Michael Moore pretty impressed by Gingrich's anti-Bain movie

“I wondered who they stole from my crew,” Mr. Moore said in a phone interview. “It was fun to hear what I have been saying for 20 years, not just by any Republican candidate, but Newt Gingrich.”…

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“Those in power will appropriate the counterculture to their own ends,” said Mr. Moore, who, like other filmmakers I talked to, seemed taken aback by just how far this particular appropriation goes…

“The people in the film are real and you can tell they are speaking in unscripted ways,” he said. “And what they say is what people in my films say, which is that the rich are getting richer, the middle class is being eliminated and greed rules. This is not just the language of my films, but the language of Occupy Wall Street.” (Simon Dumenco of Advertising Age called the film “the documentary that Occupy Wall Street never got around to making.”)

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