Michael, give us Moore!

The most recent storm in a tea cup; Michael Moore gave Wolf a Blitzing.

After airing a report by Sunjay Gupta, which included a charge that Moore fudged the numbers in his new movie, Sicko, (in which the Sicko is the US Healthcare System), Blitzer asked Moore for his reaction.

Here is the whole sequence from the Situation Room. (Keep your arms, legs and head inside the vehicle!)

Here's the thing with these shows. Blitzer introduces the piece as - (paraphrase) "some are saying that Moore's facts are not accurate". Gupta's report then goes into action, reporting errors that turn on factors of the order of less than 5 %. And he calls these "errors" - the word he actually uses: "fudged" the facts.

The spin doctor's implication? If Moore's facts are inaccurate, then his position on the issues can't be trusted. That is what set Moore off.
I believe he was justified, and Gupta owes him an apology - for casting aspersions on his credibility. On LK Live, it turned out, Moore and Gupta had used different sources for their respective data - but in essence their data agreed. (Any test / report that is 90% accurate, is as good as gold!)

The dope who got caught in the middle was Wolfy. But then, having not apologised for his remarks about that other movie by Moore, relating to the war in Iraq, Me thinks Blitzy had it coming.

In the AOL news section a day-or-so back, someone noted that this was the best appeal to the mainstream media to get real since Jon Stewart macerated the teen with the bowtie on CNN's fake debate show, Crossfire. Oh, man, let's roll!

In Rome: One step forward, two steps back . . .

From AOL news -

Pope Angers Jews, Liberals With Rite
Conservatives Rejoice as Pontiff Revives Old Latin Mass
By NICOLE WINFIELD,AP
Posted: 2007-07-07 23:16:06

From the report:

The document upset Jews, since the Tridentine rite contains a prayer on Good Friday of Easter Week calling for their conversion. The Anti-Defamation League called the move a "body blow to Catholic-Jewish relations," the Jewish news agency JTA reported.

The Simon Wiesenthal Center urged Benedict to publicly point out that such phrases "are now entirely contrary to the teaching of the church."

Link to full article

Happy 07-07-07

We celebrate a year of the New WAM holding services at the JCC!