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.
I read the article and the comments, this particular comment caught my eye.
“Malkin should come forward with full disclosure. Her husband Jesse is on the staff of the Rand Corproration and produces numerous reports advocating for the prservation of our current managed care sytem. Topics he has reported on include: Medical Savings Accts; Pharmacy Benfits for Military Retirees-Controlling Costs; Post Partum Mandate.
I work in health care. I spend an inordinate amount of time arguing with insurance companies re denied benefits. I sometimes think that arguing with insurance companies should be my job description.
The next time you feel that you have been rushed by a doctor, nurse or other health care professionl, please understand how much time is being eaten up by unnecessary bureaucracy. The kind of bureaucracy Jesse Malkin promotes.”
Are you kidding me? Nothing about the crockumentary stuck out to you? WOW! That’s really a leftist view of the situation.
Moore is a mess. Just ask Babs Walters.
Other than the fact that she was venting for a program called “HOT AIR” which I found very appropriate and the fact that she can’t make a point without calling someone a name…no…nothing really stuck out to me. I am curious where she got all that information she seems to have at her finger tips re: the drug companies and health industry. You don’t suppose hubby could be moonlighting as a ghost writer do you?
Michelle and her husband have always worked together. I thought everyone knew that.
How would everyone know that? It’s not in her by-line, and she doesn’t give credit to him in her rant. Unless you happen to love all things Michelle, there’s no way that a casual viewer/reader would know that she is working together with her husband.
Well, as usual, no one has pointed out any factual errors on Michelle’s part.
Conversely, Michael Moore’s “movie” has been demonstrated to be flawed beyond reason.
There is a good reason that Moore would not debate Tom Delay-Moore knew he would lose.
And where are the reports of Moore canceling the debate? Not in the mainstream, drive-by liberal media.
[...] team of Post reporters should have spent their time exposing the gaping holes in Michael Moore’s latest movie. The reporting would have been more useful to the political [...]
Ms. Malkin goes after Moore for going after Kaiser Permamente, saying that Kaiser is a non-profit organization. Really?? It seems as though Kaiser is non-profit in name only.
http://www.kaiserpapershawaii.org/kaiserwatch.htm
How can they justify these huge profits, and still call themselves a non-profit organization? Shouldn’t the bulk of those profits be used for additional healthcare. And the rest for operating expenses?
If you want to go after Moore, you need more than just fat jokes. Just like you can’t take down Michelle Malkin solely on the basis of her being a sex robot.
Oh, if you were literate, you would have read the mountain of evidence that Malkin shares detroying Michael Moore.
Isn’t it even a bit ironic to the nutroots community that Moore, a big, fat slob, is the one lecturing the voters on “health care.” He must live in a really huge glass house.