Once again, Obama has not exactly picked a progressive. Obama plans to name CNN's Sanjay Gupta as Surgeon General.
Paul Krugman reminds us of Sanjay Gupta's shameless efforts to trash Michael Moore's truthful claims about the miserable state of U.S. health care:
So apparently Obama plans to appoint CNN’s Sanjay Gupta as Surgeon General. I don’t have a problem with Gupta’s qualifications. But I do remember his mugging of Michael Moore over Sicko. You don’t have to like Moore or his film; but Gupta specifically claimed that Moore “fudged his facts”, when the truth was that on every one of the allegedly fudged facts, Moore was actually right and CNN was wrong.
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