Michael Moore's Sicko - How to Commit Propeganda

Associated Content ^ | July 2, 2007 | Mark Whittington

[Conservative Coulter Fan]

Michael Moore's latest outing into the pseudo documentary genre, Sicko, is, like the previous outings, comprised of one part sly humor, one part affected moral outrage. Like the previous outings, Sicko is not overly burdened by the truth. The truth would only get in the way, you see.

[Redbob]

Is that misspelling in the title intentional?

[Long Island Pete]

[Larry Lucido]

I don’t know if I’m pro-peganda or anti-peganda.

[Bommer]

$11,452,560 is all its made. Moore being officially shuned is bound to cause him a heart attack

[vpintheak]

My inlaws went to see that piece of crap movie yesterday. I gave them the link to therealcuba.com just to make sure they didn’t completely lose their sanity.

[Inge C]

Being a german citizen, I know that soc medical care is not free; while there for many years, the deduction of my paycheck was 37 percent, to cover for the so-called universal healthcare. These fact are not being told to the citizens here, and I hope that people will revolt the same way as they did regarding the shamnesty bill. 37% deduction of pay was unbearable, I was there, I know.

[sr4402]

Moore’s False Propaganda

[lowbridge]

He has found his niche in life which financialy rewards him very handsomely. Before these documentaries, he was a newsletter writer, worked for Mother Jones magazine, was on his local school board, among other positions. All of which paid little to nothing. Then he took a gamble on himself making the documentary Roger & Me. The gamble paid off very well. Roger & Me was a critical and financial success and Moore became a celeb on the left and a millionaire.

Powerful people in the Hollywood industry were lining up to offer him deals. He no longer had to scrounge for funding his projects. If the Roger & Me movie had failed, he probably would have went back to writing for Newsletters that nobody reads, earning mere pennies if that. But Roger & Me was a wake up call to him. He could make documentaries that would appeal to those left of center. Didnt matter if these documentaries were filled with lies, he gets millions of bucks in return, be a celebrity, and a hero to his fellow leftists.

For him to stop telling lies, and start telling the truth means that he would have to go back to a near poverty existence as well as anonymity. And there's no way he's voluntarilly going back to that.

[vietvet67]

Well said.

It amazes me that Moore thinks he can speak for the public on healthcare yet doesn’t think enough of himself to lose some of that tonnage.

It’s like the coke addict preaching to others about the dangers of drugs while displaying a white powdered nose with a straw sticking out of it.

In Moores case it’s the powder from the donuts.

[Erasmus]

I think there's a great sniglet buried in there.

"Propagenda."

[Amusingly, the spell checker redlines "sniglet."]

[GSWarrior]

I knew this was going to disappoint at the box office...it’s not a lurid subject matter such as Columbine or 9/11. Few will want to see a documentary about healthcare...its just sounds boring in concept.

[Right Cal Gal]

If Moore really wanted to take on what’s wrong with health care, and what drives up the costs, he might want to drop in on a courthouse where a doctor, hospital or pharmaceutical company is being sued for $40 million by a lawyer who can’t wait to take half the “winnings.” I’m sure John Edwards would make himself available for an on-camera interview.

Perhaps he’d like to see the malpractice insurance premium for an anesthesiologist or OB/GYN. Then check out the malpractice insurance premium for the trial lawyer who sued him.

Not to mention the amount of money that the doctor spent on his education, AFTER college - let’s see, four years of medical school and (depending on the specialty) YEARS of internship and residency.

And if health care costs go up, then its a fact that the premiums to insure those costs go up. Maybe Fata$$ should train his cameras on the real causes of high insurance rates and premiums. I’m not saying all trial lawyers are sharks and all doctors are saints, but there’s just too great a proporation of the former over the latter.

I don’t know if anyone has the answer to this - but in the countries where they have socialized medicine - does the patient have a right to damages in the event of malpractice?

[Conservative Coulter Fan]

Using the word “free” to describe univerisal healthcare is a nothing short of deception, which largely effects poorer, uneducated demographics. I remember always hearing, “Nothing in life is free — nothing.”