Michael Moore is truly a Man among men. His alliances with his film "Sicko" speaks to the universality of his message. Thank you, Michael.


Stephen Colbert, Michael Moore unite against CNN 'web of lies'
David Edwards and Nick Juliano
Published: Friday July 20, 2007

In the spirit of "the enemy of my enemy is my friend," filmmaker Michael Moore joined forces with Stephen Colbert to take on CNN in a segment on The Colbert Report Thursday night.
"Loyal viewers of the Report know there's no love lost between me and CNN. They are worse than the New York Times because I cannot line my birdcage with tapes of the Situation Room. I've tried, it's not absorbent," Colbert said. "But I recently discovered in my disdain for CNN I have a strange bedfellow, Michael Moore, who for the past week has gone toe-to-toe with CNN over the facts of his new healthcare documentary, SiCKO."
Earlier this month, Moore was engaged in a public spat with CNN medical correspondent Dr. Sanjay Gupta over a report that claimed the film fudged facts with sloppy reporting. After the report aired, CNN did acknowledge it had made one mistake.
"Wooo! CNN admits it is a web of lies," Colbert said.

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You tube video

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July 20th, 2007 1:05 pm
Michael Moore makes CNN blush
By Constance Droganes / CTV
After a much publicized tête-à-tête between Dr. Sanjay Gupta, CNN's chief medical correspondent, and the outspoken director of "Sicko," the network released a rare statement of apology. In it they owned up to two errors made while reporting on Moore's new documentary.
On his website on July 17th, the vindicated Moore was pleased about two things. Paris Hilton and her sister passed on clubbing and cruising down the strip to see "Sicko." Second, you guessed it, it was CNN eating crow that finally returned his good humour.
"CNN confirmed that all our statistics in "Sicko" are the correct numbers from the sources we cited," Moore writes. "Although CNN still prefers to use older World Health Organization statistics, we will stick to using this year's Bush administration stats and more recent UN data. (In "Sicko," we consistently use only UN Human Development Statistics unless it's for studies they don't do or have recent numbers for."
Moore gives CNN its due for admitting their two errors. Yet to date the Flint, Michigan native has received no apologies for the other mistakes he believes the network made.
"These days to get the mainstream media to admit they were wrong is rare; to get them to admit it twice, as they have with "Sicko," I guess should be considered a whopping victory."

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