Smackdown!!

Michael Moore is impressing me beyond my awe at him getting up at the Academy Awards and announcing to the world that the war was/is illegal, beyond showing America and the world the hypocrisy that is rampant in this administration, and beyond putting himself on the line over and over again as a clown, a jerk, and an American everyman, to get the story. To watch the establishment, controlled by the powerful force of the drug and insurance lobby, flail pathetically in some attempt to discredit Moore, when too many Americans know the truth from experience, is just a joke. We've all been sick, or we know someone who has been sick, and we all know the truth about the insurance industry. many Americans may be stupid and lazy about learning the issues, but sickness and death are two things that cant be escaped...so, trying to lie to us about this is laughable.
And, man, do I love to hear a smart man put Blitzer in the dust, and call him on his lax interviewing over the past years.

So, onward and upward, Moore sent me an email today talking about his appearance today on Larry King Live with Dr Sanjay Gupta, and part 2 of his smackdown with Wolfie, and also the part of his site that is dedicated to debunking the misleading crap that is trickling out to try to discredit More's message.

Well, get ready, because today I turned on MSNBC and there was Bush himself swaggering his way through a laughable western twanged speech about health care and, hard as it is to understand what he is getting at, it appears that it has something to do with our freedom of medical choice being preserved by funnelling more money to his friends in the insurance industry...or something...I had to turn it off because I started to go into my "I cant believe that this guy is the President of the United States" spiral, and I know that it never leads to a good place...so, I switched over to CNN, where I found that Bush was also!!...So I started scanning and as I went past Fox, it was some airport police action somewhere in the country. I was sort of squinting at the little screen in the corner of the bigger screen here on my computer screen, when they suddenly cut back to Bush, and I jumped back. It was the juxtaposition of the swaggering cowboy right in my face with the swat teams in the grainy helicopter photos that said "BE AFRAID!! BE VERY AFRAID!!"...and I turned to a workman that was here and said, "See? look!! We are supposed to be afraid!"..and he burst out laughing, as only an immigrant who has seen actual reasons to be afraid, can.
As a matter of fact, everyone is laughing at Bush these days....and it would be hilarious if it weren't so bloody tragic.

So, here is Michael Moore telling Wolfie Blitzer the way it is, and asking him about HIS record!
Part 2 will turn up soon and I will post it...and I look forward to watching my DVR of Larry King interview where Moore confronts Gupta!

So, this is Gupta on Sicko...



And, this is Pt 1 of Mike with Wolff:



And Pt 2....



Update ....emails surface...Gupta admits he was wrong...CNN had the correct infomation all along and went with the misleading story anyway! Look here for the emails, and the story. I think that "journalists" who play fast and loose with the truth to try to make for a more dramatic story, regardless of the way it leans, should be fired. I'd like to see Gupta taken off the air. This subject is just too important, and I really think that we have to start demanding accountability from the press (and our doctors, even if they have a big time network job!)