Michael Moore CNBC Stock Exchange Interview Banned By NYSE

The New York Stock Exchange attempted to bar Michael Moore from filming an interview in front of its headquarters on Monday.

Moore tweeted about the affair on Sunday and Monday, saying that CNBC had canceled a planned interview about the Occupy Wall Street movement in front of the stock exchange because it had been told Moore was not allowed to stand on the sidewalk.

Moore also spoke about the NYSE's ban on Monday's "Democracy Now." He professed anger at the attempt to prevent him from standing on a street.

"They don't own, the New York Stock Exchange doesn't own the streets of New York," he said. "Or at least supposedly they don't." Moore also said that this is not his first run-in with the NYSE over a CNBC interview: a few years ago, he was scheduled to appear from the network's booth inside the building, but the NYSE demanded that he do the interview outside.

Eventually, Moore agreed to film the interview at Broadway and Wall Street, just north of the NYSE headquarters. He tweeted that he eventually got the CNBC cameras to follow him down to the Wall Street entrance of the stock exchange. During the interview, he asked CNBC to do their "job" and report on income inequality. Below, see a series of tweets about the controversy from Moore, as well as video of his CNBC and "Democracy Now" interviews.

 

 

Comments

[bzig]

10:57 PM on 10/30/2011

We should all be angry with Wall Street and the Big Banks. Because thery let greed and corruption override ethics and common good. BUT they couldn't have done it if our wonderful politicians on both sides hadn't changed the rules for the rich. The huge imbalance is not just in wealth but equality under the law. We have lost control of our government. Big buisness owns it and runs it because of the changes in these laws. Our complaining may get some of these changed on the surface but it is in all the political establishments best interest to look out for the money players that support them . The Constitution as written by the original framers foresaw this becoming a problem way back when. So they wrote a clause into that ruling document that gives the people the ability to demand a Constitutional Convention to correct these amendments and Congress or the Senate can't stop it. The requirement to do so is a 2/3 majority of states demanding it. So at this time we need 38 states on board. I think this would be a perfect agenda for "Occupy Wall Street" and include that it will be overseen by Non office holders serving the will of the people.

[Russell Jacobson]

07:09 PM on 10/30/2011

If NYSE Incorporated is a person, then he/she/it is a "SOCIOPATH". The U. S. Supreme Court has turned a large group of "people", with a serious personalty disorder, loose on the 99%.

[EdNortonAHoles]

05:48 PM on 10/30/2011

Really? What Spike Lee and Al Sharpton is to racism . . . Micheal Moore is to libtardism. Michael Moore is a multimillionaire. He's part of the "1 percent". This is clearly another one of his scams to draw attention, make a mess, so he can put a heavily edited version in some crap film of his. When he complied with his fans to donate 100% of his income to charity, then he'll be what he claims.

[rdl114]

11:34 PM on 10/30/2011

The anger is not with those in the 1% who actually earn their money. It's against those who unfairly game the system, cheat, lie, steal and accept tax-payer money to bail them out to further their nefarious money-grubbing. Wake up. Smarten up. Republican Teddy Roosevelt called them "Malefactors of great wealth." Are you calling them heroes while 19% of the country wallows in poverty? What will you do and say once that 1% turns into 1/100oth of 1%? Bow down and kiss the hem of their royal garments? Because that's where this is headed... a monarchy based on money.

[davidryale]

03:37 PM on 10/30/2011

King Michael,

Where is the decree converting Wall Street to private property? Even Kings have to follow legal procedures! How much did the NYSE pay for the privilege of having Wall Street converted to their private property? What was the money used for?

[BaitandSwitchTV]

03:15 PM on 10/30/2011

The NY Stock Exchange is the primary dance partner, yes; but the escort service was the Federal Reserve...

Who's Afraid of the Big Bad Bank?: An Uncensored Investigation of the U.S. Federal Reserve --One of the most controversial institutions of our time...self-serving it's country since 1913 ...(Part 1 of an 8-Part Episode)...

http://www.youtube.com/baitandswitchtv#p/u/0/_M_Rh_fgKEQ

Also Gotta See! The Real Housewives of Tent City--A Hot New Reality Show ...

http://www.youtube.com/user/BaitAndSwitchTV#p/u/2/NH_WqjgoJLY

[Sock Monkey]

03:51 PM on 10/29/2011

For a guy that has millions this reeks of a shell game on the streets of NY.

Anything to keep the illusion that you can " win " alive by both sides of the same coin.

Moore is anything BUT an average American.

[love5pets]

06:59 PM on 10/29/2011

By your definition, then, Moore is a "job creator". So what's your beef?

[SayHi2YourMom4Me]

09:22 PM on 10/28/2011

I'm pretty sure that a business is allowed to ask people on the sidewalk in front of it to leave if they want to. I woked in a busy liquor store for a couple years and I was sick of some agressive panhandling going on outside, so I was always asking people to leave. They were just going to try to spend it on alcohol anyway. I would refuse to sell a lot, if I thought the person was panhandleing outside.

[skippythepinhead]

03:52 PM on 10/29/2011

How many internationally-renowned documentary filmmakers did you ask to leave?

[love5pets]

07:00 PM on 10/29/2011

No kidding.

[SayHi2YourMom4Me]

07:26 PM on 10/29/2011

I think I see your point, and I don't know exactly what happened, but I don't have a reason to think that the NYSE wasn't doing anything that wasn't within their rights when they asked him to film somehwhere else is all.

[Mark Grexton]

06:35 PM on 10/28/2011

Michael Moore is a fat load. Geobbles propaganda machine was more honest than this waste of oxygen, this may be the one time I agree with the NYSE...

[viewoflife]

05:51 PM on 10/30/2011

Lol, that's like the pot calling the kettle black. Republicans are running the biggest propaganda machine since the nazis! The only way they can survive and keep their game alive is to spew propaganda to get voters to vote against there own best interest. All the bovine species in the world do not excrete as much male bovine feces as that which eminates out of the republican propaganda machine!

[runnerin1]

05:59 PM on 10/28/2011

Michael, did you know the NYSE actually owns the NYPD? Yes, due to there large contributions to the police department, the executives can call the NYPD at any time, and they'll show up to serve, the Wall Street Executives that is. So technically, these same execs could have had you arrested.

[JacquelineJR]

09:20 AM on 10/28/2011

If anyone ever needs a 'right wing litmus test' - something similar to the 'I'm the purest pro-business, white conservative you have ever seen' test used by the GOP during their Presidential candidate vetting process - then simply mention the name Michael Moore.

Anyone who is even the slightest bit conservative will go batsh*t crazy and froth at the mouth when you mention the filmmaker's name. Ironically, Moore is simply trying to expose the very same Wall Street corruption and 'big bad government' that conservatives strenuously claim to hate. Yet they continue to give Wall Street capitalists the licence to steal.

[FlyDiesel]

07:01 PM on 10/28/2011

Michael Moore, through his foundation, owns a good deal of NYSE stock. He is a rich man, despite his protestations to the contrary. His insincere hypocrisy is little more than a stage act, a song and dance. It is very difficult to take such a charlatan seriously.

[DotCommnt]

11:25 PM on 10/28/2011

He has said he's part of the 1%. I don't know about his foundation's portfolio - that would be interesting.

[skippythepinhead]

03:55 PM on 10/29/2011

"Insincere hypocrisy"??? Have you ever heard Michael Moore argue for lower tax rates on the wealthy? Did you ever hear him say that there should be NO rich people? Did he ever say that EVERYONE should earn the exact same income? When you find out, let me know?

[mike liberty]

08:31 PM on 10/28/2011

One doesn't have to be either left or right to find fault with Wall Street behaviors. One has to simply look at the evidence.

Investment banks on Wall street failed miserably...because of legislation telling them to loan to those who couldn't pay.

Investment banks on Wall street also kept little 'cash' on hand, should a run on their bank require payout.

Both of these issues were the only issues we need to focus on. So, who decided that the banks should lend to anyone, regardless of means? Conservatives.

Who decided to let the Banks to allow their reserves to plunge to 5% of total deposits?
Republicans and Conservatives.

In my example above, Conservatives have had a hand in far too much. They need to walk away, and remember who pays the damn bills here.

Call yourself a conservative or a progressive, it doesn't really matter to me...you and your social adjenda needs work, you need to look after yourselves...I no longer want to help nor support you.

I was kicked out of the house at 16 by my Dad, in January, in E. Ontario. I thrived, and moved on.

Time for all of you second handers too...

mike

[janeinmia]

08:35 AM on 10/28/2011

NYSE -- way to stoop to the lowest level! Thanks for living up to expectations.

[vaporland]

11:28 PM on 10/28/2011

more like "down to expectations"...

[okieggma]

01:50 PM on 10/27/2011

The money changers have found a new temple and it is called Wall Street.......OCCUPY

[BCS]

06:07 PM on 10/30/2011

How about occupying the White House?

Obama is the biggest crony capitalist in Washington D.C.!

Why does HE get a free pass?

This is why I don't trust you left wingers.

You are FINE with crony capitalism as long as it supports left wing causes.

[bobsmith22224]

11:59 PM on 10/30/2011

"In politics and sociology, divide and rule (derived from Latin: divide et impera) (also known as divide and conquer) is a combination of political, military and economic strategy of gaining and maintaining power by breaking up larger concentrations of power into chunks that individually have less power than the one implementing the strategy. The concept refers to a strategy that breaks up existing power structures and prevents smaller power groups from linking up."

[RepublicanDepression]

09:43 PM on 10/26/2011

Guess Wall Street believes that capitalism is so fragile that one man can destroy the whole system with one interview.

Pathetic.

[johnsmith9875]

11:57 AM on 10/29/2011

Dear Leader does not allow discontent, it warps the minds of our children and weakens the resolve of our allies.

[L I Beral]

02:26 PM on 10/26/2011

Takes balls to question authority these days. Too many questions can get you maced or pepper sprayed or a night stick to the side of your head. I remember back in the good old days when public streets and parks were for the public.

[BCS]

06:09 PM on 10/30/2011

For ALL of the Public including folks not occupying and destroying the landscape.

[pammity]

01:33 PM on 10/26/2011

OH, I missed that this wasn't on Their property! Well, all the worse then. The wall street, NYPD, the media and who knows who else is in charge of opposing we the people of America and really, the whole world.