Before a live interview with documentary filmmaker Michael Moore on Monday, 7/9/07, CNN aired a segment entitled “Sicko Reality Check” in which Dr. Sanjay Gupta, the network’s chief medical correspondent, aimed to keep Moore “honest” and fact check his new film, Sicko.
The 4-minute piece concluded that Moore “did fudge the facts,” and implied that Sicko was misleading in portraying health care systems in other countries, such as France, the UK, and Canada, as better than the one in the US.
When given a chance to speak, Moore immediately put host Wolf Blitzer on the defensive and slammed him. 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.
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, 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.”
Well here’s the video:
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