Posted on 07/02/2007 7:39:46 AM PDT by rface
TEHRAN, July 02 (ISNA)-Writer, producer and director, Michael Moore is to come to Iran for the screening of his new production SICKO in the first international documentary film festival held here.
This festival will be held from the 15th to the 19th of October in Tehran.
According to reports in SICKO, Michael Moore interviews Americans who have been denied treatment by the U.S. health care insurance companies, whose policies are designed to maximize profits at the expense of providing essential care. The consequences of these individuals' plights range from bankruptcy to the unnecessary deaths of loved ones.
Moore then looks at universal free health care systems in Canada, France, Britain, and Cuba, debunking all the fears (lower quality of care, poorer compensation for doctors, big-government bureaucracy) that have been used to dissuade Americans from establishing such a system here. The roots of those health care systems are explored, and our failure to establish free health here care is traced to a) President Richard Nixon's deceptive support of the then-emerging HMOs pursuing huge profits and b) subsequent pressures for Congress to sacrifice sound health care in favor of corporate profit.
A group of Americans who became ill from volunteering at 911 Ground Zero, but were refused health coverage for their illnesses, are ferried by Moore to Cuba, where they receive the top-rate, free care one would hope they'd get here at home.
In his interviews, historical reportage, and typical sarcastic wit, Moore soundly condemns American health insurance companies, pharmaceutical companies, and the politicians who have been paid millions to do their bidding. He makes the case that there is something wrong with Americans that we cannot learn from the successes of other countries in providing better quality-of-health than we enjoy in the USA.
Michael Moore was born in Flint, Michigan April 23 1954. He studied journalism at the University of Michigan-Flint, but also pursued other hobbies such as Gun shooting, for which he even won a competition. Michael started working as an editor for the journal of the University he attended at the beginning to his journalism career. He then turned to filmmaking, and to earn the money for the budget of his first film Roger & Me (1989) he ran neighborhood bingo games. He eventually got himself into leading a string of documentaries and TV series all predominantly around the same subject; attacks on politicians and business corporations, getting his opinion around and about. He landed his first big hit with Bowling for Columbine (2002) about the bad points of the freedom of weapon holding in America, which earned him an Oscar and a big reputation. He then shook the world with his even bigger hit Fahrenheit 9/11 (2004) - making fun of President George W. Bush. Michael is known for having the guts to give his opinion in public, which not many people are courageous enough to do, and for that is respected by many.
I thought the muzzies had an adversion to PIG.
Michael Moore STILL hasn’t been to Iraq although he sang the praises of Saddam’s Iraq.
Current high temperture in Tehran is 98F. Are they going to have to ice down fat-boy?
What is it with these lefty movie makers? I read a couple of days ago that Oliver Stone had asked permission to make a movie about Ahmanutcase (who refused, oddly enough). I thought it was a joke. What’s to make a movie about? But apparently, he was dead serious. Gag.
Can you say “Re-Entry Denied”???
Hardy har har, fat boy!
Not you GulfBreeze...
It’s a publicity stunt so he can claim the “Bushitler” regime is suppressing him.
Ahmadinejad turns down chance to star in Oliver Stone film (Guardian UK 7/2/07 )
However, Mr Ahmadinejad, who has often criticised Hollywood as a bastion of pro-Zionist interests, was unimpressed by Stone's radical credentials after viewing the films."While it is true that Oliver Stone is considered to be among the opposition in the US, the opposition is still part of the Great Satan," the president's media adviser, Mahdi Kalhor, told the semi-official Fars news agency.
I thought pigs aren’t allowed in Iran.
“In America, everybody has the right to get in our president’s face and say, ‘Mr. President, you’re an idiot!’”
“It’s a lot like that in Iran. In Iran, everybody has the right to get in our president’s face and say ‘Mr. President, Dubya’s an idiot!’”
They’ve been kidnapping people a lot lately. It would be great if they kept him.
Too bad it’s in mid-October. Parts of Iran will likely be rubble before then and Moore won’t go.
Everything points towards war and very soon. It will likely begin in response to major attacks backed by Iran.
Just my very educated guess though.
Well, Islamofacism and Michael Moore do have a lot in common.
LOL, you read my mind. The terrorists won’t take him hostage because he would scarf down all their kebabs, rice and flatbread. Mikey would bust their food budget wide open.
The original post is another lie. I wish you people would stop spreading garbage. For Christ’s sake... quit being lapdogs of the corporate bosses!
From the Michael Moore website:
There is absolutely no truth to the right wing promoted rumor that Michael is going to Iran — none, zero, zip. This inaccurate rumor is an urban myth right up there with alligators in the sewers of New York City, and it is getting pushed around out there by conservative opponents of Michael who would rather make up stories out of whole cloth than actually engage in a debate on the merits of our broken health care system or why it is that George W. Bush took us to war in Iraq. These right wingers should be spending their time defending why it is that George W. Bush is commuting the sentence of a convicted felon, rather than propagating this right wing trash.
— Meghan O’Hara, Producer, ‘SiCKO’
Yep, just like that old Far Side cartoon titled "Equine Medicine".
The Iranian Student News Agency is “right wing trash” and “corporate bosses?”
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