Huckabee Fires Back at Michael Moore

Well, I guess you gets what you gets when you stick your necks out in the public sphere preaching to us about a social ill.

I have yet to see Michael Moore's new Sicko, so I won't comment on the content, but it points out a number of structural flaws in the system...flaws with the providers/distributors, that is.

GOP Presidential candidate, former Arkansas Governor and weight loss champion Mike Huckabee is claiming that people with life- and body-styles like Moore are also part of the problem!

On a very high level, it seems only fair, if you really are serious about solving the healthcare "problem," to look at the whole picture, not just what the other guy is screwing up.

If I just threw all my loose trash out in the street, rather than packing it up in bags and cans to pull out to the curb every Wednesday morning, my complaints about the damned garbagemen not making my neighborhood look prettier would be shallow.

Hopefully this discussion will bring something out that's more original than, "the government needs to do more on the reactive side of the equation."

Sicko

I'm anxiously awaiting the release of Michael Moore's Sicko later this summer.  Apparently, it rips a new a-hole for the health insurance industry in America.  As noted in the clip below, it doesn't so much go after the millions of Americans without healthcare as much as give voice to the contention that even those with insurance are on the short end of a crooked stick.

While I think he does take some cheapshots in some of his movies (like taking advantage of a clearly not-all-there Charlton Heston in Bowling for Columbine), he gives you something to think, talk and act about.  Compared to most of the crap that comes out of Hollywood in the last 10 years or so, at least Moore challenges his viewers a little bit.

He appeared on the season finale of Real Time w/ Bill Maher last weekend.  Here's the interview.