From Fox News:
Sean Hannity will have a special report:
Controlling your carbon footprint has become a global fad, but is it all just a con job? And how much green is it costing you? Sean investigates the truth behind the billion dollar industry!
9PM Eastern, 6PM Pacific, repeated 3 hours later on the same channel.
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I think a lot of commenters are missing the point. Hannity is seen as a figure of the current political chasm that exists in this country. Yes, while his ratings are good, he isn’t exactly going to enlighten new people or those on the fence regarding this topic….he’ll just further instill the anger in people on that side of the issue. I truly think that in order for AGW/Green BS to be questioned by more people that need to wake up and question it, someone truly independent on the issue needs to come forth and present something like this and do so in a broad based, well received fashion. I’m sure much of what Hannity will say is truth, but I’m also sure he’s not going to win over too many new converts who already view him as a partisan hack (whether you think he is or not, many on the fence are not watching Fox News).
The funny thing about Glenn Beck…. I wouldn’t let my kids listen to his morning show on the radio, before he went national and became a Friend of Bill…. and while he may seem to be channeling Howard Beale, what he has to say is pretty damn accurate. Topics that I’ve been researching for awhile, such as the influence of the Frankfurt School on the American social sciences, turn up on his show and in the proper context…. not 100% accurate, but close, real close.
Think about it, folks. You’d prefer it was someone like Chris Mathews doing this, the guy who gets a tingle up and down his leg thinking of our current President? Dismissing the argument because it is Sean Hannity saying it is just another ad hom response. Let’s wait and see what his show has to say…. if it’s too far over the top, well, let the alarmists read it here first.
The votes of those who regularly tune into his show have exactly the same weight as those who don’t!
Don’t they have same right to illumination as anyone else?
JimB says:
August 27, 2010 at 2:24 pm
‘I kind of wish this wasn’t being done by Hannity. He’s seen as a whack-job by everyone I know, and will not be helpful for the cause.
In Massachusetts, most people will feel that if Hannity says it’s false?…it MUST be true. They won’t even watch the show.”
http://www.mediabistro.com/tvnewser/ratings/the_scoreboard_thursday_august_26_172088.asp#more
“JimB – What do you expect from a populace who repeatedly send the likes of Frank , Markey and Kerry to Washington ?”
Welcome to my world…
“LOL! People calling Hannity a whack job re-elect the likes of Ted Kennedy and John Kerry over and over and over. ”
Welcome to my world…
“JimB I presume that the people in Massachussetts don’t think Jean Kerrie is; how you say it; a Whack job ?”
Welcome to my world…
Feels almost like groundhog day here.
JimB
File under Cold Kills…
http://www.nature.com/news/2010/100827/full/news.2010.437.html
JimB
I watched the first segment. It is actually a pretty good historical overview to this point. Moore formerly of Greenpeace is pretty clear and pointed – he skewers Gore – “not a scientific bone in his body”! Hannity has not detracted from the story at all.
It’ll likely just be a preaching to the choir kind of thing, but maybe I’m wrong, his show does have good ratings. He is certainly a better host than O’Reilly, but O’Reilly tends to have better guests on his show.
Red Eye is clearly the best show on Fox though.
Second segment just as punchy, IMO. Hannity is simply the narrator. Pretty slicj interspersing of the usual questioners – Michaels, Lindzen, Horner, Monckton – he is one odd looking dude but conveys enormous confidence and conviction.
We’ve got the show on live here in Thailand on Sophon Cable.
Somehow I don’t think we need to worry about what folks in Ma will think. In Dec of 2005 they passed regulations that “cars sold in the state after 2015 must emit 30 percent less carbon dioxide, 20 percent fewer toxic pollutants, and as much as 20 percent fewer smog- causing pollutants than under federal standards.”
They’re already gone!
I don’t know why everyone keeps on about “scientific” disputes over fractions of this that and the other. The whole business is about political power and has been from day one. Scientific disputes can be settled and usually are, by rational argument. Political disputes on the other hand are usually ultimately settled with guns and bombs.
Still pretty good. The third section focuses on Kyoto and the politics of trying to shackle the US economy. Gore is again skewered as having deliberately rejected the sense of the Senate in pursuing the agreements. Horner is pretty good. Hannity agains has not got in the way of the presentation.
Agreed Bernie-this is a good report he is having other’s tell the story-like Monckton
and others familiar here…
I’m so glad you are more tolerant of opposing positions, Anthony.
I know that means you won’t be pulling posts from people you don’t like, and that you’ll publish mine.
FoX news is owned by foreigners.
Anything they say that would influence American public opinion in this country MUST be taken with a grain of salt!
I’m so glad you are more tolerant of opposing positions, Anthony.
I know that means you won’t be pulling posts from people you don’t like, and that you’ll publish mine.
FOX news is owned by foreigners.
Anything they say that would influence American public opinion MUST be taken with a grain of salt!
Watching the show right now.
Actually, so far, it seems like a pretty good recapitulation of the distortions in climate science and of the Climategate emails.
The fourth segment dealt with Climategate. McKitrick was very, very good. Clear, crisp and forceful especially on the weak inquiries. His best line was that he believed that Briffa had not read the papers that he was asked to summarize. Thhat will have some reverberations – but I woul not pull the pin of that grenade unless I was pretty sure what Ross will say in response.
Again Hannity is simply there.
Hannity is actually doing a pretty good job so far. I’m thinking that there are some people who will not be convinced even if Mann and Hansen were to confess on the steps of the Lincolm Memorial that they fudged the numbers. There are a lot of people out there who kind of mildly thing that AGW is the true explanation whose eyes might be opened by this report.
Fifth segment – Cap and Trade. The money trail was interesting. No real explanation of what exactly will be traded and by whom and who will control the volume of credits. Roy Spencer was pretty feisty. They really missed an opportunity to drive home the point of what it will do to everyone’s electricity bill. That was an opportunity for a real hammer blow.
I hope this will be useful until a more detailed summary is available.
For those of who intereseted in the science – not so deep . For those of us interested in the swindle – spot on . Of course WUWT has covered both aspects for years . Thanks , Anthony .
No real punch in the last segment. Only idiots buy “green” products. The real issue is where we may be forced to buy over priced products. I had hoped for the exposure of wind farms.
Too rushed and poorly structured.
Ugh, Faux News. WUWT is far better.
I listened to the show tonight and thought it was good. What do you think he got wrong?