Stiles said:
Wow, this thread brought out some clueless right-wingers, if nothing else.

You don't get to stay a filmmaker very long if your films don't make money - kind of like expecting there to be no commercials during a broadcast television special on a natural disaster simply because of the subject matter.

It's also interesting to see the conservatives posting here who seem to think that Moore should be living in a cardboard box by the freeway as some kind of penance for being successful... and you guys are accusing him of hypocrisy?

Furthermore, I'd be curious to know how many of the posters criticizing people who signed bad mortgages have ever bought, refinanced or took out a home equity loan on a house themselves during the bubble years around 2000-2004 when trick mortgages were being pushed by everyone from big banks to smaller outfits set up to target the unsophisticated and/or inexperienced buyer.

Those experienced in buying property know just how complex the process is and how easily buyers can be taken advantage of by unscrupulous lenders and realtors. The types of risky ( I/O, adjustable, cash-out, no-doc) mortgages pushed in the bubble years went from being a tiny fraction of mortgages written to a considerable percentage directly as a result of GOP- driven deregulation of the banking, lending and securities industries.