Moore skewers CNN with facts
So the rap on Michael Moore has always been that he plays kind of loose with the facts. So that may account for why CNN thought it was okay to just make stuff up:
The reason we're lucky to have a Michael Moore in this country is that it takes a lot of guts to advocate for the regular folks against the corporate oligarchy that runs everything, including health care. And it takes a lot of guts to make movies about them. Of course he will be slandered and ridiculed; it's what the noise machine does.
The righties love to hate on Moore because he doesn't back down, and in the middle school-mentality world inhabited by a lot of conservatives they seek reassurance by making fun of his weight and appearance. (Of course, say something about a heavy guy wearing a NASCAR ball cap and you're an elitist snob.)
Truthfully, I didn't like Bowling for Columbine, as I found the cartoon history kind of stupid, but I look forward to seeing Sicko. You can argue about whether Moore's style of film making sheds more light than heat sometimes, but it looks like he is ready to back his stuff up big time.
Plus it's just downright fun to see CNN eat it. They've been trying to emulate Fox Noise for some time now, and it's just pathetic.
CNN: In fact, Americans live just a little bit longer than Cubans on average.Looks like Moore was ready for CNN and other critics this time.
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.
The reason we're lucky to have a Michael Moore in this country is that it takes a lot of guts to advocate for the regular folks against the corporate oligarchy that runs everything, including health care. And it takes a lot of guts to make movies about them. Of course he will be slandered and ridiculed; it's what the noise machine does.
The righties love to hate on Moore because he doesn't back down, and in the middle school-mentality world inhabited by a lot of conservatives they seek reassurance by making fun of his weight and appearance. (Of course, say something about a heavy guy wearing a NASCAR ball cap and you're an elitist snob.)
Truthfully, I didn't like Bowling for Columbine, as I found the cartoon history kind of stupid, but I look forward to seeing Sicko. You can argue about whether Moore's style of film making sheds more light than heat sometimes, but it looks like he is ready to back his stuff up big time.
Plus it's just downright fun to see CNN eat it. They've been trying to emulate Fox Noise for some time now, and it's just pathetic.
