"My Apologies to Michael Moore and the Health Insurance Industry":

[WinkyDink]

In advance of my appearance with Michael Moore on Countdown with Keith Olbermann tonight on MSNBC (8 and 11 p.m. ET), I would like to offer an apology to both Moore and his archenemy, the health insurance industry, which spent a lot of policyholder premiums in 2007 to attack his movie, Sicko.

I need to apologize to Moore for the role I played in the insurance industry's public relations attack campaign against him and Sicko, which was about the increasingly unfair and dysfunctional U.S. health care system. (I was head of corporate communications at one of the country's biggest insurance companies when I left my job in May 2008.) And I need to apologize to health insurers for failing to note in my new book, Deadly Spin, that the front group they used to attack Moore and Sicko -- Health Care America -- was originally a front group for drug companies.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/wendell-potter/my-apologies-to-michael-m_b_786902.html
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Is there no end to the revelations of corporate and Republican nefariousness?

[Historic NY]

1. POTUS should have hired him for health care PR ....

know thy enemy.

[jtrockville]

2. He should apologize to citizens of USA as well.

Had he not given Sicko the "deadly spin", perhaps we would have had a populist uprising. One that might have lead to health care reform, rather than reform that focused primarily on protecting health insurance industry profits with a few crumbs tossed to those in need of health care.

But good on Potter for stepping forward.

[Enthusiast]

3. Thing is, these ridiculous

characterizations of Michael Moore continue to this day. These corporate entities have not stopped their assault.