Michael Moore’s latest fishing expedition

By Michelle Malkin  •  February 12, 2009 03:38 PM

The left-wing propagandist Michael Moore is working on his next project — a documentary about America’s financial collapse. He’s trolling Daily Kos and Twitter in search of whistleblowers, and has posted a solicitation on his website.

I think it’s fairly safe to assume he won’t be grilling Barney Frank, Maxine Waters, Franklin Raines, Chris Dodd, Bill Clinton, or ACORN over their roles in creating the mess we are in now.

Go ahead. Surprise me.

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  1. #101
    On February 12th, 2009 at 7:36 pm, Omu said:

    No one said it was easy kid. My 100 hour work week for 10 years is a testament to that. I started out in the most extreme conditions of poverty.

    You can kindly stop calling me “kid” (I’m most likely older than you are).

  2. #102
    On February 12th, 2009 at 7:37 pm, right4life said:

    On February 12th, 2009 at 7:34 pm, Omu said:
    right4life, your hyperbole is no longer entertaining. Please don’t expect any replies from me. I will not dignify your acute ignorance with another reply.

    looks like the truth hurts, boy

    I’ll continue to make you look foolish, not that its very hard :P

    moron.

  3. #103
    On February 12th, 2009 at 7:38 pm, right4life said:

    truth is omu, you are the racist. you are the one who thinks people of color cannot make it without YOUR help.

  4. #104
    On February 12th, 2009 at 7:39 pm, FamilyMan said:

    right4life said: I’m part black, and my wife is african…as black as they come…

    OH NO!
    Another black conservative on our Michelles blog. You let one into the neighborhood and well we all know happens them /sarc

  5. #105
    On February 12th, 2009 at 7:41 pm, Socky said:

    Props to R4L for getting OMU to admit defeat and shut up his gob!

  6. #106
    On February 12th, 2009 at 7:45 pm, right4life said:

    On February 12th, 2009 at 7:39 pm, FamilyMan said:

    I consider myself a mutt…part white, part black, part native american (cherokee)

    but somehow I made it without people like OMU ‘caring’ for me…

    I have One who cares for me…and HE is all I need…

  7. #107
    On February 12th, 2009 at 7:45 pm, FamilyMan said:

    right4life said: BOY

    RACIST

  8. #108
    On February 12th, 2009 at 7:45 pm, right4life said:

    On February 12th, 2009 at 7:41 pm, Socky said:
    Props to R4L for getting OMU to admit defeat and shut up his gob!

    for now, but like the devil, he’ll return at a more opportune time… ;-)

  9. #109
    On February 12th, 2009 at 7:45 pm, Socky said:

    He’s trolling Daily Kos and Twitter in search of whistleblowers, and has posted a solicitation on his website.

    I bet the kostards will provide him with some fantastic stories.

    Some truly fantastic stories.

    Some of which will involve unicorns.

  10. #110
    On February 12th, 2009 at 7:47 pm, right4life said:

    On February 12th, 2009 at 7:45 pm, FamilyMan said:

    ya got me…I do prefer dark ladies… ;-)

    unless they’re rich then I don’t care.. :P

  11. #111
    On February 12th, 2009 at 7:48 pm, FamilyMan said:

    right4life said:I consider myself a mutt

    We’re all mutts if we go back far enough.

  12. #112
    On February 12th, 2009 at 7:50 pm, Omu said:

    looks like the truth hurts, boy

    I don’t what you’re insinuating, because you are the one that looks childish. You cannot use grammar or language in any conventional way, you use juvenile insults like “moron” and “boy”. You make wildly inaccurate and hyperbolic claims and you are atrociously blinkered by your political convictions. And yet you command considerable respect on this site.

    I suppose that speaks volumes for the conservative movement. It also explains the Palin phenomenon. It doesn’t really matter, to social conservatives, whether or not someone is intelligent or charismatic, what matters only is that you stick to social conservative “values” and ensure you pay less taxes. How pathetic.

  13. #113
    On February 12th, 2009 at 7:51 pm, FamilyMan said:

    Hey Omu; Don’t you understand how insulting you are with you compassionate patronizing attitude?

  14. #114
    On February 12th, 2009 at 7:53 pm, right4life said:

    You make wildly inaccurate and hyperbolic claims and you are atrociously blinkered by your political convictions. And yet you command considerable respect on this site.

    you can say that, but you cannot back it up. you are the one who is blinded by your political ideology. and your ideology, socialism, has led to great misery, suffering, and death, for those you say you ‘care’ for. and you know as well as I do, that you are a racist, you don’t think people of color can make it without ‘liberal’ help.

    you know its true…doesn’t matter…all you care about is power over people’s lives.

    you cannot debate the issues. that is very obvious.

  15. #115
    On February 12th, 2009 at 8:03 pm, Tennessee Dave said:

    On February 12th, 2009 at 7:23 pm, Omu said:
    There are always going to be poor, disadvantaged people in a society and as a progressive, I believe in social justice and I believe that these poor people are at least entitled to support from their government

    I posted this on a thread last night, but it’s more relevent here:

    “You cannot legislate the poor into freedom by legislating the wealthy out of freedom. What one person receives without working for, another person must work for without receiving. The government cannot give to anybody anything that the government does not first take from somebody else. When half of the people get the idea that they do not have to work because the other half is going to take care of them, and when the other half gets the idea that it does no good to work because somebody else is going to get what they work for, that my dear friend, is about the end of any nation. You cannot multiply wealth by dividing it.”

    ~~~ The late Dr. Adrian Rogers , 1931 to 2005, Former Pastor of Bellevue Baptist Church in Memphis , TN ~~~

    Also relevant is another document that says something about “life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.” People have the right to pursue, not to have it given to them.
    If you want to give your money to the government for them to redistribute then by all means do so, but let me decide what charity I want to give to.

  16. #116
    On February 12th, 2009 at 8:07 pm, Omu said:

    and you know as well as I do, that you are a racist, you don’t think people of color can make it without ‘liberal’ help.

    Not black people, “poor people”. Black people are disproportionately poor. That’s the fact of the matter.

    And I’m pretty sure that if you were in the situation that many of America’s poor are in right now, you’d be a bit more compassionate.

  17. #117
    On February 12th, 2009 at 8:07 pm, right4life said:

    ~~~ The late Dr. Adrian Rogers , 1931 to 2005, Former Pastor of Bellevue Baptist Church in Memphis , TN ~~~

    I was very sad when he passed, he was a great man…you may find this interesting….

    This year, the Billy Graham Evangelistic Association will focus on the return of Jesus Christ and help prepare believers for life in the last days, according to a recent announcement.

    “People ask me, ‘Do you really believe that Jesus Christ is going to come back to this earth again?’” writes the Rev. Billy Graham in one of the several resources that the ministry is providing on the End Times.
    “Yes, I do,” he continues. “The Bible teaches that Jesus is coming again.
    And I don’t see any other hope, because we’re heading toward a catastrophe in our world.”

    link

    I think in christianity, there is Billy Graham, and then there is everybody else…he’s in a league of his own…

    and like EF Hutton..when Billy speaks…I listen….

  18. #118
    On February 12th, 2009 at 8:12 pm, right4life said:

    Not black people, “poor people”. Black people are disproportionately poor. That’s the fact of the matter.

    ever wonder why? couldn’t be because the US government subsidized the breakup of the black family…which is why we have such a high rate of single-parent households in the black community, and such a high illegitimacy rate…

    your policies of ‘caring’ for people has destroyed the black family, with the result being great misery, suffering, and death in the black community.

    And I’m pretty sure that if you were in the situation that many of America’s poor are in right now, you’d be a bit more compassionate.

    you think ‘compassion’ is making someone dependent upon the federal government…your ‘compassion’ is not compassionate, rather it gives you power over people’s lives…if you were truly compassionate, you would create social policies that ensure the stability of the family, that do not subsidize illegitimacy…but you don’t…you subsidize fatherlessness, and what you subsidize you get more of…with the attendant rise in crime..drug use, etc…

  19. #119
    On February 12th, 2009 at 8:17 pm, FamilyMan said:

    Omu. The people in this country that made success of their lives, regardless of the barriers they started with, consider people like you the problem for continued advancement. Get the hell out of our way.

  20. #120
    On February 12th, 2009 at 8:39 pm, right4life said:

    as I said, omu cannot argue the issues…when you don’t have facts, history, or logic, on your side, all you are left with is lies and demagoguery..

  21. #121
    On February 12th, 2009 at 8:46 pm, travlinman said:

    OMU, how come when I read your posts, I feel like I should be wearing a body condom? Could it be the smarminess that oozes through the screen and onto my being?

  22. #122
    On February 12th, 2009 at 8:48 pm, travlinman said:

    On February 12th, 2009 at 8:12 pm, right4life said:

    Nail, meet hammer.

  23. #123
    On February 12th, 2009 at 8:51 pm, sonofdy said:

    And I’m pretty sure that if you were in the situation that many of America’s poor are in right now, you’d be a bit more compassionate.

    I am pretty sure you don’t have a f$%^ing clue about anyone here.

  24. #124
    On February 12th, 2009 at 9:05 pm, bjc said:

    *I’d like to see Michael Moore do a documentary on Ken Burns doing a documentary on Omu; It would be all fire, aim, ready and he could title it “From Rags to Riches to Retarded”

  25. #125
    On February 12th, 2009 at 9:09 pm, FamilyMan said:

    Omu;
    You don’t need to be rich in order to have a rich life. What we do need is our integrity and an overly compassionate government takes that away.
    GEEES!

  26. #126
    On February 12th, 2009 at 9:28 pm, rightisright said:

    On February 12th, 2009 at 8:12 pm, right4life said:

    Your exactly right, something that is always overlooked, the guberment, that ‘Great Society’ strikes again. Basically destroyed the black neighborhoods, their families and self-esteem went out the window of 12 floor of the project within which they lived. The hundreds of billions of $’s spent on TGS was a total waste, in the end, did one hell of a lot more damage to the poor in America than any good that possibly came out of it.

  27. #127
    On February 12th, 2009 at 9:44 pm, Joy said:

    Seems to be a pattern with the government doesn’t it? Pretend ‘compassion’ while you strip the populace of their God-given rights, their dignity, their money and their freedom. Make everyone equal by lowering them all, with the exception of a select few, to the lowest common denominator.

    Get very concerned when the Government talks about ‘Compassion.’

  28. #128
    On February 12th, 2009 at 9:54 pm, Trollman said:

    Omu said:

    I don’t need to get over anything. I’m white, heterosexual and my parents are wealthy Rhode Island aristocrats. I’ve never faced hardships the likes of which many black people do. However, unlike most Republicans, I try to understand and I can feel empathy. You should try out empathy sometime.

    Ah, this explains a lot about Omu. He’s had it so good, he feels guilty about it.

    I didn’t grow up rich or pampered. I am white, but where I grew up, I was the minority. I was the one being called racist names. I was poorer than many of my peers. Unlike you, I don’t have to “try” to understand being poor or mistreated because of my race – I’ve been there.

    So enjoy your blessings, share them with others, and lose the guilt complex.

  29. #129
    On February 12th, 2009 at 9:57 pm, Trollman said:

    Joy said:

    Pretend ‘compassion’ while you strip the populace of their God-given rights, their dignity, their money and their freedom.

    It isn’t about actually being compassionate, it is about feeling compassionate. They need to feel compassionate in order to suppress their feelings of guilt.

  30. #130
    On February 12th, 2009 at 10:15 pm, jangar said:

    Emu said: Black people are disproportionately poor.

    Black people have been disproportionately targeted by liberal Democrats since the begining of time for the sole purpose of winning elections, increasing power and counting on that guarranteed vote. The real enemy of the black family is Democrat policies (and the devil…if there’s a difference).

    Don’t argue with me…I’m right.

  31. #131
    On February 13th, 2009 at 1:01 am, RetFireman said:

    I’m white, heterosexual and my parents are wealthy Rhode Island aristocrats. I’ve never faced hardships the likes of which many black people do.

    You are nothing more than a parody of yourself. You have said it all so we don’t have to. you are the EPITOME of exactly what all of us say a typical Liberal is: a New England little rich boy who was pampered, coddled and spoiled to the point that they feel nothing but guilt for all that THEIR PARENTS accomplished. You are drunk on your own White guilt to the point that you cannot see just exactly how racist and bigoted you truly are. While you spew all your crap about “Evil Republicans”, it is YOU and your ilk that keeps blacks and other minorities stuck sucking on the government dole.

    While Republicans and Conservatives go out and tell people to stop being victims, take control and responsibility for their lives, get an education, apply themselves, work hard, sweat, cry and suffer until they reach the American Dream of a good paying job or even the owner of a business, family, and a home. You and your ilk like to tell them that it is all the fault of the color of their skin, that without the government they can’t do anything, that everything will be provided for them and for Godsakes, do NOT pull yourself up by the bootstraps…you don’t need to as Whitey put you their, so Big Government will take care of you there. You are a joke. So blinded you can’t even tell you mock yourself.

    And as for Moore, the amazing thing about him is he is now so fat, he has smaller fat guys orbiting around him.

  32. #132
    On February 13th, 2009 at 1:08 am, RetFireman said:

    And for the record, I was raised incredibly poor. I was one of three boys raised solely by my mother who would work three jobs just to make sure we had a roof over our heads and food, (no matter how little or bad) to eat on the table. I came from a physically, mentally and verbally, (but not sexually, thank GOd…or at least damn…she couldn’t afford the Co-Ed teenage babysitter, damnit) abusive home until I was finally able to get out at 18 and moved to Los Angeles area on my own.

    No one helped me. I asked for no handouts. I asked for no government aid and neither did my mother.

    I worked in the entertainment industry for years until I was finally able to put myself through paramedic school and a fire academy.

    My background was the EXACT background that Liberals love to use as an example of how hard it is and thus I should have become another parasite on the tax payers.

    Instead, what I did was live a life COMPLETELY OPPOSITE of everything Liberals would have preferred.

    You had the benefit of being a spoiled brat, thus you don’t have a leg to stand on in this argument. So you assuage your guilt…big whoop. All you are helping is yourself, for what you and your beliefs do is keep people down and keep them slaves. The only differnce is the whip is now a WIC check.

    Now get off your mom’s computer and go to bed. It’s a school night.

  33. #133
    On February 13th, 2009 at 1:14 am, RetFireman said:

    And you demonstrate what a racist, bigoted prig you are simply by assuming everyone here is white. Moron.

  34. #134
    On February 13th, 2009 at 2:12 am, James Felix said:

    I suppose that speaks volumes for the conservative movement. It also explains the Palin phenomenon.

    I’m curious what it is, exactly, you’ve accomplished in your life that makes you feel comfortable looking down your nose at Governor Palin.

    It doesn’t really matter, to social conservatives, whether or not someone is intelligent or charismatic, what matters only is that you stick to social conservative “values” and ensure you pay less taxes. How pathetic.

    As opposed to the left, who will jettison any intellectual dead weight whether or not they toe the party line.

    I know you can’t see it but I’m rolling my eyes as I type that.

    Pelosi, Reid, Biden and Waters make Dan Quayle look like Steven Hawking. And Obama himself seems to be of no more than average intelligence. For a Liberal to pretend that stupidity is a Conservative characteristic requires a level of self-delusion not usually seen outside the American Idol auditions.

  35. #135
    On February 13th, 2009 at 8:02 am, mike.musculus said:

    Why The Emu‘s back!
    Hello!
    Mr/Ms/Mrs/Miss/Whatever Emu!

    How’s the parrot business?

  36. #136
    On February 13th, 2009 at 8:32 am, wighttrasch said:

    James Felix said:

    For a Liberal to pretend that stupidity is a Conservative characteristic requires a level of self-delusion

    Well said.

    Now; I wanno know 2 things:
    1)how did Omu show up on a Michael Moore thread yammering about ACORN & racism?
    2)What’s it(Omu) doing in Dublin?

  37. #137
    On February 13th, 2009 at 8:45 am, jangar said:

    Omu – the self appointed gardian of social re-engineering.

    That’s all we heard from the bird…he’s right and everyone else is wrong. No room for debate.

  38. #138
    On February 13th, 2009 at 8:51 am, jangar said:

    I’m white, heterosexual and my parents are wealthy Rhode Island aristocrats. I’ve never faced hardships the likes of which many black people do.

    Well, there you have it Omu. Go volunteer in a shelter/soup kitchen, give of your time/money to worthy charitable causes and help those in need out. Get your like-minded friends involved in doing the same. Start a trend. Go for it! Help a fellow human in need out! It’s how movements start that help others.

    But don’t expect to make it law that the government mandates it. Then it is not considered charity anymore.

  39. #139
    On February 13th, 2009 at 9:12 am, nail49 said:

    It doesn’t only really matters, to social conservatives, liberals whether or not if someone is intelligent or charismatic and that they will give away other people’s money

    There, umo(ron) I fixed it for you!

  40. #140
    On February 13th, 2009 at 9:43 am, granite said:

    On February 13th, 2009 at 1:08 am, RetFireman said:

    God bless you, RF.

    But, don’t be surprised if one of our conceited, sneering trolls notices your brief personal background note that you posted in response to a troll’s foolishness; and then refers to it in another, unrelated thread in a lame, gratuitous attempt to insult you.

    Believe me, it happens.

  41. #141
    On February 13th, 2009 at 10:25 am, wighttrasch said:

    granite: oh yeah–our new & improved ‘undresiege’ is good fer it.

  42. #142
    On February 13th, 2009 at 12:13 pm, RetFireman said:

    The sick thing is it is a Liberal that would mock someone who did not use public funds and who worked hard to get where they are. Just look at Clarence Thomas etc. If you do not toe the Party line and spread their lie then you are mocked etc.

    However, my skin is thick so the likes of these trolls can’t hurt. They would merely lend themselves to exposure of the sad, pathetic, jealous things that don’t even deserve pity that they are.

    Using poverty, abuse, and all the rest as they do as excuses never flies with me. Especially in the commitment of crimes. They are cop outs for failure…not reasons.

  43. #143
    On February 18th, 2009 at 1:27 pm, Dimsdale said:

    I don’t need to get over anything. I’m white, heterosexual and my parents are wealthy Rhode Island aristocrats. I’ve never faced hardships the likes of which many black people do. However, unlike most Republicans, I try to understand and I can feel empathy. You should try out empathy sometime.

    Isn’t that how Obama’s favorite domestic terrorist, Bill Ayers, got started: the white guilt of the elitist, ultrarich liberal?

  44. #144
    On February 18th, 2009 at 1:35 pm, Dimsdale said:

    On February 12th, 2009 at 6:46 pm, Omu said:

    It wasn’t until the Dems. used race as a method of gaining party members did we drop out.

    It’s like Republicans live in some fantasy world where hundreds of years of oppression and discrimination didn’t affect black communities in massive, massive ways and there’s no need to address this grave inequity that exists as a result. To do so, according to conservatives, is “race baiting” or whatever. And you guys wonder why black people don’t vote for you.

    Blacks don’t vote for Republicans because the Democrats keep dangling a carrot in front of their noses. Republicans (the conservative ones, anyway) want them to grow their own carrots.

    At least in the case of the conservative Republicans, they have a decent chance of getting the carrot. Democrats have to constantly yank the carrot away (blaming the Republicans for it) because if they get the carrot, they don’t need Democrats anymore.

  45. #145
    On February 18th, 2009 at 1:41 pm, Dimsdale said:

    On February 12th, 2009 at 7:23 pm, Omu said:

    Again, in what reality are you all living? It’s not as easy as just telling poor people to behave as you want them to and “get a job”. It really isn’t that easy. There are always going to be poor, disadvantaged people in a society and as a progressive, I believe in social justice and I believe that these poor people are at least entitled to support from their government and am perfectly willing to allow a percentage of my taxes to go toward paying for that.

    Why don’t you assuage your heartfelt elitist white guilt and distribute your inheritance to a group of poor people. Then you can be poor and find out first hand what is and isn’t. Put your inherited money where your mouth is.

    It’s so easy to just assume that “getting a job” is so easy and that pulling yourself up to the middle class is so easy, but it really isn’t. Believe me, I know the kind of people that just pretend poverty is a “annoyance” that would go away if those “lazy” poor people just “got a job”, and all such people need to do some serious maturing.

    By your own admission, you are rich and pampered and know little about getting a job and struggling to make payments.

    Why should we listen to you? I would be willing to bet most of us were/are less well off than you. We don’t need lecturing from a regressive elitist like you. (Assuming you were telling the truth of course)

  46. #146
    On February 18th, 2009 at 1:43 pm, Dimsdale said:

    Did you ever notice that the richer and more well off a liberal is, the less they give to the poor and other charities? See Gore, Obama, Clinton etc., etc.

  47. #147
    On October 2nd, 2009 at 11:35 am, Dimsdale said:

    On February 12th, 2009 at 8:07 pm, Omu said:

    and you know as well as I do, that you are a racist, you don’t think people of color can make it without ‘liberal’ help.

    Not black people, “poor people”. Black people are disproportionately poor. That’s the fact of the matter.

    Another fun fact: blacks have been the disproportionate recipients of “affirmative action” for ages, yet they still languish in the poverty you describe.

    How would you say that is working out for them?

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