H.A. Award For Michael Moore and ‘Sicko”

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1. Comment by Rev. Bill on 24 February 2008:

   North end of a southbound horse, eh? I can agree wholeheartedly with that. I’ve been in academia during the reign of deconstruction, in which, said its practitioners, all we have is “the free play of signifiers upon the page.” This is because, since all texts are prejudiced by the writers’ sociopolitical prejudices, there is no connection with what they say and reality.

   Therefore, say today’s professors, there are no facts; there are only opinions. Ergo, it doesn’t matter to the viewers of Moore’s films who have been indoctrinated with this drivel whether what he portrays has anything to do with “reality,” since “reality” is only a sociopolitical construct in the mind of the individual.

   One homely example from quite a few years ago: Surveys were taken before and after Close Encounters of the Third Kind was released, and the percentage of Americans who believed in UFOs as alien spacecraft had jumped by an enormous amount in the interim.

   In fact, an even more egregious example pops into my mind. William Sloan Coffin, who I’m sure you remember was the chaplain at Yale during the 60s, attended a World Council of Churches conference in which some delegates from communist countries presented a declaration against US atrocities in Vietnam for a vote. Quite a number of delegates from non-communist countries pointed out that there were quite a few bare-faced lies in the resolution. Then Coffin stood up to say that he too knew the document was a pack of lies, but strongly urged its passage because “my country needs it.” It passed.

   We are in serious trouble.

2. Comment by Jurnei on 24 February 2008:

   Hello:
   In reading your post, I am most interested in your sources for Michael Moore’s hypocrisies. Could you please provide them.
   Thank you.

3. Comment by Shooting Michael Moore on 27 February 2008:

   Dear Jurnei: The expose’ SHOOTING MICHAEL MOORE will be released next month. It is the result of massive investigations in the U. S., Canada and Cuba. Americans deserve facts and this effort provides more of them than MOORE.

4. Comment by jurnei on 24 March 2008:

   Thank you so much, any additional information is most appreciated. If you have information disputing the status of 9/11 emergency workers, suggesting that they haven’t endured horrible sickness without medical attention, I would be most interested. Further, if the small group that went to Cuba weren’t actually treated, please let me know. Of course that would be most irresponsible of Michael Moore.

   Finally, if you can explain why Michael Moore would spend so much time , money, and effort in making his film, while you suggest it all a fake, I think the world would be most interested.

   I have known many American’s to cross the border for health care, perhaps you’ve known them to be taken advantage of in Canada. If that is the case, we should spread the word. Additionally, many Americans purchase medications through the mail from Canada because the cost is supposedly much cheaper. Are you suggesting that their intent is more to put American companies out of business more than their inability to pay for medications here?

   I’m most interested in your facts and I would be aghast to learn that American’s are not interested in paying more for medications here rather than finding the cheapest they can find in this economy.

   Please do tell.

5. Comment by justinator on 24 March 2008:

   One can only assume that Michael Moore made a lot more money off of the film than he invested in it. 6 months or so ago I heard it grossed over 35 million dollars. By the looks of the film Sick it didn’t cost near that much to produce. I personally don’t know about Canadian pharmacuticals. However it seems that most American companies invent the medicine that is later copied and become generic brands.

6. Comment by jimmy justo on 26 March 2008:

   Junei, the film to be released after final editing about Michael Moore, “Shooting Michael Moore” does not in any way support the current American health care system. What it does is show the misinformation created in viewers minds by Michael Moore’s as inherent part of his style. Too much literary license.

   If history has any spine, all of the awards issued to Moore will show the real patina of patent partisanship at the heart of the decisions to elevate him with the just awful effect of adding to the dumming down of the American discussion on very important issues like needed impovements in our health care delivery system. And for those who care to observe, it does show a fair amount of the endemic hypocrisy Moore has perfected, elsewhee called the Moore Mojo allowing knee jeerkers to enrich him while viewers and commenters absorb the equivalent of bumper sticker information instead of unbiased and useful information needed to be considered by all sides to bring imporvement to this and other very important issues.

   Jerkers always forgive his pecadillos in favor of “well, he brings up important issues.” I might remind you that so does the dictionary, wikipedia and so does George Bush. Solutions are only going to be found when all sides set aside their hardened purely practiced partisan positions and truly collaborate and make some hard decisions to let the best, not perfect health care system, evolve and emerge from the combined efforts of all of the necessary and invested parties, including the patients and those very hard working people in direct service like nurses, hospitals and doctors and those who work to provide insurance and drugs, all necessary parts of the equation.

   By the way, among all of the above, as human inhabitants on today’s earth, there is not an angel amongst them, including the patient, dr, drug maker or insurance seller, but a thoughtful reorganization of the chairs on this titanic can make a difference. One of may important facts that need to be accepted from the start is that all countries including Cuba, Britain and the French all ration medicine. The countries do it in their own special ways, often times allowing the likes of Michael Moore to provide selective information so as to leave misimpression to the contrary.

   The desired and impoved system I long and pray for will also have society accepted rationing as part of the plan, with an ongoing process to miminize it as we find ways to expand cost effectively, which is not achievable in light of todays determined partisanship fueled by the likes of Michael Moore movies. Enlightened future classes on documentaries will dissect his selfserving abuse of the media and hopefully documentaries can become full of facts that do not ignor related facts for a full story. There is an interesting satirical and mythological story as to how Moore came to be the award winning masterful hypocrite with his learned Moore Mojo.

7. Comment by Daisy on 26 March 2008:

   Well said justo.

8. Comment by Dave in Buffalo on 28 March 2008:

   Jimmy Justo - you might try using a paragraph to somehow add a little structure to your rant. The rant which is as dense and incomprehensible as the attacks on a fellow who is trying to tell the truth - alarmist truth at that - to a public that in most cases doesn’t care.

   However, I care. And I appreciate Moore’s attempt to engage me in thinking about some of the crap we either take for granted or accept without question.

   And Daisy, after Justo’s lenghty gibberish the best you could muster was “Well said justo”? Well Daisy, only one thing sheep get.

   Fleeced.

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