Not the film showing Michael driving a Model T on the parkway shown here yesterday, but the other Michael Moore’s film SiCKO. Here are some examples.
For Michael Moore, the real tip-off is the trip to Cuba. Understand: No rational proponent of national health insurance would ever bring up Cuba. In the very act of bringing it up, he is telling us – in the only way he knows how to tell us – this film is not about health care. It’s about Michael.
Sure there are good doctors in Cuba. It’s also true that the average Cuban has to bring his own soap and bed sheets when he enters a hospital. What kind of mind would focus on one fact and ignore the other? A mind that thinks if he recreates the Cuban health care system on film, it will become reality.
But the fantasy doesn’t end there. By implication, Moore is recreating all of Cuban society. If there is one fact all the rest of us know – indeed, almost everyone else in the whole world knows – it is this: If someone like Michael Moore actually lived in Cuba, he would be in prison in a matter of weeks. And his biggest problem would not be health care. It would be torture.
So what kind of mind are we talking about here? I don’t think I want to go there.
