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Michael Moore Grabs ‘Punk’ Reporter, Growls ‘You Lie!’ Over Wealth Questions
Media-ite ^ | 11/4/11 | Tommy Christopher

Posted on 11/20/2011 6:18:33 PM PST by Impala64ssa

Just days after being confronted by a conservative blogger over his supposed net worth, filmmaker Michael Moore took similar questions from a local CBS reporter at the Occupy Denver protest, with markedly different results. Rather than ignore CBS-4 reporter Evrod Cassimy, Moore engaged him. When Cassimy brought up Moore’s “rumored” $50 million net worth, though, Moore called him “punk media,” pulled him close, and growled, “You lie!”

The confrontation made for much better video than the previous one, and Moore initially handled the reporter’s questions well, admitting, ““I do very well,” and adding, “Because I do well, I want taxes raised on people who do well, including mine.”

When Cassimy pressed Moore about his specific net worth, however, Moore became visibly angry. He told the reporter, “I don’t have $50 million,” and Cassimy gave Moore an opening, saying, “That’s what it’s rumored you are worth.”

“Well, really” Moore said, “Is that what you do is sell rumors?”

“We’re asking you for the truth,” Cassimy replied.

Moore then put his hand on the reporter’s shoulder, shaking him as he said, “You’re just punk media is all you are.”

“You lie,” he continued, a slight growl in his voice. “You lie to people. Stop lying to people. Stop lying.”

Mr. Cassimy left himself open for Moore’s criticism by citing “rumors,” rather than “reports,” but Michael Moore really ought to do better at engaging this question. He’s got compelling answers, and even though the premise itself is silly, confronting it head on is a surer way to gain converts than scenes like this, which make it appear as though critics of Moore’s wealth have got his number.

There are lots of mega-bucks celebrities who have shown up to support the Occupy protests, and recent polls show that most millionaires support raising taxes on millionaires. You can, apparently, be rich and believe in fairness, simultaneously. Moore can, and does, also argue that he takes his earnings and puts them back into making more films. His wealth, then, is a tool to combat wealth inequality.


TOPICS: Culture/Society; News/Current Events; US: Colorado
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Michael Moore showing that he's a thin-skinned little boy with a big mouth.FTA:"critics of Moore’s wealth have got his number." BETTER BELEIVE IT! Where on to 'em. We're hip to their jive, we see where they're coming from, we smell what they're cooking, we know how they roll.
1 posted on 11/20/2011 6:18:38 PM PST by Impala64ssa
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To: Impala64ssa

Most bullies are thin-skinned.


2 posted on 11/20/2011 6:22:02 PM PST by Army Air Corps (Four fried chickens and a coke)
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To: Impala64ssa

Yet he refuses to state his real net worth.

The angst of Liberals.


3 posted on 11/20/2011 6:22:47 PM PST by BunnySlippers (I LOVE BULL MARKETS . . .)
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To: Impala64ssa

The fat pig made a career of dishing it out but, like all leftie hypocrites, he can’t take it.


4 posted on 11/20/2011 6:24:08 PM PST by Psycho_Bunny (Public employee unions are the barbarian hordes of our time.)
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To: Impala64ssa

Michael Moore is a larger than life icon to some liberals. Yet he personifies much of what they oppose. He is extremely wealthy. He is rumored to use non-union labor in his movie projects. He is rumored to not give his employees good pay and benefits. He is rumored to aggressively seek out tax breaks from the localities in which he is making movies. He has quite a few things to answer for in his own business practices, and his own wealth.

I don’t begrudge anything he has legally done from tax breaks to making movies which touch a chord with liberal people who go see them. But Michael Moore is among that “evil 1%” we keep hearing about.

Michael even has a beautiful vacation home on a lakefront in Michigan. Wonder what his carbon footprint is there.


5 posted on 11/20/2011 6:24:26 PM PST by Dilbert San Diego
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To: Impala64ssa

He makes my skin crawl.


6 posted on 11/20/2011 6:25:14 PM PST by freekitty (Give me back my conservative vote; then find me a real conservative to vote for)
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To: Impala64ssa
You can, apparently, be rich and believe in fairness, simultaneously. Moore can, and does, also argue that he takes his earnings and puts them back into making more films. His wealth, then, is a tool to combat wealth inequality

Some folks use their wealth to divide the pie up equally while others use their wealth and make a bigger pie for everyone to share.

People will do better with a small share of a huge pie than with an equal share of nothing.

7 posted on 11/20/2011 6:26:31 PM PST by Colonel Kangaroo (N)
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To: Impala64ssa
Fat Ass giving the "L" for "Liar" salute:


8 posted on 11/20/2011 6:26:50 PM PST by bigbob
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To: Impala64ssa

Seems that Mikey is feeling a little stressed with the attention.


9 posted on 11/20/2011 6:27:18 PM PST by cripplecreek (Stand with courage or shut up and do as you're told.)
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To: Impala64ssa

Limosine liberals have been getting a pass from the MSM for decades.


10 posted on 11/20/2011 6:27:37 PM PST by Huskrrrr
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To: BunnySlippers

Another angst of Liberals is, They put the money in fat mikeys wallet.

Conservatives will have nothing to do with the slob


11 posted on 11/20/2011 6:28:06 PM PST by reefdiver ("Let His day's be few And another takes His office")
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To: Dilbert San Diego

> Michael Moore is a larger than life icon to some liberals.

larger than life? maybe larger than a hippo. much larger.


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13 posted on 11/20/2011 6:28:18 PM PST by musicman (Until I see the REAL Long Form Vault BC, he's just "PRES__ENT" Obama = Without "ID")
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To: Impala64ssa

This is pathetic, If that fat-ass touches me his balls will be shoved into his bladder.


14 posted on 11/20/2011 6:29:48 PM PST by eyedigress ((Old storm chaser from the west)?)
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To: Impala64ssa

Mr Fathead would make my day if he ever put his hands on me in anger. Really


15 posted on 11/20/2011 6:29:48 PM PST by muir_redwoods (No wonder this administration favors abortion; everything they have done is an abortion)
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To: BunnySlippers
According to the last most accurate estimate, Michael Moore is probably worth about US$50 million. That's definitely one percent territory, so what he says is also very hypocritical, too.
16 posted on 11/20/2011 6:30:47 PM PST by RayChuang88 (FairTax: America's economic cure)
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To: Impala64ssa

Instead of confronting Moore, these reporters should just walk around with a bullhorn saying “hey everybody, see that fat slob over there?...”, then watch the fur fly.


17 posted on 11/20/2011 6:31:28 PM PST by SpaceBar
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To: Impala64ssa

Hmmmmm.

He doesnt like what he dishes out.

Hope that it is a sign to dish it and often.


18 posted on 11/20/2011 6:31:53 PM PST by Chickensoup (In the 20th century 200 million people were killed by their own governments.)
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To: Dilbert San Diego
Michael even has a beautiful vacation home on a lakefront in Michigan.
I understand his torch lake mansion is one of the most valuable peices of real estate in MI. Also the town is almost exclusively WHITE!. I guess he really IS part of the 99%. Kinda like that other hypocrite Bono (I'm always leery of anyone with no surname) who had a studio in Belfast, N Ireland to show solidarity with the locals who were oppressed by the Brits. A few yrs. ago he closed up shop and relocated to Brussels so he could catch a huge tax break.
19 posted on 11/20/2011 6:35:39 PM PST by Impala64ssa
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To: Impala64ssa

A better question that doesn’t involve asking what isn’t anyone else’s business is why doesn’t Moore simply donate to the IRS?


20 posted on 11/20/2011 6:36:11 PM PST by skr (May God confound the enemy)
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