For professional reasons I attended a special screening of Michael Moore's junkflick "Capitalism: A Love Affair" at the ICM screening room in Century City a couple of days ago. It was painful waiting for the movie to start, having to listen to a group of self-righteous Liberals behind me blustering on and on about their frequent trips all around the world, specifically to Bogota Columbia, where they were making tons of, dare I say, profit, on all the new economic development going on in this once drug based, now coffee based economy. (note: This economic boom is a result of the Bush administration’s free trade agreement with President Alvaro Uribe, which Obama is trying to derail because it oppresses the Marxist resistance). However, I couldn’t keep from noticing, sitting in the luxurious screening room in the MGM building, a breathtakingly beautiful monument to capitalism and the free mind of man, the irony stinking up the room like an odious flatulence, which everyone pretended not to notice.

In Michael Moore’s junkflick, it was the Evil Empire of Capitalism that caused all global misery, famine, corruption and economic chaos in the world. Moore portrayed Bush 43, not surprisingly, as the lackey of Wall Street Hucksters who were the central planners of a devious plot to make themselves rich at the expense of the have-nots.

The movie opened with a bank robbery, followed by a series of sad stories about how, according to Michael Moore, people have being victimized by capitalism. He told stories about how companies took out life insurance policies on ordinary employees knowing those employees had a high risk of death because of health problems. When those employees died the companies made millions and did not share the windfall with the families. Bad capitalists… Other stories included airline pilots on food stamps because “they didn’t get paid enough” or are “burdened with huge college tuition debt”. Moore attempted to blame the recent Continental Airlines crash in Buffalo on the pilots because they were talking about how little money they made. Bad capitalists… and then there were the foreclosures, where Moore constructs sad stories about families being thrown out of their homes or off their farms… oh the humanity.

Am I making fun of tragic stories? Well at least I am not exploiting them to prove a fallacious argument in favor of Marxism. No… I am making fun of the type of people that would subject themselves to being filmed by Michael Moore in return for 15 minutes of fame (or public ridicule). I am absolutely certain that each of the so-called victims in Michael Moore’s junkflick would not want to live under Communist rule. I am equally certain Moore has no intention of giving what he so vilifies, his profit, to the government. I wonder how much of the profit he is going to share with his Hispanic film crew that does not speak English? (Probably less than Wal*Mart pays its workers, I bet.)

Typically, Moore’s “modus operandi” in the fine art of propaganda films is the fine art of omission. He purposely left out the overwhelming good and compassion that comes from capitalism while leaving out the overwhelming evil that is communism. He failed to contrast famous free market innovators like Adam Smith, Ludwig von Mises, Friedrich Hayek, Ayn Rand and Milton Friedman to tyrannical dictators like Marx, Stalin, Mao, Hitler, Mussolini, Che Guevara and of course his living hero Castro. Those tyrants not only stole everything capitalists created, they stole their very souls as well through slavery and oppression. This truth would not be stomached by Moore’s Left wing audience who I doubt would pay $15 to see this film if they were compared to these monsters.

You see, Michael Moore, is banking on the fact that his audience is so naive as to believe that crime and corruption only exists within capitalist societies. Most of the “sad stories” that he attributes in his film to capitalism are in actuality common crimes and misfortune. In other words, Moore is telling you that capitalism is a crime and Communism, which he re-brands throughout the movie, as “Democracy,” is pure goodness. He even goes so far as to hire priests and a bishop to tell you “Capitalism is pure unadulterated evil.” (note: when I say “hire” could it possibly be that he promises compensation in the form of an appearance in his movie with the suggestion that they might become the next Rev. Wright?)

This movie should have been called "Corruption: A Love Affair with Moore." If anything, this movie is about corruption motivated by greed and power that has no ideology and no place in a free-market system. “In God We Trust” and “Profit With Honor” are just a few fundamental principals capitalists live by to be successful in business and as a human beings, the latter being the most important. Socialism, on the other hand, is all about favoritism and corruption. The audacity of making a film like this for money.... Could his need for Obama’s attention be another reason he made this movie? His portrayal of Obama as the savior of the world was borderline psychotic. Was he trying to imply that Obama was the second coming by getting those men of the church to decry capitalism as evil and reassure everyone that Jesus would have rejected capitalism out of hand? Does Michael Moore even know what "Profit With Honor" means?

There should be one question we need to ask ourselves before we pay to see this pro Marxist film: Why did Michael Moore make this movie? For personal gain which can only happen in a capitalist society. He is free to make this movie for the sake of power, money and glory, which could never happen in the society that he is trumpeting.

Finally, after suffering through his incessant nagging and condescending tone on the evils of capitalism and the real-estate, banking and insurance frauds, Moore wrapped it up by showing us FDR’s infamous 2^nd Bill of Rights Speech guaranteeing every American housing, jobs and healthcare. This 1944 speech was an obvious attempt to convert America to a Communist State, which is why it failed. Moore’s final assault on our intelligence was his summation of what he believes so dearly, that this is what we need -- this is what the world needs -- this is what Obama can deliver: a whole new economic system called “DEMOCRACY”.

I immediately left the auditorium and joined up with my other wolf friend and ate a sheep.

Jeffers M. Dodge

jeffers@popmodal.com