Reply #98: Without going to chase down quotes (which admittedly might take some time)

[Zodiak]

Do you not agree that the juxtaposition of a hit-piece against Moore's film right before an interview with Moore has the effect of casting doubt on the interviewee? How often is this done? Is this typical?

Just in doing the piece and running it before the interview, Gupta tipped his hand. He was serving somebody there if he was not serving himself.

OK...looked it up. Sorry I misread before....what Sanjay's right-wing think tank sin on that piece was that he used an "expert" that comes from the right to act as an impartial arbiter of fact. In fact, that guy (Keckley) was from a number of medical groups with an interest in the status quo, and he was a bigtime contributor to Republican Tommy Thompson. Sanjay failed to rveal any of this in his piece, and when Moore called him out on it, he lied and said that CNN checked the guy's background and he was only affiliated with Vanderbilt University.

So yeah, he lied on CNN to discredit Michael Moore, used a right-winger posing as an uninterested source, and admittedly participated in this editorial "all on his own"...conveniently to run right before Moore was on.

I do not trust him, and after more research, I am not sure I trust the way he represents facts.