Surprised this isn’t considered “advocating violence”.
Moore on a roll lately.
He’s been on a roll since 1989 with Roger and Me, the hell do you mean “lately”?
Canadian Bacon is a highly underrated film. I rarely have the opportunity to bring that up.
In a lengthy Substack article — which he titled “A Manifesto Against For-Profit Health Insurance Companies” — Moore wrote that Mangione’s alleged mention of him has resulted in requests for the director to comment. “It’s not often that my work gets a killer five-star review from an actual killer,” he wrote. “My phone has been ringing off the hook which is bad news because my phone doesn’t have a hook. Emails are pouring in. Text messages. Requests from many in the media.”
Moore went on to write that many of the requests inquired whether he would condemn the murder of Thompson. “After the killing of the CEO of United HealthCare, the largest of these billion dollar insurance companies, there was an immediate OUTPOURING of anger toward the health insurance industry,” Moore wrote. “Some people have stepped forward to condemn this anger. I am not one of them.”
He went on to write that the anger is completely justified, and that “it is long overdue for the media to cover it. It is not new. It has been boiling. And I’m not going to tamp it down or ask people to shut up. I want to pour gasoline on that anger.”
Moore added that “yes, I condemn murder, and that’s why I condemn America’s broken, vile, rapacious, bloodthirsty, unethical, immoral health care industry and I condemn every one of the CEOs who are in charge of it and I condemn every politician who takes their money and keeps this system going instead of tearing it up, ripping it apart, and throwing it all away.”
It’s hard to imagine the guy who directed the music video for Rage Against the Machine’s Sleep Now In The Fire saying anything else.
10/10 response. Especially the “Yes I condemn murder part” where he flips their stupid question on it’s head.
Whoa, I’ve seen that video several times, but had no clue Moore directed it. Now it seems so obvious, in hindsight.
Headline grossly misconstrues Moore’s opinion:
And I’m not going to tamp it down or ask people to shut up. I want to pour gasoline on that anger.
Any news source to even consider that they could/should is part of the problem.
Also the director of “Canadian Bacon”.
Also “Fahrenheit 9/11”.
