Tuesday, July 10, 2007

step off, sanjay


ok, i'll admit it. i find michael moore a little overbearing. that said, i think he's pretty darn amazing and i very much believe he knows his stuff and sticks to facts, though they are presented in a propagandistic way more often than not. (btw, if you want to raise your blood pressure to stratospheric levels, re-watch 'fahrenheit 9/11' now and see how frighteningly dead-on that entire movie was).

anyhoo, moore had a huge blow-up on cnn last night when wolf blitzer had him on. prior to his live interview, they aired a sanjya gupta piece that claimed to debunk many of the assertions in 'sicko.' for a full ten minutes, moore gets medieval on blitzer's ass and promises to respond to gupta's claims, which he did last night at 12:19 (see below).

what makes me so angry about all of this is that sanjay gupta knows better, but the media can't help themselves when it comes to packaging a story in a more provocative fashion a la mr. moore himself, though often at the expense of facts. and cnn in particular gets my goat, because, in their ratings battle with fox news, they routinely go to great lengths to avoid appearing soft on left-leaning folk like michael moore.

michael moore - sanjy gupta smackdown

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