The invaluable political watchblog Crooks and Liars is hosting a ten-minute clip of Michael Moore on CNN’s “The Situation Room”, in which the filmmaker unleashes some entirely justified anger upon an extremely uncomfortable Wolf Blitzer.
I wish I’d seen this live; it takes Blitzer six minutes and fifteen seconds to wrest control of the conversation away from CNN’s failures to confront the Bush administration on the facts of the Iraq invasion and back to Moore’s new movie, and the panic is palpable.
I don’t always respect Moore’s choices, or his self-appointed-crusader attitude — and the way he pronounces Sanjay Gupta’s name at the end of the hit is gonna open up all kinds of new avenues for his bashers — but damn it if he doesn’t call a failure of journalism a failure of journalism.