Michael Moore:
I think this the first time I've been on with the entire primetime MSNBC crew. All of us together at once. And I was sitting here thinking, someone's gonna keep this tape for our military tribunal in 2018.

Rachel Maddow:
Let's just hope it's a tribunal and not a drone strike.

High-res nickoftime: Giving Michael Moore Credit Where Credit is Due For the past 10 years or so, it seems like just about every movie Michael Moore has released has resulted in either shift of the national conversation, a movement or outright historic legislation. Fahrenheit 9/11- The movie singlehandedly shifted America’s stance on the war with Iraq and how we engage the Middle-East. In addition, it had bought much needed attention to America’s industrial military complex and helped shape much of the discussion we are still having today in regards to how much we spend needlessly on the military. Sicko- The movie completely brought the healthcare debate back from the dead and had become focus point of the 2008 elections which eventually led to one of the most historic pieces of legislation in our generation. Capitalism- A Love Story – Just look around… the movie literally opens up with an evicted family refusing to leave their homes.  It tells the stories of Union Workers standing up for their rights “occupying” their buildings. There is another story about how a community managed to stand up for a family being evicted out of a home that would have been simply boarded up anyway. The movie ends with Michael Moore demanding similar action from the audience… I say this because so many people shy away from him not realizing the incredible impact he has had in American politics. He is our modern day Upton Sinclair! Everyone one of his movies deserve another viewing before the New Year!

nickoftime:

Giving Michael Moore Credit Where Credit is Due

For the past 10 years or so, it seems like just about every movie Michael Moore has released has resulted in either shift of the national conversation, a movement or outright historic legislation.

Fahrenheit 9/11- The movie singlehandedly shifted America’s stance on the war with Iraq and how we engage the Middle-East. In addition, it had bought much needed attention to America’s industrial military complex and helped shape much of the discussion we are still having today in regards to how much we spend needlessly on the military.

Sicko- The movie completely brought the healthcare debate back from the dead and had become focus point of the 2008 elections which eventually led to one of the most historic pieces of legislation in our generation.

Capitalism- A Love Story – Just look around… the movie literally opens up with an evicted family refusing to leave their homes.  It tells the stories of Union Workers standing up for their rights “occupying” their buildings. There is another story about how a community managed to stand up for a family being evicted out of a home that would have been simply boarded up anyway. The movie ends with Michael Moore demanding similar action from the audience…

I say this because so many people shy away from him not realizing the incredible impact he has had in American politics. He is our modern day Upton Sinclair! Everyone one of his movies deserve another viewing before the New Year!

mohandasgandhi:

Keith Olbermann defended Michael Moore’s comments about the killing of Osama bin Laden—and criticized former MSNBC colleague Ed Schultz—in an online “Special Comment” posted to Olbermann’s website on Thursday.

Moore has received a boatload of criticism for his comments on CNN’s “Piers Morgan Tonight” about bin Laden’s death. He said that the killing showed that “we’ve lost something of our soul here in this country…something that separates us from other parts, other countries where we say everybody has their day in court.”

One of Moore’s critics was MSNBC’s Ed Schultz, who earlier this week devoted a segment to the filmmaker’s comments, and said, “the intellectual liberal hand-wringing needs to stop in this country.”

In his “Special Comment,” Olbermann said that he also disagreed with Moore (who was just named as a contributor to his upcoming Current TV show), and supported the killing.

“What I object to is those who want to silence those who disagree with me,” he said. “Michael’s points are right-on…I believe, with great regret, that the pragmatic circumstances of keeping bin Laden alive outweighed, very narrowly, what Michael is addressing. But for him to then be accused of ‘intellectual liberal hand-wringing’ by a supposedly liberal commentator on a supposedly liberal television network, is outrageous.”

Olbermann compared the reaction to Moore’s bin Laden comments to the atmosphere in the wake of 9/11 and in the run-up to the Iraq War.

“Do we want to go back to the way the media was in this country eight years and four days ago?” he said. “That to question the honesty of those in power is to find oneself painted as unpatriotically questioning the troops? Because that is where Michael Moore’s critics would lead us. I want hand-wringing over exactly who a President gets to kill. I want liberals to question other liberals. If the official story deviates at all from the facts, I want the official story questioned.”

Well said, sir.

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“Maybe they [Democrats] won’t win. But their boat is sinking. And when your boat is sinking, I think you have to take radical measures to stop it,” “Don’t just sit there and watch it sink.”

Moore said he’d like to film the midterm elections. Watching Democrats explain what they’ve done for the past two years, he laughed, will be “one of the greatest comedies.”

“I can only sit here and imagine how they’re gonna run.” “They were handed the ball and couldn’t take it 10 yards down the field. They’re in for a huge ass-whooping.”

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Michael Moore in an interview with TPMDC

Moore also spoke with Lawrence O’Donnell on Countdown last night. He covered the economy (video) and health care (video).