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by NW Spotlight
Criticism of the filmmaker’s hypocrisy is not limited to conservatives
Filmmaker Michael Moore visited Portland yesterday as part of a book tour. While in Portland, Moore spoke to the Occupy Portland protesters.
Willamette Week noted [2] that Moore was a “1 percenter”, and that he was an hour and a half late [3] getting to speak to the protesters. Moore himself has admitted [4] he’s a 1 percenter.
NewsBusters reported [5] that Portland’s own Daylight Disinfectant [6] asked Moore some tough questions, which Moore ignored: “An Occupy Portland participant asked Moore if the richest 400 people in the country could “give back” $1 million each. The hypocritical flimmaker repeated the question saying it was a good idea. A reporter for the Oregon based website Daylight Disinfectant shouted out, “How about a million of your 50 million?” Moore declined to answer.
A writer on left-leaning MEDIAite wrote [7] that they wished Daylight Disinfectant had asked “Moore about his use of non-union workers on his Capitalism: A Love Story“.
The Portland Mercury noted [8] that Moore “swept off into a black SUV”.