{"id":14927,"date":"2011-11-14T19:00:20","date_gmt":"2011-11-15T00:00:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/?p=14927"},"modified":"2011-11-14T19:00:20","modified_gmt":"2011-11-15T00:00:20","slug":"a-new-target-for-the-occupiers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/a-new-target-for-the-occupiers\/","title":{"rendered":"A new target for the Occupiers"},"content":{"rendered":"

Michael Moore\u2019s multi-million dollar house:<\/p>\n

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\nNot only could protesters demand that he give back the fortune he has made using capitalism to deride capitalism, they could also demand he donate his underpants to be used as tents.<\/p>\n

From here<\/a>:<\/p>\n

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It\u2019s no secret that Moore has made millions from his muckraking documentaries, and there\u2019s no reason he shouldn\u2019t have. As one of the most successful documentary film-makers ever, he\u2019s successfully tapped a rich vein of anti-capitalist rhetoric that sells well among U.S. liberals.<\/p>\n

What puts Moore in the Gore camp is his refusal to admit he shares the wealth of his targets, as if wealth and success in themselves are dishonourable. In an interview with CNN\u2019s Piers Morgan he quails when asked to admit \u201cthe bleeding obvious\u201d, i.e. that he\u2019s a member of the 1%.<\/p>\n

\u201cHow can I be in the 1%?\u201d Moore responds. \u201cEven though I do well, I don\u2019t associate myself with those who do well. I am devoting my life to those who have less and have been crapped on by the system.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Michael Moore\u2019s multi-million dollar house: Not only could protesters demand that he give back the fortune he has made using capitalism to deride capitalism, they could also demand he donate his underpants to be used as tents. From here: It\u2019s … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"iawp_total_views":4,"footnotes":""},"categories":[241],"tags":[1082],"class_list":["post-14927","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-occupy","tag-michael-moore"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14927","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14927"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14927\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14927"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14927"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14927"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}