Word: martin
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...Reported by Andrea Dorfman/New York and Greg Burke and Martin Penner/Rome
...know if it was as much inspiration as it was enlightenment, and that was Steve Martin. And I think it was his comedy records. I used to love, love Steve Martin. I still do...I would get these albums and I would just listen to them all the time. I would stand in my room and pretend that I was delivering his comedy routine...And I don't know if that planted any kind of seed, but I wasn't raised going to the theatre...
Viewers should not look for a coherent rationale for economic or political reform in this film. If they do, they will miss its true value. Moore is not an economist, nor is he a politician; he does not have the expertise of Martin S. Feldstein or Milton Friedman. Nor is this his goal. When someone in the film suggests he run for President to send a message, Moore himself quipped, "What would be the message--eat out more...
Besides, the American civil rights movement wasn't just Martin Luther King Jr.; it was also Ella Baker, Fannie Lou Hamer, Rosa Parks. As for nonviolent social activists and leaders--What about Jane Addams, Petra Kelly, Dorothy Day, Aung San Suu Kyi? And why flatter Lenin by leaving out two of his staunchest ideological opponents, the Polish-German socialist Rosa Luxemburg and the American anarchist Emma Goldman...
...Martin Luther King Jr. and Robert F. Kennedy are assassinated...