Michael Moore on Countdown with Keith Olbermann

I so enjoy your information. Thank you.

Thanks, Keith, for doing perhaps the only “fair and balanced” interview of Michael Moore and his new film, Sicko, that has been on any of the cable news channels.

Segments such as this interview along with your “Special Comments” give me hope that there are still some journalists interested in the truth.

I’m amazed that MSNBC still allows Mr Olbermann on the air. The one thing the corporations and the politicians with pathological personalities cannot stand is to be contradicted in their propaganda narrative and fabricated reality.

Rarely is the issue framing challanged even more rarely are the straw men acknowledged for what they are and knocked down.

These are the people that Eisenhower, Orwell, Lincoln and others warned us about. This is the time of peril for our country that Madison & Franklin forwarned.

Eventually the sheeple will fall away from the absorbatron corporate sponsored pabla. The memory hole of (so called) “journalisum” has become a chasum that even the dullest of wit can percieve.

When the majority of the population is living in 3rd world impoverishment due to the economic predations of our corporate/political “leaders”

If the direction of the country continues down its currant path - I am afraid we are likely to see an actual civil war here in the continental United States. Think France only bloodier and without the guillitine.

The only way our civilization stands a chance is for the rest of the shiney people in the magic box to regain their humanity, find some courage, and speak truth to power - If you get fired - you get fired. The corporation be damned.

Nice to watch Blitzer get blitzed.

No reason to answer the pitiful questions Blitzer , et. al. ask. They should be resigning in shame or broadcasting US war crimes in Iraq along with domestic issues like the ones raised here by Moore.

I wonder if Moore or anyone else advocating a single-payer plan — which I agree is the only sane option — has a strategy for dealing with the insurance industry. Certainly some companies are diversified into other forms of insurance and even other financial products, but there must be companies which would be put out of business by an abrupt switch to Federal health insurance. And although there would be new Federal jobs opening up, I imagine there are whole sections of these companies — e.g., marketing — which would have no parallel in the government set-up. I won’t cry for the insurance companies or their boards of directors, but I am concerned about thousands of ordinary employees perhaps finding themselves out of work, and possibly an insurance town like Hartford, CT being economically devastated.

Incidentally, we’ve got to make sure the distinction is always made between government-funded health care and government-run health care. It’s one thing for Uncle Sam to pay the bills, quite another for Michael Chertoff to remove your gall bladder. I have no doubt the right will play on the confusion to scare people into thinking a single-payer insurance program would mean socialized medicine on every level.

Great job. Kudos to Keith and Countdown and to Michael Moore. I’m one of those people who had to cash in my retirement fund to pay medical bills that my very expensive health insurance did not pay.
Thanks.

Thanks for sharing

I’d prefer reading in my native language, because my knowledge of your languange is no so well.