This morning the Sarasota Herald-Tribune, the local fish wrap breezily looked upon as the local "newspaper" printed a highly biased and uninformed review of Michael Moore's new movie "Capitalism: A Love Story". It was obvious to me after reading the review that its author did not see the same movie I watched. In fact, I have watched the movie three times in the first two days of it being shown locally. I might go back tomorrow for the fourth viewing.
In response to that extremely biased pro-business, corporate-america-can-do-no-wrong review, I penned a letter to the editor of the Herald-Tribune. It is reprinted in its entirety below. My guess, given the heavily Repignofascist slant of the news in the Sarasota paper and the high density of Repignofascists living in Sarasota County, they will not print the letter. And that is fine - demonstrating additional bias on the paper's part. Regardless you get to read the letter here.
Dear Editor, Sarasota Herald Tribune
The Herald-Tribune's supercilious review of the movie Capitalism: A Love Story suggests that either your reviewer did not see the same movie I saw. Or, more likely, your newspaper is an organ for corporate America.
This latest production by Michael Moore is quite likely his finest work yet. Who among us other than the coldest of cold hearted people wouldn't become upset watching a family from Illinois being evicted from their home? Who among us other than the coldest of the cold hearted wouldn't become upset watching a family of four in Miami "living" daily in an abandoned truck body because their home had been foreclosed?
More importantly who among wouldn't doesn't become frustrated when the CEO's of the banks that were bailed out in the Bush Administration are each making hundreds of millions of dollars in salaries while the pain and despair in described above is meted out by the same banks?
Capitalism: A Love Story is not a manifesto for bringing down the corporate structure in America. What it is, is a reasoned, fact-filled (and documented) wake up call about how democracy in the United States is being supplanted by the richest 1 percent of Americans solely for the benefit of the richest 1 percent of Americans. There is nothing fair about what is happening to America and Americans and Michael Moore brilliantly displays that unfairness.
Rather than cast aspersions on the movie based on your paper's biased review, you should be encouraging people to find out why the reviewer felt the way she did. To borrow from the movie review headline, people will only have themselves to blame if they heed your biased review.
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