Role Model

Role Model by Peter Schweizer starts off very interesting. It starts off with almost a description of Michael Moore where the author claims that Moore has reoccurring themes in his films, books, etc. One of these themes is racism. Not knowing anything about Moore, I now think that maybe he is trying to be an inspirtational guy, almost a "do the right thing" type of person. The author states that Moore almost puts down Americans for being racist, and being capitalist.

Also in this article, the author seems to be calling Moore a hypocrite. Many times he explains facts about his community or his camera crew, and says that there is very few, or usually no African American people working for him, or living near him. This makes the reader dislike Moore for his hypocritical point of view, since in his works he says that America ran from African Americans and they need to hire more of them.

The author continues with the wrong side of Moore within this article. He keeps stating that he and his wife have a foundation that they control where all of the money in it goes. In this article I really get the feeling that the author is trying to give everyone reading a sort of negative standpoint on Moore, if they are like me, and know nothing about the guy. This whole article is full of claims that state he is a hypocrite.

Finally, the article finishes with more negative views of Moore. The author states that Moore always claims in his films that he does not like the stock market or participate in the market, however the author says he tells the IRS a completely different story. All in all, I believe this article is trying to say how people, like Moore, can try to be good on the outside, but really only want money.