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Here's a trailer for Moore's latest effort. (Click here for stuff on Moore's "Sicko".)
posted by Eric Schansberg @ 8:29 AM
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So you haven't seen the movie, but you already know Moore conflates capitalism with "crony capitalism".
Huh. And there couldn't possibly be any other legitimate criticism of our current form of capitalism, besides cronyism? Despite Alan Greenspan himself finally admitting there's a flaw in the system?
http://www.pbs.org/newshour/bb/business/july-dec08/crisishearing_10-23.html
Sounds like a prematurely closed mind to me.
Have you seen the trailer? It's obvious!
Are there other legitimate criticisms of capitalism? Sure. But that's not what the trailer does.
To your point, since I haven't seen the movie, I can only go by the trailer.
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I agree with you about the trailer then - it doesn't tell you much about the movie's contents at all.
I'm not an uncritical fan of Michael Moore's either. I think he reaches all to easily for the propaganda techniques and stretches the truth when it suits him. I do think there was a lot of good stuff in Sicko, tho, and I hope this documentary will have some pertinent and revealing details.
Matthew/Robert,
Thanks for the clarification. The trailer seems to make obvious that his target is crony capitalism and that he will label it capitalism.
I've blogged on Moore previously a few times, including a review of Sicko-- a movie that was far better than I expected. Check it out!
http://schansblog.blogspot.com/2008/04/sicko-lot-healthier-than-i-expected.html
Thanks - I'll check it out.
BTW, in the interest of transparency, sorry for the confusion with the Matt/Robert posting. I'm Robert, but accidentally posted under another profile with a friend's name, which we use to promote his show. Not trying to conceal my identity!
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