Another great controversy
We love how people get so bent out of shape about the films of Michael Moore. It sounds like his latest, Sicko, is right on the money. After a tumultuous and highly positive reception at Cannes (where the audience featured many people who live in countries with universal health-care and don’t understand how Americans can be such morons), the film is being slowly released across the country.
Coverage of the “controversy” surrounding the film seems always to be presented in classic “on the one hand/on the other hand” style. On the one hand is Moore and virtually everyone who is even a moderate liberal, and on the other are insurance and pharmaceutical companies, or right-wing and/or libertarian ideologues. That’s kind of like Mickey Rooney with a seltzer bottle versus Lee Van Cleef with a whip. Who do you think the little people will be rooting for?
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