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Go Michael Moore…he was right on! I did not hear him mock anyones name in that clip, though…

wow, didn’t take long for that vid to come down after being linked from Drudge. LA Times style all the way, ey Breitbart?

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Betcha he ain’t going to Canada anytime soon for health care.
what a phony!

Moore-on at his best, going on a rant and claiming self-righteousness. Coming from one the nations portrayed in his “documentary” as having top healthcare I can assure you that the man lied through his teeth. He is blasting the US healthcare system which is taking care of his other diseases brought on by obesity and he is alive today due to the medications manufactured by the evil pharmaceutical companies.

He, RICH, get a clue! He DID go to Canada, you moron. Obviously, you have NOT seen the movie. Keep your head buried in the sand. It clearly has kept you clueless.

MELANIE, we rank 37th in the world, right next to Slovenia. We have horrible infant mortality rates and Canadians have a longer life expectancy than us. Which pharmaceutical or insurance company are YOU working for. Also, the American Society of Registered Nurses FACT CHECKED Sicko and gave it a thumbs up! We nurses KNOW how f**ked up the healthcare system is! Try seeing the movie, or are you just scared you might have your freakin’ eyes opened?

It’s not the healthcare system, it’s fat people like Michael Moore causing undue strain on the doctors and nurses of this country by eating themselves into disease and sickness.

If people like Michael Moore took more responsibility for their own fat disgusting lives the quality of healthcare would be vastly improved vs what it is now.

Are you fat Pamela? Are you obese? Most of America is. And it’s destroying the system and the people doing their best to help these people intent on eating themselves dead.

Michael Moore with his comments again has given morbidly obese people a bad name! Take a good look at this guy and honestly say that you will take healthcare advice from him.

It late breaking news the space shuttle returned to Cape Canaveral strapped on the top of a Boeing 747. This is the same technique that was used to fly Mike 2 cheeseburgers Moore home from Cannes film festival.

michael moore speaks the truth

Where did he make fun of the guy’s name? I guess I missed it. Regardless of what you think Moore, or socialized medicine, you have to admit the health care system is messed up here.

does cnn give conservative guests 11 minutes to rant uninterrupted?
the liberal media propaganda machine is our biggest internal threat.

No, TOM, I am not fat. I eat healthy, exercise and I still got cancer. Many health problems are not related to personal habits, and if you knew anything about health you would know that much. So you can sit in your little self-righteous bubble and pretend you are safe and then when you get some horrible disease you can watch your savings, home, and all the other things you worked for be snatched away to pay the corporate whores we call insurance and pharmaceutical companies. Go see the movie. The people in the movie who tell their stories are just normal, hard working Americans. Oh, and just see how good ‘ole Bush is takin’ care of the emergency workers and volunteers who came in an helped on 9-11. Heroes and the U.S. govt. has ignored them. Yeah, he really cares about us. Wake up and smell the coffee. Actions speak louder than words.

Plaque in his artery and “crap” in his mind. This socialist moran should donate half of his food bill to the homeless and he would likely fund many health care plans. Socialized medicine is a disaster for anything other than a cold.

I think Moore forgot to take his medication. Amazing that he couldn’t defend his film but came back to his usual critism of the war. With regard to his anit-war stance…it is amazing that a blind squirrel does eventually find a nut!

Michael Moore, a man with only a high school education and no journalism background is telling CNN what to cover? Michael Moore is a disgrace to real journalists and documentary makers who understand what the word ethical means.

The United States is No. 1 in the world for patient satisfaction and No. 2 (behind Germany) in the world for waiting periods for medical prodcedures.

liberal and democrats, you can keep him. he was mocking the guys name. dont try to defend it. mr. moore is just another bad apple in the democratic party.

BRIAN, you’re making up facts. We are far from #1 in patient satisfaction. More comments from people who have not seen the movie, done any research on their own, or are simply working for the pharmaceutical and insurance companies. Which one are you, Brian?

Never take heatlh care advise from a man with bigger breasts than your mother….

Moore is just another Hollywood misfit looking for acceptance and a need to deem themselves important. Where most are little slight runts…Moore is a big fat slob…too bad Rosie swings the otherway…She and Moore would be a union made in hollywood heaven…Poor thing’s have become this year’s joke. Both have lost it, two bonafide nuts.

I believe the headline for this clip is completely misleading. Mr Moore seemed to me to merely mispronounce Dr Gupta’s name. The headline should have read, “Michael Moore rips CNN a new one.” Was the misleading headline an intentional attempt to accuse Moore of insensitivity/racism?

Here is a link to the content on Sevenload…
http://en.sevenload.com/videos/2QB5ORv/moorecnn

I always find it interesting that Rightwinger are so focused on personal attacks. That is always a sign that you don’t have any legs to stand on, so you resort to name calling and comments about someone’s weight or looks. I bet you are ‘Christians’, too. Jesus would be proud!

Pamela:
You are the moron, m’dear. Where in that posting did it state or imply that MM had never gone to Canada? Just you adding your bigoted world view again. Rich was clearly pointing out that MM won’t be giving up his US-style med care to get all the benefits of the Canadian system. Wonder why? I love you simpletons who go to a movie that corresponds with their ill-informed and America-hating beliefs and who take it as the gospel.

I wonder if the ASRN has an ox to gore, as there have been plenty of points in the film refuted or put in proper context. Perhaps you could actually put some effort into informing your opinions with fact…once you ease up on the vitriol.

Face it Pamela, you have a feeble mind with little capacity for critical thought. BTW, your English usage was also ungrammatical.
Enjoy!

WOW I saw this and I rarely watch CNN it was a hoot though I always end up ill after watching CNN Or Moore.
Now if I may say the gripping about infant mortality perhaps due to pathetic waste breeding while on drugs??? That is right don’t blame individual actions blame the tax payers for not funding prenatal health care to those whom CHOOSE to give birth. Where is the study in that from what I have seen most health care issues that fatty complains about are due to lifestyle CHOICES period why does he not do one on preventative measure like for one to MIND them-self and not expect free health care like free food and free homes.
Anyhow I am betting bloated pig will burst of a heart attack at this rate right on MOORE keep being a blow-hard and do us a favor and perish already.

Exactly how did M. Moore mock his name? Didn’t hear it at all. Think the clip is falsely titled.

Michael Moore makes me sick.

He sometimes gets in a mood where he can be a real bully.

Syntessa:
Infant mortality is counted differently than in the other coubntries. In the other countries deaths in the first 24hrs don’t count in the infant mortality rates, nor do stillborns. In the US we even count the stillborns in our reporting.
The first rule of metrics is to know the exact parameters of what is being measured.

Yikes! Why not post just the small clip of the mock?! I couldn’t sit through the entire clip of MM spewing crap just to see it!

The enemy of my enemy is my friend. Go Moore.

I lived in Canada for 18 years and used their “free” health care many times. Michael Moore is a liar plain and simple. I watched Moore’s movie with my cousin from Granby, Qc, Canada, and we both laughed. Moore is full of crap.

Why won’t Moore just move to Canada?

Pamela those who live in glass houses should not throw stones… Remember utilizing the word Moron is a form of name calling. Take a deep breath go in the closet have a passionate cry, kick the floor and wall, wet your pants then step out in the sun and realize everything is not all bad.

WHAT?!?! Michael Moore takes “liberty” with the “facts” he uses in one of his movies? Nahhhh … you mean like putting events out of sequence? Or tricking a Columbine shooting victim into ambushing some K-Mart counter schlep over firearms? Michael Moore’s films are all about an agenda, not facts: He hates GM, the NRA, capitalism, Flint, and the USA in general. If things are so f***ing good in Canada with their gun control or medicine, why doesn’t he get a forklift and move his fat a** across the Ambassador Bridge (because obviously he’d clog up the Windsor Tunnel)? And why doesn’t he use unionized labor on his movies?

Moore did semi-mock the doctors name at the end of the video piece. He over emphasized parts of the name making him sound as if he were someone with an accent from Asia (India, Pakistan). I think he caught himself “mid-mock” and toned it down.
I disagree with Moore’s 9/11 lies and slant, and I will not give him a dime to promote socialism in America.
Never!

Livemoron,
ok thanks you have done research can you tell me the breakdown on cause of death like incompetent breeders? Seriously what is the percentage of babies dying due to life-style choices.. god that would be an interesting study.

Wolf Blitzer , like all other TV pretend reporters have failed the American public.

Not a big fan of Michael Moores cult of personality, but he did do a fine job of both pointing out the flaws in the U.S. health care system and the failure of our media in covering anything but Jerry Springer type drivel.

As far as this clip, come on, no story!

To say otherwise means either your an Insurance agent or a member of the Taliban.

Michael Moore is a self-involved egotist who just wants to pad his own wallet by trying to pretend he is the torch bearer for the common man. He wanted everyone to see Farenheit 911 free on TV but has unraveled when free versions of Sicko wound up on teh Internet. He should realize that the United States has a free market economy and has the best health care in the world. My parents are alive and would not had thsi chance if they lived in Cuba or some other socialist utopia. With strict regulation of the drug industry there would be no impetus for developing new drugs or technologies. Moore’s eating habits, rudeness fat rear end and gut definitely portray a personal Sicko as I would not be surprised if he already has diabetes and high cholesterol. He definitely has a personality disorder. Perhaps when he gets a fatal heart attack, I will no longer have to listen to this blathering fat slob!

Pamela –

A social worker I was chatting with a few weeks ago told me the same thing about the infant mortality rate in the U.S. She seemed sincere and gave me no reason to doubt her, but when I came home and tried to find corroborating references from any scholarly site whatsoever, I could find nothing. Could you point me in the right direction? Where does that data come from? Thanks a bunch.

I live in Canada and can tell you our health care sucks. Our healthcare is NOT free, we get taxed to hell on everything else and the end result is a disaster of a system. My brother had to wait 3 hours to get his broken arm even looked at, while people who said they just dont feel good got to go ahead of us. The majority of people here hate our healthcare system and wish we had it like the US, so I don’t know what the hell Mr. Moore is talking about.

Why doesn’t he try getting deathly ill, then decide if he wants to use Canada’s “free” healthcare or paid healthcare in the states. I GUARANTEE you he will opt for the States.

Breitbart, this seems like a non-story! There’s no “macacca” moment in this clip. Nowhere does Moore seem to ‘mock’ the pronounciation of Dr. Gupta’s name.

a) he never “mocked” the good doctor’s name. What a madeup headline. But Im glad I watched the 8 minute segment.
b)Mike, love him or hate him, brings the ugly truth right up to our noses to face; no wonder a lot of people dont like it. What are the steps again? denial-anger-excuses and then finally change. Go see the movie before you make stupid comments that dont add up.

Mr. Moore, why should we pay for your inevitable heart failure due to obesity. You are the worst posterboy for healthcare. Fat, and at extreme risk and even with the money to do so, you show NO personal responsibility for your obesity.

I watched the whole thing, and as usual, MM talked a lot without saying much. all of the facts in dr gupta’s piece are on the money. mm is trying to gin up some interest in his movie. he loves to take liberties with the facts and bullies anyone who disagrees with him. and, yes, he is just a little racist at the end of that clip.

I’m sorry but I missed the “mocking” of the Indian anchor’s name. I watched it twice but I guess i just didnt pay close enough attention. What the *bleep* is wrong with these people….why not headline that clip with “Michael Moore Calls Out Wolf Blitzer and CNN On Their Biased Reporting”? Not a big fan of M.M. but come on….

I also watched the whole video, and didn’t hear him mock Gupta’s name. Headline of the piece should be changed.

He was going after CNN more then he was Gupta. I agree w/Moore on most of the points that were raised, however going after Gupta on Iraq and not asking the questions was a little far-fetched.

Still he did NOT mock Gupta’s name.

TWO PROBLEMS –

1. Moore claims that the gov’t can succeed as socialized medical care because they do such a great job with Social Security?!? Yeah, I’ve been paying thousands into it and probably won’t see a penny when I retire a few decades from now.

2. Exactly what “job” is CNN failing to do in relationship to the Iraq war? It just reports the news… like it’s supposed to. But Moore wants CNN to be an activist organization and have a more pro-active agenda than it already does. That’s not journalism. And to suggest that CNN is supportive of the war is laugh out loud hilarious.

Mr Moore is a socialist and a fascist. I thought that we made some progress against people like this in 1945.

“Welcome to the wonderful Cuban healthcare system”. There are not any Cubans that are getting healthcare as he portrayed in his comedy, “Sicko”.

He is nothing but a biggot and a fascist. If he hates this country so much, why doesn’t he move?

First I can’t stand MM. I think he’s aa overrated hack director but fair is fair, there was no mockery in that piece. Something smells fishy, like the Drug Companies hoping to discredit MM’s opinion by hoping to create controversy. Michael, I can’t stand ya, and don’t agree with what you’re saying, but you’re getting railroaded on this so called “mockery” isue.

Comical how that bloated sack of adipose tissue calls someone “biased”, what a tool, he’s nothing more than a self loathing propaganda film maker. Conspiracy loving communist, what a miserable douche!

He didn’t mock Gupta’s name. What a terrible and dishonest title.

Poor Ms. Pamela, this is what I’m talking about. Poor little brains.
Someone should say this to Ms. Pamela though, I hope you get over your cancer, stay tough you can beat it.
Now that that is out of the way…Pamela get over it. If our health care or doctors are so crappy, then why does the majority of the worlds greatest operation inovations draw their orgins to our country? Why do some of the toughest surgeries go on in our land? And lastly if you don’t like your treatment (and it sounds like you don’t) then go to Canada if you think it will help. The American taxpayer will probably still end up paying for it.

Why on earth do conservatives always argue hypocrisy? They go after Moore’s crusade re health care by saying he’s fat, like…what…only a thin, healthy person should have anything to say about the healthcare system? This is their m.o. in attacking entertainers for having the gall to care about the environment, by saying, “Oh, but look—they’re not skipping flights and living in caves and avoiding electricity!” Moore’s “rant” is filled with nothing but truth and you know, if he wants to crow a bit about Fahrenheit 911 a bit…why shouldn’t be be allowed to? He was right on target then and he is right on target now. He’s fighting to help all of us, including the right-wingers who would rather die of cancer themselves rather than find out that a poor person got a “free ride” in treating their own cancer.

Pamela is a nurse?!? Now I know what is wrong with health care–we have teen mentality morons feining off as professionals!

AND ON SOCIALIZED MEDICAL CARE:

Sure, it works well when you have a non-diverse country with next to no immigration (read: UK, France, Germany, etc.).

But does anyone really think that a country which welcomes “tired, poor, huddled masses” (read: the U.S.) can also offer “free” medical care to all? Such a policy is not sustainable. AND this fact will be painfully clear to many European countries if the migration of millions of poverty-stricken African Muslims continues as is.

So if you want “free” medical care, you had better start opposing the migration of poverty into the United States. You can’t have both.

“It’s just obvious you can’t have free immigration and a welfare state.” — Nobel prize-winning economist Milton Friedman

It’s sounds like Fred Thompson was right in his “You Tube” clip when he said:

“…..mental institution Michael, maybe it’s something you oughta look into……”

Just a question…How many of Mr. Moore staff, including those who worked for the various companies that made his film, had adequate health insurance?

Huh? When did he make fun of Sanjay Guptah?

And before you can assume if I’m with any ins. company or pharm company. Just click on the Link I’m a RoughRider, and it was just a movie just like Fahrenheit 911…lol. Ok, now flip out on me…

In fact bring it to the site… any and all of you…let’s talk about this.

http://www.roughridersusa.org

POPEYE, Moron is a descriptive word for most of the 27% of people who still support this pResident and who despise MM for speaking the truth about this country. And as for the other moron, SYNTESSA, who thinks our IM rate is only because of drugs, well you’re a lost cause. Lost because of your self-righteous attitude and lost because you clearly have no understanding of the causes of infant mortality, the #1 cause being premature birth, of which over 50% have NO risk factors (ie smoking, previous preterm birth, under age 18, etc.) I am an R.N. and I work with these prenatal women and you are just wrong. Period. Oh, and BTW, wealthy/insured women use drugs, too, but they just get abortions when they get pregnant. You probably didn’t know that, either. Hence, your ‘we shouldn’t have to pay for prenatal care’ rant is off base. And lastly, LIVERMORON (what an appropriate name), I have a feeble mind? Guess that’s why I graduated at the top of my college class, huh? Why do I waste my oxygen on non-thinkers? You smart people just go back to your happy, knee-slapping, MM bashin’ party. You’re a lost cause.

For you morons who want to suggest Canada’s system is not what you want because of some problem you have heard, like you might have to wait for some non-emergency. Just think, we Canadains pay thousands of dollars per person LESS, then you Americans do. So just think how good your system would be if you put the funds you already spend into a Canadian style system. It would be great, just the people making profits now would not be getting them, it would go to heal people. You Americans are just plain stupid. And you wonder why Germans followed the Nazis? In other words, you believe the propaganda from the industry as if it’s the truth.

When MM states it will be FREE UNIVERSAL HEALTH CARE you know he doesn’t have a clue.

At what point in the video does he make fun of Sanjay Gupta’s name? I must have missed it. Can someone give me the exact time?

Oh, and what is with the headline about mocking Gupta’s name. Moore did not, some right wing jerk is making the headline up! Moore is right, the media are whores to the advertisers. How did the US get to the point where the public has no power?

Is anyone else sick of all the HYPOCRITE LIBERALS and all the media attention they are given?

jc

“At what point in the video does he make fun of Sanjay Gupta’s name? I must have missed it. Can someone give me the exact time?”

You have to watch the entire clip. It’s near the very end.

Remember…Pamela is our smart nurse….

“Pamela July 9th, 2007 – 8:29 pm
POPEYE, Moron is a descriptive word for most of the 27% of people who still support this pResident and who despise MM for speaking the truth about this country. And as for the other moron, SYNTESSA, who thinks our IM rate is only because of drugs, well you’re a lost cause. Lost because of your self-righteous attitude and lost because you clearly have no understanding of the causes of infant mortality, the #1 cause being premature birth, of which over 50% have NO risk factors (ie smoking, previous preterm birth, under age 18, etc.) I am an R.N. and I work with these prenatal women and you are just wrong. Period. Oh, and BTW, wealthy/insured women use drugs, too, but they just get abortions when they get pregnant. You probably didn’t know that, either. Hence, your ‘we shouldn’t have to pay for prenatal care’ rant is off base. And lastly, LIVERMORON (what an appropriate name), I have a feeble mind? Guess that’s why I graduated at the top of my college class, huh? Why do I waste my oxygen on non-thinkers? You smart people just go back to your happy, knee-slapping, MM bashin’ party. You’re a lost cause.

Funny, those posting just to throw stones at Moore, like 4 year olds on the playground, without one shred of argument in them shows us how dumb some of you really are. The things he hates are in fact things that need to be changed in many peoples opinions. If you disagree with them, tell us why, not “he’s a big fat, liar and a poopy head!”. Some of your logic is scary too. LIke JDK: Asking people that merely have a different opinion than you to “move” out of the country is the EXACT type of thought that made people from freedom loving America call them enemy. That type of wish is completely UN-American. It’s as if you think that we, the richest country in the world, should do it completely different from everyone else in the world because our way is better? If you look at the facts, we do not do it better, in almost every category. #1 reason for bankruptcy in the US? Health bills. #38 in infant morality rate, we do not live nearly as long as citizens in other countries. Un-insured people die just for lack of money. This is the “Best”? This promotes feelings of freedom? My god. This is a really poor excuse to gain hits. But that’s all Drudge/Breitbart/FOX”News” does, now isn’t it… seriously, out of all of the extremely important content discussed in that piece, and the over pronunciation of the persons name gets the title?! Welcome to the death of news, and the age of “news for ratings/clicks”.

I did watch the whole clip, and didn’t see/hear it, what minute/second does it occur?

I slogged through the whole clip – what name mocking? What are you trying to sell us, Breitbart?

To the Canadians that say they spend thousands of dollars less than Americans you are full of crap. You pay twice as much in taxes as we do. When I’m on my annual fishing trip to Ontario every year between just the sales tax and fuel tax it would break the average guy.

WHAT KIND OF B.S. SITE IS THIS?? He did NOT make fun of the Indian doctor’s name.

Based on Pamela’s elite view of herself, I am suggesting we ‘Socialize Pamela.’ Let’s ensure that everyone is a feeling, warm human being like her. My gosh…she is educated, after all. She is the best we can be, so let’s all be Pamela. Since she could never entertain a mate for long, we will likely go extinct, thereby solving the medical crisis and global warming. Socialized Pamela…think about it…

matt your the biggest internal threat you idiot, your a traitor to our beloved country. How come you bought that Japanese car and are married to the foriegn woman! quit dogging fox news for crying out loud!!

For those interested in the infant mortality issue, Wikipedia has a good discussion of it:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Infant_mortality

Basically, different companies do use different metrics when they report IMR, which obviously makes comparisons problematic.

here is the link to that Fred Thompson responds to Michael Moore clip:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DdAm6UY4xOE

This is total nonsense.

WHERE DOES HE MOCK GUPTA’S NAME?

I’ll tell you. He doesn’t.

More importantly he is right. CNN and FOX are both right wing stations that say only what their corporate sponsors allow them to.

Do your thing Michael Moore! Don’t let Drudge or anyone else intimidate you.

These are the same people who defend Ann Coulter.

Who cares about a mocked name when the real issue is how incredibly liberally brainwashed Moore is. He is truly lost in a world of bizarre logic and basking in the sunshine of idiocy. His agenda is simple: government good, business bad.

You do know, that America does not hold the higher moral ground any more because of things like some of you are posting. “Screw the poor! They shouldn’t be poor!”. Using the denial of health care as a way to make people “not poor” is an unbelievably ignorant thought (please take a race, class and gender class at a college near you), and one that is utterly immoral (you obviously aren’t a Christian). This is just one of the reasons we aren’t respected any more. *sigh* I’ve never seen so much ignorance converge at once like this.

What a moron.

I find it’s better to ignore whatever the man has to say. I don’t think he’s capable of being honest at all.

He’s free to say what he wants, regardless of whether it’s bullcrap, and I’m free to think he’s full of crap and refuse to give that horse’s derriere a second of my time.

This site is total B.S. He does NOT make fun of the Indian name whatsoever.

Where did he make fun of Sanjay Gupta’s name?? I am an Indian and I don’t think he made fun of his name. As usual, Drudgereport is exaggerating.

He most certainly did mock Dr. Gupta’s name. He did this in the closing minute of the segment, which I watched entirely. He threw on one of those 7-11/Apu accents as he loudly said (and mocked) Dr. Gupta’s name.

Because Indians are percieved as a successful minority, discrimination against them often goes unnoticed or unpunished, much in the same vein as asian stereotypes are laughed at. But if he had put on a stereotypical black accent, or was making fun of Islam, you can bet this would be all over the news. ALL OVER.

The reason none of you can find where he mocked Indians is b/c it’s a 10+ minute segment. I watched it b/c I wanted to see him engage in discrimination. Oh, he’s not so perfect after all? Wow. Too bad he will go unpunished for it. The double-standards that exist in this country are laughable. We can say whatever we want about any group as long as they are percieved to be successful. Yeah, there aren’t poor white, indian, and asians out there.

It’s the rich and the poor that are divided. But you can’t make earth perfect, so if you are looking for perfection, maybe you should stop being an athiest and become a relgious fantatic. That’s the other side of the coin.

“Who cares about a mocked name when the real issue is how incredibly liberally brainwashed Moore is. He is truly lost in a world of bizarre logic and basking in the sunshine of idiocy. His agenda is simple: government good, business bad.”

Well, I got to this vid off the Drudge Report which linked to it with the text “Michael Moore Mocks Indian Anchor’s Name During On-Air Tirade Against CNN…”, and the title of the video also claims he mocked the guy’s name….

I doubt we’re gonna solve our health care issues in the comments section for this video, but we can at least get the video’s title right, can’t we?

“BREITBART TV” has just been exposed as a total B.S. far-right lying propoganda site.

At no point does he make fun of the Indian name.

JD in DC

Canada has the highest rate of immigration (per capita) in the world, with Quebec and the vast majority of immigrants from non English speaking countries we are just as diverse if not more, and your point is crap.

Note: this does not include illegal immigration which is a separate problem. And just to surprise you, I think they all have to go back to apply to come back, give them points for time and job history, but they should go back to get in legally, and then control the darn dorder like any country does. Fence, whatever.

One word – Psycho!

I am NO Mike Moore fan and have no reason to defend him. What I do take exception to is Breitbart tagging the video with a claim that he “mocked” Gupta in that clip. I watched it twice…. what did I miss? I saw NO “mocking”.

Great…. another biased (wannabe) news outlet spewing his own personal agenda. Try just presenting the facts, nobody cares about Breitbarts personal opinion.

Ever since Moore took cheap shots (pun intended) at an ailing Chuck Heston and used editing techniques to manipulate how the actor appeared, I have disliked all of Moore’s efforts and held them with the greatest contempt.

F911 did more damage and is responsible for much of the escalation in U.S. hatred, conspiracy theories, and soldiers dead.
His MTVization of the facts is reprehensible. The damage unestimable.

However, I did like this piece. CNN may not shill for his film, but they surely do not support Bush, Cheney and the war. It’s just that Moore is far lefter than the already very left CNN. It’s analogous to Sheehan criticizing Hillary. But, unlike Sheehan, Moore actually does know what he is talking about. Many good points here.

Moore just went up a few notches in my book.

I JUST LOVE THE HYPOCRITE, EITHER WE ARE TORTURING THE PRISONERS IN GITMO, OR AS MICHAEL SAYS THEY HAVE THE BEST HEALTH CARE ON THE PLANET, MY LIBERAL LEFT WING EXTREMIST MEDIA MISSED THAT DIDN’T THEY………WHAT PIGS, MICHAEL HAS NO IDEA HOW NASTY THOSE LIBERALS CAN BE, ASK SHEEHAN, NOPE HE IS THRU, WE HATE HIM AND THE LIBS DON’T LIKE ANYONE WHO IS NOT IN COMPLETE LOCK STEP WITH THEM, THEY ARE THE NAZI’S OF AMERICA AND HE IS GETTING READY TO SEE IT……I LOVE WHEN LIBERALS FIGHT LIBERALS, THEY FIGHT SO DIRTY IT IS FUNNY TO WATCH, OBAMA IS GETTING READY TO SEE IT, HEARD HIS PLACE WAS ROBBED, I WOULD LOOK AT MRS. BILL CLINTON, HER ADVISORS ALL BREAK THE LAW TO WIN, THAT IS THE ONLY PLAY THEY GOT…………….

How does Canada afford it Mr. Moore?, Pamela?, John? With the American Foriegn Aid we give The Great White North? Which, every year, is more than what we even give to Mexico. Why is that, if Mexico is presumably worse off? Now, I’ll pull back some to reserve myself slightly, please be quiet you American HealthCare Haters. Your needless arguments are those made by people who probably help us (U.S.) live up to the “FastFood Nation”, “Wellfare State” stereotypes. Americans WORK for what they want, NOT WHINE ABOUT IT!!

Many Riders, One Voice
http://www.roughridersusa.org

This site is total B.S.

At no point does he “make fun”: of Indian name.

(I watched the entire clip)

Let’s see…we live in a country where you can pay for an HMO, pay out of pocket, or, if you are poor, go to an emergency room. Every count hospital in California treats any emergency. Beyond that–if you are broke, it is paid by taxpayers. We treat illegal immigrants–free. We have county clinics for low income and indigent–free. Illegal immigrnats have access to county mental health, dental, pre and post partem, and wellness. Try buying a burrito in Tijuana if you are from El Salvador illegally…you’ll be in jail. I guess we have a God -given right to free health care? ‘Free’ means we all pay to lower the care of those who work, to the level of those who don’t. No thanks.

Ah, he did make fun of Sanjay Gupta’s name a little bit. It’s at the 10:30 mark of the video.

I loved the part where he pointed out that Rudy and Republicans want to do away for Medicare for senior citizens because it’s “socialized medicine” (which it is, in fact)

Nope. He did NOT make fun of his name… not even CLOSE.

He said the name emphatically, but not in a mocking tone. This site is B.S.

I am NO Mike Moore fan and have no reason to defend him. What I do take exception to is Breitbart tagging the video with a claim that he “mocked” Gupta in that clip. I watched it twice…. what did I miss? I saw NO “mocking”.

Great…. another biased (wannabe) news outlet spewing his own personal agenda. Try just presenting the facts, nobody cares about Breitbarts personal opinion.

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Well said!

I’m not the biggest Michael Moore fan in the world, but that didn’t at all sound like he was mocking Dr. Gupta’s name.

Quite a stretch, Breitbart. It’s like saying Bush was mocking all Africans during that dance he did a few months ago.

Brian, you say the US is number one in patient satisfaction.

Unlike you, I just did a little research.

US is 40% Satisfaction, you are somewhere down past tenth.

Read the study, if you can read.

http://dll.umaine.edu/ble/U.S.%20HCweb.pdf

To Tad;

CNN is right wing? You are joking right? But since you wrote in all caps, we can assume you are a screaming and incoherent liberal incapable of reasoning or logic. What planet are you living on? It must be miserable there, if you consider CNN to be right wing. ;)

Fox could arguable be called ‘favorable to this administration’. But still has many liberals on air, as well as many ‘unfavorable’ pieces about Bush,etc.

Compared with every other news outlet which is openly liberal, such as all networks, CBS, NBC, ABC, PBS, NPR, all cable (except fox): CNN, MSNBC, all news outlets: AP, REUTERS, BBC, NYT, LATimes, Washington Post, Boston Globe, Int. Herald Tribune, Guardian, and the list goes on and on. I’ll run out of comment space if i continue. All that up against one single station, Fox, And the liberals whine and run scared? lol. It’s pathetic. I’d say the screaming liberals, and pres candidates who were afraid of debating on Fox are no match for real adversaries we may face.

Btw, I did not hear any Indian name slur here.

“He said the name emphatically, but not in a mocking tone”

Come on man, he did so mock the guy’s name a bit. I don’t think it’s that big of a deal, but he did go a little Apu there.

Moore looks significantly heavier since I last saw him. For all who saw his new film, did he touch on rampant American obesity and its role in rising medical costs?

There’s passion and there’s overzealousness. Moore clearly is not mentally stable. He can’t rationally discuss issues without ranting or going off on unrelated tangents.

Really? Out of that entire interview, you pick the headline “Michael Moore Mocks Indian Anchor’s Name During On-Air Tirade Against CNN?” Andrew Breitbart, I know you’re Drudge’s protege, but c’mon.

Nope. He didn’t mock the name at all. He didn’t imitate Indian, etc.

Just substitute a western name… said loudly

“and your reporter JOHN SMITH….” — that’s all he did,

So, you are saying that saying a person’s name emphatically is “racist”? sheeeesh.

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Thank God for Michael Moore. Here’s someone who produces brilliant documentaries to raise our awareness of issues that we as a country seem to sleep through…and he’s got the great presence of mind to drive home these key questions to the mainstream media. He is COMPLETELY right to attach the media for being cowards regarding this stupid war and this twisted Whitehouse administration.
How typical it is of the media to subtitle this clip with pathetic comments like “Moore also mocked the pronunciation of chief medical correspondent, Dr. Sanjay Gupta. (Not the type of thing that the eagle-eyed filmmaker would miss if it came out of the mouth of one his political enemies.” What kind of high school ‘nanny nanny boo boo’ sissy defensive remark is this?

Thank God for Michael Moore

RD

You’ve got to be kidding me??? Sanjay Gupta is supposed to be insulted about the pronounciation of his name?!?

Maybe about the insults to his journalism, but WHERE was there some slur???

Important issues need to be debated in this country, and you’re muckraking, trying to dig up some crap against Michael Moore, who has the balls to go on CNN, take them to task, and say to hell with the traditional “I’m pimping my movie” routine that becomes the most routine form of prostitution we know within the media.

Where does Moore think medical advances will come from if you take corporations out of the picture? Why do MD’s from all over the world get trained here? Is anyone else tired of Moore’s half-truths and blatant misinformation? Why does he have an audience?

Our healthcare system isn’t perfect. Its got a lot of flaws but I wouldn’t want to be treated for a serious illness anywhere else in the world.

One last point. Why wasn’t Moore arrested when he returned to the U.S. after his illegal trip to Cuba?

I get the idea MM is the only person to have any facts about health care. Everyone but MM is stupid in his mind.

How ironic… this far-right crack pot is acting so “PC” himself that he believes merely saying a person’s name loudly is “racist”!!!

LOL!!!

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Well, Michael Moore WAS right about the war in Iraq… even the REPUBLICAN Congressmen are coming to that point of view.

Moore is an idiot and that being nice. If you want health care in America work for it. Don’t expect the Gov. to pay for you. Get off you dead butts and go to work and pay for it. The reason the health care in this country is in trouble is because we the people who work for a living are paying for the 12+ million illegals that are being cared for for nothing. Who do you think pays for all this? Its the poor working slob that has to pay for everybody else. Wake up America and smell the bull**** being shoveled at you by this tub of lard and the Liberals who want to keep the poor, poor and uneducated and dependent on Big Gov. for all of it.

Kevin–I take it you feel Bill Clinton was a murderer for bombing Iraq behind their WMD threat?

The only thing Moore mocked was the ridiculous bought and paid for main stream media.

When did he make fun of gupta? Stop spining lies you pharmacy lackey boys. Answers the question!!

Wheres the Weapons of mass destruction?!?!?

Where’s the universal healthcare?? For profit health care rip people off!

SPIN LIES SPIN LIES. Imature fools.

Ahh statistics. What a wonderful tool for comparing sphincters to oranges. Michael Moore the mad manipulator. If the US is so horrible why do we have such an immigration problem.

I hear Michael Moore’s next project is an autobiographical piece titled “Whacko”.

Wow, that’s a real stretch, trying to find some sort of racist mockery in there. Nice try. The irony, of course, is that I probably would never have seen this clip had you not used it in a desperate attempt to make Michael Moore look bad. Thanks for reminding me to go watch Sicko, which I will do this weekend, and I am inviting a large group of my friends to go with me. Is anyone else tired of paying for multimillion dollar salaries for the execs at big insurance and big pharma companies? That’s the real welfare state, folks. That’s where all your pill dollars are going suckers. Keep voting Republican and listening to Rush, if you want things to stay just as screwed up as they are right now.

RDuncan, you got to be kidding, right?

Moore was not mocking the name of the doctor, rather he was emphasizing the pronunciation to show his skepticism of the doctor’s opinions. Nothing to do with the doctor being Indian, get it right. And bravo for Moore getting something out about the state of the US health care system. He may not be completely objective but at least he brings attention to the places that need it.

Moore is a propagandist, nothing more. He only uses those facts that support his position. When asked by National Public Radio why he didn’t mention the long waits for surgery in Canada, he got very offensive and claimed that there were “no waiting” for procedures in Canada. ALL Canadians know this to be an outright lie. Waits for simple things like MRIs can be up to a year. As for Canada’s system – there is nothing “free” about it. Just look at taxes and prices in Canada. Travel in Canada and see for yourself. Nothing is cheap.

BTW: Were it not for those nasty, awful pharmaceutical companies, Polio, Smallpox, Pneumonia, Malaria, Syphillis, The Plague, and many more would still be commonplace. Cancer would kill most people. Bi-Polar and other menatlly ill folks would suffer without relief. Put a price tag on that.

“He most certainly did mock Dr. Gupta’s name. He did this in the closing minute of the segment, which I watched entirely. He threw on one of those 7-11/Apu accents as he loudly said (and mocked) Dr. Gupta’s name.

Because Indians are percieved as a successful minority, discrimination against them often goes unnoticed or unpunished, much in the same vein as asian stereotypes are laughed at. But if he had put on a stereotypical black accent, or was making fun of Islam, you can bet this would be all over the news. ALL OVER. ”

You FOOL I am INDIAN and nowhere did he make fun of Sanjay goooepta. We indians make more fun of that name then he did.

Brietbart is a pieceo Sh1t site.. elitist fat cats your days are numberd… go get em michael moore!!!

Breitbart licks the Health Care Industry taint. This is horse apples of the most rancid kind. Moore is both right and righteous in his anti-mainstream-media rant, and Blitzer is a mere tool.

In the Last year I’ve had surgery and a hospital stay that cost in the vicinity of $125,000 and a prosthetic leg that cost $18,000 with rehab and pysical therapy and to date have paid out of pocket $440.00 total. So where’s the problem?

Michael Moore was completely right about the Iraq War. The far-right crackpots who disagreed with all his points have been proven wrong. Even the REPUBLICAN Congressmen are seeing the massive mistake Bush made.

Michael Moore also makes a lot of important, and valid, comments about the health care problem.

Those who are whining and making childish rants against him will probably come around to realize the validity of much of what he says… just like Iraq.

Moore is such an idiot and a liar.

Well, they cannot dispute his comments, so the crackpot right wingers here start whining that it’s “racist” to say a person’s name loudly.

LOL!!!

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Your “come on” for the clip is a lie. There was no mocking of the name. What’s up with you guys? Can’t you present the issues without resorting to fabrications? But then, I should know better than to hop on a drudge link, and will be much more cautious next time. As it stands, the credibility of your news organization is nil.

@ Doug
What!? I traveled in Canada a few years ago and everything was cheaper there than it was here in the states. Maybe you’re refering to the fact that ever since our dear president came into office the US dollar has been on the decline, and now even the Canadian dollar has gained value against it for the first time in three decades. And I suppose you’ve asked all the Canadians their thoughts and opinions on their healthcare system..?

What a nutburger! It shows you that the heart of Socialism is RACISM and self-indulgience(sp). He sure doesn’t like anyone challenging his opinion, does he?

You know, I hate Michael Moore as much as the next guy, but, indeed, this was neither a slur, nor noteworthy. It is unbelievable that all your biased reporting noted from that interview was that final comment. In case you are not aware, and as I’m sure someone else will also note, Sanjay and Gupta are extraordinarily common names amongst a population much larger than the U.S.’s. It seemed quite clear to me that Mr. Moore’s exaggerated pronunciation of the Dr.’s name was to humorously point out yet one more aspect of the overwhelming perception of a lack of credibility as to his opposition’s entire arguement. It’s as if, if the interview were presented to an audience in India, the expert opposing opinion were given from the much noted Dr. John Smith. Oooooo! John Smith! It bears mocking. To accuse the comment of having a deeper ethnic meaning is a political lie, and you my news reporting friends, are political liars.

ACG, we do spend less on Health Care, it’s a FACT. I mean, when I ask my Provincial government how much they spend on hospitals, doctors, etc. (health care) and they tell me 5 billion, I can divide that by the population to find out a per capita cost. And I did ask for an article once. It’s a fact you cannot deny. Now, our taxes? Try building roads and other stuff on a small tax base like Canada’s. Another thing is about 20 years ago we fixed out old age Canada Pension so it would not go broke. It’s solvent, yours are not becuase you do not pay enough taxes, but I bet your local Republican will tell you he wants to cut your taxes and you will vote for him because they pray on those that can’t think. I think I have wasted enough time you right wingers, there is not talking to you, no brain.

And to you RoughRider, if you think the US sends foriegn aid to Canada you only prove my point about how you folks herad some nut on FOX say something and you repeat it. Gawd. And you likely think the US is the most generous in the world on foreign aid. Not by a long shot per capita (the only sane way to judge it).

Finally, Moore said the namy loudly and with emphesis but I heard no mocking. He would have said “Miles Obrien” the same way if he had done the report. Oh, the poor Irish!

It sounded to me like he was making fun of the supposed authority authority that Dr. Gupta carries, not his name. As in, (with supreme sarcasm) “Oooooh – if Dr. Sanjay Gupta says it, it MUST be true!”

I think that title irresponsible and wreaks of bias.

Hey didn’t he star in SUPERSIZE ME? I know! Unleash his appetite on cattle and we’ll solve that nasty hole-in-the ozone, global warming, coming ice age/CO2 flatulence, thingy.

Wolf should have apologized to him. Say what you want about how Moore looks, he was more right about the Iraq war than Wolf.

I didn’t hear any mispronounced names. If Moore’s weight and this bllsh1t are the best the wingnuts have to offer in defense of his movie, I can’t wait to see it.

I didn’t hear a mispronounciation let alone an offensive, enduring insult. I don’t agree with Moore on the healthcare issue. But it’s sad that a solid rant and a valid argument are glossed over and an inaudible potentially maybe quasi racial sorta insult is the headline. I visit Drudge five times a day, I read the LA Times and nothing Moore said about the media could convince me that the media is full of BS as effectively as the headlines both of those venues ran.

I don’t even think the ideological battle in this country should be between liberals and conservatives. We’re not there yet. Those who want to uncover the facts and focus on logical arguments should be battling against the tabloid journalism and personal politics driven news stories that now infest even our finest institutions.

Michael Moore is economical with the truth, and in this video, just loses more credibility if you ask me. Bumpersticker politics ignores the multifaced complexities of geo-politics, capitalism (its benefits and yes, its warts) and completely ignores the knock on effects that occur after the obvious. Also, 2,720,000 people run the country, not just the incoming president, and many have been good civil servants for many years. http://ftp2.census.gov/govs/apes/06fedfun.pdf
It amazes me to think that everyone thinks that when a President is elected, he fires EVERYONE in the FBI, CIA, Dept of Defense. He inherits many.

Bumpersticker politics is easy.

Pull out of Iraq/watch a major ethnic clensing take place, reduce $$ in healthcare and drugs/ compromise R&D, everyone would say yes to free money for everyone/debt and implosion.

He would be more credible IF he didnt obsfucate the whole truth with just a few soundbite truism.

Michael Moore’s a lunatic! Social Security and Medicare are projected to be bankrupt! That’s socialized systems for you. The allegation that he mock’s Sanjay Gupta’s name is unfair, though. It sounded more like he was out of breath. Most likely because he’s overweight and talks too much! Come to think of it, socialized health care would benefit him. He could continue to eat with no regard to his health, and should he get a heart attack, the government picks up the tab at the expense of healthy taxpayers!

I love how Michael Moore insists on not giving sound bites and how upset he gets when he thinks he will be edited.

Too bad this fat piece of $hit does exactly the opposite when making his movies.

He is a lying hypocritical sack of dog$hit – like all liberals.

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Micheal Moore does not represent the USA in matters of healthcare,gun ownership or the war on terrorists.
He’a a overweight slob with something to say,and good for him.But the American people who work hard,vote,and play by the rules know this phony for what he is.A Socialist.
The USA was’nt founded upon,nor will it succumb to the whims of his kind.

Hey fatso – I think we all thought Guliani was attacking medicine for senior citizens and Medicare and Medicaid when he said socialized medicine won’t work.

Can you believe how this Twinkie gorging disgusting fat body can take a 15 second comment and turn it around so it doesn’t even sound anything like what what the person who said it meant?

I can – it’s what Dorito chomper does in his lies he has the gall to call documentaries!

I am an Indian-American and watched the whole clip. The only thing Mr. Moore did at the end was to say Dr. Gupta’s name loudly. This is by no means mocking anyting. I think the right is trying to make an issue of nothing to attack Mr. Moore and force him to defend something that is not true.

Message from Canada: Socialized medicine sucks.

All politicians ever talk about is how much $ they’re going to spend more than the other guy on health care.

People die of cancer before they can get tested on an MRI machine because the waiting lists are too long.

We spend $ forming doctors (higher education is also subsidized in Canada) and then they leave the country to make more $ elsewhere.

The more expensive procedures are not covered and you end up having to fly to the States if you need one, at your own expense.

Keep up the good fight USA and dont make the same mistakes Canada did.

Get a grip, folks. What does Michael Moore’s physical appearance have to do with his argument and point of view? Following that “logic” Stephen Hawking can’t add. Michael Moore has presented a LARGE number of documented facts. If you can do so, refute them with other credible evidence. If not, please remember this: Name calling is the mark of inarticulate M***** F***ers.

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Michael Moore is clearly out of his mind but where did he mock the doctor’s name?

Exactly where did MM mock Dr. Gupta’s name? I would agree he came off as a loudmouthed blowhard but that is his stock in trade. His films DO bring to light facts that need to be more widely known and while they occasionally manipulate the audience they are nowhere near as manipulative and utterly stocked with outright lies as ANY MSM news report. As a critical care nurse I have literally watched people DIE because they had to put off needed preventative care until they collapsed in acute medical crises like diabetic coma, acute MI, stroke, renal failure etc etc etc. Maybe “socialized” medicine a la England & Canada isn’t the way to go, but BOTH my parents were M.D.s and I watched them suffer deep frustration, financial ruin and emotional trauma as their patients were savaged and American medicine was destroyed by “managed care”. My dad had the highest patient satisfaction scores of any MD who worked for a large (200+ doctors) for profit clinic late in his career, but they forced him to “resign” because he could not see more than 20 patients a day in the office. They seriously expected him to spend no more than 5-10 minutes with each patient and wanted him to see at least 32 patients a day AND complete ALL the paperwork in the 8 hour day. IMPOSSIBLE. He retired.

SO Michael Moore can rant all he likes. I didn’t see any mocking of anyone’s name. He pronounced Dr.Gupta’s name with some emphasis at the very end of the piece but used the correct pronunciation. How is that mocking??? GET A LIFE – OPEN YOUR MIND then open your eyes!

Gene Sparks says Moore does not speak for America, who does, he asks? “American people who work hard’. I think unemployment is at about 5% so that is almost everyone. Of that 95% how many want health care that they don’t currently have? Since 40 to 50 million don’t have any, I guess it’s in the millions who are not happy.

Vote? You better worry about that one, if Americans voted like other nations (70%) you would have a one payer system of Health Care. Why? there are only 26% of Americans that are so dumb to put in Republicans. They can do that when 50% of Americans vote but I think there is a finite number of stupid Americans, any new voter will vote Dem or Ind becuase you have to be such a huge moron to vote Republican. And a 26% rate of moronism is aleady high, I can’t imagine it could be any higher.

Tej said – “It sounded to me like he was making fun of the supposed authority Dr. Gupta carries”

Gerard said – “It sounded more like he was out of breath”

It could be one of those things also, yes.

But it certainly was NOT ethnically, or racially, or even nationalistically a slur, as the headline implies and as apparently a bunch of people on the internet like to think. This type of reporting – it’s just not right, no matter whom it targets. Shame on you Breitbart.

Does somebody need me to call him a Whaaaambulance?

Hey Funy, I have listed your quote below, now here my response,

“You FOOL I am INDIAN and nowhere did he make fun of Sanjay goooepta. We indians make more fun of that name then he did.”

Wow, you are Indian, aren’t you special. I guess that b/c you are Indian, you speak for all Indians. I guess no Indians will take offense at that kind of speak. I’m gonna put my Apu accent on all day tomorrow, and if anyone gets mad, I’ll just say this Indian on the internet said it’s cool. That will go over well.

Then when I pick up my dry cleaning, I’ll squint my eyes, buck my teeth, and turns my l’s to r’s. Oh, me speaky rear good Engrish. Then the day after, I’ll put on a stereotypical black accent, and go speak to people I don’t know and assume they think it’s funny. I mean black people call each other the n-word, so why shouldn’t I? It’s all in good fun, isn’t it?

I live in Chicago, so I could go on and on about all the different minorities. I can assure you they don’t like being stereotyped. Joking with your friends is one thing, but speaking to the public and strangers is quite another. You probably go around cursing in public too b/c it’s funny. Just because you are comfortable with something doesn’t mean others are as well. You know, we live in a society.

Imagine some 6′4″ preppy white kid getting in your face, talking like Apu, bet you wouldn’t like that, would you? You like to shoot the messenger (or not depending on his political beliefs), but you have no problem with the message. Which, by the way, is supporting racial humour.

If you’re health care system was so great you would have a cure for Moronism.

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MM did NOT mock Dr. Gupta’s name at all. This website is biased against MM and made this up. Hopefully more people will be exposed to the truth and watch this video.

Many of the most rabid, frothing-at-the-mouth commentary here is coming from Stormfront kooks. They do this all the time.

I generally disagree with Michael Moore on most everything. But I didn’t hear him mocking Dr. Sanjay Gupta’s name.

I can’t believe CNN would allow Mike Moore to return for any interview. Obviously, Mr. Moore is so “out to lunch”, and obsessed with developing or encouraging socialism in our country, that for CNN, or any station to give him the time of day as though he is the end all authority on any topic,should have their collective editorial group examined for major lapses in good journalism……..Mr. Moore should move to Cuba or another country he believes better serves his needs. Obviously, the US does not do that. Last time I looked no one had him tied down, preventing his move. Afterall, what other country would allow him to produce trash, call it a documentary and he cries all the way to the bank….amazing

Ah Michael you really need to get back on the Xanax. (Oh I forgot you don’t like the guys that make the happy pills). I don’t take advise from people with the IQ of a gernamium in fact I challenge him to an IQ test: If I prevail – I get everything he has and he dissapears into the Northwest Territory; If he wins, I will gladly do the same. My friends to the North have many many fine qualities in fact alot more than I often times see down here but Healthcare is not their finest product. Not unlike here (where by the way healthcare IS available to everybody) the rich have better healthcare than the average or poor Joe. That is why my dear friend in the border states you will see a steady stream of people coming across the border (or for that matter going to Germany or India) for healthcare. For example a hip replacement which can be readily obtained in the US at any time can take years to get in Canada. I love Canada and more specifically Canadiens but Healthcare is not the reason I do!

he did mock the name, right at the very end of the video.

JP- why is socialism bad?

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Michael Moore neither mocked nor mispronounced Dr. Sanjay Gupta’s name: GUHP-ta or GOOHP-ta are both normally found pronunciations, the latter closer to the Sanskrit original (the name derives from the Gupta dynasty, reigned AD 4th to early 6th century, deriving ultimately from the verb _gup_ ‘to defend, protect’; to end with one more pedantic note, all the major dictionaries cite both pronunciations (using here, for example, _The American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language_ 4th ed. [2000]). There’s neither smoke nor fire here.

He did not mock Dr. Gupta’s name, but the way the Wolf Blitzer continually repeated the name as though Dr. Gupta was some paragon of probity and medical brilliance. I thought Moore was feisty and unrelenting in his demand for CNN’s apologies for “lying” about the war, but he is essentially right and has a lot of guts to speak the truth to power as he does. He won’t be invited back any time soon. CNN “death watch” wants it both ways: to decry what is wretched and horrible in this world, while at the same time, like a highway accident rubbernecker, revel in the carnage.

The world is going to hell and we’r supposed to be worried whether the drapes match. Dr.Gutpa name doesn’t matter, what matter is his reporting, Gutpa is a shill for the Main Stream Media. Soundbite moments interspersed with commercials and its very difficult to tell which is which. HEAD-ON HEAD-ON rub it in it eats your brain, welcome to corporate media. I saw no attempt by Wolf Blitzer to apologize for the crap reporting CNN does and did on the War in Iraq, and the presidential debates, etc.

This is a rare moment of truth on live tv. It’s not often you see the curtain parted and the man behind the machine, the Great and Powerful OZ revealed to be a snivelling little coward with his hand in a sock puppet, but there it was. I haven’t enjoyed 8 minutes of TV this much since, Madelyn Albright and Judy Woodruff went to Ohio to try to drum up support for a Clinton invansion of Iraq and the audience held their feet to the fire and said “h*ll NO!!” Ah that was a great moment as well. Put that one up Breitbart, lets see what would of happened had George Bush asked the American people what they thought of invading Iraq – before he burned our treasury and our sons and daughters.

Michael Moore is a hero, he doesn’t hide behind his money and rape the poor. He doesn’t try to sell crap products on QVC like some celebraties – he shines the light where it is sorely needed and if we don’t like what we see, maybe the problem is not the light, but ourselves, our viewpoint our vision or lack thereof.

You people with your crazy fear of being turned into a pinko communist socialist state. Someone is just pointing out the best way to deliver the best health care to all your people might be doing it the way the rest of the world is doing it. One payer, no profit. So Scary.

GO MIKE GO!

If SiCKO gets wide distribution and viewership I think we could see another American Revolution. The health care system is sick. It is appalling to witness another example of Americans inhumanity to Americans.

purposely decieving headline………drew me in to listen to the video. like a tabloid……

Now…don’t care much for Moore at all, but there isn’t much criticism he can direct at U.S. health system that isn’t true. If you have a chronic illness getting help for it’s like pulling teeth without decent coverage which is hard to come by. Only the sefish, bitch-rich screech when anything approaching socialized medicine is mentioned.

So, their message is “croak if you don’t have the money”… You may commence with the mudslinging.

Thats one Fat nauseating looking dude, mike you better start working out and stop stuffing your face

I also did not notice him mocking the doctors name but he sure did make Wolfe look incompetent. What I do not get is if he and others on here complaining about how bad people have it what are you doing about it? What the hell ya doing on a message board typing when you could be out working to donate more money to these poor wretched folks? I personally do not give a rats ares I will and do take care of my own why the hell can’t others. What the heck kind of person breeds who can’t feed, clothe or care for doesn’t have an abortion (if it is against one’s religion they why is legalized theft (aka taxes) OK)? I wouldn’t wanna be there when one has to explain them-self to their god.
Finally why doesn’t fatty donate his entire profit to the poor or why does he need to charge a damn penny to see his film in one sense I say right on to him for being a capitalist pig like the rest of us but at least he wears his hypocrisy on his sleeve.

By the way, for some of the posters questioning statistics from the film “sicko” – here’s a link to the sources for these numbers:
http://www.michaelmoore.com/sicko/checkup/

warning this may require actual reading and thinking rather than knee jerk emotion and rabid patriotism – no matter what nation you inhabit. God save the Queen.

I JUST HOPE “FAT BOY” WONT BE AROUND IN THREE YEARS. THIS IS ONE DISGUSTING HUMAN BEING IM GOING TO TAKE JOY IN HEARING ABOUT HIS “DEATH BY HEART ATTACK”. I THINK I MIGHT EVEN THROW A “MICHAEL MOORE IS DEAD” PARTY UPON HEARING THE NEWS. THIS LARDASS RETARD WOULD NEVER SEEK MEDICAL TREATMENT IN CANADA BECAUSE HE KNOWS HE’D BE WAITING FOR MONTHS FOR TREATMENT! HE IS FEEDING OFF OF THE “SKY IS FALLING” FEAR TACTICS BY HIS BUDDY, AL “THE LIAR” GORE.

I also wonder where are these people that are denied health care??????? I interact with alot of people and I am in my early 30’s and have never encountered anyone being denied care. Though I do think more people should the general population could use a good thinning out. (kidding) maybe

what mocking?
what motives?

What a pathetic fat turd. He is clearly unhinged. The hate and anger is typical of socialist democrats. How dare you not agree with me 100% is the typical left wing rant. They hate discussion because it usually casts a blaring light of truth of how their blame everyone mantra is full of BS. He did mock the man’s name. He said his name with a stereotypical accent clearly with the intent of disparaging the man. Moore is pure trash. He is a greedy manipulative poser.

Moore goes to Canada… everytime he makes a film, he edits it there rather than hiring an American Film Editor.

Regardless of how anyone feels about MM, there are a number of things to consider here.

1. Does anyone actually believe that handing over health care to the federal government will fix ANYTHING? My God, the government is so inept that it cannot balance a budget, seal our borders, come up with a logical tax code, etc.. Socialized medicine on a grand scale will be the biggest cluster we have ever seen. Just consider this, why do people come to the U.S. when they need specialized treatment? Because there is a PROFIT for doctors to specialize. It’s called an “incentive” people. How would you like to be in business with the goverment telling you how much you can charge and what services you had to provide?

2. Does anyone think that MM was not USED by Fidel’s Cuba to rub the U.S.’s nose in it? Fidel would have broken Cuba’s back to do that. Oh wait, he already did. My bad. I’m sure that MM snuggled right up to Castro ahead of time and good old Fidel promised to take good care of him, if, in the process, it made the U.S. look bad.

3. MM wants Wolf to apologize? That’a a laugh, how about his own misrepresentations and downright lies. MM needs to come clean about the stunts that he has pulled and his “creative editing”.

4. Is MM self-insured? Does he go to Canada or Cuba when he is sick? Things that make you go “hmmmmmmmm”

Wow the title of this video is more dishonest than anything Michael Moore has ever put out. Way to spin it and completely miss the point

Medicare does not pay the amount that Doctors and hospitals bill them for. We subsidize Medicare patients. That raises everybody elses cost. Also who comes with more new and better drugs-all the governments with socialized medicine or those terrible greedy drug companies in the U.S.

I guess he does mock Sanjay Gupta’s name at the very end. Michael Moore is basically a SLICKO with the facts, but I doubt he’s racist.

I’m an 80-year-old Canadian and because of our health care system, I’m still able to post comments on this website. If I was an American, I’d probably be dead. Our health care system isn’t perfect – we’re working on that – but it sure as hell is better than what is south of the border. I’m a wealthy retiree and I’ve always thought that a country that can’t take care of its poor people is a poor excuse for a nation. Because of your dog-eat-dog approach to life, you should start thinking about rewriting that inscription on your statue of liberty …

lol gtfo he didnt mock anyones name you sensationalist pr*ck

OMGZ RACISM = saying someones name loudly OMGZZZ

Edited in Canada. Do you know that millions of jobs in America are dependant on Canadians buying your stuff? So you want nobody to hire a Canadian for anything? Pass a law, we would love to boycot everything American, squeeze you and teach you how dopey you are.

Blitzer is such a pantload. CNN deserved every bit of the reaming Moore gave them as do all magor media outlets. Interesting to see right wingers hear berating him for being fat, and resorting to the personal attacks. I guess Ann Coulter must be more of a virus than a human being. (of course their will be some who completely didnt get that)There may be 50 million uninsured. But for every one of them there is another 20 who can barely afford the coverage they have access too.

Somebody please help me. When did it become a right for Americans to have FREE health care. You can receive the finest health care in the world right in the good ole USA. Only problem is you have to pay for it. That’s what insurance is for. It’s NOT a ZERO sum game. For all those who want it FREE, I say, why stop there. I say free Caribbean vacations for all. I say, a new car in every drive way. I say free HD TV’s for all. Since we’ve gone this far, I say free paychecks for everyone. We can all sit on our a$$es and have the government take care of everything. Oh wait, who’s gonna pay the bill? Who cares? It’s all FREE. You libs make me laugh.

Jack wow, how profound. Have you ever been to Florida babe? Our elderly are doing just fine it is possible too well. What I don’t get is if Terry Schiavo was aloud to be put to death why can’t we those who do not contribute anything if their quality of life is useless what is the point?

George Right On!

John,

Oh yeah, we are sooooo fortunate to have you Canadians supporting us, but doing things like oh, I don’t know…shipping us Timber that run our local mills out of business.

Please, boycott the U.S., don’t send us anymore of your logs. The local sawmill owners and their employees will be very thankful.

But I digress….

I watched the entire exchange because I could not see Michael Moore mocking Dr. Sanjay Gupta’s name. After watching it, I think you are ludicrous in stating that Mr. Moore is mocking the pronouciation of his name. At the end of the interview he merely states his name loudly, much as the networks do for every self-promo quite bombastically such as “THIS IS CNN” etc…

Mocking Gupta’s name? I didn’t hear it … but the fact that BreitBart uses that as a headline is proof that they know Michael Moore did a masterful job on CNN.

The rightwing reactionaries are attacking Moore because he was one hundred percent correct about the Iraq debacle and in characterizing the incompetent ideologue we have as ‘president’ … they can’t stand it that a guy like Michael Moore was right and they were wrong.

Hey, rightwing nuts … as Moore did to Ghouliani, you just keep telling us what a disaster Medicare is … and that it should be abolished because it is ’socialized medicine’. Do that and the Repuglican candidate for president on 2008 will get about ten percent of the vote.

John, my point is that Moore, Good old help the American working man ala Rodger & Me is a pathetic hypocrit.
He’s from Michigan, He shoots on a Sony HD Digital BetaCam and could edit at any one of Michigan’s Fine Post Production Houses but he schleps his work to Canada to do a job that the Michigan Video Industry desperately needs.
Nice…

Maybe if you can’t afford heath insurance for your family you can’t afford the cell phone, the computor, the T.V. and the cable for the T.V. Maybe you can’t even afford a family. I’m not really a fan of socialized medicine but maybe free birth control pills isn’t a bad idea!!

Syntessa-you’re a sick freak and people like you will always have something that humbles them, finally. Or, truly devastating medical problems will more than likely hit someone close to you; if you haven’t already eaten your own young by then. Or maybe offed your own parents for being a burden.

George, it’s not a right, it is a decent thing to do for fellow citizens. Some are never going to have jobs that support decent health care. If everyone does as you say, get an education and get a good job, then no one is going to wait on your table or wash your car. What you are saying is for those with crummy jobs, screw them if they get sick. Another thing, people who have become sick get kicked out of their plan. People like you need someone in your family to get sick and your insurance company to cheap out on you. Then you will change your tune. Maybe you are one of the few that is 100% sure you have a great insurance plan and YOU can afford to be cocky and self centered. And greedy.

Syntessa – one of the reasons those seniors in Florida are so healthy is because, wait for it, they’re CANADIANS! We love winter in Florida but we get our asses home after a few months, otherwise we lose our right to Canadian health care.
I read people saying, hey you gotta pay for health care. We agree and that’s why our taxes are higher in Canada. But from all the stories I’ve been hearing about American insurance companies, all you get south of the border for your money is the ILLUSION that you have health care. Once you get sick, those blood-sucking companies find a reason to yank it out from beneath you.

I didn’t hear anyone making fun of Dr. Gupta’s name. if anything, Michael Moore pronounced it more correctly than Wolf Blitzer or anyone on CNN… Looks like the neocon AM talk radio propaganda machine is desparately trying to find something to throw at michael moore. They say anger is based on fear. I think that is true in this case.

Michael Moore has developed a “formula” for his films. He only attacks from his myopic vision and doesn’t throughly explore the subjects from all sides. It is easy to attack insurance companies, but he doesn’t talk about the advances in medicine in the last 20 years. These advances are expensive. There are people living now, who would be dead or invalids without these advances. (It is interesting that some of these same people are the ones who complain about the cost!) No one likes to pay for their health care. Some people even grumble about a $20 co-pay. We humans would rather blow money at “Foxwoods Casino” or eat at a fancy restaurant—ANYTHING but pay a doctor’s bill. The issue is complex and I don’t think Michael Moore has the answers. Besides, if he really cared about health care costs, he would lose weight. People like him are making it expensive.

Kevin you are a spamming fool. And the guy who said i’m am Indian he’s some FAT guy who is white.
And Fahrenheit 9/11 is a joke look at fahrenHYPE 9/11 and you will see what a joke MM is. Hear from the people who found themselves in FH 9/11, and feel betrayed. watch it and talk you $hit, about how MM tells the it like it is. he’s a BIG FAT DUMB white boy. Go ahead let the Dummycrats win in 08 and get ready to have car bombs and suicide bombers in America. then less see how well your FREE Health care will take care of you. My God what has happen to this country we us eto be strong and united. but ever since I was in office (ya thats it my dear just a bit lower…oh ya thats it lick it like an ice CREAM cone) ops sry i have some intern here helping me relieve some never mind. where was i oh ya. Ask a Iraq vet if its worth it,why did 500 just re-enlist in Iraq? what the problem in Iraq is the Iraqi’s they dont want to help make there country safe,they will not tell us or the Iraqi government what they know about the bad guys are so we can stop them b4 they strike they want to keep a secular war going and till they stop it they are going to keep counting bodies or there young like killing them selves more that they love there young. The Medea keeps saying its Bush’s fault no its harry reid,nancy p and all the rest with there defeats ways.read something other that you left-wing blogs and Air-head America what a joke.So now im ready to get blasted by you Dem’s that just want to cut and run and BASH BUSH for Bill Clinton not doing his job all he was interested in was a B-J from interns, and now we are paying for his B-J. He had OBL may time handed to him but would not take him.

JR, you know so little, the US Forest Lobby got your bought and paid for government to slap duty on our logs and every decision making body decided it was illegal. The US, in it’s pompous and arrogant way did not listen to those decisions and kept the duty on. Finally, it was negotiated and YOU guys had to give 5 billion back. Almost the whole amount.

It’s a non issue now that our dollar is pretty well par with yours now. If you are going to slap duty on our stuff if our dollar is weak, I assume when our dollar passes you, you will send us extra cash? This is no way to conduct trade. You guys talk about a level playing field and when you are beat on that feild, you cheat. Gee it’s fun educated you boneheads.

I’m a neocon and I’m not angry at MM. I think he is a great spokesman for the left He helps more people move to the right.

What is truly sad is that America could have funded a proper health care system – the best in the world, I have no doubt – if they had directed all those billions of dollars they are wasting in Iraq towards themselves. I haven’t heard anyone address one of MM’s major points on CNN. He was right about Iraq. There were no weapons of mass destruction and Sadam had no links with Bin Laden. Oh, and Bush is an idiot. Moore may be fat and ugly but he sure was right about that in Fareheit911! All you neocons have to eat that!

Dan, I’m not angry at Bush and Cheney either. Best vote getters for the Dems. What are they at 28 and 18% ? I think they might be setting the sane party up for supper majorities where they can do what is needed, save Social Security, socialize health care, ban some guns and let the gays get married! Bwwwaaaahahaha!

Maybe the Christian Born Agains will move to Afghanistan in disgust.

John,

If you were indeed half as smart as you think that you are, you might actually make sense. Read my prior post to see how I feel about goverment regulation. I COMPLETELY AGREE WITH YOU about the U.S. Goverment, in this case, the
USFS.

Think, for just one second, about how many restrictions that the U.S. Government places on logging operations. We are DROWNING in timber down here, but no one can cut the timber because of the “flavor of the month” lawsuit (Spotted Owl, Mating Woverines, etc.). This is my point about health care, the GOVERNMENT getting involved in regulation causes businesses to run into the ground. (Socialize medicine and it will go comepletely to hell).

So, because our wonderful U.S. Government isn’t capable of managing our forest and making timber harvesting profitable, we import timber and lumber products from Canada, at the expense of local jobs.

But please, boycott us and keep your trees and lumber. That was my point

Tell you what, Canada can underwrite our defense budget so we can free-load off of them for the better part of 30 years like they did us during the Cold War, and we will take that money and put it down the bottomless pit of socialized healthcare for not only ouselves but for all the people who are presumably so stupid that they continue to come to this country illegally as opposed to Cuba or any of the other paragons of morality that offer free healthcare to all citizens. Indeed, why in the world would people (most famously and recently Elian Gonzalez’s mother and relatives) go through shark-infested waters to come to this country and leave behind the free-medicine island paradise that is Cuba? Why aren’t more retirees in Florida (a drain on the medical system for sure) not load up in rafts and float to Cuba. I am sure the Castros would accept them with open arms just as they did Michael Moore.

Making apples to apples comparisons with Canada is fallacious. Not only because the statistics don’t bear out that Canada has a more effective and efficient health care system (they don’t) but also because (1) you are comparing a country that has per capita raw resources that far outpace the US per capita raw resources meaning there is more wealth to go around, (2) a country that is a free-rider of the US with respect to various items like immigration (what percentage of the US or any other country is sneaking illegally into Canada?) and defense (do you think Canada ever worries much about a foreign invasion with us as their neighbor to the south?); and (3) a country that does not sustain near the flow of immigrants (legal or otherwise) that the US sustains.

All of this being said, to the extent there is a problem with medical care in this country, a lot of that is to be blamed on insurance companies screwing over their policyholders not only by denying claims that they should pay but also by failing to wisely invest the money they make from collecting premiums and failing to initiate programs that incent people to take better care of themselves in the first place.

Just my two cents (4 cents Canadian).

Jack,
Your old age must be showing I hardly think that a large number of our elderly in FL are Canadian, but I do thank you for visiting so we do not have a state income tax.

I concur that Moore only wished to emphasize the name for the sake of incredulty, not for racism. Try and say Sanjay’s name yourself. You will find that it requires a certain amount of “Indian Accent” to say correctly. That isn’t a consenant combination that occurs in “American English”.

Next: Only the Uninsured are whining, eh? Well I have a nice job as a Network Engineer, and I am being nickle and dimed to death by Aetna over my wife’s very difficult pregnancy, even after the company lied to us about what they covered. In the past 6 months, with no surgery and only 1 hospital admitance, I have spent $7000 in copays and co-insurance, and I still owe another thousand. And that is with a large corperation subsidizing my salaried position’s benefits. The above numbers don’t even include the insurance premiums I have been paying. Yes, without insurance I would have payed exorbinately more, but when my wife does not drink, smoke, or have any bad lifestyle habits, it seems somewhat screwy that I am going to, at this rate, spend over 1/3 of my paycheck on out of pocket expenses.

Mr. Moore is not attacking the doctors who are trying to provide the care. He is attacking the insurance companies, who, as Mr. Moore pointed out in his address to the CA legislature, are required by law to maximize thier profit (Anti-Trust Laws anyone?). And the only way they can maxize profit is to deny claims at any cost, even the meanest technicality in how something was written down.

And you want some facts, go look em up yourself. Moore puts it all in black and white on his website (www.michaelmoore.com for the google-impaired). He places his sources under every “fact” for you to go and verify what he says yourself.

Oh, and as an aside, to the person who commented that Moore is a “communist and a facist”, do you have any education in political science? Facism and Socialism/Communism are about as polarly opposite as democracy and dictatorships. If you must make unbased insults, at least make sure they do not conflict with themselves.

John- When the Dems cotrol the congress and the presidency who will you blame then. You can maybe blame Bush for the first six years but I don’t think you can blame him for all eight. It is dry out here. I do blame Bush for this drought!

Hey Typ O,
I hardly call me a sick freak I am not the one who can’t feed my children and clothe them nor put a roof over their head the sick freaks are welfare mommie and daddies who refuse to work a second or third job my parents did why the hell should I not hold others to the same standard?
Seriously what kind of person doesn’t provide for their kids and expects someone else to pay for it?? Secondly oh Type O i have paid my fair share in taxes ten fold (still if I get sick I have been responsible enough to be prepared) those who are the recipients of free ride live on government from cradle to grave no that is sick.

I don’t know how you got this way but Americans are so afraid of their governments. In countries where such things as universal health care exist, it is the governments who are afraid of the people. Everytime they even think about fooling with health care in Canada, for instance, they get slapped down by the voting public. In America, the government makes up stuff to go to war, unafraid of the people. The black stain on the country’s reputation — 18,000 people die every year because they don’t have health care — and there are no consequences. WAKE UP AMERICA!

Maybe the difference is we in Canada demand, and get, reasonably competent government. If a sitting Prime Minister gets too unpopular their own party fires the guy. It’s a nifty trick that comes with a parliamentary type of democracy and your country suffers because you don’t have that.

You guys assume everything government does will fail. The only compaint in the Canadian system is speed of service, and that is due to a lack of funding rather than any goverment incompetence. Are you right wing zombies listening or are you on auto pilot. I know you don’t think and you keep proving it.

John,

Let me tell you my story. I had a 5-year old brother who died of cancer. My parents had minimal health care and the bills were enormous. Guess what they did? They worked extra jobs for over 10 years to pay the bills. They didn’t piss or moan about their bad luck. They didn’t look for anyone, including the government, to pick up the slack. They did what they had to do to pay the bills. Our family had all we needed, but not all we wanted. In my humble opinion, there are too many Americans who are not willing to do what it takes. I went to college while working 50-60 hours a week, with 2 children. I am not against helping those in real need. I contribute 5000+ dollars a year to charities. I am against helping those who are not willing to help themselves. We have way too many who are willing to sit on their fat a$$es and let someone else do the work. If you want to help those people, go right ahead, give them your hard earned dollars, but leave MINE ALONE.

jack and john what are the stats for those who die due to lack of health care in Canada wheather it be from speedy service?

Um John isn’t lack of funding a direct correlation to government incompetence?

John-You’ve sold me. I’ll be moving to Canada in the Spring!! Do you provide free housing up there?

The headline for this article is a complete lie. Moore did not come close to mocking Dr. Gupta’s name. What a pathetic attempt to distract attention away from the real issues.

Syntessa, honey. Why would you care to ask? You’ve already said that sick poor people should simply die! With a statement like that, how can you talk about other people’s incompetence?

John,

Have you examined your government lately? I’m sure that there are several of your fellow Canadian Citizens who post here that would be willing to take issue with your flowry evaluation of your goverment, and several have.

To quote Thomas Payne, “That government is best that governs the least.” Do I trust the government of my country? When my government shows me that it is capable of spending my taxes wisely, protects my rights, keeps its hands out of my pockets any more than it has to, tells the truth and refrains from involving itself in my life anymore than absolutely necessary, it will have my trust.

Lack of funding for your system? How much more in taxes are you willing to pay? If you endorse the “cradle to grave” style of government involvement in your life, you deserve what you get.

Wow! Moore obviously has a major complex. He can’t handle it if someone doesn’t kiss his butt, let alone disagrees with him. He can save the world if everyone would just listen to him. His delustions of grandeur is what really stands out in this clip, not mocking Dr. Gupta’s name

Lack of funding, you think we want higher taxes? it’s a tricky thing you know. Speed of service: the more important the situation the faster you will be served. It’s not a huge problem, some waits are more than they should be in an ideal world. It’s just a different way to think, do you care about people or think you have yours to hell with others. Get it? You pretend to be a religous country and many of you are selfish.

Free housing for the mentally ill, do you qualify?

John-After visiting with you I am starting to get an inferiority complex. You seem to be all knowing and the rest of us are just plain dumb. Will you be living next door to me in this free housing complex?

John,

Where does the money come from if not from taxes? Oh wait, the PRIVATE SECTOR can generate revenue through profits (an evil word in socialist circles).

Unlike you, I will not resort to name calling and personal insults as doing so reflects ignorance. Discuss your points and argue them to your hearts content, but lose the attitude. It only serves to belittle you.

Selfish U.S. Citizens we are, we ONLY donated 300 BILLION dollars to charities last year and we certainly don’t take care of those less fortunate.

Attack religion further please. You are serving to alienate more and more with each post. What’s next, hot dogs? Baseball?

HA! What a ranting lunatic. 20 lashes to CNN for not obeying the The Gospel of Michael Moore.

Moore is right on. Anyone who has traveled to other civilized countries knows that he is RIGHT.

We have to stop comparing the USA with 1970s Russia. It’s time to start looking at modern countries with happy, healthy citizens.

I hope that people wake up and see that health care for profit is wrong!

I like all the people posting that he didn’t mock Dr. Gupta’s name while overlooking the nonsense spewing out of him during the interview. What an ego on this guy.

I don’t know how happy all those Cubans in are in prison but MM says they are healthy!!!

Never been a Moore fan for the most part. But had to laugh as he ripped into blitzkrieg on the health and
war issues. These posts are looking more like a
name calling venue than serious comments.
A little of the I love my country more than you type
debate.
It’s pretty obvious Blitzer and the MSM have been supporting lies by this administration for a long
time. About the war, 911, and health care to name a few. Their track record is poorer than the politician’s approval ratings (both parties).
When the politicians put corporations wishes in
front of yours and mine we all lose. That is pure
and simple fascism. Not the country I was brought
up believing in but surely what is upon us.
Stop fighting amongst yourselves and rally together to stop the administration’s next fake
911. They need an attack and without it they will
lose their grip on this fledgling police state.
Main stream media and Bush are counting on the
people to buy their lies (again)…
Do you?

Dan- I agree with you-impeach Bush and make Bin Laden President. We know who our real enemy is!!

Wake up Sheeples,
USA is the biggest spender in armaments and yet does not have the capacity to take care of its
tax paying citizens. Funny how the most democracy
loving country in the world cares more about delivering death both to those whom it classes as enemy and its own people. Wow I’m glad I am
not in your shoes….roll on martial law.

Sam Tell me what country in this world has freed more people from dictators and other self appointed leaders? Hint-it isn’t Cuba

Dave-o says, Tell you what, Canada can underwrite our defense budget so we can free-load off of them for the better part of 30 years like they did us during the Cold War.

John: Any historian will tell you it was the Americans who ramped up the arms race with the Soviets. It did put a lot of Americans to work, Eisenhower warned of the industrial military complex. They loved the arms race and did everything to promote it.

We don’t have enemies like you, we have not messed with other countries like America has throughout it’s history. We worry about you coming for our water.

Dave-o says, go through shark-infested waters to come to this country and leave behind the free-medicine island paradise that is Cuba?

Umm, a decent job, like anyone from any third world country. And make no mistake, there are a lot of people that want to come to other counties too, it’s not just the good ol USA.

Dave-o says and shows he knows not what he speeks of, a country that does not sustain near the flow of immigrants (legal or otherwise) that the US sustains.

John: Look, if you are going to post read the prior ones, I already sited the fact Canada has the highest rate of immigration (per capita) IN THE WORLD, and sourced it. You people keep blathering about stuff and you are wrong, Source it!!!

Dave-o says, Just my two cents (4 cents Canadian).

John: Canadian dollar is worth 95 cents today, up from 62 cents three years ago. Just so you GET IT, that shows you how well you are doing. Blowing you guys out of the water is too easy.

Sam X got it right we got money to kill kill kill! but can not care care care. 400 billion for defence(offence really) but to spend that same amount on a top notch medical service for the greatest people on earth, the american public would be commie red of course!

UH – Moore doesn’t mock the Dr’s name, WHAT THE HELL ARE YOU TALKING ABOUT?

Re: Brother with cancer. That’s unfortunate George, maybe you needed another sibling with a worse fate and 30 years of your parents working extra jobs and working themselves into an early grave. Would that have convinced you there is a better way?

I don’t want my neighbors and fellow Canadians to go through hell like that. I and over 90% of my fellow citizens have agreed as a society we will spread the cost of that to all of us so no one has to deal with what your family delt with. I happily will.

I’ve had enough of the US corporate profiteering healthcare system. A few years ago I had a minor heart attack. I thought I had insurance. While in the hospital, looking at hospital bills of possibly $150,000, I found out that Aetna had changed the terms of my policy several months before and they would only pay $5000. I was never notified by Aetna of the policy change. Found out that they didn’t even HAVE to notify me by mail of the change. Found out that this was “legal” in 34 states at the time – now it’s more. You only think you have health insurance. Try using it! To add insult to injury, the 1st night in the hospital they almost killed me by giving me too much nitro, causing my blood pressure to drop too low. They didn’t even have a blood pressure monitor on me, the guy with the heart attack. If my wife hadn’t been there, I wouldn’t be writing this. My lawyer said my wife would have had a case if I had died, but since I lived there wasn’t much I could do. I could write a book not only about the incompetent medical service I received but also about the imcompetent billing department at the hospital and at Aetna. It took my wife almost a year to sort through the mess and deal with all of the multiple billing, billing errors, etc. Now I can’t get insurance because of my pre-existing condition. Canada looks pretty good from where I’m at.

When you are to the left of CNN you know you are approaching Hugo Chavez territory.

John,

Oh yeah, the U.S. ramped up the arms race. The Soviets had NOTHING to do with it. The U.S. did it just for kicks and giggles. Since you like sources, here’s one for ya. http://www.saskschools.ca/curr_content/history20/unit4/sec2_04.html (Oh my goodness, its a CANADIAN SCHOOL curriculum that explains how the U.S. held the technological edge and the SOVIETS had to “race” to catch up). Blaming us for the arms race is like blaming your neighbor because you “had” to go out and buy a new car when he did.

Canada hasn’t had to “mess with” other countries? I guess that the Canadian NATO Contingent hasn’t been involved in Afghanistan, Iraq and various African Countries. Wow, you insinuate that the U.S. posters are clueless. What rock are you living under?

As far as the immigrants go, you are very correct when you state the liberal immigration policy of Canada. If you would please keep a tight reign on those who wish to sneak into the U.S. and do us harm, we would be immensely grateful, but I doubt your government is able. Hell, you are JUST NOW arming your border guards. http://www.canada.com/news/story.html?id=3c02ab5c-0c78-43a9-b216-baee4ad8b4bb Scroll down to the next to last paragraph. Simply put, the guards RAN AWAY. Nice, thanks for the help.

To add to Had Enough’s comments, I will try and make it real simple. When you have a single payer, universal system, there is no insentive to reduce care for anyone. The piority is to care and cure. The rub comes when, of course, there is a certain amount of money in the system, you have to prioritize more or less depending on the level of funding. Society, as a whole has to decide what level of funding is appropriate.

Blitzer says it all “this is a business after all… obviously” There you have it, the admission. Implicit within that admission, is the concept of not getting in the way of the customer, the not getting in the way of the cash flow, because if they told the truth, the cash would stop flowing and their business would crumble, that is their belief and it is acknowledged by Blitzer. Moore is right, they are gutless and well predisposed to act according to their commercial interest rather than any true sense of news mighreporting.
Ugly truthful stories don’t sell gewgaws.
CNN is and always has been little more than a backdrop to its commercial intent. The fact is; it should be CNN doing movies like Sicko it should be them casting light on those ugly stories, it should be their core function but they parallel the medical business by putting the buck first.
It’s pathetic.

couldn’t Lou think of any other way to demonize the Man?
I live in the us
the system is a fraud
overrated over profit
under stress the doctors too are mostly good
the middleman pharmar gets his lyins share
and promotes his first one’s free
gimmee a break
we can do better
ya foolin your scared of what the truth holds self if you think the profit margin pharmin helps you
your either holdin shares or crusted over
we got potential gettin cut out as fat
the pigs get the shares that should be stayin
always milkin every dime doesn’t build but fleeces
thank you micheal moore
make some moore michael
can’t ya hear your scarin the fearful

John,

Your comments are a bit out of line, but typical from a lib a$$hole. I only wish I knew who you were and where you lived. I bet a face to face confrontation would alter your attitude. I know it would help mine. Best of luck, you’ll need it.

Then the coup de grace; Moore is marginalized and radicalized through a comparison to Hugo Chavez, it’s pathetic. Dance the issues, skirt the facts and then slam the messenger, scum bags.

Are you out of your mind? I watched that whole clip, and there was NO “mockery” of Dr. Gupta or his name at all; the headline you’ve chosen to put on the clip is essentially a total lie. Something like “Michael Moore Takes CNN to Task for Distorted Report on His New Film” would have been a lot more appropriate. And then to have included Lou Dobbs’ comment comparing Moore to Hugo Chavez at the end was just a cheap shot (on YOUR part as much as CNN’s). I’ve never seen your site before, and doubt that I will again. Apparently you consider yourself some kind of “journalist”? What a joke.

Had Enough,
wow, too effing bad. You got sick and now want me to pay for it. Do you drink? Smoke? Eat a fatty diet? Don’t exercise? Keep your hand out of my pocket, take care of yourself. Quit voting democrat and demand an end to the lawyers like Edwards who are destroying our healthcare system. Gimmee gimmee gimmee gimmee……..

“Moore also mocked the pronunciation of chief medical correspondent, Dr. Sanjay Gupta.”

Huh? Moore in no way mocked this docter’s name. It’s people like the person who gave this post it’s title that are ruining this country. These cons do everything in their power to confuse and distract the American people.

Unfortunately they are extremely successful because not enough of us are awake. But we are growing restless.

Power to Moore!

George, you lose the argument and you want to come beat me up. How pathetic are you? You want come up and use your gun? Want to blow my head off so you can be on the news?

And mike hunt, don’t get sick, just die.

Even the title of this post is dis-informational and designed to posit a certain mindset prior to watching the video. It sets Moore up as a racist, and that is dis-ingenuousness defined to perfection.
Moore’s accentuation of the pronouncement of “Sanjay Gupta” was more irony than anything else, as he knows that Sanjay has been set up as one of the gullible saps who will try and disprove him, come on who would argue with a 3rd world doctor with extraordinary skill, who is struggling to get by, blech. Who would dare attack this noble doctor and what he says? Well they read it all wrong; presenting this humble brick from the pyramid of misery that is the medical/pharma industry, was like waving a red cape in front of a bull. The entire thing was a fix up and Moore let them have it.
Crap he called, crap it was.
The medical/pharma industry are one and the same, one is sales the other is supply.

sadly breitbart mocks the truth. there is no mocking or even mis pronunciation of gupta’s name.

one sees only that this claim is made to discredit and mock moore.

pity that you shame yourselves in this way.

guess you have to.

Based on the most of the comments posted here I think the education system needs an overhaul as well.

Some of you guys need to exercise your critical thinking muscles.

Mike was right about Iraq and He’s right about this too.

For those of you who are saying that the reason healthcare is awful in the united states is due to the fact that so many Americans are obese, have you seen the confidential documents that have been leaked to the public coming from some of the most popular food restaurants and suppliers, whereby they say that in order to increase their profits they are lacing their foods with chemicals which induce hunger in those who eat them, and reducing the vitamin and nutrient content of those foods so that people feel like they must eat more to get nourished? The profit motive is EVIL and it’s a kind of socially manipulative disease that IS NOT GOOD FOR HUMANITY, NOT GOOD FOR BUSINESS, NOT GOOD FOR AMERICA. We as people need to learn that there is more than one reason to do a thing: because we enjoy it, because it’s good, because it pays us in health, safety, and happiness later on. If money is your only reason, then you sacrifice all these other potential benefits. Corporations and the wealthy are NOT to be esteemed, as they are the ones sowing the seeds of our own destruction.

Michael Moore = Big Fat Stupid White Man

Dan, I guess the Iraqui people have been shown typical American Democracy at it’s self serving best. Cuba does have a great medical system and
I’m sure that if America had it’s way and overthrown Castro they might be benefiting from your benificent health agenda. Typically some Americans can’t see past their suburban/little town mindset and unavoidably think that the world
stops/starts at their city limits. Get out into the real world, American ideals are great but
your media “hoes” and corrupt pay as you go government system actually defecates on them.
The American forefathers would be spewing in their graves at the near total disregard and wanton abuse of the great gift to American citizens and those around the world that used to aspire to these same ideals.
Americans should remember we are all part of the same human race, no better no worse, but to deny
injustice just to kiss political but is tantamount to treason. Asking and demanding your
politicians to serve YOU is being good citizens
of America and the world.
You guys should just say “NO” to the crap handed
out to you …..dish it back to the elitist dogs.
God bless America and the rest of the world..
that includes people that you don’t necessarily
like, just because they might not want to be like
you. Cheers and keep up the questions (make sure you get the TRUTH).

Michael Moore Mocks Indian Anchor’s Name During On-Air Tirade Against CNN

Wow, that’s a reach.

Hahah ;D

It’s fun to see people from u,s to rape their own country men with bad healthcare..

:DDD How idiotic can population be? ;DDD
We at europe can just sit back and laugh

Do you trust your life to big insurance companies who must serve their stockholders by denying care?

It is your life that you are entrusting to the CEOs and boards of Kaiser Permanente, Well Point, Humana, et al. Are they looking for every way to provide better health care to all Americans or are they looking for every way to make a profit?

Health care costs and health insurance profits are soaring in the US. Simultaneously, life expectancy in the US is falling behind that of all countries who do not rely on insurance companies for health care.

We do not place our lives and properties at risk by funding fire and police protection via private insurance companies. We rely on the government to provide these life and property saving services. If we relied on private insurance companies to fund fire fighters they would be more interested in denying fire protection than providing it. They certainly would not protect non subscribers from fires and they would only provide as little fire fighting service to their subscribers as they could so they could maximize their profits.

We have socialized fire and police protection. We have socialized medicine for those on medicare and medicaid, for veterans, and for many in government employ. We just do not have it for everyone. Yet , we believe in socialized fire and police protection for everyone.

Do you want your life to end because you have been denied health insurance or denied a claim because of a preexisting condition or because the insurance company only covers a less expensive or less effective treatment than your doctor recommends? Are you saying that you are too healthy, too wealthy and too lucky for this to ever be a problem to you?

It is your life and your health that Michael Moore is talking about. That is not what the insurance company sponsored main stream media talks about when it mocks those who advocate the wisdom of using the government to insure our lives from disease and accidents, just as we use the government to insure our lives against fire and thugs.

We need more doctors, nurses, dentists, and medical care facilities, not more insurance company lobbyists and claims agents. Insurance companies do nothing to increase what we need, only what we don’t.

It is obvious to me that Michael Moore and CNN had planned this assault for publicity for the movie AND socialized medicine. Otherwise CNN would have cut the LOUDMOUTH and gone to commercial.

Health care is an individual responsibility let us not forget that. It is not my responsiblity to provide health care for anyone other than myself and my immediate family. It sounds cold but that’s the way it is. The governments of this world are taking too much from us as it is.
If you want medicine to be more affordable remember, doctors have got to have malpractise insurance because the U.S. citizen likes to sue Doctors, The more people sue the higher the premium,the higher the premium the higher medical bills will be. If you want free anything let me remind you that “There ain’t nothin’ free in dis world!!!”
The government was NOT put here to take care of us from cradle to the grave.

For all of the sheeple on this board, being led to the slaughter by their hero ‘Dubya’, here are the facts posted by MM on his website, in response to last night. (You ARE interested in the FACTS, aren’t you?) Oh, and a special shout out to the most pathetic little moron on here, SYNTESSA-You have bred? Ah, more sheeple to blindly follow the fascist regime.

Here are the facts, and make sure you take note of the References (The U.S. Dept. of Health, WHO, etc.)

DR. SANJAY GUPTA, CNN: “(Moore says) the United States slipped to number 37 in the world’s health care systems. It’s true. … Moore brings a group of patients, including 9/11 workers, to Cuba and marvels at their free treatment and quality of care. But hold on – that WHO list puts Cuba’s health care system even lower than the United States, coming in at #39.”

THE TRUTH:

“But hold on?” ‘SiCKO’ clearly shows the WHO list, with the United States at number #37, and Cuba at #39. Right up on the screen in big five-foot letters. It’s even in the trailer! CNN should have its reporter see his eye doctor. The movie isn’t hiding from this fact. Just the opposite.
The fact that the healthcare system in an impoverished nation crippled by our decades-old blockade (including medical supplies and drugs) ranks so closely to ours is more an indictment of the American system than the Cuban system.
Although Cuba ranks lower overall than the United States, it still has a lower infant mortality rate and longer life span. (see below)
And unlike the United States, Cuba offers healthcare to absolutely everyone. In an independent Gallup poll conducted in Cuba, “a near unanimous 96 percent of respondents say that health care in Cuba is accessible to everyone.” (”Cubans Show Little Satisfaction with Opportunities and Individual Freedom Rare Independent Survey Finds Large Majorities Are Still Proud of Island’s Health Care and Education,” January 10, 2007.
http://www.worldpublicopinion.org/pipa/articles/brlatinamericara/
300.php?nid=&id=&pnt=300&lb=brla)

CNN: “Moore asserts that the American health care system spends $7,000 per person on health. Cuba spends $25 dollars per person. Not true. But not too far off. The United States spends $6,096 per person, versus $229 per person in Cuba.”

THE TRUTH:

According to our own government – the Department of Health and Human Services’ National Health Expenditures Projections – the United States will spend $7,092 per capita on health in 2006 and $7,498 in 2007. (Department of Health and Human Services Center for Medicare and Medicaid Expenditures, National Health Expenditures Projections 2006-2016. http://www.cms.hhs.gov/NationalHealthExpendData/downloads/proj2006.pdf)
As for Cuba – Dr. Gupta and CNN need to watch ‘SiCKO’ first before commenting on it. ‘SiCKO’ says Cuba spends $251 per person on health care, not $25, as Gupta reports. And the BBC reports that Cuba’s per capita health expenditure is… $251! (Keeping Cuba Healthy, BBC, Aug. 1 2006. http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/programmes/newsnight/5232628.stm )
As Gupta points out, the World Health Organization does calculate Cuba’s per capita health expenditure at $229 per person – a lot closer to $251 than $25.

CNN: In fact, Americans live just a little bit longer than Cubans on average.

THE TRUTH:

Just the opposite. The 2006 United Nations Human Development Report’s human development index states the life expectancy in the United States is 77.5 years. It is 77.6 years in Cuba. (Human Development Report 2006, United Nations Development Programme, 2006 at 283. http://hdr.undp.org/hdr2006/pdfs/report/HDR06-complete.pdf)

CNN: The United States ranks highest in patient satisfaction.

THE TRUTH:

True, but even when the WHO took patient satisfaction into account in its comprehensive review of the world’s health systems, we still came in at #37. (”World Health Organization Assesses The World’s Health Systems,” Press Release, WHO/44, June 21, 2000. http://www.who.int/inf-pr-2000/en/pr2000-44.html ).
Patients may be satisfied in America, but not everyone gets to be a patient. 47 million are uninsured and are rarely patients – until it’s too late. In the rest of the Western world, everyone and anyone can be a patient because everyone is covered. (And don’t face exclusions for pre-existing conditions, co-pays, deductibles, and costly monthly premiums).
It’s not that other countries are unhappy with their health care – for example, “70 to 80 percent of Canadians find their waiting times acceptable.” (”Access to health care services in Canada, Waiting times for specialized services (January to December 2005),” Statistics Canada, http://www.statcan.ca/english/freepub/82-575-XIE/82-575-XIE2006002.htm )

CNN: Americans have shorter wait times than everyone but Germans when seeking non-emergency elective procedures, like hip replacement, cataract surgery, or knee repair.

THE TRUTH:

This isn’t the whole truth. CNN pulled out a statistic about elective procedures. Of the six countries surveyed in that study (United States, Canada, New Zealand, UK, Germany, Australia) only Canada had longer waiting times than America for sick adults waiting to schedule a doctor’s appointment for a medical problem. 81% of patients in New Zealand got a same or next-day appointment for a non-routine visit, 71% in Britain, 69% in Germany, 66% in Australia, 47% in the U.S., and 36% in Canada. (The Doc’s in, but It’ll be AWhile. Catherine Arnst, Business Week. June 22, 2007 http://www.businessweek.com/technology/content/jun2007/
tc20070621_716260_page_2.htm)
“Gerard Anderson, a Johns Hopkins health policy professor who has spent his career examining the world’s healthcare, said there are delays, but not as many as conservatives state. In Canada, the United Kingdom and France, ‘three percent of hospital discharges had delays in treatment,’ Anderson told The Miami Herald. ‘That’s a relatively small number, and they’re all elective surgeries, such as hip and knee replacement.’ (John Dorschner, “‘SiCKO’ film is set to spark debate; Reformers are gearing up for ‘Sicko,’ the first major movie to examine America’s often maligned healthcare system,” Miami Herald, June 29, 2007.)
One way America is able to achieve decent waiting times is that it leaves 47 million people out of the health care system entirely, unlike any other Western country. When you remove 47 million people from the line, your wait should be shorter. So why is the U.S. second to last in wait times?
And there are even more Americans who keep themselves out of the system because of cost – in the United States, 24 percent of the population did not get medical care due to cost. That number is 5 percent in Canada, and 3 percent in the UK. (Inequities in Health Care: A Five-Country Survey. Robert Blendon et al, Health Affairs. Exhibit 5. http://content.healthaffairs.org/cgi/content/full/21/3/182)

CNN: (PAUL KECKLEY-Deloitte Health Care Analyst): “The concept that care is free in France, in Canada, in Cuba – and it’s not. Those citizens pay for health services out of taxes. As a proportion of their household income, it’s a significant number … (GUPTA): It’s true that the French pay higher taxes, and so does nearly every country ahead of the United States on that list.”

THE TRUTH:

‘SiCKO’ never claims that health care is provided absolutely for free in other countries, without tax contributions from citizens. Former MP Tony Benn reads from the NHS founding pamphlet, which explicitly states that “this is not a charity. You are paying for it mainly as taxpayers.” ‘SiCKO’ also acknowledges that the French are “drowning in taxes.” Comparatively, many Americans are drowning in insurance premiums, deductibles, co-pays and medical debt and the resulting threat of bankruptcy – half of all bankruptcies in the United States are triggered by medical bills. (Medical Bills Make up Half of Bankruptcies. Feb. 2005, MSNBC. http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/6895896/)

CNN: “But even higher taxes don’t guarantee the coverage everyone wants … (KECKLEY): 15 to 20 percent of the population will purchase services outside the system of care run by the government.”

THE TRUTH:

It’s not clear what country Keckley is referring to. In the United Kingdom, only 11.5 percent of the population has supplementary insurance, but it doesn’t take the place of NHS insurance. Nobody in France buys insurance that replaces government insurance either, although a substantial amount buys some form of complimentary insurance. ( Private health insurance and access to health care in the European Union. Spring 2004. http://www.euro.who.int/document/Obs/EuroObserver6_1.pdf)

CNN: “But no matter how much Moore fudged the facts, and he did fudge some facts…”

This is libel. There is not a single fact that is “fudged” in the film. No one has proven a single fact in the film wrong. We expect CNN to correct their mistakes on the air and to apologize to their viewers.

http://www.michaelmoore.com/sicko/news/article.php?id=10017

Pete,

Perhaps you are unaware of the very purpose of a government. It is to take care of its citizens and defend their rights. Yes, in fact, it is there to take care of us from cradel to grave.

And if insurance is an “individual responsibility”, then why do we even have insurance companies in theory? Sounds like you are saying that we should have to pay all medical bills out of pocket, regardless. Try, for a moment, to have even the slightest of collective thought, of sympathy, of the conecpt of “we the people.” Yes, we could have a dog eat dog world were survival of the fitest applies to every facet of life, and then we would be no better than “animals.” Oh wait, no we wouldn’t, we’d be worse than many pack oriented animals that actually take care of their injured and infirm for the collective good. And to head off extreme rebuttal, no I’m not saying we should take on a wolf mentality to health care, I’m saying we should strive to be even better. Society, the very concept of it, requires that the members take care of the other members of society. That is why we have police and fire departments. Why is the third of the “911″ dispatch groups exempt from the same socialization as the first two?

Congrats and kudos to Michael Moore for releasing one of the best movies of 2007 so far, “Sicko.” The movie is accurate. The movie is smart. The movie is entertaining, insightful, provocative and highly informative. Everyone should see it. And Michael Moore is not saying that everyone doesn’t get good health care–he is pointing out that many people get crappy health care, many people are ripped off, that there are flaws in the system, and that serious reform is needed. The movie is excellent, everyone should see it, and Michael Moore should be proud.

For the people who are bashing Moore and saying that the movie is all lies, here is a link to his website where he backs up all those allegations with documented facts as well as links for you to read them yourselves.
http://www.michaelmoore.com/sicko/news/article.php?id=10017

The sad thing is that most of you will not read the facts/links and research them yourselves, just like you haven’t taken the time out of your busy “All hail King Bush” days to even see the movie you are bashing.

It’s also funny how eventhough he was absolutely right in his thoughts of what would happen with our invasion of Iraq, instead of swalloing your pride and admiting it, you call him “fat”. You people remind of the school yard bullies I beat the shit out of in school! All talk until they get their asses handed to them and then instead of admiting they got their asses kicked, they came up with stupid excuses like “The sun was in my eyes!”

Btw, any of you tards remember when Moore was on the David Letterman show and offered a $10K reward (per instance) for anyone who could proove any part of his F-911 wrong? Funny again how nobody came forward to claim the reward…but people of course called him “fat” as usual.

Bush’s approval rating is now at 28%. That means that 72% have their eyes open to what is really going on in our beloved country. The other 28% countinue to drink the Koolaid because it is more important to them to never admit that they could actually have been wrong and mislead by their beloved King George.

Oh, and before you start calling me names and such, I am a registered republican…I just got tired of drinking the Koolaid.

My son is an ER Physician, my Daughter-in-Law is a P.A. in a group practice.

They went together to see SICKO and came away saying that Michael Moore deserved an Oscar for it.

They both said there was not a moment of it that wasn’t true. Especially my daughter-in-law who has to work with the Insurance system daily.

Bravo to Mr Moore for taking on this very explosive issue and a double bravo for taking on the MSM who have been so cowardly since Bush was first elected and WON’T ask the hard questions for fear of their jobs….which IS paid for by Corp America, which IS in bed with this Administration.

Go see SICKO for yourselves. Most people that are bad mouthing it have never seen it, don’t intend to see it and feel justified in bad mouthing it for Bush’s sake.

Hi, I listened to and watched this video in its entirety, and I did not hear him mispronounce or mock Dr. Sanjay Gupta’s name. I am not a liberal. I am not a Michael Moore fan. I am a conservative, and I am also objective.

If anyone was mocking anyone in this video, it was the ***hole reporter at the very end of the video that compared MM with Hugo Chavez, basically a childish attempt to downplay MM’s speaking of the truth.
MM might be a piece o’ sh**, but he’s right. The media works just like our government these days, for special interests and profit. Wolf said it best when he said, “Well, that’s the business.”. I’m sorry, but since when is the value of life a business?

Just a fyi, anyone familiar with immigrant vernacular and the prejudice that comes along with it could tell that he was mocking folks that can speak two languages, unlike the common American that can only speak one. Thanks for posting it. I hope this is this man’s macaca momment. He deserves it. Can’t be an advocate for one cause and not link it to related problems in the states. It’s also a pretty lame media relations tactic to say he’s going to post something on his site after rather than during the actual interview.

to bad he isn’t running for president, he’d probably be more honest about how things are & how to fix it then anybody sense Truman, boy do we need a Truman !!!!

great movie!

I JUST WATCHED IS THERE

http://bushfunnyvideo.blogspot.com/2007/06/sicko-by-michael-moore.html

I THOUGHT I D SHARE

I wonder how many of those defending the US Death Care system have actually seen Sicko.
The elephant in the room is this: perpetual war machines are very expensive, especially when your nation spends what the next dozen nations spend COMBINED on their militaries. This is the military industrial complex Eisenhower warned about.
Wake up, Americans. You could have the finest schools and universal health care on the planet if your tax dollars weren’t spent fighting phony wars for corporate profit, justified by the corporate propaganda machines (e.g. CNN) that sell them to you.

Mr. Moore wasn’t mocking the doctor’s name. He was simply reacting to the way the doctor misrepresented the facts, which by the way, the good doctor admitted today on CNN.

Only the most blind, ignorant people would disagree with the facts that are shown in Sicko. And, only those who don’t suffer from lack of medical access would try to tear apart this man for trying to bring the truth into the light.

What a masterpiece rebuttle Michael Moore!!, pulling the wool right from under their noses, the media is controlled by the sick Illuminati which continues to feed the masses by thinking that they have pulled the wool over our eyes!!! The truth will prevail and some people will only be enlightened by the truth thru the muck as he has exposed them again and again to their face! We need more of where he came from. How can anyone listen to the TV run by the Zionist. God Help America wake up!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

National health care is long overdue in America. Many people are without health insurance and their ranks are growing daily. The USA is the only major country without national health insurance. We have the highest cost health care while at the same time we have the highest infant mortality and are among the lowest in life expectancy!

12 billion bucks a month spent on wars for the elite.
Over 750 billion spent so far on the bogus war on terror since 9/11, how much happiness could that money have bought, and I don’t mean from the weapons makers or military? What kind of improvement would that kind of money bring to education, civic infrastructure, health care or a litany of other desperate causes?
It is stunning how the US pisses away money killing foreigners and yet can’t bring itself to fund a decent level of health care for all.
Yet from a country totally focused on self and the procurement of profit over everything, can we expect anything else?

Just for the record: In Canada the majority of health services are privately supplied but are funded by the state.
Each province has it as its right, the ability to decide on whatever health plan it wants, the simple fact that they will get cut off from federal funds unless they offer universal access is quite a coercion to stay with the status quo.

Here here, Pete! You pay for it all, no insurance and you look after your family out of pocket. There is risk but hey, go ahead and gamble with your family’s well being. Wait, the government says you have to have car insurance to be able to drive on the road.

Lets get rid of that so when people get maimed they are on their own. Great world you want.

Moore said it like it is. So does Dennis Kucinich. If everyone would just contribute the cost of an ER visit to Kucinich.US we’d have hope for this country. Truth and honesty is what we need, not bought candidates who get $885,000 from the Healthcare industry (like Hillary Clinton) or $525,000 like Obama, or $222,000 like Edwards. Dennis Kucinich is running a clean campaign. He needs money to continue. We need him to continue and to win back our country for us. Peace, Single Payer Health Care, and even paper ballots that don’t let the Diebold Company hack our vote- these are issues discussed on Kucinich.us

Your headline is a lie.

Moore does not mock anything about Gupta’s “Indianess”.

Thanks for informing me that your site is unreliable. That’s valuable information.

Even if he does make fun of it so what, so what? You have to ask yourself despite the fact that whites (although Moore is a Jew I’m pretty sure) are still 70 plus percent of this country why oh why is the television innundated with minorities? You think that’s fair?

Funny that the headline, therefore the draw for this article is that “Moore Mocks Indian Anchor’s Name.” I guess “Michael Moore: Commie Liberal Hypocrite” was already taken.

In Michigan, where I grew up, and everywhere else I’ve lived and visited my name gets butchered all the time, even the short form as I’ve listed with the posting. That doesn’t bother me. What bothers me is when people try to parade around their “exotic” named and “exotic” skinned colleagues and “friends” when they want to look like good fair-minded do-bees.

The fifty-odd times Blitzer invoked the name of Dr. Gupta during the interview made me question how much he was defending Gupta’s journalism versus trying to showcase how fair and liberal-minded CNN is for having an exotically named, Indian medical correspondent in their employ.

Moore’s emphasis on Gupta’s name was questionable. But since he didn’t start ranting about overseas outsourcing, lax immigration policy, or English as a citizenship requirement (all things I hear with malevolent xenophobic emphasis from the same folks who denounce Moore), my guess is that he was mocking Blitzer for seeming to hide behind Gupta instead of dealing with Moore’s questions/rebuttals directly. That is if, in fact, he was mocking anyone.

Whatever the case, ye who live in glass houses needn’t throw stones.

And for the record, Dan (July 11, 10:55 pm – see above), Moore’s heritage is Irish-Catholic. Sorry your phobia of minority-loving liberal-Jews doesn’t apply to him.

They’re referring to that inflection in his voice as he pronounces the guys name at the end as a making fun of his name?
That’s a specious claim–I think it’s clear, and this is the case Moore is making throughout the interview, that this doctor represents fraudulent compromised reporting– his emphasis is mocking that–not his ethnicity or sound of his name as the poster is implying/arguing.

It would be like me saying “I’ll have my kids study the speeches of that great orator GEORGE BUSH so they’ll be better public speakers” (obviously using ironic emphasis as he’s so known for his utter lack of eloquence that he is synonymous with poor speech)….So Moore is saying “come to my website and check the facts of SANJAY GUPTA ” (again ironic usage because at least to him it is obvious that this man and CNN are so known for inaccurate reporting as to be synonymous with misrepresenting facts).

I can’t believe that someone would be so grasping at straws or so dense as to miss the ENTIRE context of the interview just to try to make michael moore sound racist..

Don’t kill the messenger. Analyze the message and look to see if solutions could flow. From this healthcare professional’s view, Moore teaches us about pervasive problems not mere episodes. We need solutions to costs rising 10% per year and no access for 47 million people. Go to http://www.healthcaresoundoff.com and look at a unique idea for the uninsured. Join in a discussion looking for solutions.

Pamela,

Pamela I am a christian, and I agree with you 100%. Please don’t brush all these guys as being christians too. Michael Moore brought out the ugly in our health care system. We need to think about solutions and not say that all is his fault because he is fat. These people have read too many books by that skinny blond hair lady who insults the physical appearance of anyone when she runs out of real ideas.

In Australia we have socialised medicine, and because we have such a small, well-off (and highly-taxed) population and so many natural resources to tap (oil, gas, diamonds, gold, iron, coal, etc) for royalties, we get pretty good (free) lifetime healthcare, including a lot of preventative care.

BUT – a lot of the name-brand medications we receive for a maximum of $30/month are not only subsidised by the HIC (the government) but are in fact obtained by the government at ridiculously cheap prices from the big pharmas (mostly American). One reason is that we have just the one buyer for all 20 million of us. Another is that the gov’t plays hardball with the big pharmas, saying that if you won’t sell it to us cheap, WE won’t put it on the PBS (the drug list). And another (sorry, Yanks) is that big pharmas can AFFORD to sell it to us so cheaply because we’re such a tiny slice of the market and as long as they can keep charging big bucks to Americans, they can afford to sell it to us for almost nothing…

Also, our doctors earn WAY less than American doctors. Ours work for the government – they are basically public servants… and I earn more driving a big truck for a mining company 14 days per month than my doctor earns working full-time. (And I only need a Year 10 certificate – my doc needs years and years of non-income-earning education.)

We also do not have the litigious society you have, especially with medicine. No-one gets million-dollar payouts. Sometimes doctors make mistakes, because they’re human too and work in an incredibly high-pressure industry. Yeah, it sucks that when doctors make mistakes, people get hurt. Expect a sincere apology, but not a big payout. It’s not like winning Lotto. Especially since we already get free lifetime healthcare, you’re not going to be given free money to “make up for” a mistake – you’ll continue to get free healthcare until they fix the problem as best they can. When someone dies as a result of an error, there’s an inquiry, so they can figure out what went wrong and try to do what they can so it doesn’t happen again. (And an apology to the family.)

So, can America AFFORD government-provided healthcare for all of its citizens? Will you stop expecting huge payouts every time a doctor makes a mistake? (If you want free money, play lotto)… Will your doctors and nurses all agree to take HUGE pay cuts and become government employees? (Maybe THAT’S why your nursing union supports Moore & “Sicko”…) AND, if big pharmas have to sell their drugs for peanuts in America, who funds them and funds new research and development?

I don’t live there so don’t know what is a realistic expectation for America & Americans.

BUT, as a final note, even with our pretty good universal healthcare, if I found out I had a really serious medical condition, I would mortgage my house, take out as many loans as I could, and be on a plane out to GUESS WHERE before you could say boo! (And no, it’s not Cuba…)

There’s no doubt in my mind that there’s more people in America’s corporate-socialized healthcare system per capita that file bankruptcy and loose everything in per portion to the per capita number of people from leading socialized medicine countries that have to come here because they can’t get cured or healed in their country’s socialized medecine system.

Aussieg1rl and Ellie are using exceptional examples to try to make their points by distortion.

The facts are that, in our corporatized socialized healthcare system, we consistently have approximately 45 million to 100 million people (that’s 1/3 of our population) that either don’t have health insurance and risk losing everything or inadequate insurance that leaves them without full coverage.

The facts are also that we have a system in which doctors and health caregivers do NOT decide your treatments or care methods, they are decided by pencil pushers sitting at a desk at a private insurance company who’s main goal is profit – not providing healthcare.

We do have some bragging rights. We have the highest paid CEOs in the world in our healthcare industry. The CEO of United Healthcare makes over $1.7 BILLION a year. United is a private HMO company — the more they ration healthcare, the more profit they make, the bigger his bonuses. The US healthcare system is a private business racket, designed of, by and for the rich getting richer.

Healthcare shouldn’t be about profit vs health care when healthcare loses out.

PS: I take exception to 2 other talking points that Aussie & Ellie used as examples.

#1 is the cost of trial litigation & expensive judgments by juries that add to the healthcare costs in the US. Although I have distain for the ambulance chasers trial lawyers like John Edwards, the fact is that those outrageous judgments are few in the overall context of healthcare costs and are only approximately 4 – 6% of the cost of our premiums per Ralph Nader statistics.

#2 is the fable that big pharma companies can’t produce new drugs without huge profits. The fact is that the majority of the funds for drug research and development comes from the US taxpayers thru the National Institute of Health. See this article below:
http://www.nybooks.com/articles/17244

The more knowledge you gain about the US healthcare (corporate racket) system, the sicker it makes you feel.

it seems clear that any mocking of the name had zero racial intention at all and the heading of the clip is misleading. he was obviously underlining the name loud and clear so that everyone would remember who it was who had the facts wrong.

1. Michael Moore is right-we already have socialized medicine-and it is a disaster.

2. Take a look at medical costs pre 1965-the year in which Medicare was launched. Ask yourself, do you think it was tougher for the average Harry and Louise to pay for the entire cost of their health care(NOT THEIR HEALTH INSURANCE PREMIUMS) relative to their income in 1964? Or today?

3. The truth is that more government equal greater cost and poorer quality.

4. All of those that are picking on Moore’s girth are losers who lack credibility.

May You Live,

IN LIBERTY

Liberty Mike brings up some good points.

Case in point: #1 – What we have that is bad and expensive in our system is the corporate socialism aspect and cost.

United Healthcare is a private HMO corporation that has approximately 40,000 employees to administer medicare supplimental policies for approximately 25 million people. The CEO takes off the top $1.7 BILLION in annual compensation.

The entire country of Canada, approximately 25 million people, has approximately 20,000 civil servants to administer their universal medicare health system where everyone is covered.

No one in the administrative system is making even $1 million yet alone $1.7 billion in compensation. Our medicare system has a 3 – 4% administrative cost. Most private insurance companies have 25 – 35% administrative costs.

The point of government involvement should be to regulate costs, not deregulate costs for the benefit of the corporations at the expense of Americans.

Point #2 – You bring up the 60s and the average cost of health care in proportion to the wages, not health insurance costs. Interesting how you frame your point. The era of the 60s was before we had the Reagan administration’s deregulations of the 80s, where the big corporations started consolidating and laying off large amounts of American workers that had high paying jobs in private unions.

I can’t understand you libertarians. You think you’re free when you are in reality a captive consumer under the thumb of corporate monopoly control that Congress refuses to regulate because of the huge amounts of campaign contributions they make. One huge water water corporation, one huge energy corporation, one huge healthcare corporation, one huge oil corporation, one huge food processing corporation….that can never be voted out of power is not my idea of liberty and freedom. That’s where we’re heading when you use the argument of free markets that ends up effectively justifying free monopolies. No thanks to corporate socialism.

Our constitution says of, by and for the people — no where were corporations or the rich mentioned. What we have is the best democracy that money can buy. I think that’s the biggest problem we face and it cannot be resolved with a Libertarian solution.

[...] those who make ridiculous movies advocating “free” government run health care and then throw hissy fits on TV, and of course the whackos who claim global warming is caused by humans. I could go on, and on, [...]

I don’t know where to start. First “Sicko” is a movie….even movies based on fact have ficticious scenes so as to make the movie interesting so people will watch it. I’m sure some of the “facts” that MM portrays are fact or close to fact. However, the movie had to be planned. So I’m sure he staged some of the scene’s in order to support his “fact”….I didn’t watch it…not going to.

Why do other countries people have longers life spans? Hmmmmm…..just a wild guess….eating habits, daily routines…maybe? My grandfather, a farmer, worked until he was 72, lived off the land (Gardens, livestock) enjoyed 30 years of retirement….died in his sleep….doctors said just old age. Today most American aren’t willing to work that hard. Most Americans sit at a desk all day and say they worked hard. I myself probably won’t make it to 72 because I sit at a desk all day, eat cheese burgers, drink coke and am wore out at the end of the day……Does that sound like it’s the fault of our healthcare system? I don’t think so…..Pamela shut the f up and quit trying to prove to us how intelligent you are. Facts are facts and everybody knows what they have to do to stay healthy. Eat right, excercise, work hard
you won’t need a doctor. By the way I have free health care….well except for the $10 copay. Nothing comes out of my pay….I’m taxed the same as you. I don’t have to make an appointment to see my doctor. Quit bitching and get on with your life….you’ll be much happier.

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