Michael Moore has a sick view of the world.
He equates rape victims with homeowners in foreclosure.
In an interview with Sean Hannity, Moore's heart bleeds for those poor, stupid people who ended up in foreclosure. They didn't bear any responsibility for their dire economic straits. No, they were victims, metaphorically raped by the evil capitalists.
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SEAN HANNITY: If you sign a movie contract, do you read your movie contract?
MICHAEL MOORE: Yes, everything in a movie contract. Yes, of course, I do.
HANNITY: I have a contract for radio and TV. I've read every page of it. So why...? My point is I do feel sorry for them, Michael. I really do, and if you wanted to start something...
MOORE: You feel sorry for the people who have been swindled.
HANNITY: No, I feel sorry for people that in some cases, perhaps there's some truth to it, but they also have a responsibility.
MOORE: Uh, huh.
HANNITY: Think about this: If you put your name on the dotted line in a legal document, don't you bear responsibility?
MOORE: These people have been deceived and they've been exploited. You know, this is like, this is like...
HANNITY: No responsibility at all for them?
MOORE: No, this is like asking a woman how short was your skirt after she's been raped.
HANNITY: Aw, that's a, that's a... Oh, come on, Michael. That's...
MOORE: That's not, that's not... No, but you wouldn't, you wouldn't blame the victim for that. Why were you walking on that side of town?
HANNITY: So they shouldn't, if there were balloon payments they shouldn't have read it? They shouldn't have hired a lawyer to read it for them?
MOORE: A poor person?
HANNITY: You're not that poor if you're buying a house, Michael.
MOORE: You don't understand what's going on here. This is...
HANNITY: I was poor in my life. I lived in apartments. I couldn't even afford to pay my rent. And I would paint the apartments for my landlord.
MOORE: Sean, there have always been people who have lived beyond their means. We all know who they are. And there's probably one in every one of our families, or friends, or neighbors, or whatever.
HANNITY: So, if they lose their house...
MOORE: No, but they've never caused a crash of this proportion before. That's because they can't. They don't have the assets and the money to be able to cause the crash that was caused by the people downtown here, who were moving money around, taking bets out on money, derivatives, credit defaults, swaps insurance on the bet, then a bet on the insurance. That's why we ended up in the situation here.
Moore disgusts me.
A violent act like rape, physically and emotionally traumatizing, is not the same as failing to understand a contract before signing it, living beyond one's means, or being unable to make mortgage payments after a job loss or paycut.
RAPE?
Where are the throngs of feminists on this one? Why aren't they condemning Moore for making such an offensive statement?
Why aren't they organizing boycotts of his films"?
NOW? Where are you?
1 comment:
Michael is brilliant and must be praised if you are going to praise Hannity or Rush. He believes in something and is fighting for his belief, just as they do.
To pull the rape comment out and use it to nullify everything else he said which was true is cheap and easy to do. Come up with something better.
Meanwhile, he was telling the truth.
My mother signed 4 different contract in her last car purchase. She is disabled, they knew it, she has a lung disease and had oxygen on and they sold her the disability insurance and it says clearly they cannot sell it to her if she has a lung disease or is disabled. She was never supposed to be sold that insurance but it got him a bonus to do so.
This is the smallest form of what many people who have been foreclosed went through.
What I and many conservative friends of mine (I'm more idependant liberatarian - I don't like any extremes but understand that a tug of war must rage forever for our system to work and neither side when Bush had and now with Obama should there be so much power and control because 1,000's of years have shown the proverb true that you will be corrupted absolutely. I only hope Obama steers towards wisdom and compromise and winning what battles we can and fixing what can be fixed.
Regardless. We bailed out banks with more money than ever from OUR tax dollars and they in turn have went into overdrive reposessing cars, homes, etc., they wanted and got their bailout and their sympathy. But no empathy for the family of 3 living out of their car because they didn't know they had to hire lawyers, accountants, priests to bless the meeting, etc., just to get a home and you figure there is something honest somewhere. And just saying you need all that is admitting the system is set up to trap us in debt, just look at college campuses and how many credit card companies hand them tons of cards at once knowing they cannot handle it. Impulse and youth breeds stupidity and WE paid for it. The banks win everytime. It's not any different than the reforms in insurances since I was born.
I remember they called your house and walked neighborhoods to sell insurance. Now, we have to beg them for it at a fair price and regardless if you've always paid your insurance premiums on time, they will slam you for any late payments anywhere else in your life. Remember to take your rental dvd's back on time and don't lose them or your car insurance may get raised 100%.
Loyal Red Blooded Freak for America
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