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In reply to the discussion: Sanjay Gupta is lying. He wasn't misinformed. He toed the line for the Surgeon General's job [View all]JI7
(89,343 posts)90. this makes no sense at all, i remember when news came out about him being in consideration for the
job. and he turned it down because he would not have been able to continue working as a doctor . money probably played a part in it also.
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nashville_brook
Aug 2013
OP
He is definitely late to the party, but I guess late is better than never. He is ahead of the
liberal_at_heart
Aug 2013
#2
He is an important public face of establishment medicine. I'm glad he came around.
Comrade Grumpy
Aug 2013
#3
I'm sure someone paid him to change his mind. He's as greedy as all the others making their
winterpark
Aug 2013
#128
You are the one characterizing a simple refutation of false assertions as "a fight."
MADem
Aug 2013
#105
You're the one who hasn't provided any "factual support"--just your uninformed opinion.
MADem
Aug 2013
#117
You have a nice day--I'm tired of reading the same inventions from you, over and over.
MADem
Aug 2013
#119
Take care. FYI, here's the same thing you call "inventions" from the LA Times.
DirkGently
Aug 2013
#120
He sees the train leaving the station and he's gonna jump on it and pretend he's driving. n/t
PoliticAverse
Aug 2013
#6
there are 20 states where medical marijuana is legal and more pending.
liberal_at_heart
Aug 2013
#14
Agree 100%. He was willfully ignorant because he was looking for a career in guvmint.
marble falls
Aug 2013
#16
I thought he turned down the job of Surgeon General when it was offered to him.
calimary
Aug 2013
#19
The job was HIS if he wanted it. He didn't want it. His wife was getting ready to have their 3rd
MADem
Aug 2013
#53
This is just a question. I wasn't paying any attention to Gupta's nomination....
Little Star
Aug 2013
#101
No shit. We have the benefit (?) of being inundated by mind readers who can analyse
lumpy
Aug 2013
#136
"NOBODY THINKS THAT. If you were born in the late 60s..." True dat. But I am glad
jtuck004
Aug 2013
#20
not the first Gupta forced to re-invent his position: Michael Moore's Sicko
nashville_brook
Aug 2013
#47
I am happy to support his changed attitude about pot. We need to be celebrate
totodeinhere
Aug 2013
#30
the fact that he's come around proves that his support is no longer needed. or relevant.
nashville_brook
Aug 2013
#43
Gupta lost all credibility when he joined the Private Health Ins. smear campaign against
sabrina 1
Aug 2013
#35
Love the attempt in the thread to suggest it was the "pay cut" that made him run.
DirkGently
Aug 2013
#45
If it follows recent trends on DU, some one is pissed he stopped towing the line.
napoleon_in_rags
Aug 2013
#50
Okay, so he's popular. Why are you critiquing him right after he comes out in support of medical MJ?
napoleon_in_rags
Aug 2013
#63
Because for many DU'ers it's about somehow proving you are more liberal/intelligent/cynical
KittyWampus
Aug 2013
#68
Gupta's Haiti trip highlighted the danger of self-promotion in reporting this tragedy.
nashville_brook
Aug 2013
#65
actually, what's tacky is talking money from pharma to sell their products and
nashville_brook
Aug 2013
#57
what's embarrassing is that you can't tell the difference between him wanting it and being unfit
nashville_brook
Aug 2013
#55
The answer to your question is in Post sixty seven, which, plainly you did not read.
MADem
Aug 2013
#72
Obama didn't dump the guy, either. Not sure why you have this need to tell stories.
MADem
Aug 2013
#87
Where is your proof that Obama withdrew the nomination ? And why do you believe the poster
lumpy
Aug 2013
#140
That is just flat-out untrue. You don't have a right to your own made-up "factoids."
MADem
Aug 2013
#70
The one who is "angry" is you. I just can't understand why you have a need to invent history, all
MADem
Aug 2013
#113
yep, he's a big fat liar. & if he's saying now pot is ok, it's only because the political winds are
HiPointDem
Aug 2013
#60
Wrong. Gupta was offered the Surgeon General job and famously turned it down.
Zen Democrat
Aug 2013
#80
this makes no sense at all, i remember when news came out about him being in consideration for the
JI7
Aug 2013
#90
No matter how many bullshit blog posts you pull up- you are still wrong and facts prove you wrong.
KittyWampus
Aug 2013
#110
Even if we accept what you say as true, and I am willing to give you the benefit of the doubt...
stevenleser
Aug 2013
#123
Thought that having a mind of his own would impede that career move. Now he just gives props
lunasun
Aug 2013
#127
One of the things brought up in the special got me thinking. If our reward center in our brain
liberal_at_heart
Aug 2013
#142