![]() "We decided to shoot this video in the belly of the beast", said Moore, who was detained by police for an hour and threatened with arrest during the shooting of the video, as Moore had a permit to film on the steps of City Hall but not in the surrounding street. "About two hundred of us got through the first set of doors, but our charge was stopped when the Stock Exchange's titanium riot doors came crashing down." Trading was forced closed sometime between 2:53pm and 3:15pm Moore yelled to the band, "Take the New York Stock Exchange!" In an interview with the Socialist Worker, Morello said he and scores of others ran into the Stock Exchange. When the band left the steps, NYPD apprehended Moore and led him away. "Michael basically gave us one directorial instruction, 'No matter what happens, don't stop playing'," Tom Morello recalled. Moore had permission to use the steps of Federal Hall National Memorial but did not have a permit to shoot on the sidewalk or the street, nor did he have a loud-noise permit or the proper parking permits. New York City's film office does not allow weekday film shoots on Wall Street. The production had attracted several hundred people, according to a representative for the city's Deputy Commissioner for Public Information. The shoot for the music video on January 26, 2000, caused the doors of the New York Stock Exchange to be closed. Quoted at the end of the song is Republican politician Gary Bauer stating that, "a band called 'The Machine Rages On' - er - 'Rage Against the Machine', that band is anti-family and it's pro-terrorist", following an incident outside of fellow Republican Alan Keyes' 2000 primary campaign town hall event, where Keyes jumped into a mosh pit formed while Rage Against the Machine was playing. While this incident has arguably gone down as one of the most controversial moments in the award’s history, it also stands out as one of the most hilarious moments in the career of an otherwise serious political band.The music video for the song, which was directed by Michael Moore with cinematography by Welles Hackett, features the band playing in front of the New York Stock Exchange, intercut with scenes from a satire of the popular television game show Who Wants to Be a Millionaire? which is named Who Wants to Be Filthy F#&%ing Rich. I just remember laughing my ass off in the van back to the hotel.” “I remember the head guy at MTV was there as we were being ushered out, ‘Thank you very much, don’t come back.’ That type of thing. “They finally got him down, and we were all thrown outside. I’m dying, I’m like, ‘This is fucking incredible!'” The guy tries to grab at Tim – he’s an undercover cop so he’s in regular clothes – Tim literally grabs the guy’s white fucking moustache and kind of pulls on it. There’s an undercover cop who went on a ladder to try to get Timmy. “I remember Tom and I just being in a fucking swarm of fucking people, and it’s almost impossible to get Tim. We get up out of our seats, and we’re trying to get to Tim.” ![]() “Meanwhile, MTV is trying to divert the attention because the stage is broken up in two parts, so they cut to a commercial,” he continues. Someone might get really hurt.’ He’s like, shaking this thing, and Fred is looking at him… I’m still in awe, this is fucking amazing! I am standing up like I’m at the greatest sporting event that I’ve ever seen.” ![]() ![]() “He actually makes it to the stage, and then starts climbing this tower that starts shaking, and I’m like, ‘This is good, but someone might die now. ![]()
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