Michael Moore: "Whatever you're afraid of does not wear a dress--or a pantsuit." [View all]

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Michael Moore once denounced Hillary because of her Iraq war vote. But now he's one of her most vocal supporters. And he explains why in his new movie, "Michael Moore in Trumpland."

http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/michael-moore-talks-surprise-trumpland-939599

Michael Moore has unveiled Michael Moore in TrumpLand, a surprise film he screened for the first time at New York City’s IFC Center on Tuesday night for free. The 73-minute film will begin its theatrical run on Wednesday at the IFC Center (for one week only) and Los Angeles' Laemmle Town Center 5 in Encino.

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In the film, Moore notes that “white men over 35 are obsolete” in the 21st century (“Guys know it and that's why they're at the Trump rallies,” he says) and that women are not inherently problematic: “No women invented a hydrogen or atomic bomb, and no girls have gone into schools to shoot them up. … We're actually quite safe from 51 percent of the population,” he explains. “Whatever you're afraid of does not wear a dress — or a pantsuit.”

The movie also includes an imagined news segment that covers what would happen if Trump is inaugurated: aerial attacks on Mexican border towns, an official TV news channel operated by Breitbart and Roger Ailes, and the deportation of Rosie O'Donnell to the American Samoa. Afterward, the filmmaker discusses Clinton with the audience, playing a segment of her impassioned Wellesley commencement speech and supposing that, as Pope Francis did to the Catholic Church, Clinton can stimulate progress that benefits “the greater good” of the country. “The enemy of my enemy is who I’m voting for on Nov. 8,” he says in the film.

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Moore, who himself has never before voted for Clinton, explained that he made TrumpLand because Democrats should not strategize for Clinton’s victory by solely scaring people off Trump. “It’s too risky for me. I’m gonna do something here and give people positive reasons to vote for her,” he said after the screening. “Look for the good in Hillary. I’m not saying forget the bad, but there’s a lot of good there.”