aTypical Joe: a gay New Yorker living in the rural South

Saturday, June 30, 2007

Moore than a movie, it’s a campaign

I saw Sicko in Chelsea last night - the audience burst into spontaneous applause three times - and reveled in every minute of its over the top advocacy. He could have made a safer, more balanced movie, but why the hell should he? Does anyone imagine that if he had the Right would stop calling him a zealot, propagandist and a demagogue?

Moore’s been deftly building the grass roots momentum for his campaign, through strategery and sold out sneak previews across America and on the web.  A few weeks ago, he asked people to share their horror stories with us:

Here are the responses so far.

FOR MORE MOORE: Here’s Michael on The Daily Show.

Slate’s review, “Even those viewers who are ideologically in sync with Michael Moore can find plenty to critique in his methods: the gimmicks, the deck-stacking, the deliberate neglect of opposing points of view. On the other hand, even Moore’s worst ideological enemies would be hard put to dispute the basic argument of his new film Sicko (Weinstein Co.): The American health-care system is a sick joke and has been for a very long time.”