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Sometime you really have wonder at what cost some are willing to see their political ideology advanced. To liberal documentary filmmaker Michael Moore, the bounds are seemingly endless. Moore has made a recent career out of attacking President George W. Bush, bashing conservatives and criticizing business. His latest outrage occurred on MSNBC’s August 29 “Countdown with Keith Olbermann” and when he commented about the coincidental timing of an unfortunate disaster – the potential for Hurricane Gustav to make landfall at the beginning of the Republican National Convention in St. Paul, Minn. “I was just thinking, this Gustav is proof that...

Controversial filmmaker admits he's delighted to see a natural disaster potentially interfere with the Republican event. Sometime you really have wonder at what cost some are willing to see their political ideology advanced. To liberal documentary filmmaker Michael Moore, the bounds are seemingly endless. Moore has made a recent career out of attacking President George W. Bush, bashing conservatives and criticizing business. His latest outrage occurred on MSNBC’s August 29 “Countdown with Keith Olbermann” and when he commented about the coincidental timing of an unfortunate disaster – the potential for Hurricane Gustav to make landfall at the beginning of the...

"Gustav proves there is a God in heaven."--Michael Moore

Opening Oct. 3. From what I've seen and heard, this is a must see movie. Chris Farley's brother plays Michael Moore. A conservative movie from Hollywood, it's unique.

Over the last several years there have been numerous anti-war films produced, nearly all of which have been box office bombs. Even Lions for Lambs, which featured big name stars like Tom Cruise and Robert Redford, was a miserable failure. The only anti-war flick to perform well was Michael Moore’s faux “documentary” Fahrenheit 9/11. There is little question that a well-written movie about America’s war against Islamic terrorism, which illustrates the heroism of our troops and the greatness of American values, would be huge hit at the box office. The American public would eat it up. So if liberal Hollywood...

Vivendi Entertainment has picked up North American rights to David Zucker's new comedy "An American Carol" and will release it in the fall. Pic tracks a cynical, anti-American filmmaker who sets out on a crusade to abolish the July Fourth holiday. He is visited by three ghosts who try to show him the true meaning of America. Directed, produced and written by Zucker, known as one of the masterminds of the "Airplane!" and "Naked Gun" franchises, the pic is also produced by Mpower's Stephen McEveety and John Shepherd. The cast includes Kevin Farley ("Monk") as the filmmaker, plus Kelsey Grammer,...

In their stunning follow-up to the classic bestseller, We Were Soldiers Once...and Young, Lt. Gen. Hal Moore and Joe Galloway return to Vietnam and reflect on how the war changed them, their men, their enemies, and both countries—often with surprising results. More than fifteen years since its original publication, the number one New York Times bestseller, We Were Soldiers Once...and Young is still required reading in all branches of the military. Now Moore and Galloway revisit their relationships with ten American veterans of the battle—men such as Sgt. Maj. Basil Plumley and helicopter pilot Bruce "Old Snake" Crandall—as well as...

U.S. Rep. Dennis Moore, running for re-election, walks down the street in an early summer parade, finding the mood less than sunny. “Hey!” a man shouts. “When are you going to do something about gas prices?” “We’re trying,” Moore answers. A few days later, Moore’s likely opponent — Kansas Sen. Nick Jordan — sits across the table from a businessman in a Johnson County meeting room. “I don’t know if you’ve thought much about energy policy,” Jordan tells the businessman, whose company markets a medical device. “Sure I have,” he tells Jordan, interrupting. “It scares everybody.” Some elections are decided...

Many readers have complained that Michael Moore, in the conduct of his latest crusade against whatever he is against this month, has illegally used one of my photos on the banner of his website. Mr. Moore is not the first to have done so, and my readers can get pretty upset when it happens. My lawyer has demanded that Mr. Moore take it down. I usually freely grant use of my work to truthful, peaceful, non-commercial, non-political outlets. For instance, a church group wanted to use one of my photos for their congregation. I was honored and gave it to...

COPYING (not linking, it uses my bandwidth) and circulation is encouraged. http://www.michaelmoore.com/words/message/index.php?messageDate=2004-04-14 is the reference for the Michael Moore quote.

Last week on the Larry King Show, Michael Moore took the high road. He simply could not bring himself to pronounce judgment on the Rev. Jeremiah Wright’s tirades. “I’m a white guy,” explained the rotund film-maker. “And I mean, you have to ask yourself, Larry, what’s it like to be black in America? ….And I do not believe, as a white guy, that I am in any position to judge a black man who has had to live through that.”

Summary: Nuclear power is “clean” inexpensive energy that doesn’t emit the greenhouse gases that environmental groups say are responsible for global warming. So why are Greenpeace and other environmental groups so determined to stop it? And what explains the unlikely coalition of environmentalists and statesmen who support nuclear energy? ...... Word is out: Nuclear power is efficient and cost-effective, and it has both strong supporters and opponents in the environmental movement. British scientist James Lovelock supports nuclear energy. The proponent of the “Gaia hypothesis” that the living and non-living parts of the Earth are a single organism says, “I am...

Michael Moore, producer of the movie “Sicko” and author of the book “Stupid White Men” confirmed his thesis by announcing that he would “vote for a turd as long as it had the Democratic ‘D’ next to it.” To show he was serious, he issued an endorsement of Senator Barack Obama (D-Ill.) for president. “Normally, I don’t like to get involved in politics,” Moore alleged. “If it weren’t for the fact that I’ve made millions off it I’d really hate it. But in these critical times I can’t sit by and let Republicans continue to dismantle our government.” Moore said...

NJDC denounces McCain’s ties to Hagee but has nothing to say about Obama and Michael Moore [http://www.israpundit.com/2008/?p=814] “How Does McCain Really Feel About Hagee?” by the National Jewish Democratic Council’s David Kim [http://njdc.typepad.com/njdcs_blog/2008/04/mccain-unsure-a.html] attacks John McCain for accepting the endorsement of Pastor John Hagee. Before we address NJDC’s concerns about Pastor Hagee, we remind our readers that the National Jewish Democratic Council has been totally unresponsive to our well documented requests [http://www.israpundit.com/2008/?p=685] for it to denounce: (1) Barack Obama’s pastor and church, which have published blood libels of the United States and Israel while calling upon God to damn America...

This ad released by the North Carolina Republican Party opposes Bev Perdue and Richard Moore for Governor.

Obama’s acceptance of Moore, MoveOn.org support is an insult to our Armed Forces and nation To: media “at” barackobama.com, watchdog “at” barackobama.com, info “at” barackobama.com cc: Multiple Internet blogs, with encouragement to copy to other blogs and circulate as viral E-mailDear Mr. Obama, The Commander in Chief of the Armed Forces of the United States commands the obedience of our men and women in uniform by law, but we are confident that you also appreciate the need to command their respect. We bring to your attention the endorsement of filmmaker Michael Moore at his Web site. ...In 2004, Mr. Moore...

Moore: 2 years of free collegeGubernatorial hopeful says also he'd want to raise minimum wage MARK JOHNSON mjohnson@charlotteobserver.com Posted on Thu, Mar. 06, 2008 RALEIGH --State Treasurer Richard Moore, running for the Democratic nomination for governor, wants to offer high school graduates two free years of community college as part of an economic stimulus package. The free college proposal, which Moore rolled out Tuesday, also is the latest offering among the Democratic candidates as they try to portray themselves as the best leader to help energize the state's economy. Lt. Gov. Beverly Perdue, Moore's opponent in the primary, recently proposed...

Michael Moore: Fidel Castro, Would be Oscars Ratings Blockbuster

Quack Michael Moore has mad view of the NHS   Minette Marrin   The fourth estate has always had a bad name, but it seems to be getting worse. Journalism should be an honest and useful trade, and often still is. But now that journalism has more power than ever before, it seems to have become ever more disreputable. In recent years it has been brought lower and lower by kiss-and-tell betrayals, by “reality” TV, by shockumentaries and by liars, fantasists, hucksters and geeks of every kind, crowing and denouncing and emoting in a hideous new version of Bunyan’s...

Logan Darrow Clements producer of SickAndSickerMovie.com will be debating the merits of the movie Sicko and socialized medicine this Thursday 9/27 at 6:30pm in Los Angeles. He is standing in for Stuart Browning who is...sick. Please show up. Show the left-wingers in the audience that you will not allow the government to force you into socialized medicine. Details at http://liberty.pacificresearch.org/events/ID.37/detail.asp

War has changed through history: · At one point, soldiers in brightly-colored uniforms conveniently lined up in rows on battlefields like two opposing football teams, facing one another. · World War II brought the bombing of cities. · 9/11 showed nation-states aren't the only groups that can wage war. One reason nations lose wars is that they prepare for the last war, not the next war. When the German tanks rolled into Poland in 1939, the Polish army bravely tried to defend their territory -- on horseback. The United States is perfectly prepared to fight the last war: if any...

Kansas state Sen. Nick Jordan said Tuesday that he would run for Congress next year, setting up a likely challenge to Democratic incumbent Dennis Moore. “I’m in,” Jordan said. The long-expected announcement presents Moore, the five-term 3rd District incumbent, a potentially formidable Republican challenger who has shown an ability to appeal to conservative and moderate Republicans. Moore campaign manager Julie Merz said only that her boss would “continue to provide moderate, common-sense leadership and top-notch constituent services” to the district. “He looks forward to campaigning — next year.” Jordan’s entry also sets up three pivotal congressional races in the Kansas...

Maybe Michael Moore isn't paranoid, because it sure seems like the government really is out to get him. The firebrand filmmaker says he has been served with a subpoena by the federal government for a trip to Cuba for his hit healthcare documentary, Sicko. The Treasury Department confirmed two months ago that it was probing Moore's visit to Cuba, during which he was accompanied by some ailing 9-11 rescue workers. Appearing Thursday on NBC's Tonight Show with Jay Leno, the Oscar winner said that he had just learned backstage that he had been served with an order compelling him to...

C-Span's Sunday night hour of "Q&A" today involved an interview with Kevin Leffler, a Michigan CPA who is sinking about $100k of his own money into a documentary which he calls "Shooting Michael Moore". Leffler knew and worked with Moore and says that the public persona Moore touts is nothing like the Moore he knew. His film, from which numerous clips are presented during Q&A, is a takeoff on Moore's "Roger and Me" and portrays Leffler trying to track down and question Moore about many inaccuracies and outright lies he says Moore includes in his various films. The picture Leffler...

Ever think that Michael Moore would come to a Republican's home and personally wash that Republican's laundry. Well, Michael Moore is holding a contest where he will wash a randomly chosen Republican's laundry if they go out and watch his new movie SICKO this weekend. Part of me thinks that this is some cheap marketing trick. However, the thought of talking crap to Michael Moore as he is washing my dirty smelly socks is very tempting. Rules for the contest are posted on his website: http://www.michaelmoore.com Thanks for reading, I'm Joe Voter! Are you a Voter too?

The movie “SiCKO” — I went, I saw, and I was conquered! Yes, I came out of “SiCKO” more convinced than ever that single-payer is the only solution to America’s healthcare problems. Come on! We’re the wealthiest country on the planet. Why is it that Canada, Britain, France and even Cuba can deliver healthcare — FREE! — to all their citizens, and we can’t? Go see “SiCKO” and you’ll know the answer. It’s because of the powerful opposition of insurance companies, pharmaceutical companies and big HMOs. As long as they’re in charge, we’ll never be able to deliver healthcare to...

>Author @ the Library presents "Citizen Moore: The Life and Times of >an American Iconoclast," with Roger Rapoport . >Date: Monday, July 16 Time: 6:30 PM 6th Floor NO RESERVATIONS REQUIRED > >Michael Moore, the man who has made documentaries as popular as >feature films is back with Sicko, a new film on American health >care. Listen to the untold story of the 30 years of struggles and >failures that led to the "overnight" success of America's most >controversial director. Based on interviews with more than 200 >insiders -friends, bosses, employees, producers, agents, managers, >editors, actors and nuns, the author...

July 13, 2007, 0:00 a.m. Moore “World of We”Michael Moore is practically the Leni Riefenstahl of socialism. By Rich Lowry Michael Moore set out to make a movie attacking the American insurance industry and ended up attacking the American character. By the end of his movie SiCKO, his plaint is less about American resistance to government-run health care than its overarching rejection of collectivism. As Moore puts it, everywhere else it’s “a world of we,� but here a “world of me.� His voice thus joins a vast, age-old chorus of left-wing bafflement and disillusion at American exceptionalism — our...

TORONTO, July 13 /CNW/ - The Registered Nurses' Association of Ontario (RNAO) is encouraging all nurses to take advantage of a special promotion which offers them free admission to filmmaker Michael Moore's documentary SiCKO. Alliance Atlantis Canada has announced that all nurses in the country can attend the film for free from Monday, July 16 to Thursday, July 19. Yesterday, Michael Moore was quoted in an Alliance Atlantis media release as saying "Nurses across Canada are on the front line in the battle against those forces who want to inch the Canadian health-care system toward the American way. They know...

"Frankly, Michael Moore is an example of why the health care system costs so much in this country. He clearly is one of the reasons that we have a very expensive system. " Huckabee also singled out Moore for flying to Cuba in March for the documentary to obtain health care for a group of ailing Sept. 11 rescue workers. "Let me ask you, have you ever met anybody when they were really sick say, 'Oh my gosh, I have a desperate disease. Get me to Havana, I've got to have the best health care in the world,'" Huckabee said."

One of John McCain’s last moments as a legitimate Republican came when he described Michael Moore as a “disingenuous filmmaker.” The insult was perfect. It was accurate, it wasn’t unmerited, and it put the man so completely in his place that I actually spent the next hour or so thinking McCain still had decent guy potential. Despite both the accuracy and the beauty of McCain’s caricature, there are aspects of Michael Moore that are genuine. He is genuine in his pursuit of leftist politics, he is genuine in his desire to increase the size of the Federal Government, and he...

Filmmaker Michael Moore went off on CNN anchor Wolf Blitzer during an interview Monday to promote his latest documentary 'Sicko'. Moore blasted the anchor and the network for not doing enough to stop the Iraq war and for doing a 'crap' report on his new film. Moore also mocked the pronunciation of chief medical correspondent, Dr. Sanjay Gupta.

The day after the United States celebrated its Independence, two American soldiers were killed in south Baghdad by an explosive projectile provided to Iraqi insurgents by Iran; in June, NATO officials caught Iran shipping heavy arms and C4 explosives to the Taliban in Afghanistan; earlier this year, President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad called for the annihilation of Israel. With these facts, there can be little doubt about Iran’s virulent intentions. However, as the evidence against the Islamic Republic mounts, so are the groups speaking out in its defense, and now those same people who so fervidly defended Saddam’s Iraq are once again...

Hyphen D was so touched by Michael Moore's movie SiCKO that he decided to write a movie about it. Superb jobs by all, including Phil Coonrod and Daniel Bissell. A Hipfarm Production.

July 6th, 2007 Friends, An employee who works at Capital BlueCross has sent us a confidential memo written and circulated by its Vice President of Corporate Communications, Barclay Fitzpatrick. His job, it seems, was to go and watch "Sicko," observe the audience's reaction, and then suggest a plan of action for how to deal with the movie. The memo, which I am releasing publicly in this email, is a fascinating look at how one health care company views "Sicko" -- and what it fears its larger impact will be on the public. The industry's only hope, the memo seems to...

United States health providers are doing their best to discredit Michael Moore's new documentary movie, "Sicko". The industry - doctors, drug makers, hospitals, insurers - is charged with 'greed and putting personal interests above patients'. Moore heard from thousands of people who had maddening and heartbreaking brushes with this system. As chief prosecutor in what is more like a 'trial' of the industry, Moore lets them do most of the talking and weaves their stories into the film with wit, compassion and humour. But one aspect missing from the film is the defence. Do not expect to hear anyone speak...

In "Sicko," Michael Moore uses a clip of my appearance earlier this year on "The O'Reilly Factor" to introduce a segment on the glories of Canadian health care. Moore adores the Canadian system. I do not. I am a new American, but I grew up and worked for many years in Canada. And I know the health care system of my native country much more intimately than does Moore. There's a good reason why my former countrymen with the money to do so either use the services of a booming industry of illegal private clinics, or come to America to...

HOLLYWOOD - Controversial filmmaker Michael Moore has defended his new documentary Sicko from claims foreign distributors aren't interested. The movie, which takes aim at America's healthcare system, has so far failed to attract bids in the U.K. Industry insiders suggest poor box office takings and mixed reviews in the U.S. could be to blame. However, Moore insists he's not worried by Britain's apparent apathy...

"Experience should teach us to be most on our guard to protect liberty when the Government's purposes are beneficient....The greatest dangers to liberty lurk in insidious encroachment by men of zeal, well-meaning but without understanding." -Supreme Court Justice Louis Brandeis, in a dissenting opinion in Olmstead v. U.S., 277 US 438, 479 (1927) The disparate forces that have come together to make, promote, and use Michael Moore's film Sicko share an old and bankrupt collectivist agenda. But all of a sudden in 2007, their blueprint is hotter than ever and is being hyped as the final solution to the widely...

The same man who despises Capitolism and America sure doesn’t mind making a profit off the American people by distorting the truth about our great Healthcare system and glorifying Fidel Castro’s horrific model for Hillary Clinton’s system of Socialized Healthcare. Ask any Cuban who has recently left the island (because they can’t talk freely about this inside of Cuba) about their health care system and they will tell you that it is often a challenge just to get aspirin and they often have to get it on the black market. The run-down, dilapidated and unsanitary conditions in the facilities that...

Michael Van Winkle, writing at the American Thinker, takes a look at some numbers and concludes that while Michael Moore’s SiCKO is an effective bit of propaganda, the people depicted in the film just aren’t representative of Americans as a whole If we take the film’s subjects as representative of the whole, Americans are routinely forced to make nightmarish health decisions, choosing, for instance, between a middle finger that costs $60K to reattach and a ring finger that costs only $12K

WASHINGTON, D.C. (June 30, 2007) -- In many respects, Michael Moore's new movie, "Sicko," is like a trial for those who oversee health care in the United States. The industry -- doctors, drug makers, hospitals, insurers -- is charged with greed and putting personal interests above patients'. Moore heard from thousands of people who had maddening and heartbreaking brushes with this system. As chief prosecutor, Moore lets them do most of the talking and weaves their stories into the film with wit, compassion and humor. But one aspect missing from the film is the defense. Do not expect to hear...

The Bill O'Reilly of pseudo-documentaries, self-promotional blowhard Michael Moore, presents Sicko, a distortion of reality from start to finish that purports to address a crucial issue: health care. Having declined to review Moore's smash, Fahrenheit 9/11, and having missed his anti-business Roger and Me and anti-gun Bowling for Columbine, this writer was prepared to laugh, or at least chuckle, at the mess that constitutes today's mongrel health care system in America (and I've covered health policy for newspapers and non-profits). But this hooey, billed as a comedy, is as funny as a heart attack.

"Documentary filmmaker Michael Moore, right, and Los Angeles Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa chat as they arrive to talk about the state of the U.S. health care system at a news conference outside Los Angeles City Hall Tuesday, June 26, 2007. Moore's latest documentary film, 'SiCKO,' was to premiere Tuesday evening in Los Angeles.""Michael Moore, right and actor Roy Scheider attend the after party of a special East Hampton screening of Weinstein Company's new film 'Sicko'""Director Michael Moore (C) sings the Canadian national anthem with guests at a special screening of "Sicko" in Beverly Hills, California."

Enough Gushing over Moore to Make You 'Sicko' Media use Michael Moore's new film to fuel campaign for socialized health care in America. By Amy Menefee Business & Media Institute “Every fact in my films is true. And yet how often do I have to read over and over again about supposed falsehoods? The opinions in the film are mine. They may not be true, but I think they are.” – Michael Moore in Time magazine interview, May 28, 2007 Michael Moore is a documented liar who uses “omission, exaggeration and cinematic sleight of hand” to make his political points....

Moore to Schwarzenegger: Adopt Austrian health care system Wednesday, June 27, 2007 By: DAVID GERMAIN - Associated Press LOS ANGELES -- Michael Moore has a suggestion to help California Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger bring universal health care to the nation's largest state: Just do it the Austrian way. "I would like Gov. Schwarzenegger to say that he wants the citizens of California to have the same, fine, universal health coverage he got as a young man in the country of Austria," Moore said Tuesday of the Austrian-born governor. "That's all we're asking for, governor. Just give us the Austrian plan," Moore...

Michael Moore's movie SiCKO now has a direct competitor. Watch the trailer of Logan Darrow Clements' upcoming movie Sick and Sicker.

HEIGHTS LIGHTS ALERT! A Newsletter for the Historic Heights Theatre 3951 Central Avenue, NE, Columbia Heights, MN 55421 Heights Hotline (763) 788-9079 - Box Office (763) 789-4992 We Treat You as a Priceless Treasure, Too! 'Sicko' Not Coming to the Heights! The Weinstein Brothers have pulled 750 prints of 'Sicko,' including the Heights. We apologize for this late change. Here's our new schedule. "WAITRESS" PG-13 starts June 29 Keri Russell, Nathan Fillion, Andy Griffith A young wife escapes a sad home scene creating the best pies since the Peter-Peter-Pumpkin-Eater at Joe's Diner. Friday, June 29 - 4:35, 7:10, 9:40 PM...

Forgotten? Michael Moore's Invested in Pharmaceuticals and Healthcare Posted by Dave Pierre on June 25, 2007 - 08:19. Michael Moore's new documentary, Sicko, challenges U.S. healthcare. Yet in the coverage of the film, some interesting facts about Moore appear to be ignored. These facts are addressed on page 53 of the bestselling book by Peter Schweizer, Do As I Say (Not As I Do): [Moore's] IRS forms make for interesting reading. Over the past five years, Moore's "savings account" has included such evil pharmaceutical and medical companies as Pfizer, Merck, Genzyme, Elan PLC, Eli Lilly, Becton Dickinson, and Boston Scientific....

Time Bought Into Michael Moore's 'Sicko' Schtick Posted by Lynn Davidson on June 25, 2007 - 03:34.   There is yet another example of the mythology of Michael Moore growing with the complicity of the media. Time's article by S. James Snyder, “Michael Moore: 'I'm Mainstream Now' ” read like another example of an incurious journalist who bought into Moore's PR and joined in with some covert activism. For the past month or so, finding bias in an article about Michael Moore has been about as easy as it is to find "creative editing" in Moore's films, and this article was...