Michael Moore on CNN

This YouTube video shows a CNN hit piece on Michael Moore's new movie, Sicko, on the state of health care in America, and Michael Moore's live response afterwards.

As usual, Michael Moore is fearless and credible, and the smug guardians of American nationalism and capitalism -- i.e. the hosts of CNN -- just try to laugh the audience into forgetting the truth and lapsing back into passive acceptance of the status quo. Michael Moore is like the id and the hosts of CNN are like the ego of America's national consciousness.

Michael Moore says he hasn't been on CNN in 3 years, and the last time he was on it was for Fahrenheit 9/11 and CNN was attacking that, but everything he said in Fahrenheit 9/11 turned out to be true -- there were no weapons of mass destruction, and Iraq has turned into a quagmire. Instead of confronting the truth about the very recent past, Wolf Blitzer completely ignores everything Michael Moore says, as if it doesn't matter, and keeps trying to steer the conversation back to the current movie, Sicko.

It's like CNN has blocked out its complete failure to be right about the invasion of Iraq and wants to forget it, and so prefers to talk about something new: health care. Blitzer doesn't apologize for his past mistakes, and he doesn't recognize Moore's credibility from his being right in the past on a very difficult subject (it was very unpopular to be right about the invasion of Iraq). He just pretends it never happened and attacks this new movie in just the same way that he attacked the previous one. It is like there is just no learning from past mistakes or even memory at all, as if everything in the very recent past has been flushed down the memory hole of 1984.

But really it isn't everything that is forgotten, just inconvenient truths. And that is why corporate media have no credibility.