This says even more.....
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.
Maybe he can take his sideshow to North Korea next.
Mr. Moore may wish to be aware of this language from a 1980 executive order which, to the best of my knowledge, is still in force:
1-106. The Secretary of State is delegated, and authorized to exercise in furtherance of the
purposes of this Order, the powers vested in the President ... with respect to:
(a) the restriction of the use of United States passports for travel to, in or through Iran; and
(b) the regulation of departures from and entry into the United States in connection with
travel to Iran by citizens and permanent residents of the United States.
I don't think AQ has enough heavy lift capability to cart his fat a$$ around the mountains for any appreciable amount of time, and if they did, our satellites would be able to detect the methane emissions without too much trouble.
Add to that the fact that beheading him would be especially difficult due to the absence of a neck, and he's about as undesireable a kidnapping target as they could find.
I'd imagine AQ would be willing to negotiate terms of unconditional surrender if only we'd take him back.
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.
(That was a strange way to put it.) See, Michael Moore must be a "real" American.
Or maybe a more apt analogy would be the suicide-by-cop phenomenon.
Are they attempting "suicide-by-patriot?"
I have $50 that says he’ll find an excuse to not visit Iran. He’s just trying to get some publicity for his bomb.
He’s baiting this administration - he would LOVE for them to come after him....would stir up more controversy for him. And, that is GOOD publicity for HIM.
Says it all...
That makes two of us LORD.
LLS
ESPECIALLY in Iran.
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.
Against who?
Can anyone say ‘aid and comfort’?
And he needs the publicity. His film is tanking.
Keep him
this man is a scab on the skin of our great country.
“They wouldn’t be able to afford to feed him.”
Puh-leeze! He has at least two weeks in reserve there! Of course when the Iranians get tired and release him he’ll come back looking like the Fat Bastard in the 3rd Austin Powers movie.. No fat but a ton of skin hanging off his bones.
This says even more.....
Michael, you fat bastard, I hope you offend your guests and they deal with you under their law.
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