Moore acting very unhinged on CNN
This is pretty astounding. This unhinged kind of behavior only serves to hide the fact that he can’t actually discuss the merits of his positions. On top of that, he mocks Dr. Gupta’s name. Real classy.
Thanks to all who emailed this in, and to Sam7 who posted it in comments.
Update from Lee: (two updates below!)
Moore makes many a derogatory insinuation abut Dr. Sanjay Gupta, who works for CNN. For details about Dr. Gupta, who went to Iraq as a journalist and ended up using his skills as a neurosurgeon to save lives on the battlefield, you can read this story. Conversely, during the Iraq War Michael Moore was safely ensconced in his Manhattan penthouse. Gupta was up to his elbows in the blood of dying soldiers, while Moore sat at home, watched TV, and sucked chocolate icing off his fingers.
You know all that footage from Iraq that Mikey used in Fahrenheit 9/11? He paid other cameramen to go get it for him, because he didn’t have the balls to get his fat ass over there and put himself in harm’s way.
When you listen to the contempt evident in Moore’s voice, keep this in mind when he speaks with such righteous indignation regarding the war in Iraq. Gupta was there. He saw it and smelled it and witnessed it firsthand. Mikey watched it on TV in his living room.
Update 2 from Lee: Here’s a transcript of Wolf Blitzer interviewing Colin Powell on the eve of the war in 2003. Say what you what about what subsequently happened in Iraq, but the idea that the media just sat there with its thumb up its ass before the war is just ridiculous. If Colin Powell, the Secretary of State and a true American hero, can be kept in the dark/be misinformed about the truth in Iraq, it is the height of dishonesty for someone like Moore to insinuate what he does in this interview, that the media were complicit. You can reasonably argue that the media dropped the ball, but Moore literally makes the insinuation that the media were intentionally not “doing their job” and holding Bush’s feet to the fire.
Of course, the second someone in the media does their job and holds Moore’s feet to the fire he goes of on an angry spittle-flying rampage like the petulant narcissistic sociopath we all know him to be. (And, on a personal note, I’d like to thank you, Michael. This intrerview reminded me what a worthless piece of shit you are, and rekindled my desire to keep writing this website for the rest of my life. Or, given your chronic weight issues, the rest of yours at least.)
Also, here is the CNN Transcripts page. When a transcript of the interview is posted, you’ll most likely find it here.
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Michael Moore is nothing more than an Ellsworth Toohey with a double chin.
Don’t bother watching, I’ll post the transcript.
THREE YEARS THREE YEARS THREE YEARS THREE YEARS WEAPONS OF MASS DESTRUCTION WEAPONS OF MASS DESTRUCTION WEAPONS OF MASS DESTRUCTION WEAPONS OF MASS DESTRUCTION 18,000 DIED BECAUSE OF NO HEALTH INSURANCE CLINTON IS BRAVE DO YOUR JOB DO YOUR JOB DO YOUR JOB DO YOUR JOB DO YOUR JOB APOLOGIZE TO ME APOLOGIZE TO ME APOLOGIZE TO ME APOLOGIZE TO ME APOLOGIZE TO ME MEDICARE MEDICARE MEDICARE MEDICARE MEDICARE OMG WE’RE OUT OF TIME SEE YOU IN THREE YEARS
I am curious what was said before Moore came on. I will look for it on CNN or the internet. Just want to put the interview in perspective.
"He paid other cameramen to go get it for him, because he didn’t have the balls to get his fat ass over there and put himself in harm’s way.”
Lee: Come on. Moore is a lot of things, but he is no cameraman.
I am curious what was said before Moore came on. I will look for it on CNN or the internet. Just want to put the interview in perspective.
Basically, Dr. Gupta had fact checked some of the claims made in Sicko and challeneged the factual accuracy of them.
I’m having a flashback…
Moore: “Ask a doctor if they’d rather have a Medicare patient or someone who’s got a lousy HMO - ‘cause they know at least Medicare, the government will pay them, send them a check and not have to fight an hour on the phone just to get the $15 office visit paid for.”
Posted by NobleBrown on 05/28/2007 at 05:25 PM
My father is an orthopedic surgeon… Insurance companies are also a big problem. They’ve been charging consumers more and more while they pay less and less, and it’s only getting worse, the filthy fucks. My dad ran a private practice for quite a while and oh boy, were they bad. One of the reasons doctors charge more is to offset the insurance companies paying less. They typically hand out about half of what is billed. Medicare is worse, popping out about 30% last I knew, and Medicaid does about 10%. Doctors who work for big hospitals will be okay, but private practitioners are getting fucked right up the ass.
(Quotes taken from this topic. Emphasis mine.)Posted by owski on 05/28/2007 at 07:14 PM
I used to work for a health care reimbursement software company, and I can categorically tell you that more time and effort was spent getting money from government than from private insurance. Most of the procedures and policies used to reimburse from insurance companies existed only because they were already there working on getting money from Medicare and Medicaid. To blame private insurance for that is ridiculous.
Lee: Come on. Moore is a lot of things, but he is no cameraman.
Strange. He managed to go to all those insurance companies. He managed to go to Cuba. He manages to go pretty much anywhere.
Except Iraq.
Lee: Come on. Moore is a lot of things, but he is no cameraman.
Funny how he shows up in front of the camera in EVERY SEGMENT BUT THE ONES FROM IRAQ though. Hence Lee’s point. He has no problem going to DC to stand in front of a camera and make a scene, but he dares to criticize the integrity of those who went where he dared not go.
Come on. Even you should be able to admit that one.
Oh, it should also be of note that Dr. Gupta did this on a totally separate show and, as far as I know, wasn’t present during “The Situation Room”. Some of the facts that Dr. Gupta “attacked” were the relevance of Cuba being ranked lower than America on the WHO list, long wait lines for many services, and the fact that Sicko really only shows one side of the story.
In short, the truth.
I don’t even know where to start! That fat, yapping, disgusting Quasi-male Rosie O’Donnell Clone fills me with disgust. Every time I see that fat face of his spewing childish, repetitive rants it just reminds me why Why, WHY I keep coming back to Moorewatch.
What was all that nonsense about the war? He spent about three quarters of that “interview” babbling incoherently about Weapons of Mass Destruction. Wolf Blitzer had to refocus the discussion on “Sicko.”
Does he really, honestly believe that government-controlled hospitals like King/Drew and Walter Reed are better than private, for-profit hospitals? Does he really, honestly believe that? If he got sick, I wonder which hospital he would request?
Maybe if we went to the forums on his site, we could ask him which hospital he would prefer...oh, wait....
Hey, that’s my line!
Amazingly, he linked to the Sit Room from his website. You WANT people to go and watch that? You’re PROUD of that performance?
Oh, it should also be of note that Dr. Gupta did this on a totally separate show and, as far as I know, wasn’t present during “The Situation Room”. Some of the facts that Dr. Gupta “attacked” were the relevance of Cuba being ranked lower than America on the WHO list, long wait lines for many services, and the fact that Sicko really only shows one side of the story. In short, the truth.
Ahhhh....ok...It seemed from the intro of the clip they had him on the Situation Room right before Moore was on. My mistake.
I will have to look up Dr. Gupta’s evaluation of Sicko just to see what got Moore’s panties in a wad. (I am pretty sure I know the answer, but just would like to see what Dr. Gupta has to say.) Thank for the heads up.
He doesn’t like it when people edit him, but he’s more than happy to edit things that others say. God he’s such a fucking hypocrite.
So we’re the only industrialized nation without free universal healthcare. There is no “free” universal healthcare. I repeat, there is no “free” universal healthcare…
I didn’t see F911. Did Moore actually question the pre-war intelligence?
So we’re the only industrialized nation without free universal healthcare.
I see this often raised in support of the UHC position (I know that is not why you raised it) and it always baffles me. My question is...so what? As Crichton went on to point out...UHC is NOT free and in every country that I have been able to find it is operating at a loss.
But thats not really the point. The point, or rather the question is this: What makes the American system so bad OUTSIDE the fact the government doesn’t pay for it? What makes socialized medicine so superior to privatized medicine?
I didn’t get impression he was “acting” unhinged . . . it’s more like he really is unhinged. :)Moore acting very unhinged on CNN
It appears to me—and this is just a personal observation—that Moore’s narcissism is becoming more pronounced (or less hidden) the more financially successful he becomes.
And the more irrelevant he realizes he is.
People in the countries he named usually see the doctor the same day? I call shenanigans on that one. If you want to do more than go to a walk-in clinic, you’re going to have one helluva time seeing a doctor the same day. He’s fulla shit, as usual.
Posted by MikeS on 07/09/2007 at 07:17 PM (Link to this comment | )
I didn’t see F911. Did Moore actually question the pre-war intelligence?
Double check it (because my memory is a little floggy) but I don’t remember it doing so. No.
Great observation if your right… Just another example of retouching the photos after the fact… again… All I recall the left saying about WMD was ‘why can’t they have them when we do’ before the war…
All I recall the left saying about WMD was ‘why can’t they have them when we do’ before the war…
Really? I’d take a look at some of the back issues of the guardian.
Mainly they were saying ‘are you sure he has them? Cos this intelligence looks dodgy.’
Really? I’d take a look at some of the back issues of the guardian.
The guardian is the official publication of congressional Democrats?
Getting belligerent for health care.
I can’t get past Moore’s cheeks. What does he keep in them pasty lumps? Potatoes? Hamsters? Tumors? All them Truths bustling to burst forth?
I find it interesting that moore brings up the “fact” that he discovered the poorly run healthcare at Walter Reed “THREE YEARS BEFORE YOU REPORTED ON IT!!!!!” It seems to me that Walter Reed, a guvment run hospital, would be the last place that one would bring up while making the case for a guvment run healthcare system. On one hand, moore is blowing his own horn for discovering the atrocities that run rampant at a guvment run hospital, but on the other hand, he’s using it to defend his attack on privatized health. He sure likes to have his cake and eat it, too.
It’s like Elizabeth Hasselback all over again. Except that Wolf Blitzer is no Elizabeth Hasselback.
I will proudly state that I have never seen F911, nor do I intend to. But I do not recall hearing any comments on the poor conditions at Walter Reed Army Medical Center, either as an expose on mistreatment of wounded soldiers or in refutation. Somehow, I think that he did not make an issue of the physical conditions of the outpatient housing, particularly as the specific units that had the rat and roach infestations had not been opened up until after F911 came out. It is my understanding that he was busy editing things so that the soldiers came off looking like they believed that the government abused and misused them. I also do not believe that if he had found rats and roaches he would have hesitated in any way to raise the point, or was it too soon after the 2000 elections for the administration to be blamed.
Can someone who has seen the propaganda flik please confirm or deny the existence of Mikey’s breaking the story of the conditions three years before the MSM did.
Looks like Mikey is going to be on Larry King tonight.
http://www.cnn.com/CNN/Programs/larry.king.live/
There’s even a place where you can email your questions in to him. I think we should all come up with some actual questions for him to answer, because it would be fun to see him tapdance.
Has anyone read Moore’s attempted fisking of Gupta’s report? To his credit, he lists several sources under “THE TRUTH"… but also includes analysis and opinion as “THE TRUTH.”
"No one has proven a single fact in the film wrong.”
Another tautology. As soon as something is proven wrong, it’s no longer a fact. In such cases, Moore is either “editorializing” or “just kidding”.
If you put half the effort you guys use to discredit Michael Moore into actually remedying the issues plaguing the world, we would never have to worry about another issue in our lives.
I find it unbelievable that you guys have no better cause to take up than a filmmaker.
Shame on your waste of good investigative talent.
*sigh*
Over the last two weeks alone, we’ve hit health care from every conceivable angle, and still the Moore-ons insist on claiming we’re only talking about a filmmaker. Forget the all the social issues covered here over the last five years. God knows they don’t count.
Forest. Trees. It’s like these people can’t see either one
You want the Truth about Mikey’s forum, the Oasis for dissent and reason?
“Due to excessively high traffic the board has been temporarily closed. We are currently looking at alternative options and hope to have the board up and running again by the end of the week. Please accept our sincere apologies for the inconvenience.”
-michaelmoore.com
March 20, 2002
If you put half the effort you guys use to discredit Michael Moore into actually remedying the issues plaguing the world, we would never have to worry about another issue in our lives.
I put about ten times the effort into a collectible card game that I put into discrediting Moore.
That must be a heckuva card game. Maybe you should check it out.
To say nothing of the energy I invest into my family, my church, my community, my hobbies, the charities I support…
... if you put half the effort you used to actually think of this cheap dig into… well, it doesn’t matter what you put it into, because it amounts to jack and squat.
Perhaps, Shmoe, you could read the “Why?” posts before commenting.
I emailed King’s crew some questions regarding moore’s disdain for chronology regarding the whole JimK thing, including the link to JimK’s explanation of how things really went down. I have little faith that it will see the light of day, but at least they know we’re out here watching moore.
While I’m thinking about it, is there any way you can change the site logo from that cartoon image to an animated GIF of him shuddering uncontrollably as he chuckles in amazement about how horrible the media has been to him?
I like how he hints CNN hasn’t had him on for 3 years because they are afraid of what he will say.
Wolf Blitzer then points out that they have called him many times and he has refused interviews. Now I see why.
If you put half the effort you guys use to discredit Michael Moore into actually remedying the issues plaguing the world, we would never have to worry about another issue in our lives.
Same goes for your wearing Che T-shirts to “save the proles”. What is it with the left and their literally *faith*-based idolatry; that “Mikey will fix it” just because he’s “anti-establishment” (while living high up in Manhattan).
His complaining about the press not reporting the truth brings the aphorism, “physician heal thyself” to mind.
His mocking tone of an ethnic name must go over well in politically correct circles. But he essentially shoots the messenger in this rant, with no real substance to back himself up.
He rants for over half the interview when he sees there is a piece of journalism that calls his “facts” into question, by a journalist with a background in the field of medicine. Most of his rant attacks CCN and the mainstream media, reinforcing his image of being a martyr.
He cannot stand the scrutiny he tries to impose on others, and he becomes hostile and agitated when exposed to critique. He’s no journalist he’s no researcher and he proves beyond a shadow of a doubt that his self-esteem is built up on lies when his response is so aggressive.
A professional would have handled critique in an entirely different way. He’s afraid of losing face, and has to cover it up by defaming Gupta, playing the martyr and changing his story of F911 to try to cover himself. He obviously hopes that the public, and his fans have short memories.
He can dish it out, but he can’t take it. Typical bully.
Lee: Come on. Moore is a lot of things, but he is no cameraman.
I thought this was a joke! Actually, still do.
Part 2 of the interview is coming up on CNN momentarily, and apparently Moore and Dr. Gupta are both going to be on Larry King tonight.
Gotta catch that! Should be good for a laugh.
Wonder if Moore will do the same tirade on Gupta that he did on Blitzer? His only defense seems to be avoiding the actual critical questions…
Michael Moore is the only person who should be apologizing. His movie Fahrenheit 911 paints our military personnel as murderers, rapists, gropers and liars. Yes some atrocities have occurred in Iraq. Those that have committed atrocities are being handled in accordance with our Constitution and our Uniform Code of Military Justice. Two documents that have worked very well for us over the years. Mr Moore never balanced it out with one scene of soldiers delivering food and medicine to the sick and needy.
Mr. Moore should get on his hands and knees a beg for forgiveness from a veteran, a veteran who has protected his freedom.
Gupta is crushing Moore on Larry King right now. I’m recording the segment and will have it online shortly after it’s over.
"Lee: Come on. Moore is a lot of things, but he is no cameraman.
Funny how he shows up in front of the camera in EVERY SEGMENT BUT THE ONES FROM IRAQ though. Hence Lee’s point. He has no problem going to DC to stand in front of a camera and make a scene, but he dares to criticize the integrity of those who went where he dared not go.”
I am sure that is one hell of a lot easier to get into DC with a Documentary crew than it is Bagdad (despite what John McCain says), but your point is taken.
"I will proudly state that I have never seen F911, nor do I intend to.
But I do not recall hearing any comments on the poor conditions at Walter Reed Army Medical Center”
Hard to ‘recall’ if you “never seen F911”.
"His movie Fahrenheit 911 paints our military personnel as murderers, rapists, gropers and liars.
Yes some atrocities have occurred in Iraq.”
And anyone who brings them up “should be apologizing”??
dvdguy - so you’re saying that if you did not see the movie, it is physically impossible for you to hear comments from other people?
sco180, the last thing that I want is to have Mikey on his knees in front of me.
And anyone who brings them up “should be apologizing”??
Another generalization, built to a strawman and then railed against.
No one said that raising real issues about real atrocities requires an apology. Moore did NOTHING OF THE SORT in F911. He painted the average troop as a bloodthirsty, drunk-on-metal-music, murdering racist.
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