people beleive or take serious these "movies"/"documentaries" MADE by this sicko moore ?

Michael Moore is in Washington today for a screening of his crockumentary, Sicko. What’s alarming is not his pre-school level of comprehension about the health care market and pharmaceutical industry–but the fact that so many share and swallow his uninformed views.

The NYPost’s Kyle Smith has a devastating review here. An excerpt:

Regardless of whether any particular claim in “Sicko” is true, no one doubts that lots of insured and uninsured Americans face health-care crises. So far, Moore is master of the obvious. We all hate insurance companies and red tape, and we all want to improve the system. Where do we go from here?

To France, Britain and Canada, says Moore, who presents each of them as a health-care paradise. But lots of people in those countries have health-care nightmares of their own. Here’s how easy it is to lie by anecdote: Say I wanted to make a film about gay black Republicans who live in Chelsea. I find ten of them, make a film about them, and you walk out of the theater thinking: Wow, so many gay black Republicans in Chelsea! The six years it took me to find these ten guys will go unnoted.

All three countries are edging away from how Moore portrays them. Moore knows that in France, where he praises not only the health service but limits on working hours, expansive unemployment benefits and the country’s three preferred forms of exercise—street-marching, banner-hoisting and strikes—a new conservative president was just elected by promising to cut back on such nonsense. (According to Moore, if you need a babysitter or help with the laundry, the French government will send a trained professional right over.)

Everywhere he looks, Moore finds French happiness. But this phrase is as close to an oxymoron as French rock. In a poll, 85 percent of the French recently said their country is heading in the wrong direction. Right direction? Nine percent. In France in 2003, 15,000 mostly elderly hospital patients died in an August heat wave–because hospitals lack air conditioning and doctors were on vacation. The French parliament blamed the health care system. That’s five times 9/11’s toll, all of it preventable, all of it unlamented by Moore.

Michelle Malkin » The Sicko circus comes to D.C.

You quote Malkin, and you call Moore a sicko.

Fascinating.

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What's fascinating is you, like a typical liberal, will personally attack (in seconds, mind you) someone rather than deal with the issue at HAND.

Moore IS a sicko.

As are those who really beleive he's some kind of hero

Wait. The thread is about a criticism of someone by someone else. But, if I criticize that someone else, suggesting that their criticism of someone is perhaps not to be taken seriously, I'm not dealing with the issue?



huh?


It's interesting how hypocritical you can be.

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Me: You're a hypocrit.

You: No, YOU'RE a hypocrit.

Me: No, YOU'RE a hypocrit.

You: No, YOU'RE a hypocrit.

Me: You're a hypocrit.

You: No, YOU'RE a hypocrit.

Me: No, YOU'RE a hypocrit.

You: No, YOU'RE a hypocrit.

Me: I'm bored. This is dumb. You be a hypocrit by yerself now :-)

Any comments on the actual text in the opening post ?

Or are we just ignoring and dismissing it for convenience :-)

Thats what I thought.

I do not care for the use of bold or red font personally.

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I see.

Thanks fer SOMETHIN' LOL

Gee, I'm sorry. I can't respond while I'm sitting in traffic in my car.

First "fact" I looked up was wrong - there were ~15000 deaths from the heat wave in France in 2003. Most of those deaths did not occur in hospitals (which have air conditioning). She's pretty blatantly lying in order to push her agenda, which is her M.O..

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Cripes...

... not a bit of dealing with the real world issues raised by Moore in the smear posted by Trips, and yet he wants to "talk about" substance?

Yeah.... right... whatever.

A tool is a tool is a tool.

Two words, bro: "broadband wireless"...

Not really, seeing as it was quite clear in the opening post that you have no interest in discussing the issue and anyone who doesn't take your view will be subjected to your usual diatribe of anti-liberal venom ... so there's no point really.

LOL

Tempting. Hard to justify ATM, especially on my student budget.

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An interesting use of sensationalist rhetoric. I like that style and flair, but the writer must be more careful not to allow the facts to get skewered, exaggerated, and taken out of context.

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