Michael Moore: Yeah, I'm in the 1 Percent - Local News - New York, NY - msnbc.com
In a post titled "Life Among the 1%," the rotund Academy Award-winning documentary director describes how he made $3 million from his film "Roger & Me" more than two decades ago. Since then, he's made hundreds of millions more with such films as "Fahrenheit 911," "Bowling for Columbine" and "Sicko." In recent weeks, Moore has been hanging out with "Occupy Wall Street" protesters and decrying capitalism, but he says there's nothing inconsistent about being the richest guy in the protest against the rich.
"I feel very blessed that I have this life -- and I take none of it for granted," Moore writes. "I believe in the lessons I was taught back in Catholic school -- that if you end up doing well, you have an even greater responsibility to those who don't fare the same. "The last shall be first and the first shall be last." Kinda commie, I know, but the idea was that the human family was supposed to divide up the earth's riches in a fair manner so that all of God's children would have a life with less suffering."