Viva Wikileaks! Sicko was not banned in Cuba
Viva Wikileaks! Sicko was not banned in Cuba
From an Article at The Huffington Post
Let me just say, i feel no Viva! towards Wikileaks. I am a left winger but i find the whole Wikileaks a little scary and so do most of my liberal friends.
I have never seen Sicko or any other Moore movie but i do know it makes a case for a change in our health care system. But my mother in-law hates him as well as all people left of her (except me). She is a strict dominionist and a tea Partier and she went to church with Sarah Palin-yippee! (We are from Alaska). She is still very angry about the Health care changes and wants them repealed because she believes god will take care of most of our health and that health care services should be a privilege and not a right (hey she’s honest). So this morning i got an e-mail from her with “SICKO A SCAM!!!!!!!” in the subject line (Oh, she has never seen the movie either) that she was sending out to all her friends with a tirade on why health care reform is horrible and must be stopped.
I am not defending Moore who has recently decided to minimize possible rape charges and bail the idiot out. Nor am I defending Assange and Wikileaks who associate with people who deny the very well documented murder of a helluva lot of people.
Anyways, here is the article refudiating the other article that is making a fast round on the winger circuit.
Yesterday WikiLeaks did an amazing thing and released a classified State Department cable that dealt, in part, with me and my film, ‘Sicko.’
It is a stunning look at the Orwellian nature of how bureaucrats for the State spin their lies and try to recreate reality (I assume to placate their bosses and tell them what they want to hear).
The date is January 31, 2008. It is just days after ‘Sicko’ has been nominated for an Oscar as Best Documentary. This must have sent someone reeling in Bush’s State Department (his Treasury Department had already notified me they were investigating what laws I might have broken in taking three 9/11 first responders to Cuba to get them the health care they had been denied in the United States).
Former health insurance executive Wendell Potter recently revealed that the insurance industry — which had decided to spend millions to go after me and, if necessary, “push Michael Moore off a cliff” — had begun working with anti-Castro Cubans in Miami in order to have them speak out and smear my film.
So, on January 31, 2008, a State Department official stationed in Havana took a made up story and sent it back to his HQ in Washington. Here’s what they concocted: cont..