{"id":443,"date":"2007-05-19T14:52:20","date_gmt":"2007-05-19T21:52:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=443"},"modified":"2009-04-06T01:14:13","modified_gmt":"2009-04-06T08:14:13","slug":"sicko-gets-thumbs-up-fromfox","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=443","title":{"rendered":"Sicko Gets Thumbs Up From…Fox?"},"content":{"rendered":"

Michael Moore’s new film, “Sicko,”<\/em> got a critical boost today from an unexpected source. Roger Friedman, the Fox411 entertainment reporter, lavished praise<\/a> on the film in his online column:<\/p>\n

“Filmmaker Michael Moore’s brilliant and uplifting new documentary, “Sicko,” deals with the failings of the U.S. healthcare system, both real and perceived. But this time around, the controversial documentarian seems to be letting the subject matter do the talking, and in the process shows a new maturity.”<\/span><\/p>\n

Maybe this is not really all that unexpected. Friedman also reviewed<\/a> Moore’s “Fahrenheit 9\/11”<\/em> saying…<\/p>\n

“It turns out to be a really brilliant piece of work, and a film that members of all political parties should see without fail.”<\/span> He continued, “…a tribute to patriotism, to the American sense of duty – and at the same time a indictment of stupidity and avarice.”<\/span><\/p>\n

I wonder how Friedman managed to evade security at the Fox compound and seed the conservosphere with such disinformation. It appears he may have risen from a covert assignment at Murdoch’s New York Post before infiltrating the mother ship.<\/p>\n

Friedman is not, however, out of danger. Having predicted last September<\/a> that Sicko will be “a huge, huge hit…another cultural phenomenon,”<\/em> Friedman, is directly challenging Fox’s heavy artillery, Bill O’Reilly, who has his own security force<\/a>, and has already declared Sicko a failure that won’t make any money. Of course, O’Reilly also famously mis-forecast<\/a> that the double-platinum selling, 5-time Grammy winning Dixie Chicks’ CD “Taking the Long Way”<\/em> would flop.<\/p>\n

We’ll know in a couple of months who prevails. My money is on Friedman.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Michael Moore’s new film, “Sicko,” got a critical boost today from an unexpected source. Roger Friedman, the Fox411 entertainment reporter, lavished praise on the film in his online column: “Filmmaker Michael Moore’s brilliant and uplifting new documentary, “Sicko,” deals with the failings of the U.S. healthcare system, both real and perceived. But this time around, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[9,1],"tags":[33,363,533],"class_list":["post-443","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-art-culture","category-general","tag-fox-news","tag-michael-moore","tag-roger-friedman"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4Ijg-79","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":1299,"url":"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=1299","url_meta":{"origin":443,"position":0},"title":"Did Fox News Capitulate To Scientology?","author":"Mark NC","date":"6\/14\/2009","format":false,"excerpt":"Last April, Fox News entertainment reporter, Roger Friedman, was fired, allegedly because he had acquired and viewed a bootleg copy of 20th Century Fox's \"X-Men Origins: Wolverine.\" At the time it appeared a rather harsh sentence considering that Fox has no problem with continuing to employ people who... ...joke about\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "General"","block_context":{"text":"General","link":"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?cat=1"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":1237,"url":"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=1237","url_meta":{"origin":443,"position":1},"title":"How To Get Fired At Fox News","author":"Mark NC","date":"4\/6\/2009","format":false,"excerpt":"Roger Friedman, the entertainment columnist at FoxNews.com has reportedly been fired for an unforgivable breach of Fox's ethical standards. 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