Jesse Larner: Michael Moore and National Health Care: Lies of the Left and the Right

Published: August 7, 2007, 3:37 pm

I'd been holding off on seeing Michael Moore's new film, Sicko, because I am really more interested in the right-wing reaction to it than I am in the film itself. As the author of a book that harshly criticized Moore -- from a left-liberal point of view -- for his habit of loading up his films with deceptions delivered through half-truths, misleading edits, and broad conspiracy theories, I wasn't expecting that much from his latest. I also wrote in that book that Moore is a liability to the left precisely because he is so useful to the right. Right-wingers like nothing better than presenting Moore's bitter lunacy as typical of the left, his manipulative paranoia as a showcase of what liberals and Democrats secretly believe and would love to implement, given half a chance. This disingenuous, and highly calculated, response tends to drown out any real discussion of the legitimate issues that Moore raises. That's a shame, because these issues are important and deserve a better

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