Michael Moore To CNBC: 'Do Your Job And Cover The 99%'
Michael Moore pleaded with an anchor from business channel CNBC Monday to “please do your job” and report on problems facing 99 percent of Americans, instead of the wealthy one percent.
“Moore is not one to hold back when it comes to capitalism, corporate American and now the movement to Occupy Wall Street,” the CNBC anchor began the segment by announcing. “He joins us this morning from outside the [New York Stock Exchange].”
“Well, we’re not actually outside the New York Stock Exchange,” Moore revealed. “You have moved me down here to Broadway, so that — apparently, you’ve been told or you’re not allowed to have me there in front of the [stock exchange]. You know, when I’ve interviewed with you in the past, you’ve tried to actually bring me into your studio at the stock exchange and the stock exchange will not allow me inside of the building… so the last two interviews we’ve done in the past few years have been done out on the street, we’ve done them outside in front of the stock exchange.”
“Why do you think that is?” the anchor wondered. “Because I asked around this morning and could not get a straight answer as to why we couldn’t have you here sitting next to me.”
“I think they probably don’t want me to come inside the New York Stock Exchange and be critical of this unjust and unfair economic system that we have, that benefits the wealthiest few in expense of the many,” Moore explained. “It’s too bad that they are that afraid of a guy in a ball cap with a high school education, coming in there to say that… I’m not who you need to worry about. You need to worry about the millions who have lost their jobs. You need to worry about the people who have lost their health care. You need to worry about the 99 percent who are quite angry.”
Moore added that as a business network, CNBC really had a duty to shine a light on problems like income inequality.
“This is a rigged casino. I don’t know why anybody would put their hard-earned money into this especially after what happened in this last decade. The guys on this street played with people’s futures, people’s pension funds, credit default swaps, no regulation from D.C. and it’s still going on! And if I could just very respectfully ask you and CNBC, you know, you are in this, you are journalists, it’s is your job not just to report that the DOW is up 95 points already today, but go in there and find out what’s really happening. Who’s making this money? Who’s dividing this pie up so that the one percent get the majority of it? That’s really the story. That’s the story you’re fellow Americans want you to do,” he pleaded.
“They want to know where their jobs went. You know, where their future is going to be. That’s the job of CNBC. So, please do your job! Please!”
“We look out for the 45 percent of Americans who have 401Ks,” the anchor admitted.
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Reader Comments (5)
Thanks for posting this. CNBC is nothing more than a vehicle for the wolves to attract the sheep. And Carl Q looks almost guilty talking to Moore...not that Moore is right about everything...
You can take down the Internet because there are too many paths to get to the same place, the same is true about OWS, you can silence the mass because there are just too many voices shouting their own messages.
The WS execs acting like they don't know what OWS is asking for are just showing all of us that they really don't care and are just trying to make us look like we're here for a 1000 different reasons.
HEAR THE 99% and get rid of the corruption, the FED, The IRS, special interest, bail outs, return all money and go to jail. Is that clear enough for you Wall Street??? WE ALL KNOW YOU KNOW WHAT WE WANT, WE ALSO KNOW YOU DON'T CARE.
This country needs to stop putting money into stocks, banks and any other financial company and hurt Wall Street by not investing anymore, they want our money in it so they can use it as they decide and if they lose it all, have the governerment pay them so they can pay out more huge bonus on the Tax Payer dime.
It's time to change the economic system to give the advantage to the average investor, not just the billionare who manipulates the prices so he can make a ton.
Lets all take back our money, take back our economy, take back our government and take back our kids future!!
Michael Moore does not represent the OWS movement. Sarah Palin or Glenn Beck did not represent the Tea Party, They simply used Zionist money and connections to co-opt these movements. Why do you think MSNBC is even interviewing this fat fuck?
99%
TOO BIG TO FAIL!!
Very Well Said Sir.................!
Its hard for me to know whos side M Moore is on. What he said here is what the people belive in and have bitch about....The American People have been Screw'ed Over, and are Pissed.
OWS will soon go a way becouse they have a good message, but washington has turned thAre ears off.................?