UPDATE: On Tuesday night, Dr. Sanjay Gupta and Michael Moore squared off on "Larry King Live." From a CNN.com report:
Moore and Gupta shouted and argued over data Gupta used and data Moore used. Moore said his staffers backed up the film's facts to Gupta before the report aired and that Gupta aired it knowing his facts were wrong.
"We try and look for some of the best sources we can possibly find," he said. "Michael has a lot of different numbers. ... You're sort of cherry-picking data from different reports."
Both agreed, however, on the basic premise of "Sicko": Problems abound in America's health-care system and need to be fixed.
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OUR ORIGINAL POST: Michael Moore got nicely riled up on Wolf Blitzer's Situation Room Monday - this after Dr. Sanjay Gupta said the facts were 'fudged' in Moore's new movie, Sicko. Moore accused Gupta of being a mouthpiece for the pharmaceutical industry. He then swerves back a few years to the war in Iraq, and questions CNN's coverage. From the transcript of the show:
MOORE: I saw Dr. Sanjay Gupta over there embedded with the troops at the beginning of the war. He and the others of you in the mainstream media refused to ask our leaders the hard questions and demand the honest answers. And that's why we're in this war -- we're in the fifth year of this war because you and CNN, Dr. Gupta, you didn't do your jobs back then and now here we are in this mess.
Blitzer defended Gupta as an expert on medical issues and called him an "excellent, excellent journalist." The show's devoting another day to Moore, and Gupta may yet have his moment to respond.
