Re: Sicko So Meano To Hillary

[Dan Scanlan <coolhanduke@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

I saw Sicko earlier this week and the only serious flaw I saw in it  
was his treatment of Hillary Clinton. I do not have the same  
objection Weinstein had, however.

In the film, Moore presents the Clintons' attempt at health care  
reform as being sabotaged by the insurance and big pharma companies.  
Later on he points out that Hillary is currently the main recipient  
of campaign funds from those companies. He does not make the  
connection between what really happened in the first Clinton term and  
what's happening now.

Hillary Clinton's commission to reform health care delivery did not  
include people like Ralph Nader or any other front line health care  
workers. Her panel was comprised of insurance and pharmaceutical  
industry lackies and a peppering of corporate doctors. Moore presents  
the episode as Hillary getting beaten up by the industry, when, in  
fact, the Clintons were shaking down the corporados for campaign  
funds. The success of that effort is apparent in Hillary's campaign  
now, as it was in Bill's second campaign.

As I pointed out in a previous post, the Clintons stalled health care  
reform (among others, like fair trade, welfare, prisons, military,  
intelligence) for 16 years, so far.

Moore's movie is brilliant and has a real chance of starting a  
rebellion in this country. But God forbid that it be led by the likes  
of Hillary, or any other cynic who is willing to usurp the lingo of  
the left in order to disembowel it.

Dan Scanlan


On Jun 21, 2007, at 11:20 AM, Leigh Meyers wrote:

> Michael Moore's Sicko So Meano To Hillary
>
> Michael Moore sure is getting a lot of mileage out of the hit he takes
> on Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton (D-N.Y.) in his provocative new movie
> Sicko, which made its Washington premiere Wednesday night at the
> Uptown theater.
>
> Moore told the Sleuth in the lobby of the theater after the premiere
> that movie mogul Harvey Weinstein, a personal friend and supporter of
> the Clintons whose company financed Sicko, "begged" him to remove a
> key scene exposing Hillary as the second-highest recipient of campaign
> donations from the health care industry.
>
> "I said, 'No, Harvey. I gotta do the right thing.' He understood."
>
> Moore said he didn't know whether the Clintons asked Weinstein to  
> make the call.
>
> http://blog.washingtonpost.com/sleuth/2007/06/ 
> michael_moores_sicko_so_meano.html
>
> The Movie, In Full: http://www.atlanticfreepress.com/content/view/ 
> 1816/81/

Dan Scanlan
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