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 […]
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SiCKO: Sickly Ticket Sales a Good Sign?
Moore Cognitive Dissonance
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 […]
SiCKO: One Moore Time
Sally Pipes appears in Michael Moore’s health care schlockumentary and she takes exception to its flattering portrayal of Canadian health care:
Moore put me, fleetingly, into “Sicko” as an example of an American who doesn’t understand the Canadian health care system. He couldn’t be more wrong. I’ve personally endured the creeping disaster of Canadian health care.
Pipes’ […]
MOORE BS FROM CNN
As I have written here and here, the only thing more disingenuous than SiCKO is the coverage it has received from the establishment media. A particularly egregious case in point is CNN’s faux analysis of Moore’s schlockumentary:
Our team investigated some of the claims put forth in his film. We found that his numbers were mostly […]
MICHAEL MOORE VS. THE HEALTH CARE INDUSTRIAL COMPLEX
It would appear that I’m a soulless minion of the “health care industrial complex.” That is, at any rate, the thrust of various comments I have received in response to my posts on Michael Moore and his new schlockumentary, SiCKO. The following question from “Jed” is typical:
Hey! I’m wondering, if I make a website like […]
SiCKO DEBUNKED BY NHS NURSE
As I have discussed here, the media and some Lefty front groups wish to create the impression that nurses in general share Michael Moore’s view of American health care. Not only does this misrepresent the position of most American nurses, it conflicts with the views of many who actually work in the socialized systems that […]
Browning versus Klein
Stuart Browning and Ezra Klein appeared on Kudlow & Co to discuss SiCKO. It was an interesting juxtaposition of communication styles: Browning’s straightforward discussion of the film versus Klein’s fretful attempts to change the subject. A typical example of the latter involved Klein’s gratuitous lurch to the VA:
Rand corporation ranked VA highest on quality. The […]
Paper Collar Mike
The man who actually coined the phrase, “There’s a sucker born every minute,â€? was a 19th century con artist named Joseph Bessimer. “Paper Collar Joe,â€? as he was known to the police, would surely have recognized a soul mate in Michael Moore. For, when it comes to what Joe called “bilking the rubes,â€? Moore is […]
MICHAEL MOORE: MENDACITY WRIT LARGE
Now that Sicko has been made available for viewing by serious commentators, it is becoming obvious that the film is even more disingenuous than expected.
Moore’s trademark combination of anecdote and innuendo paints such an obviously false picture of American health care that it is angering a lot of people who actually care about the […]
MICHAEL MOORE & THE TRUTH ABOUT U.S. HEALTH CARE
While no sensible person would deny that American health care is in need of reform, the shrill tones with which the advocates of socialized medicine lament the “crisisâ€? are seriously over the top. This phenomenon is typified by the film Sicko, which portrays a system in total meltdown. Michael Tanner responds to Moore and his […]