Tuesday, July 10th, 2007
Speaking of clueless fucks in the media…
Michael Moore deservedly slams CNN and Wolf Blitzer for its fact-challenged hit job on SiCKO.
What’s worse, when suddenly placed on the defense by a liberal who won’t play Wolfie’s game of meekly accepting the blame for everything from the Biblical Fall of Man™ to male impotence, Blitzer, spluttering all the way, resorts to a classic Appeal to Authority fallacy: “Bu-bu-but…this was reported by Dr. Sanjay Gupta, and he can’t be wrong!”
Now, granted, Dr. Gupta is well-versed in his field. I would absolutely trust his opinion in his field of expertise, which is the practice of medicine (particularly, neurosurgery). Now, when it comes to the actual business of medicine, he’s way off base, particularly in his critique of SiCKO, and Michael Moore rightly takes him to task on this issue.
