Commenter David All advises me that Michael Moore, no doubt extremely bitter about his recent failure to capture an Oscar for the ridiculous SiCKO, is encouraging Pennsylvania Democrats to vote for Barack Obama:
If you live in Pennsylvania, can you do me a favor? Will you please cast my vote — and yours — on Tuesday for Senator Barack […]
Michael Moore’s ridiculous SiCKO was apparently not anti-American enough for the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences. The political fashion plates at AMPAS let the porcine provocateur languish on the waiting list while awarding the best documentary Oscar to Taxi to the Dark Side:
[Moore’s] health-care study “Sicko” lost the documentary prize to “Taxi to the Dark Side,” a war-on-terror chronicle that centers […]
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Posted 25 February 2008
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The two are irrevocably tied together. That sad reality has been largely ignored in the hysteria surrounding the Nataline Sarkisyan case. Because there aren’t enough organs to go around, every patient receiving one has several counterparts who won’t. And these counterparts will die.
Remember, back in Econ 101, when the professor droned on and on about “opportunity cost”? […]
If you are one of those people who still don’t get that governments do a poor job of allocating health care resources, this article from the Evening Standard ought to knock the scales off your eyes:
Women are being given controversial “virginity repair” operations on the NHS, it emerged last night … Taxpayers funded 24 hymen […]
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Posted 15 November 2007
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It looks like ABC is the only representative of the establishment media with the testículos to expose Michael Moore as a fraud and to tell the truth about Cuban health care.
In a 20/20 segment, John Stossel debunks the absurd claims made by the porcine provocateur about Castrocare. For example, on Moore’s claim that the CIA verifies his life […]
NCPA has put up a new site, The Michael Moore Chronicles, that pulls together some of the best commentary out there on the porcine provocateur, SiCKO, and socialized medicine in general. Included are reviews and a film or two from my accomplices friends at FreeMarketCure. It’s well worth a visit.
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Posted 25 July 2007
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Among Michael Moore’s many contemptible characteristics is his willingness to capitalize on the misery of ordinary people. His disgraceful exploitation of Lila Limbscomb in Fahrenheit 9-11 is probably the most egregious example, but his shameless use of three 9-11 responders in SiCKO was nearly as bad.
The one redeeming feature of Moore’s Cuban odyssey was that […]
Michael Moore isn’t the only filmmaker interested in health care. Stuart Browning, as FrontPageMagazine points out, provides a “much-needed corrective.”
Particularly compelling are the films on Canada’s health care system. Posted on Browning’s website, they provide a powerful counterpoint to the reverential treatment that the Canadian system receives in Moore’s movie.
But Browning is no mere grumbler about Canadian […]
After all the free publicity, sycophantic interviews, obsequious op-ed pieces, and general media acclaim, Michael Moore’s health care schlockumentary is enduring a surprisingly anemic box office:
Sicko is bombing — financially and politically. After three weeks in wide release, it has managed to scrape together just $15.8 million in box office receipts. For most documentaries, that […]
Yesterday, I posted an entry suggesting that the advocates of socialized medicine behave very much like members of a UFO cult. That is, they respond to contrary evidence by clinging even more tightly to their absurd belief system.
A friend sent me a link to a Cinema Blend piece that confirms this. These people are apparently […]
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Posted 13 July 2007
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