Michael Moore's health-care agitprop feature "Sicko"

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MM under investigation by the U.S. Treasury Department for taking ailing Sept. 11 rescue workers to Cuba

Also, the AP thinks he makes "documentaries."

― Dr Morbius, Friday, 11 May 2007 13:58 (eighteen years ago)

Fred Thompson's getting a chance to play his crusty-but-benign prosecutor bit.

― Alfred, Lord Sotosyn, Friday, 11 May 2007 14:03 (eighteen years ago)

canadian bacon IS a "documentary"

― s1ocki, Friday, 11 May 2007 14:27 (eighteen years ago)

it's called "SiCKO" - call it by its name!

― Tracer Hand, Friday, 11 May 2007 14:29 (eighteen years ago)

[i]Moore's opponents have accused him of distorting the facts, and his Cuba trip provoked criticism from conservatives including former Republican Sen. Fred Thompson, who assailed the filmmaker in a blog at National Review Online.[i]

JOURNSALSIMSMSMM

― gff, Friday, 11 May 2007 14:34 (eighteen years ago)

haha whoops

this is bullshit, btw. americans go to cuba all the time!!

― gff, Friday, 11 May 2007 14:35 (eighteen years ago)

i ? mm

― jhøshea, Friday, 11 May 2007 14:36 (eighteen years ago)

heart

― jhøshea, Friday, 11 May 2007 14:37 (eighteen years ago)

morbs to be fair they said he makes a new brand of opinionated blockbuster documentaries

― jhøshea, Friday, 11 May 2007 14:40 (eighteen years ago)

i'm not nec criticizing them, they're just not docs

― Dr Morbius, Friday, 11 May 2007 14:41 (eighteen years ago)

Regardless, some ill 9/11 workers balked at Moore's idea.

"I would rather die in America than go to Cuba," said Joe Picurro, a Toms River, N.J., ironworker approached by the filmmaker via an e-mail that read, "Joe and Mike in Cuba."

http://www.nypost.com/seven/04152007/news/worldnews/moores_sicko_stunt_worldnews_janon_fisher.htm

― and what, Friday, 11 May 2007 14:41 (eighteen years ago)

b/c neither journos nor newspaper readers knows what a "polemic" is, anymore

(even I had to look it up to be sure)

― kingfish, Friday, 11 May 2007 15:11 (eighteen years ago)

eh u f'n pedants

― jhøshea, Friday, 11 May 2007 15:13 (eighteen years ago)

and the imdb entries for him and the movie are filled with the stimulating, well-thought-out discourse you can only get from internet message boards.

― kingfish, Friday, 11 May 2007 15:15 (eighteen years ago)

Release dates for
Sicko (2007)
Country Date
France May 2007 (Cannes Film Festival)
Italy 25 May 2007
USA June 2007
Finland 6 July 2007
France 17 October 2007

I'm rather interested to know what the response in Tuomasland will be

― kingfish, Friday, 11 May 2007 15:16 (eighteen years ago)

im imagining movies making america out to be asshole central play well there

― jhøshea, Friday, 11 May 2007 15:18 (eighteen years ago)

As mentioned over on the rightwing cartoonists thread, I'm eagerly waiting for the flick to come out just to count the number of responses that distill down to nothing more than "michael moore is fat lol". We should get a nice preview of them w/ this latest story.

― kingfish, Friday, 11 May 2007 15:25 (eighteen years ago)

why do his movies have such unappealing titles?

― and what, Friday, 11 May 2007 15:47 (eighteen years ago)

roger & me was good, but the rest... blechh

― and what, Friday, 11 May 2007 15:47 (eighteen years ago)

DIET PUNS: Are you ready for some more DIET PUN-ISHMENT? Chew on these.

1. BEING OVERWEIGHT IS NO WEIGH TO LIVE. --D. Worona

2. Have you heard of the Mexican ghost named Jose?
They call him, "NO WEIGH, JOSE." --Dan Worona

3. I tried to make the plump ladies see the error of their weighs.
--Dan Worona

4. NOTHING DENTURED, NOTHING GAINED.

5. Overweight? Remember, you earn your weigh.
Before going on a diet, get the "SKINNY" because you cannot have it both weighs.
--Dan Worona

6. Some things are worth the WEIGHT.
(Ice cream and chocolate, to name a few.)
--D. Worona

7. The BBQ King Dan Worona is a GRATE guy.
(Original pun by guess who?)

8. LET US HURRY UP AND FINISH OUR SALAD. THEN, MAYBE, IF WE MUSTARD UP ENOUGH SPEED, WE MIGHT KETCHUP WITH THOSE HOT DOGS AT THE MAYO CLINIC AND RELISH THE MOMENT. THE FIRST HOT DOG TO GET THERE WAS DECLARED THE WIENER. FRANKLY, THE RACE IS NOT OVER, BUT DON'T DISPAIR, THE WURST IS YET TO COME. ---Dan Worona

9. Great googly moogely! He lost a lot of weight.
HE WENT OUT OF HIS WEIGH TO DO IT. --Dan Worona

10. RELISH TODAY. KETCHUP TOMORROW.

11. WOKING IS CAUSING QUITE A STIR. --Dan Worona

12. Diet slogan: ARE YOU GOING THE WRONG WEIGH? -Dan Worona

13. DIETING IS A MATTER OF LIFE AND BREADTH.
--Dan Worona

14. Here is a death sentence: IF YOU EAT LOTS OF FAT AND GREASE, YOU WILL CEASE. --Daniel L. Worona

15. Diet and Fitness pun:

Some people trade TIT-FOR-TAT;
healthy people trade FIT-FOR-FAT.

Woriginal by Daniel L. Worona "Rara Avis"
(That means, if you put it on your Web site, give Daniel L. Worona credit!!!)

― and what, Friday, 11 May 2007 15:49 (eighteen years ago)

Michael Moore Makes Baby Eagle Cry.

― M.V., Friday, 11 May 2007 15:51 (eighteen years ago)

t/s: pun-ishment vs gunishment

― kingfish, Friday, 11 May 2007 15:54 (eighteen years ago)

PUBLISHER WANTED: I am looking for a literary agent and major publisher to publish my 45-year plus collection of over 85,000 DIET HUMOR SAYINGS and DIET JOKES.

!

― Kerm, Friday, 11 May 2007 16:01 (eighteen years ago)

diet of worms
http://www.hikariusa.com/images/products/frozen%20blood%20worms.jpg

― gershy, Saturday, 12 May 2007 02:47 (eighteen years ago)

blood worms is the new blood diamonds

― gershy, Saturday, 12 May 2007 02:47 (eighteen years ago)

― BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Saturday, 12 May 2007 03:57 (eighteen years ago)

I'm pretty sure I'll prefer Sick: The Life & Death of Bob Flanagan, Supermasochist.

― Tape Store, Sunday, 13 May 2007 04:42 (eighteen years ago)

as long as MM doesn't nail his dick to a piece of wood.

― Dr Morbius, Sunday, 13 May 2007 18:56 (eighteen years ago)

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