It appears that Huckabee was asked during a 7/11 conference call with journalists to comment on Michael Moore's crocumentary "Sicko." As Huckabee often does, he turned the discussion about healthcare toward preventable maladies like obesity and heart disease.
But both the AP writer and the spokeswoman for Moore imply that Moore is the target of mean ol' Republicans or just greedy/contribution-hungry ol' GOP Presidential candidates.
"Looks like Mike Huckabee is auditioning for some insurance company dough, since he's raised just about no money and sparked zero interest since jumping into the race," O'Hara said in a response provided by Moore's production office. "I wonder what the good governor would say to the French, who drink more, smoke more, eat more cheese and still live longer than us despite paying less for health care?". At the end of the article, they reference Fred Thompson's youtube RESPONSE to a verbal assault from Michael Moore earlier in the Summer. In that instance, Moore threw some elbows at Thompson in an apparent effort to generate attention just prior to the release of "Sicko," but now it is handy for characterizing Moore as a Republican punching bag.
Further irony is that Huckabee is probably most sympathetic to Moore's premise that something has to be done to reform the American healthcare system. But I guess a knee jerk reaction by Moore is predictable given that Moore can only conceive of one prescription for everyone else's problems: socialism.
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