Micheal Moore promotes new movie in Pittsburgh (Sewickley: buying, movies)

[nuwaver88]

Video: Michael Moore marches to his movie

[aveojohn]

Michael Moorer is an idiot. Anyone who watched Sicko can see he is the king of propaganda. Sicko reminded me of the old Soviet Union propaganda movies of the50's and 60's. What a bunch of socialist crap!

[iwonderwhy2124]

This city doesn't need that revolting ideologue walking about. He's just as bad (if not worse) than the conservatives he rails against.

[khyron]

The worst part, for documentary filmmakers who actually want to advance the causes he temporarily "adopts" for profiteering purposes, is that his hyperbolic-and-or-outright-lying works tend to muddy the waters and stir up partisan responses...which actually helps nobody.

Nobody, well, except him. :P

[SewickleyPA]

After reading this thread, no wonder Pittsburgh isn't considered a very progressive region in the country by most outsiders.

[RedBall]

Originally Posted by SewickleyPA

After reading this thread, no wonder Pittsburgh isn't considered a very progressive region in the country by most outsiders.

Educate yourself.

[aveojohn]

Originally Posted by SewickleyPA

After reading this thread, no wonder Pittsburgh isn't considered a very progressive region in the country by most outsiders.

So, Buying Michael Moore's crap will make us progressive how?---Puleeez!

[iwonderwhy2124]

Originally Posted by SewickleyPA

After reading this thread, no wonder Pittsburgh isn't considered a very progressive region in the country by most outsiders.

It is sad that progressives look up to a man who crafts blatant propaganda in which he engages in hyberpole, cherry-picking of facts, and obvious distortions. I would not want a person like that representing or piggy-backing on my movement. He may not be as blustery and shrill as Limbaugh or Beck is for the Right, but he is just as dogmatic and odious. People like him poison the modern political lexicon in this country.

[khyron]

Originally Posted by SewickleyPA

After reading this thread, no wonder Pittsburgh isn't considered a very progressive region in the country by most outsiders.

I think you might be misinterpreting the sentiments here. Everyone I know in the area who considers themselves "progressive" dislikes his movies because they know he manipulates and distorts anything he's talking about, the leftist equivalent of a Rush Limbaugh or Bill O'Reilly.

Maybe the reactions on this thread are just an indication that a decent amount of Pittsburgh's progressive thinkers are "over" Moore.

[SewickleyPA]

Originally Posted by khyron

I think you might be misinterpreting the sentiments here. Everyone I know in the area who considers themselves "progressive" dislikes his movies because they know he manipulates and distorts anything he's talking about, the leftist equivalent of a Rush Limbaugh or Bill O'Reilly.

Maybe the reactions on this thread are just an indication that a decent amount of Pittsburgh's progressive thinkers are "over" Moore.

Laughable really, Limbaugh and O'reilly have never said a true statement in their lives, or used a single fact to back up any of their outlandish opinions.

You don't have to like Moore to appreciate what it is he is doing. He may come across as extreme in his movies but that's kind of the point, he caters to a specific part of the political spectrum.

Sicko said what everyone else either new already or stubbornly didn't want to believe about health care in the U.S. And guess what? We are trying to reform the system now because people have united across the country against the current system. You don't think that the movie might have something to do with that?

Now his newest movie is going to confront a very real issue in government right now, one that is currently becoming more known due to its obvious hampering of the democratic process in the current health care debate. That issue happens to be that the large corporations in this country are starting to have much more influence than they should in determining what is best for the people in this country. The timing couldn't be any better for this film, really.

If you are against him that is fine, but who else is questioning the government in a highly publicized forum and practicing real investigative journalism right now? The answer is no one.

Oh and I highly doubt that your friends are very "progressive".