slightly long clip (15 minutes), including a smear by Sanjay Gupta. Michael Moore gets his licks in though afterwards, and Wolf Blitzer doesn't have answers.
The rebuttal promised by Moore is here.
When given a chance to speak, Moore immediately put host Wolf Blitzer on the defensive.“That report was so biased, I can't imagine what pharmaceutical company's ads are coming up right after our break here,” said Moore. “Why don't you tell the truth to the American people? I wish that CNN and the other mainstream media would just for once tell the truth about what's going on in this country.”
Moore argued that CNN has such a lousy track record of reporting the truth about the war in Iraq and asking tough questions, that Americans should be skeptical of their reporting on health care.
“You're the ones who are fudging the facts,” said Moore. “You've fudged the facts to the American people now for I don't know how long about this issue, about the war, and I'm just curious, when are you going to just stand there and apologize to the American people for not bringing the truth to them that isn't sponsored by some major corporation?”
Blizter grew defensive and backed up his fellow CNN employee, saying that he would stand behind correspondent Sanjay Gupta's record on medical issues. Moore, in response, vowed to post a rebuttal to his website, MichaelMoore.com, showing that Gupta's facts weren't accurate.
“I'm going to put the real facts up there on my website,” said Moore, “so that people can see what he just said was absolutely wrong.”
Turning to the war in Iraq, Moore accused Gupta, who spent time embedded with US troops in Iraq, and the mainstream media at large of refusing “to ask our leaders the hard questions, and demand the honest answers.” Moore laid the blame for the continued US involvement in the war in Iraq at the feet of the media, arguing that they failed to do their jobs and question the Bush war policy.
Still waiting for CNN's apology for misleading America into war with Iraq....
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