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| Michael Moore wants iPhone launch delayed, Attacks Steve Jobs |
| 2007-06-27 |
| Cupertino, CA (HLN) – Controversial documentary filmmaker Michael Moore is accusing Apple Inc. and AT&T of using the iPhone to distract attention from his new movie “Sicko”, which opens in US theaters on the same day the hyped phone goes on sale. “This is an appalling display of greed and jealousy,” said Moore after a recent screening of his new movie. “Apple and AT&T obviously don’t care about fixing America’s healthcare system. They only care about how many iPhones they’re going to sell.” Moore’s film criticizes the American medical establishment and suggests that it’s time for the country to consider a universal health system such as those in Cuba, France and Britain. In a speech to reporters, Michael Moore blasted Apple CEO and longtime Democrat Steve Jobs for not postponing the iPhone’s launch until after his movie is released. “I don’t see how Steve Jobs can call himself a ‘liberal’ and then try to silence my film,” said Moore. “Americans should be learning about our corrupt healthcare system on Friday, but instead they’re going to be lining up for a silly $600 dollar gadget.” Apple may sell as many as 200,000 iPhones in the product's first two days on the market after sales begin at 6 p.m. Friday and as many as 3 million in the second half of the year, according to the most optimistic analyst estimates. The “Sicko” director also accused former Vice President Al Gore, who sits on the board of directors at Apple Inc., of trying to steer people away from the film. "Al Gore has a vested self-interest in making sure my film isn’t seen by the public,” said Moore.” Not only will he profit if people spend their money on iPhones instead of my film, he also doesn’t want my documentary to overshadow his crusade against global warming.” |
| Posted by:Delphi |
| #15 This page is satire. All the links on it go to www.liquidgeneration.com |
| Posted by: markwark 2007-06-27 21:24 |
| #14 I wonder if he stays fact because he has no discipline or if it's some way to gain credibility by substitution - Everytime some conservative pundit takes a pot shot at his weight he says "see, they're just mean & nasty and distract from the issue." |
| Posted by: Broadhead6 2007-06-27 20:46 |
| #13 socialized medicine is really extortion funded treatment rationing. |
| Posted by: Bright Pebbles 2007-06-27 20:45 |
| #12 Aha, I knew the main cause (narcissism) of the mental illness known as leftism would rear it's head soon enough. narcissism + projection + envy = Leftism |
| Posted by: Bright Pebbles 2007-06-27 20:44 |
| #11 He's just pissed because he can't eat an ifone |
| Posted by: Barbara Skolaut 2007-06-27 20:13 |
| #10 I thought this was scrappleface or the onion as well. If not, then Moore is a bigger ego-maniac then I could've ever imagined. |
| Posted by: Broadhead6 2007-06-27 19:19 |
| #9 Deacon Blues is on the money. Here in Oz we have socialized medicine, and it's medicine by Bureaucratic fiat and you can't sue the government. |
| Posted by: phil_b 2007-06-27 18:20 |
| #8 He is just mad his fat finger doesn't work on the IPod screen. |
| Posted by: DarthVader 2007-06-27 17:20 |
| #7 "Attention Whore, party of one, your table is ready..." |
| Posted by: Seafarious 2007-06-27 17:10 |
| #6 Well, Mikey, as a disgruntled shareholder, those bastards at AT&T had better be obsessed about how many of those damn phones they sell..... |
| Posted by: Swamp Blondie 2007-06-27 15:20 |
| #5 This is from REASON: Sicko also introduces us to Diane, whose brain tumor operation was initially denied by Horizon BlueCross because it didn't consider her condition "life threatening." She eventually received treatment, but "not without battling the insurance companies," Moore says. Jack Szmyt found himself in a similar situation. After waiting two months for his initial diagnosis—he too had a brain tumor—Szmyt was told that it would be another month until doctors could start the necessary treatment. Rather than wait in a queue, he borrowed $30,000 from a friend, and flew to a private clinic in Germany. Had he not sought private treatment abroad, his German doctor said, he would likely have died. When contacted by the media, his insurer, again the Swedish government, said it didn't consider the assigned waiting period "unreasonable." Such examples suggest that Moore's depiction of European-style medicine as an easy panacea for America's problems is rather more complicated than presented. Massive queues and cash shortages have plagued all of the systems profiled—and celebrated—in Sicko. In the case of Cuba, whose system Moore also praises, this includes shortage of basic medical materials and medicine. And the credulous audience member is none the wiser. |
| Posted by: Deacon Blues 2007-06-27 15:02 |
| #4 Jeez, Mikey, why didn't you have them check out that humongously swollen ego when you were down in Cuba? They might've been able to do something to help cure it, like...make you live in Cuba. |
| Posted by: tu3031 2007-06-27 14:57 |
| #3 "It's all about meeeeeeeee!!" Could it be that ticket sales are not going well? |
| Posted by: trailing wife 2007-06-27 14:56 |
| #2 This isn't Scrappleface or the Onion? |
| Posted by: Mike 2007-06-27 14:48 |
| #1 I wonder what's gonna happen to Mr. I'm-a-champion-of-the-working-class Moore when he finally figures out which specific class is gonna be thrown under the bus in the quest to fix global warming. |
| Posted by: Abdominal Snowman 2007-06-27 14:33 |