Michael Moore was on Larry King Live and spoke about the oh-so-famous Health Care Bill that has just recently been passed. As a radical, Moore's point of view will not be shared with a huge mass of people, but he does make some good points. He realizes that there is a ways to go and as a true progressive, he is not happy yet. However, the point he makes towards the end about giving a right to only part of the population is a bit...well wrong. He makes the point that not all people are currently covered and won't be until 2014, but when he makes the comparison to freeing the slaves or giving women voting rights, he forgot about a chunk of history. Moore suggests that it is not fair to leave out a portion of the population for the next four years and contrasts it with slavery. He states:
"When we decided to get rid of slavery, we didn't say 'well you know, we're going to free 32 million of the slaves, but 15 million of those slaves are still going to have to be in slavery.' "In fact, we actually did do something very similar, which was to make one African American male the equivalent of three fifths of one White male. You gotta love Michael Moore's radicalism, but he needs to get all of his facts straight if he's going to argue it out.
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