mediabistro.com - 1/6/2009
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The Washington Post's Howard Kurtz is reporting Sanjay Gupta has been offered the job of Surgeon General in the Obama administration, and he "has told administration officials that he wants the job."
Gupta declined comment when contacted by Kurtz.
At the beginning of CNN's Situation ...
krugman.blogs.nytimes.com - 1/6/2009
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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 ...
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The trouble with Sanjay Gupta
voices.washingtonpost.com - 1/6/2009
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voices.washingtonpost.com —
President-elect Barack Obama has offered the job of
surgeon general to Dr. Sanjay Gupta, the neurosurgeon and...
correspondent for CNN and CBS, according to two sources with knowledge of the situation. Gupta has told administration officials that he ...
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Obama Wants Journalist Gupta for Surgeon General | 44
huffingtonpost.com - 1/8/2009
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Rep. John Conyers, one of the most prominent
Democrats in the House of Representatives, is publicly opposing...
the nomination of Dr. Sanjay Gupta for Surgeon General. In a letter sent on Thursday, Conyers asked his Democratic colleagues to "join me ...
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Conyers: Obama Should Not Nominate Sanjay Gupta
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... Also, Will She Come To His Work?: CNN's Sanjay Gupta is tapped to be Surgeon General in the Obama administration! Maybe you've heard about it, from CNN? It's a "situation" that warrants a "situation room," apparently! Anyway! The one question everyone's too terrified to ask is: Does Gupta's appointment raise the specter of a ...
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... Also, Will She Come To His Work?: CNN's Sanjay Gupta is tapped to be Surgeon General in the Obama administration! Maybe you've heard about it, from CNN? It's a "situation" that warrants a "situation room," apparently! Anyway! The one question everyone's too terrified to ask is: Does Gupta's appointment raise the specter of a ...
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