Despite receiving positive reviews at the Cannes Film Festival, Michael Moore and his new documentary, "SiCKO", is still being attacked for the film's criticism of the U.S. health care system.
Obviously a large portion of the criticism directed at the film comes from the Internet. As a matter of fact, one of those sources is an anti-Moore web site called MooreWatch.com. However, here is where it gets good. When Moore discovered last year that Jim Kenefick, the owner of MooreWatch.com, was planning on closing the web site because of his ailing wife's accumulating medical bills, Moore sent a $12,000 check to Kenefick. The ever grateful Kenefick recently commented that "[Moore] paid $12,000 so that you, the press, would focus on what a 'nice guy' he is and, in the same breath, make me look like a jerk". Where did Kenefick make that wonderful remark? You guessed it--on his web site, which is still running a year later. I certainly do not want to sound callous but maybe we should approach this situation like a high school principal's office and ask for a doctor’s note as evidence that Kenefick's wife was truly sick. Are we sure that $12,000 wasn’t used for some sort of plastic surgery?
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