Cleaning out my folder
I have all these links that I keep meaning to post...so to get them out, I’m just going to throw them all in one post...after the jump.
In this post by Artmonkey, he mentioned that Moore said anyone who claimed he spoke to Roger Smith was a “fucking liar.” Moore tried to downplay the conversation we can prove he had as not useful, but you can judge that for yourself. The folks at Premiere sent me this link that contains a transcript of the conversation Mike had with Roger. As you can plainly read for yourself, Moore asked some serious, detailed questions and received real, serious answers in return. This was absolutely essential to Roger & Me, and yet is was left out.
One has to ask why.
Next, it’s Free Market Cure Their “mission statement” sounds right to me.
Free Market Cure is dedicated to correctly diagnosing the problems with the U.S. health care system and promoting solutions which preserve and extend individual liberty.
Now, I see which way the wind blows. I know we will get some kind of “universal” coverage, and probably before whoever wins in 2008 is out of the White House. But. BUT. I want whatever we get to be the plan that costs the least, helps the most and gives us as much freedom and liberty as is possible while still improving the general health of the population. Places like Free Market Cure (and Moorewatch) will help to hash out ideas and keep the system honest. We hope.
Moving on...Want to see absolute evidence that Moore is glorifying Castro, Cuban health care as a system and at the same time demanding single-payer ONLY in America? Look no further One of the highlights:
It’s a very poor country, as you know. And I was very impressed. And, you know, with what little they have to use with their healthcare system, they end up living longer than we do. They have a better infant mortality rate than we do. On a number of issues, they’re the same or better than us.
Yeah. Castro sure worked Moore good, didn’t he? I can almost see Fidel’s hand up Mike’s ass, moving the lips.
Speaking of murderous Cubans from history that are glorified by the American left, take a small peek into Che Guevara’s past. Note also that while Moore did not in any way use Che directly to bolster any point in the film, he did use Che’s daughter, which as we all know, will get you instant street cred in Berkeley and San Francisco and any other place where the far, radical left runs the streets wearing communist dictator tee shirts and flashing peace symbols, completely unaware of the contradiction.
Why note that she’s Che’s daughter? How does that improve the content of what she’s saying? Can her credentials not stand on their own? Why use the name of a mass murderer? I’ll tell you why: because as I said, it gives him cred on the loony end of the left, but most people wouldn’t even notice it flash by. In fact, neither DonnaK nor Lee saw it when they watched Sicko.
Lastly, don’t forget to read this post by DonnaK about Moore lying when he says he never intended to go to “Cuba proper.” We’ve been productive here at MW lately and I didn’t want that one to scroll away and be forgotten.
That’s it for now. At least the “Blog this at Moorewatch!” folder is empty now. :)
Comments
Moore hammered Smith with a disingenuous loaded question. The numbers could not possibly be true, and the fact that the deal ended when GM left seems to be beyond the understanding of one Michael Moore . . . of course, he really didn’t want to understand it, did he?
Moore thinks corporations should exist for no other reason than to support social programs and workers. That no can run a company like that and survive seems beyong his grasp.
I liked the link from Premiere. I found it ironic that moore was asking Smith to give back portions of a tax abatement that GM didn’t get during the same timeframe that moore wouldn’t give back $30,000 to Nadar’s organization for a newsletter that moore didn’t produce. Hmmm…
radical left runs the streets wearing communist dictator tee shirts and flashing peace symbols, completely unaware of the contradiction.
No contradiction if you understand the underlying assumptions (re: double think)… In my opinion most radical revolutionary types argue that ‘the system’ causes war. Ergo, by their… using war… to overthrow ‘the system’… they are ‘fighting to end war’…
No war but the class war… man. So there’s your left.
The Euro right said the same things. Arms merchants, capitalists, the plutocracies, and plutocrats (all controlled by ‘The Jews’) caused wars. The national socialists claimed to want to put end to ‘the madness of arms’.. via one last large war to overthrow them and ‘the system’ (they even called it ‘the system’ much like the later 60’s radicals)…..
To round it out, even the classical liberals, in their revolutionary era, used these kinds of arguments against the aristocracy… Thomas Paine (and others) in America. In France many similar arguments were presented in support of their revolution…
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Oh ew, thank you sooooo much. ;p
(Hey, someone had to say it.)