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Article: The Awful Truth
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- Monterey County Weekly
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- October 1, 2009
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The Awful Truth
Capitalism: A love Story-Michael Moore is still mad as hell.
Michael Moore grew up believing in the American Dream, the Roman Catholic church, the share-the-wealth New Deal liberalism of Franklin D. Roosevelt, and General Motors. Well, three out of four ain't bad.
GM finally got its come-uppance in 2009, 20 years after Moore raked it over the coals in Roger £t Me for devastating his hometown of Flint Mich., by drastically cutting its car and truck workforce. That first Moore documentary not only ushered in a new wave of advocate filmmaking, but also put the rotund, soft-spoken son of a factory worker on a quest. One by one, he tore into a series of American industries- oil, ...