Healthy praise for Moore's 'Sicko'

Source: CNN.com Entertainment

Healthy praise for Moore's 'Sicko'
POSTED: 12:07 p.m. EDT, May 19, 2007
Moore's attack on U.S. health care well received at Cannes

CANNES, France (AP) -- "Sicko," Michael Moore's ferocious and funny attack on the U.S. health care system, got a warm welcome at the Cannes Film festival Saturday. At home, it has started a firestorm.

The movie doesn't open until late June, but it has already been criticized by conservative politicians and sparked a U.S. government investigation that could land Moore a fine or jail time.

"I know the storm awaits me back in the United States," said Moore as he absorbed the enthusiastic response of critics and journalists after the film's first Cannes screening. Moore held a private showing Tuesday in New York for a group of ailing Sept. 11 rescue workers featured in the film.

Moore's previous films were praised and reviled in equal measure. Americans will likely be just as divided by "Sicko" -- especially scenes in which Moore takes the sick 9/11 rescuers to Cuba for treatment.


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yes, that explaines why F911 was the highest grossing documentary ever.

Of course, it was "reviled" only by the tiny "bush base," but amplified way beyond its relevance through the RW Wurlitzer. Nevertheless, the AP takes every opportunity to continue to prop up the fraud that is bush.

but some of "our" guys added fuel to the "reviled" fire.

For example, when asked if he had seen F-911, none other than then presidential candidate/frontrunner John Kerry replied: No, and I don't intend to.

Similarly, Dems allowed liberal to become tantamount to a four-letter word. Lest I digress too much, my point is that you NEVER see repukes running from Rush, Hannity, O'Rielly, FOX or the designation 'conservative.'

We need fighters who speak truth to political and corporate power and who do so through action!

THANK YOU, Michael Moore :applause:

And they can't refute his arguments, because he has the New Yorker's libel lawyers go over his stuff with a fine tooth comb to make sure every little detail is true.

The flat earthers have to be equally represented by the Fair and Balanced™ media.

An oxymoron is a figure of speech expressing contradictory or opposite terms or ideas, a paradoxical combination. From the Greek, oxy- = “sharp, pointed” and moros, moron = “dull, foolish”; meaning “pointedly foolish”. Oxymora appeal to unconscious responses rather than rational examinations, can make useful descriptors of paradoxes, and are often patently humorous.

"Fox News" has become an oxymoron because the network is famously not "fair and balanced." Instead their vaguely aware, jumbo shrimp reportage of veiled accusations vigorously ignores unbiased opinions, delivering well-preserved ruins of objective journalism, while pompously proclaiming themselves the uncrowned kings of media. Their randomly logical, rational ravings of recent history spews relative truths with remotely obvious, resolutely ambivalent real fantasy. They balance the insanity of benevolent despots and blameless culprits with reckless caution, benign neglect, and barely dressed, brilliantly dull brief surveys. They are the fairly obvious unacceptable solution to final version fair reporting. They are Forever Oxymora, a faux reality, the flat earth of the media universe.

Yay, L. Coyote! Excellent description for Pox Noise!

:yourock:

"Moore's previous films were praised and reviled in equal measure."

That's bullshit!!!

His previous films were praised by all arts organizations including Cannes and the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, by nearly all movie critics and as the most watched documentaries of all time, by the entire general public of the world.

His previous films were reviled by right-wing nut jobs and their house organs.

That's not "equal measure", that's a few assholes vs. the rest of the world...

:rofl: :rofl:

How true!!!

Seeing this movie is on my "To Do List".

make things worse...

What's up with that?

http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,273875,00.html

was all that was needed and you would not look like a jerk.

"He paid US$12,000 so that you, the press, would focus on what a 'nice guy' he is and in the same breath, make me look like a jerk," Kenefick wrote on the site -- which is still running.

I'm pretty sure the wealthy Republicans who frequent his site will be happy to cover it, to keep Kenefick from looking like a thankless moneygrubbing asshole...

BabyBitch for putting the black mark of American, America the land of the free and the home of the brave, yes that America which since Noreiga has political prisoner just like the USSR and RED China. Oh the humanity, oh the horror. My conntry is dead and buried- may it be resurrected.

The Republicans have nothing like him. He's one of a kind. I'm uncomfortable with some of the things he does, but it doesn't matter. He's brilliant with his films, and he is brave to do what he does; he knows there will be a load of attacks against him.

Hope he's still doing this at 80.

I can't wait for this film, it is something that needs to be seen in America. I live in a small town and our nicest building is an HMO. Every time I drive by the building, I just cringe. I called them to see if they could cover my mother, who was dropped from her health insurance when my father retired. The price was enormous and they get to pick and choose who they cover. HMO's should not be allowed to discriminate. They should be forced to cover the good with the bad. HMO's are sucking corporations dry with their enormous fees. We are all just one paycheck away from poverty because of HMO's. When we lose our homes to pay for our health care, the American dream has died.

:hi:

http://www.chapelhillnews.com/143/story/7045.html

My hubby calls it 'the cathedral'

and they will have to...

:hi: Sorry to hear about your mom's situation. We find ourselves in similiar circumstances and it's not fun.

This is getting interesting. LOL

Michael Moore is one of the only celebrities in the U.S. that seem to realize that we have BIG problem right here in River City USA with what has become a crisis for our chronically ill in this country! I am all for giving help to Darfur and other countries - but don't let our own be left behind!

Here's to Michael! :toast:

My son, who was 37 at the time he had his first attack of sever multiple sclerosis, and had lost his business down here in Florida from Hurricane Charlie (forget FEMA - what a joke!), tried to end his life twice because of the lack of quality health care he found on Medicaid. The HMO's rack in millions on this tax payer funded poorly run so called insurance! The truth is there are VERY few qualified Dr's and Specialist who will even sign up on this program. While down here in FL Ross Perot's EDS software company has a 308 million dollar contract to pay for Medicaid payments - as far as I know this money goes right into the State covers and they give it out to the HMO's who then take forever to pay the Dr's which in turn makes them quit the program! It is a disgrace! :cry:

I am currently trying my best to influence the new proposed Medicaid program here that has had numerous articles written about the short comings including lack of chronically ill support, and using my own money (what little I have left) to go to meetings and writing my Doctoral dissertation on the lack of care for our chronically ill! I hope no one that reads this must go through what my family has in the last 3 years!

I pray and work everyday to change it so the future is brighter for those that are the least of these!!!!!:grouphug:

This subject crosses the political lines and hits close to home for all middle income and low income families.

I'm sick of not being able to afford "health insurance" while over 50% of my tax dollars over the last 40 years have gone for the fucking war machine!!!!

The trip to Cuba led the Treasury Department to investigate Moore for possibly breaking the U.S. trade and travel embargo on the communist country. He could face a fine or jail time.
Some have said the investigation is giving the film free publicity. Not Moore.
"I'm the one who's personally being investigated, and I'm the one who's personally liable for potential fines or jail, so I don't take it as lightly," he said.
On the advice of lawyers, the filmmakers spirited a master copy of "Sicko" outside the United States in case the government tries to seize it.
Moore is a Cannes favorite. His last film, the war-on-terror documentary "Fahrenheit 9/11" won the festival's top prize, the Palme d'Or, in 2004.

I ran into him in the movie theater, when we both happened to go see Star Wars Ep. 3 and got to shake his hand. He was a very humble man in that moment.

I want to see this movie on one hand, but I really don't want to see it. I don't want to see it because, well, I don't want to know how bad things are. I have been depressed enough lately, so I don't know if I want to take on more. I don't know yet and will have to make up my mind later I think.