Sarahfeena:
I should add to this that it really isn’t worth arguing about, because I haven’t really said anything at all about his message. I just said I like to rip on him, and I meant personally…I just can’t stand the guy. Has nothing to do with his message, actually. It’s kind of like some of those right-wing radio guys. I may agree with them in principle on some issues, but I can’t stand to listen to them because they are such blustering pompous asses.
Moore doesn’t come anywhere close to Limbaugh, Savage or any RW host I can think of on the blustering-pompous-ass scale.
Well, I guess that’s a matter of opinion and taste. In any case, I didn’t call him a blustering pompous ass, I called him a hypocritical buffoon. There are lots of character and personality flaws a person can have, they don’t all have to have the same ones for me to intensely dislike them.
gotten hold of a leaked memo from a Blue Cross executive who went to see Sicko for purposes of deciding how the industry should react to it.
BlueCross V.P. Fitzpatrick seems downright depressed about the movie he just saw. “You would have to be dead to be unaffected by Moore’s movie,” he writes. “Sicko” leaves audiences feeling “ashamed to be…a capitalist, and part of a ‘me’ society instead of a ‘we’ society.”
He walks out of the theater only to witness an unusual sight: people – strangers – mingling and talking to each other. “‘I didn’t know they (the insurers) did that!’ was a common exclamation followed by a discussion of the example,” according to Fitzpatrick.
He then assesses the film’s impact: “[T]he impact on small business decision makers, our members, the community, and our employees could be significant. Ignoring its impact might be a successful strategy only if it flops, but that has not been the history of Moore’s films … If popular, the movie will have a negative impact on our image in this community.”
The BlueCross memo then suggests a strategy in dealing with “Sicko” and offers the BCBS “talking points” to be used in discounting the film.
Heh-heh-heh . . . Moore has gotten hold of a leaked memo from a Blue Cross executive who went to see Sicko for purposes of deciding how the industry should react to it.