No Sicko For North Dakota

Ken McCracken • July 15, 2007

Aaron A. over at the Fargo-based blog Breathe is complaining about the fact that Michael Moore’s Sicko won’t be playing in any theaters in Fargo. Or in North Dakota at all. Which really doesn’t bother me one way or another. I don’t care if people see Moore’s film, nor do I care if theaters decide not to show it (Fahrenheit 9/11 was shown at my local theater here in the middle of North Dakota).
But what I found interesting was not so much the news about Moore’s film not being in my state, but rather the way Aaron complained about it. First, he says this:

I’ve been waiting to see Sicko, I’ll be waiting a while longer.
Although Micheal Moore is about as intellectually stimulating as the latest Grisham, and even though the movie is about what most educated Americans (who care) already know, I have been waiting to see what all the commotion is about.

So, Aaron admits to not having seen the movie yet, but he’s already concluded that it’s an accurate representation of our health care problem (for “educated” people, who are apparently only those who agree with Aaron). That’s…pretty small minded.
Second, while Aaron gets a dig in at Moore for not being “intellectually stimulating” enough (this despite his movie covering, by Aaron’s own description, a topic for “educated people”), he also complains about theaters not carrying it.
Apparently Aaron thinks the movie will be boring, but thinks theaters should be carrying it anyway. Why? Who knows. Apparently he feels that it is the responsibility of theater owners everywhere to carry films giving voice to accepted left-wing dogma regardless of their commercial appeal.

Tags: Asshats, Cultural Marxism, Nanny State, North Dakota News, Politics, The Loony Left

http://Array Neiman

Whistler: With all sincere due respect to you, except a rare bird or two among Democrats, they are all to one degree or another fervent socialists; and the vast majority of them believe that they can avoid the mistakes of prior attempts at communism, that is, if the people on the right can be effectively silenced, then they can create a socialist utopia in this country.

Most of them do not clearly understand that is what they believe in and what their party is trying to accomplish in America, they are spoon fed large doses of compassionate language, that like the sugar of Mary Poppins helps the socialism go down. They are fed class envy, various forms of victimhood and a slave like dependence upon the Socialist Nanny State of the Democrat Party.

The point is that among Democrats labels like liberal and moderate are meaningless, they don’t really exist; they are different colored labels with the same socialist poison inside.
http://SayAnythingBlog.com The_Whistler_ofnd

Actually if you want to put it on a line it would be the least government control of your lives to the most government control of your lives.

To put it into recognizable political labels it’d go from Libertarian to Conservative Republican to Liberal Republican, Conservative Democrat, Mainstream Democrat, Socialists and then branch off to the separate but equally bad Fascism and Communists.
robert108

Neiman: My point is that the lefties have already accomplished an Orwellian snowjob with the help of their propaganda arm, the MSM.
Neiman

Robert108: While I offered some current defintions, they were modified by my personal beliefs in what these terms currently mean, at least to me.
Neiman

Fascism: Characterized by dictatorship, centralized control of private enterprise, repression of opposition, and extreme nationalism. Any movement, tendency, or ideology that favors dictatorial government, centralized control of private enterprise and repression of all opposition.

Gee does Hillary wanting the federal governmemt to control the profits of the Oil/Gas industry and her desire for national health insurance indicate a desire on her part for centralized, federal control of private enterprise?

The Socialist Democrats, having sufficient power would, like Cuba, China or the former Soviet Union want the political power to be given to a ruling political elite – them. Remember President Clinton saying he knew he taxed people to much, but he could not trust them to spend the money they way he felt they should?

Ted Kennedy already has his dacha at Hyannis Port!
http://breathefargo.blogspot.com/ AaronA

I wouldn’t stereotype myself as a “liberal,”
But, on their behalf, I can say the feeling is mutual.
robert108

Conservatism: A right-of-center political philosophy based on a tendency to support gradual rather than abrupt change and to preserve the status quo. Conservatives are capitalists, they believe in individual responsibility and a minimum of government interference in the lives of the people.

Here’s where we differ, Neiman. Originally, “right wing” meant royalists/monarchists, who favored totalitarian rule by heredity. “Left wing” meant no monarchy; essentially anarchy. In this system, the US is a bit left of center, with its insistence on individual liberty and independence. Conservatives, in their embrace of the Constitution as written, are therefore a bit left of center. Nowdays, the commies have stolen the “liberal” label, even though they embrace none of the values of classical liberalism, and they characterize anyone who doesn’t agree with their brand of ideological totalitarianism as “fascist”, “right-wing” or “reactionary”. They are lying, of course, since they want to enslave everyone, just like the right-wingers of old. It’s a strange world. Conservatives were originally labeled that way because they didn’t like the govt being involved in social engineering; we still don’t. We don’t see it as progress, but rather as parasitic.
robert108

I meant that they have exactly the same goal, with detail differences of how to achieve it.
http://manoffireandlight.blog.co.uk/ ManofFireandLight

Liberals are so ignorant and close-minded that they are incorrigibly brain dead…debate is impossible.

I have to agree with skh.pcola, despite being further left, (I’m more centrist than left) than many of the posters here. Lefties are depressingly boring! They just agree with each other all the time, leaving no room for debate.
http://breathefargo.blogspot.com/ AaronA

Cutting Edge NEWS!!! Bravo! Self-righteously

First off, Rob, I admire your keen observance that I haven’t seen the movie, as I’m waiting for it to come to the theatre, your assumption was correct.

Secondly however, in your accusation that the “educated” people are those “who agree with Aaron [me]“, you are mistaken. What I was referring to is the health care debate and crisis in America, in which the pros and cons of our system are apparent to anybody who really gives a damn.

As far as my motive for wanting to see the movie, I, like many people, enjoy movies. And one that is (but rather shouldn’t be) “controversial” should be shown. I also don’t think Transformers would be very exciting, but who knows, I might see it some day. I also like long walks on beaches, and bubble baths….anything else you’d like to know?

I find it funny that you would take the time to write about Breathe, which has a wide readership of like 4 people…the rest stumble in from keyword variations of previous sarcastic posts based around Christian Domestic Discipline or the usual subjugation of women.

I also think it is very “small minded” to bring this discussion outside of Breathe without even leaving a comment and giving me a chance to clarify myself….as you seem to have been lost between the lines.
http://sayanythingblog.com/readers/author/Anna/ Anna

Michael Moore already claimed he never intended to make a profit from the film so perhaps if your state informs him of this he’ll donate to a few places. I’m positive he would be more interested in all Americans having access to his documented issues than his own pocketbook.
http://SayAnythingBlog.com The_Whistler_ofnd

TW: I find as much difference between the Fascists and the Communists as there is between the Shiites and the Sunni.

Right Fascists believe that leadership should go to a descendant of Mohammad and Communists believe leadership should go to the person who is the best leader.

Or is it the other way around?
http://manoffireandlight.blog.co.uk/ ManofFireandLight

Ah, but there are those of us who don’t feel justified in our beliefs, unless faced with right-wing sentiment.
Neiman

Communism: A classless society in which capitalism is overthrown by a working-class revolution that gives ownership and control of wealth and property to the state. Any system of government in which a single, usually totalitarian, party holds power, and the state controls the economy.

Socialism: The stage after the proletarian revolution when a society is changing from capitalism to communism, marked by pay distributed according to need done rather than merit or work done.

Conservatism: A right-of-center political philosophy based on a tendency to support gradual rather than abrupt change and to preserve the status quo. Conservatives are capitalists, they believe in individual responsibility and a minimum of government interference in the lives of the people.

Liberalism: While in the dictionaries, the liberal scholars paint liberalism as representing toleration; they are in matter of fact in favor of a maximum of government control over the lives of their citizens, they believe in Nanny government, they are anti-Capitalism and individual growth and success. Liberalism is in matter of actual fact a sweet name for socialism, they are responsible to bring the nation to a point of rebellion based on a doctrine of perpetual victimology and they will then lead the masses into the communist utopia that not one damn communist government has been able to achieve in even a microscopic manner.
Lestat

Lefties are depressingly boring! They just agree with each other all the time, leaving no room for debate.

That is an amazing statement on this board, which is mostly about preaching to the choir.
robert108

TW: I find as much difference between the Fascists and the Communists as there is between the Shiites and the Sunni.
Neiman

YEP!
http://manoffireandlight.blog.co.uk/ ManofFireandLight

AaronA, if you can’t debate with someone who is diametrically opposed to your point of view, then you aren’t intelligent enough to have a political stance.
Mr. Mxyzptlk

I’m sure it’ll show up at the Fargo Theater eventually so that all the self-righteous types in North Dakota can go and get their self-righteousness bolstered as they eat popcorn and drink a coke. In a very self-righteous way.
robert108

Neiman: I understand, but don’t you find it confusing that “the left” now stands for totalitarianism, and “the right” now stands for individual independence? Just asking.
robert108

Man: For the umpteenth time, Conservatives aren’t “right-wing”. That is reserved for the NeoNazis and the Black Muslims, who hate individual independence and who want to enslave us all to their ideology, like the lefties want to. Unless you consider the Constitution of the United States a “right-wing” document; if so, there is no hope for you.
robert108

Libertarians don’t understand the difference between right and wrong; Conservatives do understand that difference. Personally, I think of Libertarians as “Liberaltarians”, with their moral relativity.
Anon

It’s opening in Bismarck on Friday, Jul 20.
skh.pcola

At least he linked to you, Aaron. That should’ve given you a pop in hits. I don’t know how Rob feels about it, but I’ve left probably 5 comments on leftard boards in my life. What’s the point? Liberals are so ignorant and close-minded that they are incorrigibly brain dead…debate is impossible.
http://SayAnythingBlog.com The_Whistler_ofnd

In fact the right wing (fascists) are a sibling of communism and socialism.

They’re all totalitarian and that’s what matters.

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