What a strange news day it's been. We've got the pizza delivery man who may have played a part in blowing himself up (Pizza bomb); George Bush is ordering his staff not to tell on him (No talking!); the man who couldn't foresee the devastation of Katrina even with experts begging him to listen has a gut feeling the US will be attacked this summer; (Chertoff) a frozen baby mammoth (see Ice Age I or II) has been found in Siberia and scientists want to try and clone it (2 mammoths for the price of 1).
And then you have the main event. In this corner, weighing 285 pounds and looking a tad disheveled, Michael Moore. In the other corner, weighing in at 105 pounds (after a heavy duty spritzing) it's Dr. Sanjay Gupta. Your referee tonight, wandering around aimlessly is Larry King. Did any of you see that last night? I'll link you to the Wolf Blizter smack down that led up to it but man, like him or hate him, Michael Moore makes you think. I've always been a CNN person. Yeah I know, everyone has an agenda and all news outlets have their own biases but it was less apparent on CNN (to me) than say, oh…Fox which has no shame in proclaiming their "fair and balanced" format…if you happen to be a Republican that is and have an 8 x10 of George Bush hanging on your living room wall.
Michael Moore is a filmmaker whose films are meant to make you think. You may not agree with his tactics (like ambushing an obviously frail Charlton Heston in Bowling for Columbine) but he has a point and he does a very good job getting it across. "Sicko" came out this week and CNN aired a report by the good Dr. Gupta essentially saying powerful film but filled with flaws and fudged facts. Fudged facts, my candy loving friends is a nice way to say lied. So, CNN had the cajones to air that piece just before having Moore on for a live interview. Gutsy move! But he was up for it. You could actually hear Wolf Blitzer's butt cheeks slapping together when Moore demanded an apology...not for this so much but for the same type of report CNN did on "Farenheit 911". Wolf did his best to defend Dr. Gupta by saying he went in to help with surgeries on troops in Iraq. Nice, but not the point.
Enter Larry King.
King got both Moore and Gupta on his show the next night live. The battle lasted 30 minutes (because we all needed more information on the whack job married couple that began their relationship with a blinding splash of lye). Gupta looked good. Moore, well, Moore looked like Moore. But he had his stuff together. He cited facts and directed Gupta to where the facts came from. At times, Sanjay looked like he'd rather be back in the OR. People's views will differ but I give Michael the win on a TKO.
The American health care system is in crisis and has been for decades. It needs to be fixed. We have the people and the smarts to do it. But do we have the will?
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