Just as well he said he didn't want to do it.

I remember that. It's another item on my long list of Things So Horrible About My Species That All I'm Glad For Is My Life Being Half Over.
I am serious as a heart attack.

of cowards. They have to sell it. Obama is right when he tells them to go out and be aggressive and sell it. They don't we lose. They let republicans do like the last time then we are in trouble. Then I say they deserve to lose.

if you saw the graph that was around here on DU a few days ago - how overrepresented white republican males are on news and politics shows....

doesn't really matter who you assign as spokesperson if he can't get on air.

I think it's wrong to blame the Obama Admin for 'not gettng the message out' (how I hear the pundits say it) when they are not invited to shows to Get the Message out often enough to override all the ridiculous lies and airtime the Repugs get.

I wrote this in a post yesterday. When Michael Moore came out with "Sicko", Gupta came out with a video countering everything Moore said...only it turns out Gupta's main witness, whom Gupta identified as a doctor, was in reality an insurance lobbyist pretending to be a doctor. Gupta was well aware of the man's real job. Gupta isn't a hack, he's a quack.

And pretty arrogant as well.

Hows that math supposed to work out?

he accused Michael Moore of 'fudging the numbers' in his movie Sicko?

I read some of the comments on Gupka's website and very few were supportive of him. Most everyone was screaming out what an idiot Gupka was. The page was shutdown eventually - he can't handle the Truthka.

Michael Moore about Sicko.

He was spinning for the Insurance Companies.
Fugg him

-- Propaganda is a form of communication that is aimed at influencing the attitude of a community toward some cause or position. Propaganda is usually repeated and dispersed over a wide variety of media in order to create the chosen result in audience attitudes.

As opposed to impartially providing information, propaganda, in its most basic sense, presents information primarily to influence an audience. Propaganda often presents facts selectively (thus possibly lying by omission) to encourage a particular synthesis, or uses loaded messages to produce an emotional rather than rational response to the information presented. The desired result is a change of the attitude toward the subject in the target audience to further a political agenda. Propaganda can be used as a form of political warfare. --

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Propaganda

Gupta made the choice to take himself out of consideration.

PB

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I hope he gets called out on his partisanship big time

when he done his hit piece on Michael Moores sicko documentary they lost me. Fuck the blitzer and all the rest of that crew.

right wing shills on CNN, and kept demanding time until he forced an apology out of Gupta for the lies they told about Sicko.

Watching those interviews was a thing of beautry. Gubta was totally outclassed, not so much by Moore himself as by the FACTS deliverd by Moore.

And when Wendell Potter revealed that the Ins Industry had spent a fortune to try to discredit Moore and his movie, and apologized publicly to him for participating himself, there was little doubt left who Gupta gets his 'facts' from.

I'm happy it was corrected. It matters not though as I'll not watch them again even on a bet. They lost me and for months I'd email them about once a week reminding them that they had, finally I gave it up and went on to bigger fish.

that, and Conservative (former) Republican Joe Scarborough having 3 hours a day, 5 days a week, on the "liberal" version of Fox, MSRNC ...

in happily ripping off Americans. They are afraid that's going to be curtailed. Gupta is a doctor.

I could get al jazeera here on the tube.