kept in check (I'm looking at the lobbying culture of DC). In reality, the govt. is nothing to fear so long as we take part. Unfortunately, Americans are amongst the least politically active and thus we get the govt. we deserve. I heard a lot of crap about Sicko and nothing credible to refute its underlying ACCURATE message: our healthcare system sucks donkeykong ball hairs compared to how it is done in Europe and Canada (half our cost and everyone's covered even if there are problems, they ain't half as bad as ours). This documentary will similarly bother neocons/cons/and other rightwing market worshipers who all dream of being rich, while statistically we all know that ain't likely. By the way, to all the comments about Moore's weight, guess what? The red states are fatter: http://www.sogoodblog.com/2007/08/28/conservatives-are-fat-fat-fatties/
And man did people catch those teabaggers? Oh dear lord, those people were, well, not quite elephants, I got it, wholly mammoths! Rush Limbaugh's fat and ugly too! Whoo, that's so much better than arguing about actual facts or anything, especially since no one has seen this documentary yet! -
No doubt we need health care reform. Just not the system Congress and Obama are trying to shill. Let's start with tort reform. and work our way down. That would lower some significant cost to start with. Why did the Democratic Congress shoot down tort reform? Why? Hmmmm...
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.....he deserves some hefty drubbing for some of his distortions. However, I must agree with him on universal health care. The U.S. lags behind other countries in this respect. Health insurance premiums are becoming largely unaffordable for the middle class and impossible for the lower income earners. This is intolerable and must change. As for his new movie, I'll probably check it out. Capitalism has been a great blessing in many ways but also has some built-in shortcomings. Should be interesting.
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...unless you're referring to half truths and twists, then you are right on the money.
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That's something to sell to people as 'reform' when in reality it accounts for 4% of costs. The REAL issue is the health insurers who deny coverage and are vastly inefficient. They spend 10 times more to do what Medicare does and are the real problem. A public option is what we need. Tort reform is a sideshow for people who don't care for stats or anything that might drive down costs. Most doctors want a public option. Most nurses want it. Most healthcare experts who aren't working for Humana and the rest want it. In fact, Medicare functions as a hybrid system. Doctors aren't govt. employees, they simply bill the govt. and are paid as they would be by a health insurance provider. Only difference is hospitals wouldn't have to wade through tons of paperwork and have to deal with giving away tons of money to health insurance companies if they, let's say, vanished. They aren't sharing risk like auto insurance. They're looking for ways to take as much money in as they can and give out as little as possible even if it means death.
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"A consistent theme can be found throughout his work, and that is a theme of deception any time it is useful. Moore fixes upon a conclusion and, when the data do not exist, simply invents them."
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It always amazes me how film fans can be so cynical, when most of them never pick up anything to read.
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I don't listen to those cocksuckers either.
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... yes, limiting frivolous litigation in all aspects of U.S. civil suits is to be devoutly wished for. but in terms of the catastrophic inequity that defines our healthcare inequality, it is a tiny drip in the bucket...
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I said tort reform is a start. Read my comments and focus. Government run health care is not the answer. What has the Government run right? Medicare/Medicaid? No. Social Security? No. The postal service? No. Look at this website then try and make your case with a straight face. Nothing is "free". www.usdebtclock.o rg
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yes, he is a fat ugly fuck. Atleast he's not making motion picture documentaries.
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See how you trail off after tort reform and go into, govt. run health care is not the answer. Really? So why is it half the cost in Canada and Europe and everyone's covered and lives longer? Why is Medicare significantly cheaper? Lol, Medicare has done just fine considering our aging population. Social security helps millions of the elderly so go tell them they don't need it. Lol, right, the postal service which delivers a letter for a few dimes while Fedex would charge me 4 bucks. And what's with going off the topic to US debt? The whole of healthcare reform is to make it cheaper and that means getting rid of health insurance providers who provide us nothing but paperwork and useless bureacuracy. You're not giving any solutions. You are simply saying a start and then wander off. What comes after tort reform? And where were you guys when Bush was getting rid of the balanced budget and Cheney famously announcing how deficits don't matter? So it's important to be deficit hawks when a Dem is in the White House, but when it's Raygun (who raised taxes twice to pay for his bloated budget increases) or Dubya it's all good. Come on.
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That way they can't be held accountable or make it so difficult that people with actual issues simply give up. And what about lousy doctors? All this over something that is a tiny fraction of the problem. This is what the GOP has? No answers, just tort reform and hey look out for yourselves. Meanwhile, they import cheaper drugs from Canada (uh, free market anyone) 'cause it'll hurt our companies who want to charge us more for our health! Ah, the wonderous American version of the 'free' market. Indeed, nothing is free here unless someone is out there making a ton of money. Even if it off of death (military industrial complex and healthcare, two of the biggest blackholes where our money goes to every second).
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Malpractice litigation accounts for 2% (http://www.cleveland.com/nation/index.ssf/2009/09/would_tort_reform_make_much_di.html) and not 4% of healthcare costs. My bad!
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LOL! You are the rhetoric KING! Listen your highness, google "hyperinflation", that's the road we are on. Anyone with half a brain knows where that leaves us. For the record, Bush was an idiot too. The majority of all politicians are corrupt. Don't feed me this Republican/Democrat shit. My point is this...look at the "unfunded liabilities" on that site and each American's owed share. These are all Government run programs. This debt isn't just going to go away. It's growing like wildfire. It WILL have consequences and most likely in our lifetime. Our dollar will be worthless. Don't take my word for it. Look it up and do your own research.
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You're just accusing me of things like not focusing and apparently I have rhetoric too now. So you support slashing the defense budget and all of its many varies ancillary costs and expenditures? 'Cause that is where a lot of money is going. See, the problem is that in addition to everything else we spend more than China, Russia, the UK, India, France and Germany on defense COMBINED. Since you're issue is costs why not start there? Health insurance is costing us much more by comparison. Do you really prefer all of these bankruptcies instead? I've done plenty of research and for some things govt. programs work just fine and better than profit driven ventures. Problem is the GOP is always looking for ways to get rid of them sot that someone can make some money. Thus, we can't 'afford' healthcare reform even though Americans could save billions. Similarly, we can't afford to not wage a constant war and build weapons we needed for the Soviets, but hey let's just pretend Al Qaeda has a navy and an air force and has weapons aimed at us from space too. The govt. functions as we will it. You don't participate and act like it's just some monolith, nothing happens. Corporations, also run by people (yay!), do what they can to make money. That means everything else doesn't matter. The environment, psh. People who might get hurt or relocated or trampled, tort reform so they can't sue! The problem is that people often act badly when given power whether it is govt. or corporations. This is why we need strong govt. involvement (and not American-style apathy, although this last election has shown some positive changes in terms of participation) and corporate regulation and watchdogs. And leaving healthcare to people whose first priority is making money is beyond stupid. We've seen what they do when given a choice between someone's life and a profit and you want that to continue just because you're afraid of the govt.? I agree the debt needs to go. Let's start by slashing some of that defense spending and bring the troops back from Iraq (could've paid for a whole lotta healthcare with that war).
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Your are not prepared or informed enough to intelligently debate with. You bring up the defense budget? It's only $577 billion this year. Used for national security to protect our asses of the hostilities of the world. Money well spent in my book. You conveniently failed to mention this years "Stimulus" package that cost the taxpayers over $ 1 trillion dollars! Please do yourself a favor and do some research elsewhere than Keith Oberman's show or Janeane Garofalo's website please? Off to bed I go. Some of us have jobs to go to in the morning. Have a goodnight tombseye.
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One other thing. I agree with you on the Iraq and Afghanistan war costs. We should never have gone into Iraq, and now it appears that Obama might make the same mistake with Afghanistan. That war bankrupted the Russkies and could do the same to us. Good night.
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What does how fat and ugly MM is have to do with ANYTHING? I'll site just two examples of "fat and ugly" men who changed the world and contributed mightily: Winston Churchhill & Alfred Hitchcock. Not to mention: David Hume, Teddy Roosevelt, BB King, Fats Waller, Charles Laughton, etc etc etc. Blah blah blah...
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I mean you ARE the guy who started with 'tort reform' and I'm the one who isn't intelligent? If you say so sport. Actually, it's 700 billion and see how it compares to the rest of the planet: http://www.globalissues.org/article/75/world-military-spending#USMilitarySpending
YOU left out nuclear weapons which falls under the Dept of Energy AND the costs of the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. And guess what? Defense spending (the real one including discretionary spending, past wars we're still paying for and not your wikipedia figure) is where 44% of our budget goes to. Healthcare out of our taxes accounts for 19.7%. Now add if we had a public option for all and all the money we pay for healthcare went there, we would not only pay less for healthcare we would not adversely impact the budget. Lol, Olbermann, haven't watched him a long time.
Ah, as for the stimulus package, I agree it was a ripoff. I would have helped the people who owed money and taken over the institutions and broken them up into little pieces and sold them back and made sure regulations would prevent them from engaging in such destructive behavior again. Money had to be spent and I'd rather be doing that as opposed to overspending for a foe that is at best about as formidable as the mafia. It requires good intel, not new submarines. And come on, is that really necessary to somehow imply that I'm unemployed? Adios and it's cool that you had to go to sleep while finding me lacking in the debate department! Really, that's what happened!
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