Let’s hope Michael Moore’s documentary isn’t as staged as his red carpet event at AMC Uptown Theater on Tuesday night.
Moore, dressed in his standard blazer, black T-shirt and baseball cap, rolled up to the event in an armored truck. Actors with signs reading “I want my bailout” chanted, “Main Street, not Wall Street” as Moore exited the tank.
He says that truck is the same one he drove to AIG, Goldman Sachs and other financial companies on Wall Street for his new film, “Capitalism: A Love Story.”
Moore did not walk alone as he grazed past the outside the Washington premiere of his film — he was dragging three actors in chains dressed as businessmen with top hats, cigars and paper money.
Yeas & Nays asked Moore which designer he was wearing. In response, he simply laughed and ignored the question. Closest to the theater’s entrance were actors in business attire chanting, “Wealth care, not health care.”
Earlier in the day, Moore got a little feisty and issued a warning to congressional Democrats who don’t help usher through new health care legislation.
“We will come to your district and we will work against you, first in the primary and, if we have to, in the general election,” he said.
The filmmaker assured supporters this was definitely “not a hollow or idle threat.”
Two Democratic senators –Montana’s Max Baucus and Chris Dodd, of Connecticut — seemed to take some direct fire, too.
“You’ve made a serious mistake,” he said of Baucus, and, “We’re going to lose this seat unless we run another Democrat,” he said of Dodd.
