Moore vs. Bush - "Sicko" Wars
May 15th 2007 04:30
Well it seems that Hollywood and Washington D.C. are about to clash yet again over the efforts of Academy Award winning documentarian Michael Moore.
Probably the most vocal critic of the Bush administration and certainly the most dangerous in terms of respectability and exposure (he has both!), Moore has smacked the White House a few times since Bush hit office, most notably with his smash hit documentary "Farenheit 9/11" which caused no end of embarassment for the encumbered President.
Since then a great deal has changed in the US of A. While 9/11 is still a hot topic, the news programs of the world are now more than ever focused on Iraq and the ever increasing body count. Hollywood stars are out in force ready to speak out for peace. The whole thing smacks so much of Vietnam it's really become more than a little disturbing.
Michael Moore, unexpected as always, has decided to go back to the site of ground zero and look at an issue left largely in the dark by the US mass-media, the health issues faced by the people who worked to save lives on September 11th before and after the towers fell.
In a bid to highlight the pitiful state of the US health care system and its sycophantic commercial relationship with the profit making pharmaceutical giants, Moore has taken several survivors of the 9/11 disaster to Cuba.
That's right, Cuba, apparantly has a better health care service than America! Better known as a financially crippled Communist "paradise", still lumbered with a US trade embargo, Cuba is known for its cigars and its sugar cane, not its hospitals!
The result of the expedition is the documentary "Sicko" - produced once again by the pionerring Weistein Company. Apparantly the film is not an attack on Bush per se, but more of a rallying effort to unite the House of Congress in a bid to correct decades of medical mis-management and naked profiteering by privatised health corporations. Both Republican and Democratic politicians have been shown the film and the response has been overwhelming. Once again it seems Michael Moore has struck contraversial gold, all wrapped in a sure-thing Oscar nominated package!
Problems have struck, strangely, as the White House has announced that they will be investigating Moore's production to see if his journey to Cuba has violated the US trade embargo! It seems that travelling to Cuba for surgery, rest and recuperation - a common pass-time of the rich and famous - is not to be worn, especially if you happen to be doing so in order to make a point about the multi-billion dollar pharmaceutical empires that just happened to donate millions to the last two Bush-for-President campaigns!
And there you have it.
White House officials have not been available for comment - funny that! Moore on the other hand has been out and about and is as vocal as ever. Moore claims that this film is not a political attack as much as it is a call to save lives and he has knocked the actions of the White House without mercy. Indeed Bush, already a corpse in the opinion polls of the world, to say nothing of the many Republican candidates lining up for the 2008 Presidential elections, is no doubt regretting the unashamedly naked political nature of the charges laid against Moore - not to mention the sleazy, underhanded way they were levelled, violating the US trade embargo indeed!!!
Bob and Harvey Weinstein, the films producers (just think Florenz Ziegfeld and multiply by two), however, are laughing all the way to the bank. The documentary "Sicko" airs in the US in mid-May. Given the fact that it was the follow up effort of the creator of "Farenheit 9/11", "Bowling For Columbine" and "Dude! Where's My Country?", "Sicko" was sure to be a crowd pleasing documentary hit. However, with all the publicity and contraversy and the obvious bitchiness of the White House charges, its box-office gold for Michael Moore and the Weinstein Company.
"We couldn't have planned it better ourselves!" said Harvey Weinstein in a comment to the press eariler this week.
Once again we find the true ineffectuality of George the second. He has huffed and puffed, and now "Sicko" will blow the White House down.
Probably the most vocal critic of the Bush administration and certainly the most dangerous in terms of respectability and exposure (he has both!), Moore has smacked the White House a few times since Bush hit office, most notably with his smash hit documentary "Farenheit 9/11" which caused no end of embarassment for the encumbered President.
Since then a great deal has changed in the US of A. While 9/11 is still a hot topic, the news programs of the world are now more than ever focused on Iraq and the ever increasing body count. Hollywood stars are out in force ready to speak out for peace. The whole thing smacks so much of Vietnam it's really become more than a little disturbing.
In a bid to highlight the pitiful state of the US health care system and its sycophantic commercial relationship with the profit making pharmaceutical giants, Moore has taken several survivors of the 9/11 disaster to Cuba.
That's right, Cuba, apparantly has a better health care service than America! Better known as a financially crippled Communist "paradise", still lumbered with a US trade embargo, Cuba is known for its cigars and its sugar cane, not its hospitals!
The result of the expedition is the documentary "Sicko" - produced once again by the pionerring Weistein Company. Apparantly the film is not an attack on Bush per se, but more of a rallying effort to unite the House of Congress in a bid to correct decades of medical mis-management and naked profiteering by privatised health corporations. Both Republican and Democratic politicians have been shown the film and the response has been overwhelming. Once again it seems Michael Moore has struck contraversial gold, all wrapped in a sure-thing Oscar nominated package!
And there you have it.
White House officials have not been available for comment - funny that! Moore on the other hand has been out and about and is as vocal as ever. Moore claims that this film is not a political attack as much as it is a call to save lives and he has knocked the actions of the White House without mercy. Indeed Bush, already a corpse in the opinion polls of the world, to say nothing of the many Republican candidates lining up for the 2008 Presidential elections, is no doubt regretting the unashamedly naked political nature of the charges laid against Moore - not to mention the sleazy, underhanded way they were levelled, violating the US trade embargo indeed!!!
Bob and Harvey Weinstein, the films producers (just think Florenz Ziegfeld and multiply by two), however, are laughing all the way to the bank. The documentary "Sicko" airs in the US in mid-May. Given the fact that it was the follow up effort of the creator of "Farenheit 9/11", "Bowling For Columbine" and "Dude! Where's My Country?", "Sicko" was sure to be a crowd pleasing documentary hit. However, with all the publicity and contraversy and the obvious bitchiness of the White House charges, its box-office gold for Michael Moore and the Weinstein Company.
"We couldn't have planned it better ourselves!" said Harvey Weinstein in a comment to the press eariler this week.
Once again we find the true ineffectuality of George the second. He has huffed and puffed, and now "Sicko" will blow the White House down.
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