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2007-06-27 -Short Attention Span Theater-
Michael Moore wants iPhone launch delayed, Attacks Steve Jobs
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Posted by Delphi 2007-06-27 13:23|| || Front Page|| [11128 views ]  Top

#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||   2007-06-27 14:33|| Front Page Top

#2 This isn't Scrappleface or the Onion?
Posted by Mike 2007-06-27 14:48||   2007-06-27 14:48|| Front Page Top

#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||   2007-06-27 14:56|| Front Page Top

#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||   2007-06-27 14:57|| Front Page Top

#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">Deacon Blues  2007-06-27 15:02||   2007-06-27 15:02|| Front Page Top

#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||   2007-06-27 15:20|| Front Page Top

#7 "Attention Whore, party of one, your table is ready..."
Posted by Seafarious">Seafarious  2007-06-27 17:10||   2007-06-27 17:10|| Front Page Top

#8 He is just mad his fat finger doesn't work on the IPod screen.
Posted by DarthVader">DarthVader  2007-06-27 17:20||   2007-06-27 17:20|| Front Page Top

#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||   2007-06-27 18:20|| Front Page Top

#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||   2007-06-27 19:19|| Front Page Top

#11 He's just pissed because he can't eat an ifone or 20.
Posted by Barbara Skolaut">Barbara Skolaut  2007-06-27 20:13|| http://ariellestjohndesigns.com/]">[http://ariellestjohndesigns.com/]  2007-06-27 20:13|| Front Page Top

#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||   2007-06-27 20:44|| Front Page Top

#13 socialized medicine is really extortion funded treatment rationing.
Posted by Bright Pebbles 2007-06-27 20:45||   2007-06-27 20:45|| Front Page Top

#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||   2007-06-27 20:46|| Front Page Top

#15 This page is satire. All the links on it go to www.liquidgeneration.com
Posted by markwark 2007-06-27 21:24||   2007-06-27 21:24|| Front Page Top

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