The following is an AP story from today:

“Filmmaker Michael Moore has asked the Bush administration to call off an investigation of his trip to Cuba to get treatment for ailing Sept. 11 rescue workers for a segment in his upcoming health-care expose, "Sicko."

Moore, who made the hit documentary "Fahrenheit 9/11" assailing President Bush's handling of Sept. 11, said in a letter to U.S. Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson on Friday that the White House may have opened the investigation for political reasons.

"For five and a half years, the Bush administration has ignored and neglected the heroes of the 9/11 community," Moore said in the letter, which he posted on the liberal Web site Daily Kos. "These heroic first responders have been left to fend for themselves, without coverage and without care.

"I understand why the Bush administration is coming after me - I have tried to help the very people they refuse to help, but until George W. Bush outlaws helping your fellow man, I have broken no laws and I have nothing to hide."

The health-care industry Moore skewers in "Sicko" was a major contributor to Bush's 2004 re-election campaign and to Republican candidates over the last four years, Moore wrote.

"I can understand why that industry's main recipient of its contributions - President Bush - would want to harass, intimidate and potentially prevent this film from having its widest possible audience," Moore wrote.”

This following story is from the NYTimes on July 12, 2006:

“Separate analyses by the Center for Responsive Politics, an independent group that tracks campaign finance, and by The New York Times show that Senator Clinton has received $854,462 from the health care industry in 2005-6, a larger amount than any candidate except Senator Santorum, with $977,354. Other industries have opened their wallets to Senator Clinton, a formidable fund-raiser. But none warred with her as the health care industry did.

Contributions to Senator Clinton over the last 18 months include more than $431,000 from doctors and other health care professionals and more than $142,000 from hospitals and nursing homes.”

According to the Center for Responsive Politics since 1990 the health industry has contributed $264 million to Democratic candidates and $389 million to Republican candidates.  In the 2006 election, Kerry received $7 million from the health industry while Bush received $10 million.  It is clear to any rationale observer that the industry overall favors Republican candidates (most likely due to their lower taxes, pro-business stance).  But clearly, there is no clear cut favoritism between Bush and the health industry as Moore would have us believe.  Indeed, Moore would have us believe that the industry has purchased “control” of Bush.  If this were even plausible, then they have also purchased “control” of every candidate who has received money from them – making presidential hopeful Hillary Clinton the “heir apparent” of this health industry presidential control.  Yeah, don’t think Moore was trying to prove that Hillary is kowtowing to special interests . . . . . .

5 minutes of research and I was able to show that the healthcare industry distributes campaign contributions across partisan lines.  Moore is still as much of as idiot as he ever was and facts will never affect his views.  So I have proved him wrong again, but then again, proving Michael Moore wrong based on facts is as simple as breathing . . . .