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Michael Moore comes to Iran for Screening of SICKO
Iranian Student News Agency ^ | July 02, 2007 | Iranian Student News.

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.


TOPICS: News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: antiamericanism; iran; lordhoho; michaelmoore; prodictator; sicko; unholyalliance; usefulidiot
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To: rface

I thought the muzzies had an adversion to PIG.


41 posted on 07/02/2007 8:40:06 AM PDT by Dedbone
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To: rface
Lord Haw Haw, meet Lord Ho Ho...


42 posted on 07/02/2007 10:03:19 AM PDT by weegee (If the Fairness Doctrine is imposed on USA who will CNN news get to read the conservative rebuttal)
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To: greyfoxx39

Michael Moore STILL hasn’t been to Iraq although he sang the praises of Saddam’s Iraq.


43 posted on 07/02/2007 10:04:46 AM PDT by weegee (If the Fairness Doctrine is imposed on USA who will CNN news get to read the conservative rebuttal)
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To: rface

Current high temperture in Tehran is 98F. Are they going to have to ice down fat-boy?


44 posted on 07/02/2007 10:06:14 AM PDT by avacado
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To: weegee

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.


45 posted on 07/02/2007 10:07:55 AM PDT by livius
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To: rface
This is the Onion or Scrapple right?

An American Expat in Southeast Asia

46 posted on 07/02/2007 10:08:28 AM PDT by expatguy (No Longer a Luddite - "An American Expat in Southeast Asia")
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To: GulfBreeze

Can you say “Re-Entry Denied”???

Hardy har har, fat boy!

Not you GulfBreeze...


47 posted on 07/02/2007 10:49:01 AM PDT by stevie_d_64 (Houston Area Texans (I've always been hated))
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To: stevie_d_64

It’s a publicity stunt so he can claim the “Bushitler” regime is suppressing him.


48 posted on 07/02/2007 10:51:50 AM PDT by AppyPappy (If you aren't part of the solution, there is good money to be made prolonging the problem.)
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To: AppyPappy
Mahmoud Ahmadinejad is supressing Oliver Stone:

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.


49 posted on 07/02/2007 10:59:14 AM PDT by weegee (If the Fairness Doctrine is imposed on USA who will CNN news get to read the conservative rebuttal)
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To: rface

I thought pigs aren’t allowed in Iran.


50 posted on 07/02/2007 1:11:03 PM PDT by ViLaLuz (2 Chronicles 7:14)
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To: rface

“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!’”


51 posted on 07/02/2007 1:13:29 PM PDT by RichInOC (Iran War 2007: Better Late Than Never.)
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To: rface

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.


52 posted on 07/02/2007 1:15:52 PM PDT by CCGuy (USAF (Ret.))
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To: rface

53 posted on 07/02/2007 1:44:35 PM PDT by avacado
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To: rface

Well, Islamofacism and Michael Moore do have a lot in common.


54 posted on 07/02/2007 1:46:10 PM PDT by MEGoody (Ye shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you free.)
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To: rightwingintelligentsia

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.


55 posted on 07/02/2007 4:23:49 PM PDT by Cecily
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To: Cecily

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’


56 posted on 07/03/2007 3:36:45 AM PDT by the last american
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To: Patrick1
Moore is going to promote Iranian health care. Headache? Cut their head off. Arthritis, no problem a machete can’t fix.

Yep, just like that old Far Side cartoon titled "Equine Medicine".

57 posted on 07/03/2007 4:04:40 AM PDT by Charles Martel (The Tree of Liberty thirsts.)
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To: the last american

The Iranian Student News Agency is “right wing trash” and “corporate bosses?”


58 posted on 07/03/2007 5:50:48 AM PDT by Cecily
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