Michael Moore compares Israel's response to October 7 Hamas attack to Bush's response to 9/11

There was an attack on October 7th that was reprehensible and so people have a right to defend themselves, but that's not what's going on now.  If you're killing children in my name with my money, that's not a war to defend yourself.  That's something else.  That looks like there's a group of people - 2 to 2 1/2 million people of color - that are being pushed, as they say, into the sea, or into the desert, or to get rid of them in some way.  Certainly is what it looks like.  And you can't wake up every morning and see the bodies of these dead children being pulled from the rubble.

I think a lot of what Netanyahu is doing was very similar to what Bush was doing.  He messed up; Bush paid no attention.  He knew an attack was going to happen.  They didn't prepare for it.  Then Bush tried to save himself by "let's go to war, let's defend America."  We're not any safer now as Americans than we were back then.  And yes, there hasn't been another "9/11" here in the U.S., but none of us are safe if our response is more killing and more death.

~ Michael Moore, "Michael Moore on Gaza: 'We Need to Stop the Slaughter,'" UpFront on Al Jazeera English, 12:00 mark, November 4, 2023

Sheldon Richman on Michael Moore distorting the history of top income tax rate cuts

[Michael] Moore even complains that the top income-tax rate was lowered from 90 percent some years ago. Conveniently, he gets the history wrong. He says Republican Ronald Reagan cut the 90 percent rate, but it really was Democrat Lyndon Johnson who did it, following through on John Kennedy’s proposal. (Reagan presided over a cut from 70 to 50 and then to 28 percent.) At any rate, Moore is perfectly comfortable with government’s taking 90 percent of wealthy people’s earnings and seems indifferent to whether the money is made through honest trade or political privilege.

~ Sheldon Richman, "The Phony Radicalism of Michael Moore,"Freedom Daily, April 27, 2010

Michael Moore on the death of capitalism

And I think, really, what we’re seeing now, we’re seeing the end of capitalism. The end of capitalism as we know it and I say good riddance. It hasn’t helped the people or the planet.

~ Michael Moore, filmmaker, as appeared on the Larry King Show on CNN shortly after the presidential election of 2008