Michael Moore Blasts Blitzer: “Why Don’t You Tell The Truth To The American People?”
I LOVE Rachel Sklar over at the Huffington Post. Very funny lady. She has put together a nice overview of a recent interview Wolf Blitzer did with Michael Moore on CNN.
Here is her intro:

“Ooh, wow — somebody’s going viral: Earlier this afternoon on CNN’s “The Situation Room,” Michael Moore went berzerko on Wolf Blitzer”

She has nice links and a video. I’m planning to go see Sicko, so I can blog it properly. My very first post at Free Republic was writing a movie review for Farenheit 9-11. I was enraged after watching that movie, especially since my brother was in Iraq when I went to see it.
I anticipate enjoying Sicko though because I have heard that in it Moore uses his special propaganda skills to take on Big Pharma. And that is a battle that only someone with MM’s special Michigonian set of cahones should take on. As a fellow Michigander, I understand his debate style, use of certain gotcha tactics, and use of hyperbole to make a point. I met many people like him where I grew up. His accent is so familiar, it feels like being home.
I totally disagree that the answer for our health care is to socialize it, and I know he makes the case for socializing and that he is in fact going to be hammered by the evidence piling up about socialized countries ineptitude and inefficiency around medical care.
Privatizing the whole thing is the only way to sort our ways out of this health care mess.
However, I am happy to join an alliance with Mr. Moore in his desire to see the Pharmaceutical companies reigned in and held accountable for crimes against humanity, especially as related to psychiatric drugs. Click on this link to watch a short clip of Moore talking about Anti-Depressants. (Scroll down just a bit)
And the whole Movie:

More Here:

“The president of the Galen Institute, Grace-Marie Turner, who spoke to reporters during the call, said later that “I don’t know how good he is a filmmaker, but he certainly is a master of hype.”

Last week, her organization held a symposium on single-payer health care, the timing of which Mrs. Turner described as coincidental to the impending release of Mr. Moore’s film.

Not that the release hasn’t advanced her cause.

“It’s created a buzz and what we’re doing is trying to use the opportunity to get out what it’s like to live under a single-payer system,” she said.”
I appreciate the conservatives (backed up by the pharma companies) using Moore’s film to help educate the public about the dangers of socialism and socialized medicine. And I am completely on board with that effort, because Socialism as a political entity is indefensible. However, I wish those same Conservative Institutions would apply equal time to the very real hazzards of having our FDA in bed with the drug companies. I don’t see it happening in the short term, but Ron Paul, who is running for President, as a doctor, understands this issue very well and I believe will help educate the public about the dangers of Big Pharma Running the world. Here is a video of him talking about it:

Jenny Hatch