July 10, 2007

 

Michael Moore meets up with Dr. Gupta on Larry King to air out their differences because of a "fact check" segment Sanjay did about "Sicko" that Moore took exception to with Wolf Blitzer. Gupta did admit to an error regarding in his piece about claiming Moore said the per capita spending on health care in Cuba was $25 instead of $251...icon Download icon Download

By the end of their segment, despite Gupta trying to pull the whole "no system is perfect, so why even try?" argument, they do end up agreeing with each other on the larger issue---health care reform. I hope CNN will stop running this segment.

Adam Howard: "As Gupta tries to defend his clearly biased report by claiming Moore has "cherry-picked" his numbers (a typical tactic employed by Moore's right-wing detractors), Moore explains that all of his figures are from 2007 and were generated from President Bush's Health and Human Services

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