He's clever, and he has a talent for outrageous, clever, and funny satire. I had to laugh at Roger and Me.
His humor--absurd though it is--is far more clever than the tiresome, scatolic bilge (not that Moore's isn't bilge), that substitutes shock value for cleverness, foisted repeatedly on the public by so-called "comedians".
If Moore--or anybody else--wants to make American health care affordable, then remove the lawyers. The cost of health care could be reduced by half simply by eliminating the Malpractice Crisis. The hidden tax in all health care costs is the plaintiffs' awards, the lawyers' fees, court costs, and the fear of all of them.
If and when government takes over health care, government itself will end the Malpractice Crisis, because ending it is the only way that it will ever become affordable, and politicians and burocrats will have no intention of passing that kind of money on to lawyers and plaintiffs.
Until the American people either (1) bring the Malpractice Crisis to a halt or (2) establish socialized (or communized) medical care, which will bring the Malpractice Crisis to a halt, U.S. health care will remain unaffordable to everyone.
I agree. He’s good at what he does. Providing shock, misery and endless conspiracy theories for the weak-minded.
I still remember his show TV Nation. It was extreme, but politically borderline down the middle. I’ll admit it, I liked it. Looking back and saying that seems scary. (How was I sucked in?)
Then The Awful Truth came out and you could see a shift to the left. After that, he found his audience (or life-line, if you will) and it’s been pure BS ever since.
It’s all math: he has to be careful. Stay right on the tip of the curve. Go too far over the dip, and, yes, you’ll still have extreme wackos following you, but your “credibility” starts to slip. Don’t go far enough, and you lose your typical liberal bash-Bush gold mine.