Three weeks after Wisconsin Governor Scott Walker launched his effort to strip public workers in the state of their collective bargaining rights – and after outraged citizens responded by occupying the State Capitol rotunda – filmmaker Michael Moore travelled to the city of Madison to address the huge demonstrations that had amassed. Soon after, he gave an impassioned interview to cable television host Rachel Maddow that made headlines. Fox News exclaimed: ‘Michael Moore Declares Class War.’
The right-wing network got it exactly wrong, but its error was revealing. Moore hadn’t called for a war. He’d described an assault that was already happening. ‘This is a class war,’ he said, ‘that has been levelled against the working people of this country.’
