Debunking Michael Moore’s Latest Follies
Update: The American Thinker has a great article that demonstrates the flawed view of Michael Moore:
From start to end, SiCKO, the latest “documentary” from notorious writer and filmmaker Michael Moore, is a stunning example of the Big Lie. Almost shockingly devoid of fact and context, it’s instead based on highly selective, emotionally-driven, and deeply flawed anecdotes, strung together by writer-director-producer Moore’s trademark folksy, soft-spoken, whimsical personal narrative. SiCKO (the unusual capitalization is Moore’s conceit) is not a documentary at all, but a naked propaganda exercise on behalf of full-bore socialism. A better title for it would be Pinko.
Michael Moore embodies the commonly used term liberal nonsense. We’ll try to gather as many links as possible to discredit this over sized political stunt master. Michelle Malkin takes him on in two places on her blog, with the post Michael Moore’s Malpractice.
On Thursday, former House GOP leader Tom DeLay called filmmaker Michael Moore a “plus-sized publicity hound” who is “chicken” because the controversial helmer canceled a skedded appearance this Sunday on a talker to debate health care issues, the subject of his “Sicko.”
ABC’s “This Week with George Stephanopolous” had arranged the debate. But according to DeLay, Moore refused to provide a copy of the doc so that the ex-lawmaker could see it in advance and then canceled without explanation.
“Guess he didn’t expect anyone to seriously take him on,” DeLay wrote on his Web site. “Had I known he was this chicken, I would have accepted on the spot, but at least I can spare myself the agony of watching one of his mockumentaries. Bottom line: his movies, his politics, and his incessant bullying are all an act.”
Michelle also has up her latest vent which sets the record straight relative to his latest crockumentary.
Money Rolls in for The Color Purple
The New York Post provides some great insight to the commercial success of The Color Purple. Despite losing the Tony Award for best musical to Jersey Boys, The Color Purple is running strong almost two years past its’ opening night playing in a much larger house! LUCILLE Goldsborough, 82, was touched by the movie version of “The Color Purple” when she saw it back in 1985. But she was moved to the point of tears when Fantasia won “American Idol” in 2004.
So when her church, Ebenezer African Methodist Episcopal in Fort Washington, Md., offered a seniors’ trip to see Fantasia on Broadway as Miss Celie in “The Color Purple,” Goldsborough was among the first to sign up.
On Wednesday, she and 55 other “Jewels of the Ebenzer” (as the seniors call themselves) boarded a Peter Pan bus at 6 a.m. to make the 61/2-hour trip to New York to see their idol.
“I saw every ‘Idol’ program she was on,” Golds-
borough said of Fantasia during the ride up. “And I prayed for her. She’s a very special girl.”
The Jewels of the Ebenezer – which included a few grandchildren and the odd husband – is just one of hundreds of groups from black churches around the country that have made the pilgrimage to see “The Color Purple” since it opened in the fall of 2006.
The groups have become a marketing phenomenon, turning the $10 million musical, which received mixed notices when it first opened, into a very profitable show for its backers, who include Oprah Winfrey.
Stand outside the Broadway Theatre on any given day, and you’ll see four or five buses, some from as far away as Chattanooga and Atlanta, unloading their passengers.
Clive Barnes Review of Fantasia in The Color Purple from May 18, 2007
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