|
Insane
|
This is just ridiculous. 
I've seen countless Moore interviews and the last thing you could describe him as is some kind of selfish money grubber.
Take this interview for example:
Lamb asks him about money and this is part of his answer.
Quote:
MOORE: Yes, that -- well, this is the ultimate irony of all of this because I come from -- you know, the year before I made "Roger and Me," my W-2 form said $8,800 on it. I never made -- until I was 35, 36 years old, I never made more than $17,000 a year. So you know, the first 17 years of my adult life -- and it was only one year that I made $17,000, and I`d say an average was more like $12,000 to $15,000. So that`s how I lived the first part of my adult life.
And I was very happy. I was very used to that and very comfortable with that. Then suddenly, "Roger and Me" becomes this huge hit, and all this, you know, money pours in from Warner Brothers. Now, what does that do to someone, you know, when that happens? You know, I think with some of the young kids, like, especially music, when they have a big hit, they`re 18 or 20 years old, probably have a hard time dealing with that.
By the time I was 35, when this happened to me, I was really pretty much set in my ways and my beliefs and my values. And so now, you know, 13, 14 years later, after "Roger and Me," you know, I`m still in the same marriage. I -- same friends. I live my life, you know, pretty much the same way. When I`m on a book tour like this, you`re right, you know, suddenly the publicist and the publishing company, and you`re carted here and there, and all this -- you know, the way you describe that. And I just have to sort of just step back from it and realize, OK, you know, this isn`t reality. And I must feel immediately -- oh, I feel very humbled by it because I feel very privileged. I don`t feel like I deserve it. And I believe that it`ll be gone tomorrow.
|
http://www.booknotes.org/Transcript/?ProgramID=1754
His whole progressive political ideology is against it. He is steadfastly against the Bush tax cut, which gives most of the tax "relief" to the rich and even offers it away. He is also known to be highly critical of greedy corporations (see sig). He is, and is an advocate for, the average guy and the right-wing in this county is just unwilling to accept that. |