By Leftlane Staff
Wednesday, Nov 23rd, 2005 @ 8:20 am

In his first interview in a year, filmmaker Michael Moore blasted GM for their announcement of plant closings in the United States, including a factory in Moore’s hometown of Flint, Michigan. “It’s weirdly ironic that it’s 19 years today, when I first thought of doing a film about General Motors,” stated Moore. “Still after all these years GM continues this unfortunate behavior,” he added. Moore believes the timing of the announcement, just before the holidays, was intended to “paralyze” the employees, so they could not “climb out of their depression” to fight back. Moore went on to blame the current GM leadership for their claimed $4 billion revenue loss. Moore questioned, “Has any GM executive in the last 30 years even bothered to take a Honda or Toyota for a drive around the block?” Referencing the fact that maybe those in charge would realize the qualities consumers are looking for, in their foreign counterparts. Moore said “arrogance and stupidity” have led the company to near economic ruin. “General Motors leadership has turned the American dream into the American nightmare!”

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