Tennessee Guerilla Women: Michael Moore on Maher's Real Time & Moore

Sunday, May 27, 2007

Michael Moore on Maher's Real Time & Moore

The discussion centered on Sicko and the health care crisis in the U.S. - see it at Youtube.

Michael Moore's appearance on Bill Maher's Real Time was the first live interview he's given in two and a half years.

Unless I blinked, there was no discussion of the Bush Administration's harassment/investigation of Michael Moore for taking 9/11 first responders to Cuba for the health care they couldn't get in the U.S.

But why should the Evil Doer Pursuer always get to steal the show? There was plenty to talk about without bringing the subject of the Oval Office Madman in. Also, Moore's lawyers may have advised him to stay mum on the subject.

Here's Moore's statement on the subject from earlier this month:

Filmmaker Michael Moore has accused the White House of having political reasons for investigating his trip to Cuba to get health care for U.S. workers.

Moore took a group of ailing Sept. 11 rescue workers to Cuba to seek medical treatment while making his documentary Sicko.

"For five and a half years, the Bush administration has ignored and neglected the heroes of the 9/11 community. . These heroic first responders have been left to fend for themselves without coverage and without care. I understand why the Bush administration is coming after me — I have tried to help the very people they refuse to help, but until George W. Bush outlaws helping your fellow man, I have broken no laws and I have nothing to hide."