Showtime is showing Michael Moore's Sicko. If you know anyone with cable you might let them know. It is great news because millions of additional people will see the film.

In Sicko "fact check," CNN's Gupta falsely claimed his source's "only affiliation is with Vanderbilt University":

Contrary to Gupta's assertion on Larry King Live that Keckley's "only affiliation is with Vanderbilt University," Keckley is affiliated with Deloitte & Touche USA LLP, part of a global audit, tax, consulting, and financial advisory services group of firms. Keckley is the executive director of the Deloitte Center for Health Solutions. The Deloitte Center for Health Solutions states on its website that "it delivers research on and develops solutions to some of our nation's most pressing health care and public health related challenges." As Moore noted on Larry King Live, the Deloitte Center for Health Solutions is also "connected" to Tommy Thompson. The center's website lists Thompson as the Deloitte Center for Health Solutions' independent chairman.

Keckley is also a Republican contributor, as Moore claimed. According OpenSecrets.org, Keckley has donated $8,500 to Republican candidates or party committees since 1990, including $1,000 to Sen. Bob Corker (TN), $2,000 to the Republican Party of Tennessee, $2,000 to Sen. Lamar Alexander (TN), and $500 to Rep. Marsha Blackburn (TN). During that period, he has made no donations to Democratic candidates or party committees that have been reported to the Federal Election Commission.

Dear Michael Moore and John Conyers:

By now you have heard of Health Care for America Now. Clearly the effect of this group is to blunt the drive for single payer. As the most visible leaders in the single payer movement we need you to come up with a counter strategy.

These videos were taken at the hearing for HRH 676. See our friends in action.

HR 676 - The Single Payer Solution, Part 1 of 4

HR 676 - The Single Payer Solution, Part 2 of 4

HR 676 - The Single Payer Solution, Part 3 of 4

HR 676 - The Single Payer Solution, Part 4 of 4

The Party of Michael Moore

But when Moore returned with his next film in 2007, O’Reilly was still very much on the warpath.

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Not being a movie person I have no idea what sort of magazine (beyond being about movies, duh) this CinemaBlend.com might be. This is the only article from it I have ever read. But the writer had an experience that brought shivers to my arms just reading about it:

Sicko started; the stereotypical Texas guy sat down behind me and never stopped talking. He talked through the entire movie… and I listened. The first ten to twenty minutes of the film he spent badmouthing Moore to his wife and snorting in disgust whenever MM went into one of his trademark monologues. But as the movie wore on his protestations became quieter, less enthusiastic. Somewhere along the way, maybe at the half way point, right before my ears, Sicko changed this man’s mind. By the forty-five minute mark, he, along with the rest of the audience were breaking into spontaneous applause. He stopped pooh-poohing the movie and started shouting out “hell yeah!” at the screen. It was as if the whole world had been flipped upside down.

And it was what happened after the movie was over that's the really remarkable part.

Tonight, I caught a sneak preview of Michael Moore's Sicko, and I found it hard to stay in my seat. I kept wanting to give it a standing ovation well before it was over.

It's two hours that genuinely could change America.

The case he makes for universal health care is overwhelming. If Colin Powell's UN pitch were this compelling, I'd be in Iraq right now still digging for those WMDs.