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  • Cuba enjoys publicity from Moore's "SiCKO"

    07/18/2007 12:12:07 AM PDT · by 2ndDivisionVet · 6 replies · 580+ views
    Yahoo! News ^ | July 16, 2007 | Anthony Boadle
    HAVANA - Michael Moore's new documentary film "SiCKO" has given Cuba's free health system its best publicity since Fidel Castro's 1959 revolution, a Cuban doctor who hosted the filmmaker's visit said on Monday. Moore took eight Americans sickened after volunteering for the September 11, 2001, rescue efforts for free treatment in Cuba in March in order to extol the Communist state's universal care in his film, which attacks the U.S. health system for being driven by profits and leaving millions uninsured. "SiCKO" has stirred heated debate in the United States since opening in June due to its scathing indictment of...
  • PETA blasts Michael Moore for eating meat

    06/26/2007 12:48:15 AM PDT · by 2ndDivisionVet · 52 replies · 1,782+ views
    MSNBC ^ | June 26, 2007 | Jeannette Walls
    PETA has a message for Michael Moore: You’re the Sicko. The animal-rights group is blasting the filmmaker as a hypocrite for criticizing the U.S. healthcare system in his new documentary, “Sicko,” because they say he’s in such poor health himself. “There’s an elephant in the room, and it is you,” PETA president Ingrid Newkirk wrote in a letter to Moore. Newkirk urged the rotund Moore to become a vegetarian, which many nutritionists say is a good way to lose weight, and visit PETA’s Web site GoVeg.com for veggie recipes. Writes Newkirk: “As they say at Nike (sorry!): ‘Just do it.”