Michael Moore Gives MSNBC's Centrist Hosts a MUCH Needed Reality Check
I didn't put it into the primaries forum, because its not about a specific candidate. Moore is addressing the MSM and talking in general, about how the center in American politics has moved, and how the press, even MSNBC, still lives in a world where they ignore the polls showing the majority of Americans are for more gun control, universal healthcare etc, and instead pretend those opinions only apply to some insignificant fringe left.
Okay, the host of the YouTube channel is an unabashed Bernie supporter, as is Michael Moore. So if that fact is too much to handle for some, just skip the hosts preface and go directly to the clip of Moore talking to these regular hosts. From :50 > 3:38. They simply cannot interrupt no matter how much they want to, because there is nothing they can argue with.
I love the capture he uses as the video screen. Those helpless expressions are priceless.
The MSM including MSNBC are so terrified of honestly representing the majority view of Americans as being the moderate one.
I'm not saying MSNBC does not do some great work. I don't know where we'd be without Maddow. But, especially when these Highly-paid commentators and politicians, get on these back-patting panels. they suffer from a lack of understanding, or refusal to understand, that the country actually wants what the more progressive candidates want too. That that is the new "moderate".
I predict another Moore invitational banishment.
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Thanks for the thread LiberalLovinLug. 
He's been a hero of mine since the days of Roger & Me, and he nails it 100% here.
Many thanks for posting, 'Lug! 
Response to mr_lebowski (Reply #33)
despite the less take home money from your cheque. To show them that it is like contributing to a much larger pool than their own private insurer, thus less cost per person. Add to that, no middle man, or executives or shareholders to scoop off their take. Plus no pleading with insurance companies for coverage as their job is to DENY you, because they work for their companies bottom line. And its 10x harder to educate the public with not only Fox News and RW radio and internet spouting fake news about it, but the MSM networks as well. I still remember Doctor Gupta on CNN smearing single payer and lauding the private system every day during the debates before the ACA.
More than that, its convincing many Americans that Big Gob'mint will do it right, or that its not just another excuse for another tax and less money in their pocket, for some big boondoggle that they don't need. Especially with the push back from the News media, Republicans, PLUS some older respected Democrats who take donations from those corporations. Add to that the more lucrative hospitals and doctors. There is a huge steep unfair playing field just to get anything passed. It would have to be embraced by enough Republicans as well. It would take a 10 + year commitment. If Republicans would stop playing games of pushing buttons, and instead stood by the conservative mandate of reducing household costs for families, and businesses too BTW, they would get behind it.
As a Canadian that has my Medicare, I don't think many Americans understand that its not just a monetary thing, although you would on average pay half of what you do now. Which that chart does not show. Its also effects the national psychology in general in a very positive way. When everyone in a country doesn't even have to think about what happens if they get sick or injured, for their kids, or themselves. All their lives. It is a whole other way of living. There is no such thing as "pre-existing conditions". Here its called your "medical history". Also, we never use the word "insurance" in regards to our medical services, what does insurance have to do with a human right? Anyways, I just think that many Americans do not appreciate what that kind of peace of mind can do to help you be successful in other areas of your life. I mean how can you? I just want the same for you, my friends down there.
There's a reason why some countries are higher on the happiness charts. Although the UK is a bit of an outlier. Grumpy Limeys.
