I don’t mean to pile it on Paul Krugman, but this is kind of silly. Dr. Krugman objects to President-elect Obama's nomination of CNN’s Sanjay Gupta as Surgeon General. Krugman isn’t objecting to Gupta’s qualifications as much as he is rising to the defense of the besmirched…Michael Moore. And to read the accompanying posts in support of Krugman would suggest that Obama nominated no less than Dr. Mengele.
Krugman narrows his objection to Gupta for the latter's deplorable treatment of Moore and his movie Sicko, characterizing Gupta's criticisms of the movie as what he calls Village behavior:
“Moore is an outsider, he’s uncouth, so he gets smeared as unreliable even though he actually got it right. It’s sort of a minor-league version of the way people who pointed out in real time that Bush was misleading us into war are to this day considered less “serious” than people who waited until it was fashionable to reach that conclusion.”
Or sort of the way scientists and journalists who question global warming or man’s contribution to climate change are labeled as heretics or worse. The door swings both ways Dr. Krugman.
Wednesday, January 7, 2009
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Had a conversation last month with a Cuban-born and educated physician who was returning to the island for a visit.
He asked me if I had any connections in the breast implant side of the business because a friend of his had a double mastectomy and the Cuban health care system does not provide anything in the way of reconstructive surgery. So my friend figured he's try to smuggle in a set of jumblies for her.
He agreed that Michael Moore and his ilk are all asses.
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