Turn the Tide

Michael Moore has announced a new contest aimed at getting folks to take their Republican friends to see his new movie SiCKO. Personally, I fail to see how having Michael Moore come over to sift through one's dirty laundry would appeal to anyone -- let alone those who already hate him -- but it's a contest nonetheless.




Wonkette explains:

The idea, presumably, is that you are a libtard do-gooder who also,
somehow, has a Republican friend, and that this Republican friend is so down and
out that he or she will attend a documentary by GOP favorite Michael Moore about
socialized medicine with you, so that you can mail in the ticket stub (do
Republicans get different ticket stubs?) and then possibly punish your
Republican friend by sending Michael Moore to your so-called friend’s home,
where Michael Moore will fill up the washing machine with the Republican
household’s dirty clothing and then, presumably, just hang around through the
cycle, then load up the dryer, hang around for that — maybe making small talk
about socialized medicine, or interesting pets, or? — and then, maybe, fold the
clothing and put it all away and say good-bye.


This is why we don’t have a national health system in the United States:
Everyone is mentally ill.


PS — French social workers don’t just routinely show up and do your laundry
in France, by the way. But if you’re just home from the hospital with a new
baby, you have the option of having someone come by and help you out with
household chores, which is pretty awesome and, of course, totally civilized and
how things are in all rich countries, except for this one.