I am currently applauding Michael Moore who has finally said what I (and I’m sure millions of other people) have been wanting to say to CNN for years and that’s "Why don't you tell the truth to the American people? I wish that CNN and the other mainstream media would just for once tell the truth about what's going on in this country." It was a damn good tongue lashing that Michael gave CNN, Wolf Blitzer and Dr. Sanjay Gupta, when he appeared for an interview on CNN’s Situation Room with Wolf Blitzer.

It all begun when CNN aired a piece prior to the interview by their chief medical correspondent, Sanjay Gupta – dubbed a ‘reality check’ – in which Sanjay accuses Michael of fudging facts when critiquing the U.S. health care system in his movie Sicko (I guess Sanjay felt investigating the health care industry itself, instead of the movie Sicko, was a waste of his journalistic talents). As soon as the interview starts Michael quickly responds to Wolf and Sanjay the way he probably tears into a plate of nacho’s – with fierce intensity and unabashed outrage.

Not only does Michael rip CNN (see clip here) so badly that if they ever had balls prior to the interview they certainly don’t now for their  inaccuracies in Sanjay’s factually challenged ‘reality check’ (which includes that America places second to last of the top 6 countries in terms of hospital wait times, that Americans spend over $7000 a year per person on health care, and correcting CNN for saying that in Sicko Michael said Cuba only spends $25.00 per person on health care when he really says $251.00 in his movie), but  he also blasts them for having pharmaceutical companies sponsor their nightly medical report, their absolutely shameful coverage of the Iraq war, and for not apologizing to him for saying that his last film Fahrenheit 9-11 also fudged the truth (which history has taught us was not the case).

It was a damn good interview (one that was followed up later with Michael Moore and Sanjay Gupta dueling it out on Larry King Live) not just because Michael is correct when saying that all of the media rolled over for the administration in 2003 regarding the war, and that corporations control most of the information presented to the public by either filtering or embellishing whatever information they have to promote their own agenda, but also because someone finally took CNN to task over the crap they call “news”.

I can’t remember the last time I saw actual unbiased news on CNN. Lately it’s become more of the Celebrity Nonsense Network than a Central News Network, what with all the Anna Nicole, Britney Spears, Donald Trump, Paris Hilton (a person we shouldn’t even know exists) garbage they played round the clock when they could have been focusing on more important issues like the future of social security, the Iraq war, unemployment, or health insurance. And speaking of health insurance, as a Canadian I admit our system has flaws but not fatal ones like the US media will have you believe, the flaws our system have have absolutely nothing whatsoever to do with the system itself, and everything to do with what right-winged Canadian politicians have spent the last two decades doing: under-funding the system to make Canadians increasingly dissatisfied so they’ll demand the wonders of the US for-profit system CNN is always touting and investors privately clamor for. As Michael Moore said, “I just wonder when the American people are going to turn off their TV sets and quit listening to this stuff.”