I saw Michael Moore's new movie Sicko yesterday, and it is a pretty devastating documentary on the health care system. I'm a Michael Moore fan, but not a drooling Moore zombie. I know he presents the important facts and leaves the others out (to be fair, we all do that, but Moore gets called out for it simply because he's taking on the system). Anyway, in the movie, Moore talks about how the guy who ran an anti-Michael Moore website almost had to close down because he couldn't pay his health insurance. Moore decided, he says in the movie, that no one should have to make the choice between exercising their First Amendment right and keeping their wife healthy, so he actually sent the guy a check to keep his website open. Here's the actual scene from the movie (watch it first, before you read anything), and here's the guy's take on the whole thing. I know the conservatives love to call Moore a "limousine liberal" and of course he has to make a buck, but from everything I've seen, he's an upstanding guy who tries to right things where he sees wrong. Related: here's Moore telling off Wolf Blitzer for getting the facts wrong about both of his movies (and a little thing called the Iraq War). Update: Moore kept it up against CNN on Larry King. Not sure I'm still interested enough to watch this whole thing (if he needs to convince me that they make mistakes, he needn't bother), but keep it up MM. (via Jaime)

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Posted on Tuesday, July 10th, 2007 at 9:39 pm. Filed under miniblog.