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BY PATRICE GREANVILLE
COMMENT AND OPINION BY THE EDITOR OF CYRANO'S JOURNAL
7/2/07
Well, judging from what we are beginning to see, it didn't take too long for the mainstream media to regain its footing, atone for its earlier honest hoorays for Moore's film, and figure an angle from which it might preserve the remnants of its tattered honor while still fulfilling the dirty job its corporate masters demanded it to do, which was to badmouth Michael Moore's brave documentary, SICKO, into complete ineffectiveness. The spectacle makes me sick.
Just a few days ago CNN's Anderson Cooper offered on his program 360 a glimpse of the subtle and not so subtle maneuvers being frantically worked out by the elites as they scramble to repair the huge breach on their disinformation wall created by Moore's near irrefutable expose of the American healthcare system, an industry whose cynicism and callousness should have been exposed by the "professional media" in the same manner eons ago.
While Anderson—I'll give him that—was (for the MSM) uncharacteristically aggressive, one might even say "crusading," in reinjecting the term "for profit medicine" in his otherwise soft-gloved interrogation of Karen Ignagni, an industry hack, the program only featured some clips from the film and no live panelists to counter Ignagni's well rehearsed dissembling.
The exchange however was a harbinger of what we now see as a consistent slant underscoring the counterattacks issuing from the for-profit healthcare camp. My bet is that far worse is yet to come, for, make no mistake, this is an issue of incalculable significance to the direction this nation may take in resolving its innumerable politically-manufactured crises and deficiencies, and they—the corporatocracy, the guys who make and benefit from the wounds—know it better than most.
So what's their prescription for defeating SICKO? Quite simple, actually, something any corporate, Republican, or
2 comments:
Interesting to note that the newly discovered UK terrorists all came out of the Sicko-hailed National Healthcare System.
The US system may not be perfect, but it doesn't create terrorists.
As far as Michael Moore goes, I think the Google blogger had it right.
Is Jeff is really on to something here that has been over looked by the Sicko-touting left-wing communists?
Jeff has found a causal relationship btwn single payer health care system doctors and religious zealots who slaughter innocents to advance their ideology.
His analysis is brief so it's difficult to ascertain if he believes that religiously inspired bombings are an intentional outcome of the UK health care system (in which case it is inefficient, generating only a few bombers per tens of millions of patients served); an incidental result, cynically accepted as yet another cost of doing business by the left-wing nut jobs running the show; or just an accidental by-product unlikely to be repeated.
What Jeff's insight makes clear is that the single payer system is the culprit. To which I can only respond, "Well yeah, what else could it be?"
The good news for all of us in the US is that the system here, which Jeff freely acknowledges "is not perfect", doesn't "create terrorists". And that comes as a hell of ah relief to this writer. We've got a belly full of home grown terrorists without any help from a pinko health care system, thank you very much, Mr. Michael Moore!
No one can fairly say that the decade of terrorist bombings of black churches, homes and businesses in Birmingham, Alabama was due to unavailable health care.
Ditto for the bombings of abortion clinics. Come on, be fair:
Timothy McVeigh, Eric Harris and Dylan Klebold, Ted Bundy, Theodore Kaczynski, Eric Rudolph, and Seung-Hui Cho...okay, they slaughtered and visited terror upon the innocent...terrorist, assassin, psychopath, okay they're all of that. But not one of them was a single-payer health care system doctor! Only in the UK. Points go to Jeff on this one.
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