Michael Moore to CNBC: 'Do Your Job' and Cover the 99%
Liberal filmmaker Michael Moore pleaded with an anchor from business channel CNBC Monday to "please do your job" and report on problems facing 99 percent of Americans, instead of the wealthy one percent.
"Moore is not one to hold back when it comes to capitalism, corporate American and now the movement to Occupy Wall Street," the CNBC anchor began the segment by announcing. "He joins us this morning from outside the [New York Stock Exchange]."
"Well, we're not actually outside the New York Stock Exchange," Moore revealed. "You have moved me down here to Broadway, so that -- apparently, you've been told or you're not allowed to have me there in front of the [stock exchange]. You know, when I've interviewed with you in the past, you've tried to actually bring me into your studio at the stock exchange and the stock exchange will not allow me inside of the building... so the last two interviews we've done in the past few years have been done out on the street, we've done them outside in front of the stock exchange."
"Why do you think that is?" the anchor wondered. "Because I asked around this morning and could not get a straight answer as to why we couldn't have you here sitting next to me."
"I think they probably don't want me to come inside the New York Stock Exchange and be critical of this unjust and unfair economic system that we have, that benefits the wealthiest few in expense of the many," Moore explained. "It's too bad that they are that afraid of a guy in a ball cap with a high school education, coming in there to say that... I'm not who you need to worry about. You need to worry about the millions who have lost their jobs. You need to worry about the people who have lost their health care. You need to worry about the 99 percent who are quite angry."
Moore added that as a business network, CNBC really had a duty to shine a light on problems like income inequality.
"This is a rigged casino. I don't know why anybody would put their hard-earned money into this especially after what happened in this last decade. The guys on this street played with people's futures, people's pension funds, credit default swaps, no regulation from D.C. and it's still going on! And if I could just very respectfully ask you and CNBC, you know, you are in this, you are journalists, it's is your job not just to report that the DOW is up 95 points already today, but go in there and find out what's really happening. Who's making this money? Who's dividing this pie up so that the one percent get the majority of it? That's really the story. That's the story you're fellow Americans want you to do," he pleaded.
"They want to know where their jobs went. You know, where their future is going to be. That's the job of CNBC. So, please do your job! Please!"
"We look out for the 45 percent of Americans who have 401Ks," the anchor admitted.
Go Michael!
“Why not go out on a limb? That’s where the fruit is.”
-Will Rogers
Bull fucking shit.
You are looking out for the 1% who, on a daily basis, trying to figure out how to funnel the 45%'s 401Ks into Wall Street casino Ponzi Schemes.
When Fascism comes to America, it will be wrapped in excess body fat & carrying a misspelled sign.
Watching it decline month after month - I had to take out what little was left. Besides, what 45% is he refering to? Do 45% of citizens have a 401? Bullshi*. And those that do - get ready for another round of thievery.
B f'n S is right , these whores could not care any less about the average man or woman with a 401 K . Greed is the only virtue they know and to them greed is good , it is a virtue . Hopefully the tide is turning , if only the morons in this country come to their senses and wake up !
"The poor have sometimes objected to being governed badly; the rich have always objected to being governed at all."
How much of the "45%'s" 401Ks are worth virtually nothing now that the 1% has had its opportunity to loot them? Most don't have 401Ks. Most of those who do have seen their values absolutely tank.
We have NOTHING to show for having played by the rules. Nothing. But I do know who has our money. Hmmm....what can be done about this?
certainly
nothing
but
corrupt!
Some stuff you can't make up!
The CFR Controls the American Media!
The real story on the corporate and controlled media.
"Great minds discuss ideas; average minds discuss events; small minds discuss people." ~ Eleanor Roosevelt
is pretty much over:
"We look out for the 45 percent of Americans who have 401Ks," the anchor admitted.
that's just a wee bit too much honesty there.
The beauty of a free market system is that if you lose everything because speculators take everything and leave you penniless, you can always invest with other speculators. The beauty of a free market system is that if a systemically corrupt financial industry railroads you, you can... invest in... another free-market system? Huh.
Now that - 401K PLANS - was one of THE ALL-TIME GREAT HEISTS IN HISTORY!!!
From "Guarantee Pensions" to the '401 Kasino.'
And shame on us and our parents - we bought their bullshit - hook, line and STINKER!
Fuck the American one - Viva Le French Revolution!!!
Here yesterday, gone today. Might as well invest in lottery tickets...
And 45% of people have 401k's-- seriously?? I only know of a couple of folks who still do.
"Parachutes are allowed in checked or carry-on baggage, but may not be worn in flight."
---Southwest Airlines
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RAKsMnAM8vk
"No one ever said these people were logically consistent."
- watchdog -
;)
"Parachutes are allowed in checked or carry-on baggage, but may not be worn in flight."
---Southwest Airlines
If they REALLY cared about the minority of Americans with 401Ks, they'd at least mention that it's an exploitable loophole enabling corporations to steal workers' pensions, that it's a bloated an inefficient bureaucracy, and that it's a giant step backward from the actual pension plans that it replaced.
But of course, they don't even really look out for them. They just hope they keep watching their networks so they can make money off them too.
this is exactly the job cnbc is supposed to do, this is their raison d'etre
http://www.facebook.com/OccupySD
"Someday somebody related to some of these sufferers, these victims, these collaterally damaged souls, may try to kill you. And I have to tell you, I think you’ll have it coming." - Christopher Cooper
Well, i am glad to see that this tool ended the interview with the right take-away.
:P
It's all just entertainment to the Haves and their toady familiars, isn't it?
I'm just superstitious enough to hedge my bets.
The one percent's main channel and they are doing their job. I can appreciate his frustration and love him.
Enron- The Smartest Guys in the Room, the employees of Portland Electric had 401k's....until they didn't.
I'm trying to think where I read that the average 401k will have 23% of it eaten up in fees over its' lifetime.
(sorry I don't have a link for that)
remember in the movie one of the employees saying that they were not allowed to sell the Enron stock in their 401K's, so they had to just watch it get sucked away. Enron bastards. I'm sure Mrs. Ken Lay is set for life though.
Janek
that the right wing speaks of repealing Sarbanes-Oxley (SOX) which resulted from Enron.
As if they desire to return to the days of creating accounting numbers out of a black box.
Skilling labeled it 'Mark to Market Accounting', which had them record revenues from projects still under construction. (totally against that other principle called The Matching Principle - which states Revenues and Expenses will be recorded in the period earned and incurred)
Right on Micheal !
"The poor have sometimes objected to being governed badly; the rich have always objected to being governed at all."
Those pesky little instruments are apparently raising their nasty little heads again. One of the many impediments to a structured bailout of Greece, is an avoidance of a swaps trigger. The holders of Greek bonds insured their purchases by buying credit default swaps. The swaps would trigger a payout if the E.U. demands the bond holders "take a haircut" (a 40-50 % loss).
Michael Moore and the 99% are right. As Dylan said, "Everything Is Broken".
http://www.businessweek.com/news/2011-10-25/b...
Michael Moore is an attention whore douche bag. He represents the 1%. He never makes good arguments on camera and the fact that he caved to support Wesley Clarke, and then John Kerry, in the 2004 election and started talking trash on Ralph Nader shows his true colors.
I'd much rather have a Tom Morello or a Cornell West as a celebrity speaking on behalf the OWS movement any day.
the social commentary of 'Bowling for Columbine'?
or the interviews of foreigners in 'Sicko'?
or how about this clip about Reagan from 'Capitalism'...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vvVAPsn3Fpk
what specifically is whoring about it?
Or..have you not caught any of these films?
Michael Moore, even with his income, does not represent the 1%. No amount of exposure to Moore's films will change a person's position when they WANT to believe something that is wrong.
Yup, Michael Moore clearly represents the 1%, just ask Roger Smith or Bush the Lesser, they'll surely vouch for him.
On the upside, after reading C&L for years, Michael Moore finally got you to register today, so there's that.
Another long time reader, first time poster. Heh heh heh heh......
That's my vote.
Michael Moore was literally confronted with every single conservative talking-point that I've been seeing for weeks. But I loved the reporter's reaction when Moore said they'd film interviews on iPhones.
is the president of the NYSE. Maybe Jon can get an answer as to why MM isn't allowed there.
If you are pissed at too big to fail banks, why don't you bring attention to the fact that Obama and his worthless attorney general are the ones who let them walk free?
why aren't you protesting at the capitol building where all the regulations that let these banks do what they do were created?
The wall st. "employees" that you need to be pissed off at and protest....actually work in the senate and the house of representatives!!!! (and that is where you should be)
Wall st. corruption is just a symptom...(govt is the disease)
Get your fat ass off of the stock exchange steps and roll it on down the street to the local federal reserve bank on trinity street and set up camp there!
yer barking up the wrong tree!!!!
audit-prosecute-incarcerate
CNBC should also do their job and cover the republicans.
Republicans are the main reason the OWS is there. They have poisoned politics for 30 years...
GRAPHIC: A Timeline Of GOP Economic Sabotage
"Government by organized money is just as dangerous as Government by organized mob"
-= Franklin Delano Roosevelt =-
"We look out for the 45 percent of Americans who have 401Ks," the anchor admitted. Lied you mean. CNBC is a 24/7 advertisement for Wall Street theft. As I recall, during the run-up to the 2008 collapse, CNBC like all the 'money channels' were telling 401k owners like me to have faith, buy more stock, Bear Stearns will never collapse. They're shills not journalists.
Hurray Michael.
far left loon >.<
If Moore brings attention to himself. I Look at 1 thing in his films, the interviews. The regular people he talks to. What they have to say. If you watch and listen the everyday folks he talks to in Sicko, Capitalism, Bowling, Roger and Me and see the pain they are in......You can't say they are all whining and pouting, losers..etc. You come away with the feeling WE (99% ) are getting F---ED with a 2x4.
I don't make jokes - I just watch the government and report the facts. WILL ROGERS.
I can always count on you to cut through the bullshit and present issues in simple terms people can understand. Wall Street, the Banks are criminal enterprises that have broken laws. Where is the department of Justice --- ? --- Welcome to the kleptocracy.
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