NEWS: Twunts Guide To Universal Health Care and Terrorism

POLITICS: Twunts Guide To Universal Health Care and Terrorism

First came the nightmarish film Sicko by demon Michael Moore. It opened in a limited release on June 22nd. It received strong reviews and was widely considered to be a great piece of filmmaking, all the while creating a strong argument for universal healthcare. But idiots know universal healthcare is evil and they were forced to attack.

Rupert Murdoch’s New York Post spelled out the reasons why the film was so very wrong. Moore is a liar and probably a communist. The journalist took the time to point out that Moore is fat. His claims are stupid and so absurd they can’t be real. Also, Hillary Clinton is in the movie. When the Post was done making their argument, it was hard for any American to justify seeing the shitumentary. And yet, they went anyway. Then CNN wrote an article about how much of the movie was true. Uh oh. What to do now?

Luckily, terrorists tried to murder the island of Britain or England, or whatever it is on July 1st.

Yes, terrorists had parked cars filled with bombs in London and also drove a hot, fiery car into the Glasgow airport. Conservatives love a terrorist attack. We can all be afraid again! Yay! Forget about that universal healthcare shit, we’ve got a distraction.

But then that fucking Sicko had a wide release on July 3rd and people started talking about health care again. That was totally wrong because terrorists were driving flaming cars into buildings – and we should be focused on that! It’s like people have become bored with fear.

Luckily, there was a stunning turn in the terrorist investigation - one that would shake Americans, English and even the barbaric Scottish to their core. Some of the terrorists were…DOCTORS! (Cue tear running down child’s face) Yes, those who were trained to heal us had decided to kill us. My, God. What to do?

Fox News knew exactly what to do. The Foxes knew that at any moment people would turn their attention back to universal health care, because Americans realize more of them will die from our substandard health care than terrorist attacks. Which would make it a bigger problem. (Unless you are a fucking idiot) So, Fox News responded. They combined the horrors of terrorism with the horrors of universal health care and came up with magic.



Yes, you heard that correctly. Fox News just claimed that universal health care would allow terrorist to get into the country because terrorists know how to “game” bureaucracies.

Terrorists would have no fucking idea how to “game” a private enterprise. It’s pretty simple, government agencies, like, say, the FBI or the CIA or your local police would just stumble past a terrorist who was giggling while he looked at a web page of Osama Bin Laden. But a private security firm would grab that fucker in a second. You’ve seen private security folk – they are obviously top notch. The same thing would apply to health care. Basically what Fox News is saying is that if we allow universal health care we may as well just blow up Sears Tower.

Right wing blogs have now picked up on this nugget of genius first offered by Mark Steyn of the National Review. I applaud them for reaching new heights of retardation. Or is that lows?

UPDATE: MSNBS joins the party:

I fail to see how this is news. I would also like to point out just how closed-minded it is to state that everyone who does NOT share your particular vision of how "universal healthcare" is to be adopted is a psycho rightwing nutjob or an idiot.

Personally, I happen to think that if you want Universal healthcare to be truly Universal, as in help the most people possible, then you need to get Government as far away from the Medical industry as possible. I've explained this in another thread and so I wont restate it here.

Michael Moore has lied in every film he's made in the past. Well, not lied per se... simply taken only the facts which support his intellectually myopic viewpoint. To assume he's done differently this time is illogical, but it seems as though everyone is willing to do it because they want to agree with him.

This is all fine and good, but when will Fox News report on how the Kyoto Protocol will aid terrorism?!

I'm sick of giving terrorists the extra help they need with emissions testing and smaller vehicles!!!

Reading the Post review of the film, I don't see how a jab at his weight or how Hilary is ugly is any different than the way you frame your post; ridiculous sarcasm aimed for a chuckle. The rest seems like a decent counterpoint to the film... Or are you claiming facts like;

are wrong. They could be, I'm asking honestly. I jsut think dismissing half of the viewpoint as "idiotic" is silly. The system needs to be fixed, but there is no golden 'right" system to copy.

And on my point about Moore's practices earning my ire;

and

feed into my belief about his practices in making his films.

Again, I may see it online for free sometime to help educate myself about health care more fully, but I had to respond about the flippant response to a contrary review.

I didn't realize Rupert Murdoch paid SG members to make comments.

Seriously --- did nobody read the last part of the story?

Sure, FTR rambles for a few paragraphs to tie the point together, but you know...you expect slanderous muckracking from both FTR and the New York Post.

The exciting thing is, we can watch total lunacy from Fox News, too! Ban Health Care! It's just a platform for TERRORISM!!!

(Retraction: It's not really slanderous to say Moore is fat, or to say that Fox News makes shit up based on ideology.)

If you despise Michael Moore for his supposed inaccuracies and his political agenda, then how the hell can you take the Post or Fox News seriously?

Your hypocrisy is showing.

Did you ask Fox News the same thing?

Great idea. I'll page Doctor Jan Itor right away!

Wait, so... universal healthcare == bureaucracy == terrorist breeding ground.

A bad enough serious of equalities.

but shit, making that jump to universal healthcare == terrorist breeding ground...

*facepalm*

PS - Drock and Patriot, the article, while it mentions Moore, is not about Moore. It's about Fox asserting that a particular healthcare system facilitates terrorism. With no factual basis whatsoever.

Is it impossible to dislike both Moore and the garbage coming out of News Corp.? Because I often agree with the viewpoints he expresses in his films and I still wish Michael Moore would shut the fuck up.

Before I even read this, I want to just say that the word twunt is played out.

No.

Universal Healthcare == beauracracy == fucked up system == shortage of doctors == reruiting doctors from other countries like crazy

Not to say that leads to terrorism in itself, but if you combine it with poor screening, you are setting yourself up for trouble

We are kind of between a rock and a hard place; you have an immeasurably slow, bulky, reactionary and mostly incompetent group (government beaurocracy) versus an immeasurably greedy, cold-hearted, manipulative and "strickly by the profit" group (insurance companies).

Which to chose...

I was thinking the exact same thing. The post has practically nothing to do with Sicko - it's the hilariously obvious attempt to tie terrorism to universal healthcare. But then I guess attacking FTR and Sicko some more is easier than denying that.

Can't we all just laught at Fox News like we always do? Wait, people take Fox News seriously, and some of these people have their hand on the button... now I'm terrified.

And am I alone in wishing Michael Moore didn't represent my point of view?

m*therfuckers. that's right, we supply free healthcare to everyone, which means we contribute to terrorism.

f*cktards

Ow. My head.

How is the one track mind thing going? Are you sitting in your house, pacing and losing your mind over Michael Moore? It seems so. Here is the main difference between me and you: I know Moore is not a NEWS journalist, but rather a FILM MAKER. See the difference? Can you get that through your shockingly thick head lining? There are no standards that require him to make a "fair" film. He is trying to convince people of his idea. So, grow the fuck up.

How you can not make one comment about what Fox NEWS did here and yet take up this much space about what a film maker did is pretty amazing. It makes you seem sort of clownish.

I will now cover you spewing bullshit point by point because I am avoided working. But after his post, know that I am tired of your one track idiocy and will not respond.

Done. Moore is not a news source but a man making a point. It's not his job to undermine his point. (I will say that we WAIT here in America too.) My insurance company only allows me to see certain doctors. I just waited a month to see an ear specialist. Moore did not talk to me! Should I be mad?

Barbarian Invasions. Saw it. Watched a movie about a man dying and his grown son coming to grips with it. Watched a man die comfortably. Saw no indictment of the health care system- mostly because i HAVE A SOUL and was wrapped up in the son coming to grips with his father's death. - you know the POINT of the fucking movie. As a child, did you watch Bambi and wonder about forest management?

Most of Europe does not have air conditioning. Leave the country once in a while, you might learn something. This point has NOTHING to do with healthcare. And it was stolen from a Kurt Loder's article word for word. So now we are dealing with a plagiarist. Thanks for undermining the guy you are holding up.

I didn't realize I gave Moore credit for this anywhere. As a screenwriter I saw it as a brilliant piece of film making. Anyone with a brain would not see it as a wonderful action from Moore, but rather the world's greatest "fuck you." One that was afforded to him by the state of our nations health care. Without our current disaster the guy could have rejected the money. Get it? Not hard to, but with your fucking blinders on you can't see anything apparently.

You can say anything you want about Cuba. Fidel is a fucker. But to attack Cuba's healthcare system is to be so blindly ignorant of the facts that it is startling. Did you know you can go to FREE medical school in Cuba? No, you did not. The only requirement Cuba puts on that free medical education is that you then spend a number of years as a doctor in a poor community in the world. You know, taking care of poor sick people. Cuba plans to educate 100,000 doctors over the next ten years and send them to the world's poor. What a bunch of fucking assholes, huh?

Now you know why I did not repond to the blathering nonsense in the Post story. It is full of ignorant bullshit.

Anyway, see the Fox News video? You know, the thing the story is about. You know the actual NEWS SOURCE that is spewing PROPAGANDA....

And, before you start on me. I spew volumes of propaganda. I am not a journalist, but a writer for a titty site.

First, i didn't respond to the Fox News part because I am in a law library studying, and cannot play the audio. Additionally, I find most network news incredible biased by their bosses, so I tend to prefer to read things on the internet to supplement my knowledge, even suicide girls.

Which brings me to my second point; did you see when I honestly asked if the points were correct? I was asking politely for your view. Did you not see in all my "one-tracked idiot mind' posts where I stated I knew little about both sides of health care because I have been too poor to afford it for the past 4 years? You know, when i mentioned my very sick mother not getting care? Your personal attacks on me just make you look bad, at least I would hope to people who see me stating that the system is broken and needs to be fixed.

Third, I have posted in other threads here, it just happens you've been posting more Moore lately, and I've responded. I'm sorry if my monthly subscription has a limit on posts on a topic.

Sorry if this wasn't more inflammatory, but i think you pegged my beliefs completely wrong pal.

+1

You're beliefs are simply anti Moore. This topic was about Fox News coverage. Even without the video you could read the quote of the newscaster. Sorry, I'm not buying it. You have a Moore problem. Now you're hijacking threads to make your point.

That would be true if it didn't open with a review of Moore's movie. It wasn't like this was a post about Bush or women's rights and I threw in "Oh yea, Moore's a shit." I was honestly talking about the review you referenced. The rest of the article is spot on, if Fox News did what you said. couldn't verify myself, so i wasn't going to speak for or against the viewpoint.

And PS, the Post isn't news, and no one takes it as such. It's slightly above Weekly World News in the eyes of NYers. And their sports pages suck, unless you have a hardon against A-Rod.

really?

Sorry, some of us don't live in the world of teenagers, where things get "played out."

Really really. The path to truth comes from discussion with people, not just listening to views you prefer. Hell, I've already learned more about how fucked up health care is from posts than I could have asking people I know who have always had adequate health care.