hype machine!

I am really happy that people like Michael Moore exist...

It was a publicity stunt. If you're reporting on it, it obviously was successful.

it's called the other side. maybe you should check it out sometime.

Good on Moore, any publicity is good publicity when it comes to trying to get people back on the tracks.

So...
Is your conclusion that it's worse to be a rich, white, self aggrandising fat American who highlights 'the other side of the argument' than to be a rich, white, self aggrandising fat American who ignores it?

Of course he makes a lot of himself.
But he often also has a decent point.

Is hypocricy worse than inaction; discuss.

Of course it's a publicity stunt. That's what you do when you release a new movie... you drum up publicty.

Say what you want about his antics; he contiues to expose the fucked up reality of the so called "american way." So what's a little whoring of oneself if its for the betterment of this nation. I think there should be more people in hollywood like him.

Yes, how dare a private citizen not fix the problem he has exposed to us?! Harumph, harumph, harumph!!

Say what you want about him, at least he did something. You know, other than bitch and moan about it on a porn site.

Thanks for the pithy commentary, CoolerKing!
Crap. Seems I've developed either sarcasm or a lisp.
I hope my insurance doesn't consider it a pre-existing condition.

OK. Now you are going to bitch and moan about the "bitching and moaning?"

I would think that Moore putting the issue in such a stark spotlight would obligate him to do a little more than give free popcorn and soda to homeless people as a publicity stunt. Not to say that I think he's a bad guy or that he isn't a journalist of sorts, but why not dedicate some of the money made from this film to actually helping people with no health insurance -- after all he would have had no subject without them. I am not a major filmmaker exploiting homeless people to drum up support for my movie then jaunting off to unHolywood for an exclusive suare the next night. I am Joe Citizen who spends an obscene portion of his income making insurance fatcats fatter for a product that chances are I will not use until I could have saved as much money...

So are 200 of the people in Union Rescue Mission, and homeless in attendance on skid row because of healthcare? Not that they don't deserve access to healthcare, it's just that it gave me the impression that they're being portrayed as being there as a result of healthcare.

well, TheCoolerKing, as i'm sure it WASN'T completely evident to us before that Moore is an asshole who uses people for his own personal gain, i see it now, as well as the fact that in light of this publicity stunt, you've helped actualize Moore's dream of more fame (infamy?) and money by snidely commenting on it. Bravo

Michael Moore did something? Oh he lined his own pockets with the "fad" of the week. Did he donate all the money from the movie to those that don't have healthcare( and keep $30,000 salary; so he will be above the poverty line)? America is the most generous nation on earth. We love to help others on our own terms. Yes there is a heath care problem, but who has the answer? No doctors do. No politiction does. We can all bitch untill we are blue in the face.......nothing is gonna get done! Michael Moore is making money off of the "I wanna feel good crowd". I know Moore gave $20,000 to some watch dog guy, but what about the rest of the profits from the film(s)? Show me an answer that won't screw up our economy and still give me a choice in who provides my health care.

If you actually think Moore personally makes or controls the bulk of profits from his movies rather than each film's production companies, equity participants, international sales agent and distributors respectively, you first need a lesson in basic entertainment financing before you begin to have something resembling a salient point here.