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sugar On September 20, 2007




, Arizona
#1New Post! Jun 22, 2007 @ 19:10:33
shhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh saw a bit of the new movie (not yet released) "Sicko"
... very interesting, but very depressing.
Health care system in the United States totally licks balls.
stumblinthrulife On April 16, 2008

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Lake Saint Louis, Missouri
#2New Post! Jun 22, 2007 @ 19:40:13
Don't get too worked up over what Michael Moore says. There is undoubtedly some truth to it, but he has shown himself time and time again to be an accomplished bulls***ter and word mangler. He thinks nothing of splicing together footage from multiple speaches to make it appear that someone is saying something other than they were saying, if you catch my drift.

This is sensationalist entertainment, not investigative journalism.
lugar On March 04, 2014




Pontypridd, United Kingdom
#3New Post! Jun 22, 2007 @ 20:07:40
He did something like this on his show TV Nation, however he wasn't alowd to say at the time that Cuba had a better servicce then America so was told to say that the Canadian version was better.
lugar On March 04, 2014




Pontypridd, United Kingdom
#4New Post! Jun 22, 2007 @ 20:08:08
@stumblinthrulife Said
Don't get too worked up over what Michael Moore says. There is undoubtedly some truth to it, but he has shown himself time and time again to be an accomplished bulls***ter and word mangler. He thinks nothing of splicing together footage from multiple speaches to make it appear that someone is saying something other than they were saying, if you catch my drift.

This is sensationalist entertainment, not investigative journalism.


Are you a republican by any chance.
mendosa555666 On August 27, 2008




Mordhaus, With Dethklok, Canad
#5New Post! Jun 22, 2007 @ 20:09:27
Michael Moore is just another doochebag who thinks he will make people change the world, but we should all just learn to live with the fact that we are killing the earth and there is no possible way to make every single person in the world change their life style. People who are rich don't give two s***s because aslong as they have a full bank account and can sit back in their $2000 leather chair and sip expensive wine, they think that their lives will be perfect until that lifestyle turns on them and bites them in the ass.

Kill The Rich.
stumblinthrulife On April 16, 2008

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Lake Saint Louis, Missouri
#6New Post! Jun 22, 2007 @ 20:16:20
@lugar Said
Are you a republican by any chance.


Nope, independant. I support what I think is right. If it's a democrat saying it, so be it, if they're republican, same goes.

Fact of the matter is that pretty much everything fed through the media is incredibly biased one way or the other. The general public's idea of non-biased is "agrees with me, and is inline with what I believed anyway". People making money from film making recognize this, and give their audience what they want.

A truthful and non-biased account of anything would be bland and boring. Saying that the US healthcare system is bad is completely at odds with my own personal experience. Just a few months ago I went to my doctor with some unexplainable head and back issues. Within a week I had been checked out head to toe, including bloodwork, MRI, and spinal X-rays.
stumblinthrulife On April 16, 2008

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Lake Saint Louis, Missouri
#7New Post! Jun 22, 2007 @ 20:18:12
@mendosa555666 Said
Michael Moore is just another doochebag who thinks he will make people change the world, but we should all just learn to live with the fact that we are killing the earth and there is no possible way to make every single person in the world change their life style. People who are rich don't give two s***s because aslong as they have a full bank account and can sit back in their $2000 leather chair and sip expensive wine, they think that their lives will be perfect until that lifestyle turns on them and bites them in the ass.

Kill The Rich.




I'd love to see what would happen to the civilized world without the taxes that are being paid by the rich. Not to mention the fact that it's the rich that own and operate the companies that pay all the wages. Rich people are rich for a reason. Live with it.
jmillerjr On December 31, 2012




Cape Coral, Florida
#8New Post! Jun 22, 2007 @ 20:18:59
in my opinion michael moore is an Amerca hating moron
he made cuba look better then america
america may be screwed up
but it is probably one of the best places in this world
El_Tino On October 12, 2023
booyaka!





Albuquerque, New Mexico
#9New Post! Jun 22, 2007 @ 20:20:52
Eh, I find his movies entertaining. I don't really take what he says as gospel or anything.
stumblinthrulife On April 16, 2008

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Lake Saint Louis, Missouri
#10New Post! Jun 22, 2007 @ 20:24:34
@el_tino Said
Eh, I find his movies entertaining. I don't really take what he says as gospel or anything.


And this is the point. Michael Moore is entertainment, and when taken as such, harmless. The problem is that many take it as factual investigative journalism, and go away thinking that it's universal truth or something.

The man is saying what people want to hear, and making a s*** load of cash from it.
alexkidd On February 07, 2012
Captain Awesome!


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in a bog, Ireland
#11New Post! Jun 22, 2007 @ 20:31:49
true, there's alot of money in preaching to the converted,
aside from that, alot of it seems like its propaganda fighting propaganda.

sacrificing integrity dosn't help a cause.

i enjoy the movies, hopefully at least it encourages people to go and investagate these issues and creates public awareness to a degree.
El_Tino On October 12, 2023
booyaka!





Albuquerque, New Mexico
#12New Post! Jun 22, 2007 @ 20:33:20
@stumblinthrulife Said
The man is saying what people want to hear, and making a s*** load of cash from it.


I heard he stays at nice hotels on the road then does public appearances from cheap places Smart man.
lugar On March 04, 2014




Pontypridd, United Kingdom
#13New Post! Jun 22, 2007 @ 20:43:15
@stumblinthrulife Said
Nope, independant. I support what I think is right. If it's a democrat saying it, so be it, if they're republican, same goes.

Fact of the matter is that pretty much everything fed through the media is incredibly biased one way or the other. The general public's idea of non-biased is "agrees with me, and is inline with what I believed anyway". People making money from film making recognize this, and give their audience what they want.

A truthful and non-biased account of anything would be bland and boring. Saying that the US healthcare system is bad is completely at odds with my own personal experience. Just a few months ago I went to my doctor with some unexplainable head and back issues. Within a week I had been checked out head to toe, including bloodwork, MRI, and spinal X-rays.


Good I hope it all is now sorted. I just said that because most americans I' have met agree with his views at least on gun control and G. W Bush. With what you said about the media being biased is true because of the reasons you mentioned but I was shocked at how cowed the media on both side of the Atlantic was during the second Gulf War whilst in this country at least being totaly against the goverment.
sugar On September 20, 2007




, Arizona
#14New Post! Jun 22, 2007 @ 21:09:56
Just because what he says isn't popular doesn't mean it isn't so, i know for a fact that if you're sick and need medical attention insurance companies find some way to get out of paying for your care., or they (doctors,nurses) don't take care of you the way they should if you should have to spend time in the hospital. My b/f's mother almost got killed twice by incompetant nurses., and one hospital refused her treatment in the emergency room because her insurance wasn't affiliated with them. its all true.
lugar On March 04, 2014




Pontypridd, United Kingdom
#15New Post! Jun 22, 2007 @ 21:21:15
@sugar Said
Just because what he says isn't popular doesn't mean it isn't so, i know for a fact that if you're sick and need medical attention insurance companies find some way to get out of paying for your care., or they (doctors,nurses) don't take care of you the way they should if you should have to spend time in the hospital. My b/f's mother almost got killed twice by incompetant nurses., and one hospital refused her treatment in the emergency room because her insurance wasn't affiliated with them. its all true.


You get incompetant Docs and nurses everywhere i can rember a case a few months ago where a "Doctor" who practiced with ot a licence for a number of years.
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