Moore fiction from Michael
That Michael Moore enjoys a shred of credibility from even the most extreme left-wing nut jobs is a testament to his ability to obtain attention for himself when none is warranted.
I was forced to endure Roger and me back in college. Basically, Moore hated not only GM (who he blamed for Flint, Michigans economic woes), but also the United States. Government policies and social attitudes, he believed, were what allowed GM to pick up and move and cut off a huge portion of Flints workers from their jobs, thereby resulting in a local recession or depression.
While nobody likes such a situation it is nevertheless a reality of life. Ah, but if you have a communist government running everything then GM would have been forced to stay in Flint. The single excepting to this being a completely and utterly disasterous idea is that, had GM been forced to stay, Moore would have been kept in merciful obscurity. But, unless you are Michael Moore, communism has enough evidence against it to prove its disasterous impact on human life.
Moore’s newest joke for the American people (as if his first love-fest with communism wasn’t funny enough) is Sicko. This “documentary” claims that Cuba’s health care system is superior to the United States. I imagine that most Americans are wise enough to realize that they would not even have to do any research before declaring this an obvious and laughable fiction.
This piece by Rich Lowry provides all the details.
May 23rd, 2007 at 1:50 pm
Actually having studied the situation myself, I have discovered that Cuba has an amazing system for dealing with HIV infection that has proven extremely effective.
Beyond that, however, Cuba hasn’t shown any superiority beyond that which should be expected. Of course some parts of the system will be easier and better for individuals, but that’s an effect of having such a small population, not some kind of amazing administration.
I have been saying it for a very long time: Michael Moore cites off a list of interesting and at times astounding facts, but lacks any kind of coherence or mission statement, never once in any of his films giving some kind of reasonable solution, just telling us how crappy things are. He really should just stop.