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ROUND TWO

CNN fights back following Michael Moore’s morbidly obese-wa:

It’s ironic that someone who has made a career out of holding powerful interests accountable is so sensitive to having his own work held up to the light by impartial journalists, as we did in our examination of ‘SiCKO’.

In our original report, we made one mistake, which we apologized for and corrected on air and online six days ago, despite Mr. Moore’s claim yesterday in his letter to us.

Further, the e-mail Mr. Moore released in an effort to cast doubt on our reporting does no such thing.

The response continues at some length.

Posted by Tim B. on 07/16/2007 at 08:27 AM
  1. Ed Driscoll has some interesting historical context on Moore.

    Posted by paco on 2007 07 16 at 08:34 AM • permalink

  2. And to think there was a time when i actually had a lot of respect for Fatso. I guess i must be older and wiser.

    Posted by aguycalledbrad on 2007 07 16 at 08:37 AM • permalink

  3. O/T but too too glorious to pass up:
    Cat Fight of the Hypocrites!

    snip:

    The UN has come forward and admitted something that the rest of us knew well, at least since the days of Live-Aid. The UN has announced that it can’t feed the world. Anyone following the saga of the world’s efforts to feed Somalia could have told us that. If you can’t protect the food, you can’t feed the world.

    What makes this iteration of UN blame-outsourcing particularly interesting is that they are blaming the environmentalists. Not personally, but indirectly, the UN cites the competition of biofuels for raw agricultural materials, as a source of World Food Program’s current budgetary angst.

    hehehe, this is gonna pop some heads.

    Posted by Grimmy on 2007 07 16 at 08:53 AM • permalink

  4. Oh, geeze, I thought Iwas fat, but I guess not…

    Posted by Ash_ on 2007 07 16 at 08:55 AM • permalink

  5. A morbidly obese-wa:???
    I’m tired of listening to fat jokes, especially Michael Moore.
    Anyway, he’s got enough on his plate.

    Posted by Hank Reardon on 2007 07 16 at 08:56 AM • permalink

  6. That’s not CNN’s response. This is:
    http://hotair.com/archives/2007/07/16/video-michael-moore-vs-wolf-blitzer-recut/

    Posted by danS on 2007 07 16 at 08:57 AM • permalink

  7. #6 danS:

    Sanjay Gupta!

    Posted by Grimmy on 2007 07 16 at 09:02 AM • permalink

  8. Moore is in trouble if he can’t even keep the likes of CNN on his side. 

    I thought this was pretty funny, though:

    CNN has always prided itself on balanced reporting of claims made by special-interest groups.

    Posted by Jim on 2007 07 16 at 09:03 AM • permalink

  9. Please, less of Moore.

    Posted by Ubique on 2007 07 16 at 09:04 AM • permalink

  10. CNN deMoorelised?

    Posted by egg_ on 2007 07 16 at 09:09 AM • permalink

  11. Luckily, michael MORE has made a fortune off his fakeumentries to afford health care and even MORE to the point, preventative or wellness care.

    The fact that the obese, sloven hypocrite chooses to remain an obese, sloven hypocrite, speaks volumes.

    My suggestion to Michael MORE is to take his money and obese, sloven self to Cuba to live out his remaining days.

    The sun would be great for you Michael. Sweat off the obesity, Gorebal Warmering and all, you know.

    Oh, Michael your freedom to shoot your mouth off, would also be welcomed in Cuba, no?

    Posted by El Cid on 2007 07 16 at 09:11 AM • permalink

  12. I fully expect CNN and Moore to kiss and make up after they’ve had their little love spat.  I fear nothing short of a massive coronary is going to relieve us of that troublesome pest.

    Posted by RebeccaH on 2007 07 16 at 09:15 AM • permalink

  13. O/T again but interesting

    The World Without US

    snip:

    By Jerry Adler
    Newsweek
    Updated: 2:52 p.m. PT July 14, 2007

    July 23, 2007 issue - The Second Coming may be the most widely anticipated apocalypse ever, but it’s far from the only version of the end times. Environmentalists have their own eschatology—a vision of a world not consumed by holy fire but returned to ecological balance by the removal of the most disruptive species in history. That, of course, would be us, the 6 billion furiously metabolizing and reproducing human beings polluting its surface. There’s even a group trying to bring it about, the Voluntary Human Extinction Movement, whose Web site calls on people to stop having children altogether.

    snip:

    Weisman’s intriguing thought experiment is to ask what would happen if the rest of the Earth was similarly evacuated—not by a nuclear holocaust or natural disaster, but by whisking people off in spaceships, or killing them with a virus that spares the rest of the biosphere.

    And these days, the technology to construct such a virus exists.

    Posted by Grimmy on 2007 07 16 at 09:24 AM • permalink

  14. It takes a big man to admit when he’s wrong. So, I wonder why is he waiting?

    I hear he’s huge in France.
    And in the UK. And Germany, and…

    Posted by Texas Bob on 2007 07 16 at 09:25 AM • permalink

  15. #9
    Less is Moore?

    Posted by egg_ on 2007 07 16 at 09:26 AM • permalink

  16. I never thought I’d be siding with CNN.


    I feel so… filthy.

    Posted by tiggy on 2007 07 16 at 09:30 AM • permalink

  17. CNN’s just waiting for Moore to roll over ...

    Posted by egg_ on 2007 07 16 at 09:31 AM • permalink

  18. What’s Moore whaling about, anyway?

    Posted by egg_ on 2007 07 16 at 09:32 AM • permalink

  19. I must admit, it’s kinda fun to watch a pair o’ truth bashers gnaw on each other.

    Time for some popcorn!

    Posted by The_Real_JeffS on 2007 07 16 at 09:36 AM • permalink

  20. Oh and Tim…

    ROUND TWO, in reference to More…very sly…somehow it fits (oh my, another one). As for certain, More is ROUND

    Posted by El Cid on 2007 07 16 at 09:38 AM • permalink

  21. Weisman’s intriguing thought experiment is to ask what would happen if the rest of the Earth was similarly evacuated—not by a nuclear holocaust or natural disaster, but by whisking people off in spaceships, or killing them with a virus that spares the rest of the biosphere.

    Well, within about 5,000 years, the casings on our nuclear weapons would corrode, releasing enough plutonium to sterilize the planet.

    BWAHAHAHAHA!!! Eat that, Mother Nature! If we lose, so do you!

    Posted by Dave S. on 2007 07 16 at 09:45 AM • permalink

  22. Moorebidly o’feast?

    Posted by egg_ on 2007 07 16 at 09:47 AM • permalink

  23. Two Rounds and still not a whole.

    Posted by Grimmy on 2007 07 16 at 09:52 AM • permalink

  24. That Moore is a fat head has yet to be verified, due to the inability to look over his belly.

    Posted by Grimmy on 2007 07 16 at 09:54 AM • permalink

  25. But those two rounds could fill any hole.

    Posted by Texas Bob on 2007 07 16 at 09:57 AM • permalink

  26. I nominate Michael Moore for the part of Bobby Trippe in the upcoming remake of Deliverance.

    Naow jest yew drop dem paince..
    Drop?
    Jest take em right off!

    Posted by Texas Bob on 2007 07 16 at 10:00 AM • permalink

  27. A whole host of holes could be wholly filled by a single round. By all that’s holy, two rounds of Moore is too much more.

    Posted by Grimmy on 2007 07 16 at 10:03 AM • permalink

  28. Shouldn’t the title of this thread be Too Round?

    Posted by richard mcenroe on 2007 07 16 at 10:11 AM • permalink

  29. A Round Too Far!

    Posted by Grimmy on 2007 07 16 at 10:13 AM • permalink

  30. He’ll work on losing a few pounds when he get’s a round too it.

    Posted by Texas Bob on 2007 07 16 at 10:19 AM • permalink

  31. Fat on a Hot Tin Roof
    Mooretanic
    20,000 Leagues Under the Belly
    The Way the Waist was One (Ton)
    We Were Losers Once, And Fat
    Fatasia
    The Scarlet Pimpledass
    The Fat Man and the Sea
    Some Like it Fat
    Full Metal Girdle
    Fatenstein
    Bride of Fatenstein (featuring Rosie O’Donnel)
    Forrest Plump

    Posted by Texas Bob on 2007 07 16 at 10:32 AM • permalink

  32. #31, TB:

    LOL just doesn’t do justice.

    Posted by Grimmy on 2007 07 16 at 10:35 AM • permalink

  33. 20,000 Pizzas Under His Belt.

    Posted by Grimmy on 2007 07 16 at 10:51 AM • permalink

  34. Thanks Grimmy,
    If yer a needin corn, I’m your man!

    Posted by Texas Bob on 2007 07 16 at 10:59 AM • permalink

  35. My, we are being oafish and infantile.
    More, more, more!

    Posted by m on 2007 07 16 at 11:12 AM • permalink

  36. ‘Tard fight!!!

    “Tard fight!!!

    Posted by thefrollickingmole on 2007 07 16 at 11:31 AM • permalink

  37. #31: T-Bob - Love the concept, baby, love the concept! Hollywood’s looking for talent like yours. Have your girl call my girl; we’ll do lunch.

    Posted by paco on 2007 07 16 at 11:33 AM • permalink

  38. When Moore sits around Cuba, he really sits around Cuba.

    Posted by andycanuck on 2007 07 16 at 12:13 PM • permalink

  39. Moore Declared Natural Resource!

    Dr. Zimy Zango of the UN’s Directorate of Discovering New Resources announced today that the body of Michael Moore contains enough natural oil to sustain the energy needs of several developing nations and 1 fairly advanced one.

    Michael Moore will be transported, an expense causing a one time global GDP tax of 5%, to a containment facility located in central Africa.

    Posted by Grimmy on 2007 07 16 at 12:23 PM • permalink

  40. #34 I need your girl to call my girl.

    My girl will then do chilli sauce and pepper.

    Yourper pepper, man.

    Posted by Ash_ on 2007 07 16 at 01:19 PM • permalink

  41. Michael Moore: always trying to fit a square Twinkie in a round donut hole.

    Posted by paco on 2007 07 16 at 02:23 PM • permalink

  42. Oooooo - red-on-red!

    Why do I feel the need of a cigarette?  ;-p


    (P.S. - I don’t smoke.)

    Posted by Barbara Skolaut on 2007 07 16 at 02:29 PM • permalink

  43. #41 Paco, I get the feeling that when he’s desperate, he manages it.

    Posted by Ash_ on 2007 07 16 at 03:09 PM • permalink

  44. Hmmmmmmm… Michael Moore’s exposé of CNN. Now that one I might actually go see!

    Posted by nofixedabode on 2007 07 16 at 05:47 PM • permalink

  45. #13

    ... Voluntary Human Extinction movement.

    well, they know where they can start.

    Virus? They sound dangerous. And they expect everyone to go along with them?

    Posted by kae on 2007 07 16 at 06:02 PM • permalink

  46. Reminds me of my favorite Boot Hill epitaph:

    Here lies Les
    Killed by a .44
    No Les
    No more

    Posted by Bruce Lagasse on 2007 07 16 at 06:20 PM • permalink

  47. #47: Boot Hill? In Tombstone, Arizona? I love that place! Wouldn’t mind being buried there, myself. Well, not right away, of course. Maybe later.

    Posted by paco on 2007 07 16 at 07:21 PM • permalink

  48. #46 - it’s actually better than that:

    Here lies Lester Moore
    Four slugs from a .44
    No Les No More.

    Posted by Dave S. on 2007 07 16 at 07:25 PM • permalink

  49. #13 GRIMMY

    http://www.nexusmagazine.com/articles/mycoplasma.html

    Posted by Hillyminx on 2007 07 16 at 07:45 PM • permalink

  50. I don’t think anyone here has drawn attention to this delightful feature article from yesterday’s Australian -
    The trouble with Mike - it’s about a couple of leftish Canadians who fall more out of love with Mike Moore the longer they spend trying to make a documentary about him. 

    Highlights are -

    this was proving to be our most difficult film. Practically everyone we spoke to was nervous. All too frequently when we tried to interview people - friends, colleagues, former and present employees - they refused to talk on camera but had plenty to say on the phone. A former producer explained: “There’s a great story about how he is impossible to work for and he’s an impossible person. That’s the story most of us would like to do. I just don’t want to do it.”

    ...

    In Bowling for Columbine, for example, Moore comes out of a bank carrying a gun he has been given after opening a bank account. This suggested you could open an account and the bank would give you one of the guns it had in its vault. Just like that. But in our film, Jan Jacobson, the bank employee who had helped Moore open the account, maintains she told his crew that the bank would have to do a background check and he’d have to pick up the gun from a licensed firearms dealer another day.

    Posted by Ben P on 2007 07 16 at 08:51 PM • permalink

  51. #48: #46 - it’s actually better than that:

    Here lies Lester Moore
    Four slugs from a .44
    No Les No More.

    Dave S. - Yes, yours is the correct version, but I couldn’t remember it off the top of my head.

    Posted by Bruce Lagasse on 2007 07 17 at 01:00 AM • permalink

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