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ProfessionalLeftist Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Nov-23-10 05:30 PM
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Michael Moore & Wendell Potter on Democracy Now
Edited on Tue Nov-23-10 05:31 PM by ProfessionalLeftist
More interesting information about the propaganda campaign by Big Insurance to destroy the prospect of decent health care in the US and to destroy Michael Moore and his film, "Sicko" as part of that ruse...


"We host a joint interview with Academy Award-winning filmmaker Michael Moore and Wendell Potter, who was the head of corporate communications for the health insurance giant CIGNA when Moore’s film, Sicko, was released in 2007. Potter left the company in 2008 and has since become the industry’s most prominent whistleblower. In the interview, Potter apologizes for his role in the industry’s attack on Moore and the film.

Moore accepted his apology, but acknowledged to Potter that, “I think we both know this is much larger then what was done to me or in the movie.” Moore said that the industry was willing to spend hundreds of thousands of dollars trying to “stop a movie” because they were afraid it “could trigger a populist uprising against,” what he called, a “sick system that will allow companies to profit off of us when we fall ill.”


Moore is on the telephone during the interview and there is some video. This followed Moore's appearance on Olbermann earlier. Does anyone know anything about the felony committed that Moore says he cannot talk about?

http://www.democracynow.org/seo/2010/11/23/the_fear_of_sicko_cigna_whistleblower
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EFerrari Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Nov-23-10 05:34 PM
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1. A great segment. K&R
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MadMaddie Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Nov-23-10 05:46 PM
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2. What is the Right Wing/Repug/Free Enterprise/TeaParty
worst fear.

When people like Potter and Moore erase that line in the road and team up.

In order to effectively destroy them we will need more people to team like these two.
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glinda Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Nov-23-10 06:03 PM
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3. How are they teaming up? I actually hope Potter reps Moore's movie to then
Edited on Tue Nov-23-10 06:03 PM by glinda
be re-released into some theaters again. Better yet, on TV without having to pay for it!
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