Posted by
Tzimisce on Friday, June 15, 2007 1:18:20 PM
Aw - Michael Moore's film has been dumped out on to the web, meaning that anyone can now watch it for free. (Personally, I think that even at free it's still a rip off but I digress.)
Well from what I'm reading this has Moore and Weinstein his distribution company. They're going to lose millions of dollars. One can't help but savor the irony of a group of people with socialist/communist sympathies decrying their loss of profit. You'd think that they would have put the film out on net unprompted for free so that the working poor could have access to the material (and then decry the world that the working poor can't afford computers to see the movie). After all, Moore is the guy who took all those people to Cuba to prove how great the socialized medicine down there is compared to the greedy, inept US system. Cubans get their awesome medical care for free, so why doesn't the same theory apply to Moore's films? Doesn't he condemn our healthcare industry for sucking up millions of dollars?
But no in typical hypocritical elitist fashion it's a crime when *they* lose money. *They* need the cash to get their message out (whereas the rest of us are just greedy and will spend the money on the wrong things anyway.) Apparently you're allowed to eat steak and lobster and drive around in Limos when you're doing the work of "the people."
It reminds me of one of the text books I had as required reading back in college. It openly praised the glory of Marxism even mentioning Karl by name. The book kept citing a web site as a source. Imagine my shock when I discovered the web site was a pay site. Again you'd think that they'd want "the poor" to have access to the material. But no, these commies want compensation for the work they put in (how snide of them.)
So whereas the rest of us are all supposed to work for free, they want to maintain their high calibur lifestyle - but do we expect any different from them?