The New York Stock Exchange has banned Michael Moore, saying he is not welcome in the exchange building on Wall Street, CNBC is reporting. The controversial film-maker was scheduled to be interviewed by CNBC’s Maria Bartiromo at 3 PM today.
Moore’s latest film “Sicko” is critical of the health care system in the United States, and he has been calling on investors, pension funds other institutional investors to divest from health insurance companies. Some publicly traded health insurance companies are listed on the New York Stock Exchange.
Last week a Lehman Brothers analyst wrote a client note describing the film as an attack on the U.S. health care system. “Michael Moore’s latest documentary, ‘Sicko,’ to be released June 29, might trigger resentment against insurers,” the note said. “The film directly aims at the U.S. health care system and the insurance industry and suggests a government-run system is the best alternative.”
Update: We’re told that Moore may now be unbanned. Still no word on what powerful force inside the exchange is issuing and possibly retracting these orders.
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New York Stock Exchange Will Remain A Michael Moore Free Zone
Updated: Or Maybe Not!
By John Carney
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who cares? why doesn’t bartiromo interview him elsewhere?
because, my dear anon, she’d then have to get up off her arse
who wants to interview this fat assed blabbermouth. he is scum.
3:34, I first read your comment as: “who wants to be interviewed by that fat assed blabbermouth?”
either way, you talk a lot of sense
“who wants to interview this fat assed blabbermouth. he is scum.”
yeah!! and Michael Moore is scum too!!!!
cnbc has cleared the afternoon for this fat piece of trash and hes not even on time. $500 says hes in white castle right now.
I heard Maria was had to blow Michael Moore to get this interview. I am puking just thinking about it.
hey dealbreaker, way to find the skinniest picture of MM. was that when he was 12 years old?
Why even waste your time with Moore…
I swear i saw him on CNBC an hour or so ago.
I watched a copy of “Sicko” about a week ago. He makes a decent point but is typicaly one-sided in his presentation of the ‘facts.’ For example, he makes Cuba seem like paradise.
After watching the entire interview,I’ve come to the conclusion that the NYSE allow themselves to be hung out to dry by not allowing M. Moore to come inside. By doing the interview on the outside,Mr. Moore quietly showed folks who were watching that,”the powers that be”,were too much of a coward to put Moore in his place,at their own place.
But then again,seeing those,”Wall Street types”,running out of buildings,while blue-collar cops,firemen,etc. were running in,during 9/11 made most folks think of the following line,from the cartoon,”The Simpsons”:
“…you can come out now…your chance to be a hero/man has come and gone.”
By the way,I’m a former U.S. Paratrooper who served when Reagan was in office. Therefore,I know a little something about going into places where few dare to tread.
The NY Stock Exchange folk are idiots. They shut down for a day to honor Nixon after he died and Nixon instituted and enforced “price controls” during his administration.
I’m surprised Ann Coulter isn’t the spokesperson for the NYSE, but she’d have to talk and dodge the colonoscopy hose examining Rupert at the same time. It’s tight in there I’m told.
Dillon, not sure I take your point – people were supposed to stay in the buildings? What purpose would that have served?
You’re right about Moore, though – it’s win/win for him, just like everything. The NYSE basically had to decide whether to let him take a big, greasy dump in its living room or force him to do it in the yard and face accusations that it couldn’t handle the smell.
Moore was never banned. He was trying to drum up a controversy to rise through the iPhone mania.
Neither CNBC nor Moore had applied for a guest pass, says the reporter. CNBC was led to believe Moore was handling that. Moore’s side didn’t. Then Moore implies that he in particular was banned, but does so in a rhetorical question fashion, not responding to the reporter’s statement that Moore had neglected to apply for permission to enter.
Of course it might be true that the NYSE would have not approved Moore, although his outrage would have been more effective if he had actually applied for permission.