Letters posted here are associated with the following Salon Premium Member:
Published Letters: 1056
Editor's Choice: 13
Christopher1988 thus wrote: I pointed out the limitations of your "weaponry" above. Guess your brain is the size of your other body parts: small and thus of limited function.
Ah, but thou art speaking for thyself, mighty mite. You pointed out no such limitations, merely exposed more of your as you have in this latest pathetic post. It merely confirms for all you are a loud-mouthed, brash little prick who knows nothing. I asked you for FIVE inaccuracies in Moore's 'SICKO' and three of the five you gave were ostensibly from all. I didn't ask for all, but for one: SICKO.
SO let's look at what you do have (still 3 short and as I show these aren't even accurate):
4. Canadians rush home to get health care rathe than risk it in the US. Actually, Canadian heath care doesn't travel. You have to be in the country to recieve treatement.
Moore never stated that Canadian care "travels" what he showed in SICKO is that Canadians are so much more confident of their own care, as in the Canadian dr. shown in SICKO, they'd rather go home to get that superior care - than remain in the U.S. and also be saddled with capitalist-profit driven bills for treatments, therapies charged at 500%-800% of what they'd cost in Canada.
Yet, Christopher 1988, capitalist apologist that he is, would prefer Kanucks remain here for care and pay 5-8x more for it, emptying their bank accounts, instead of doing the rational thing to save $$$. This, in effect, discloses he himself as irrational as well as retarded.
Let's look at his other example.
5. Europeans, like Canadians, have free heath care on a single-payer plan. In fact, most countries in Europe charge directly or have a health-care tax taken out of weekly paychecks. Generally there are multiple health care plans.
Moore never said "free health care'. In his sojourn to the UK, and their National Health system, it is made clear the Brits get their care at the cost of paying higher taxes, which is what national insurance fees really are. Single -payer merely means that one source (government) issues the payments for care (as opposed to hundreds of middlemen insurance companies in the U.S.), and this was the case in most of the example nations Moore visited, including: UK, France, and Cuba.
The multiple health care plans you speak of are peculiar and specific to Switzerland, and the Swiss system was highlighted in a PBS documentary narrated by journalist T.R. Reid, who traveled to the UK, Germany, Japan and Switzerland.
It is clear from your example you have somehow confused T.R. Reid's documentary with Moore's.
It is also clear that you never watched SICKO.
And moreoever, that you are unable to read and interpret when someone asks for FIVE examples to do with SICKO, specifically.
Now, try again, young Turk.
Admit you’re a lying little maggot, ‘Christopher1988’. You make bald, outlandish accusations against Michael Moore, and yet are unable to name even five “inaccuracies or lies” in one of his most successful films. Instead, you pathetically attempt to turn the tables by placing the onus on me to cite the justifications for his film, when it is YOU that made the slanderous accusations.
I have to remind you, the burden and onus is on the accuser to justify his claims, not on the supporter (or plaintiff) to back his. Look at any libel case, and try to find one instance where the person libeled must prove or show he deserved it, as opposed to the libeler proving he or she didn’t truly mean it! In this case, of course, Moore is the libeled one, and you the libeler.
We therefore have to regard you as the unreliable lying little worm you are, as opposed to a person who can back up his insane claims. While I prefer not to impugn all Gen-Y’ers, your behavior does no service for the group but rather shows a shallowness and duplicity that I have beheld in many others I taught.