I think the light bulb may have gone on with this guy. From TalkingPointsMemo:
In addition to being mocked for its breathless coverage of Flight 370, CNN has also been under fire for the way it has covered climate change. Zucker on Monday defended the network’s approach to the issue.
“Climate change is one of those stories that deserves more attention, that we all talk about,” he said, “but we haven’t figured out how to engage the audience in that story in a meaningful way. When we do do those stories, there does tend to be a tremendous amount of lack of interest on the audience’s part.”
Translation: Nobody cares. ZZZZzzzz.
In other news…
Game show host Pat Sajak caused a major uproar in social media circles on Tuesday, writing on Twitter Monday night that “global warming alarmists are unpatriotic racists knowingly misleading for their own ends.”
http://twitter.com/patsajak/statuses/468581395237842945
That’s unfortunate. A number of global warming alarmists I know are in fact patriotic and not racists, but they are severely misguided in their belief system.
But, I laughed at this one from Sajak:
http://twitter.com/patsajak/statuses/465296637519097856
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I think what Pat Sajak was referring to without going into detail (often necessary in this sound-bite and 140-character-limit world) was the malthusian, misanthopic watermelons who want to wipe out everyone else but them (and their elite friends). The proponents of wealth redistribution and CAGW are the same lot pushing “rewilding” and population control.
Racists, yes … against the human race…
Are you sure that’s really Game show host Pat Sajak??
Must be uber-confident in his job security.
@KevinM – he owns [the] company.
Marshall Shepherd, some weather dude who once headed some once respectability organization is tweeting about his blog post about the Sajak tweet. Could someone read it for me and tell me what he says. I can’t stand reading crap from warmists myself.
When people are unafraid to mock, it is a sign of the end.
Considering how AGW alarmists too often describe skeptics, I think Pat’s reference to “unpatriotic” and “racist” was facetious. Unfortunately, too many are missing that, including the alarmists reporting his comment.
“Very hot weather: ‘We’re all going to die!’ Very cold weather: ‘There’s a difference between climate & weather, moron!'”
So true. I’ll be using that myself.
In Pat’s defense, he didn’t say that everyone who believes in global warming is an unpatriotic racist. Just the alarmists. I’m pretty sure he was referencing the leaders of the movement, not the useful idiots who tag along.
CNN is in a steady decline and I predict will be essentially defunct by 2020…nobody cares about them anymore…
This is also a good opportunity to remind folks to remove all of your CAGW-promoting MSM links and apps from your computers and mobile devices, and this includes weather information sites like “weather underground”. Any time you click on their links or their sponsors links, you put money in their pockets. Also, make note of their sponsors and consider whether or not you wish to do business with them…
I love the those who love govt actually seem to believe that if you oppose any environmental regulation, it means that you want there to be no environmental regulations. If you oppose any program that allegedly is going to help the poor, it means you want there to be no welfare, public or private.
It’s no wonder the left hates us. They are idiots.
Kate Forney says:
May 21, 2014 at 3:58 am
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By definition, spending other people’s money is not sustainable.
Pamela Gray says:
May 21, 2014 at 5:43 am
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I love the way some people actually believe that your job defines you.
He hosts a game show, therefore he must be an idiot.
On the other hand if you get paid to stand in front of a camera and mouth words that other people wrote, you must be a genius.
I suppose that we’ll find out in due time what Sajak meant. I suspect that’s it’s just a dose of the same nonsense that the left in American politics is doing on a daily basis…where the race card has seemingly replaced all others in the deck it’s played so frequently. My guess is Sajak is throwing a little irony into the discussion.
I think Pat was trying to make the point that any number of alarmists are, in fact, lying to us. That this is not a scholarly disagreement, but one in which many alarmists are actively trying to deceive the public on with assertions they know to be untrue. Having followed this debate for many years now, I have to agree. One cannot assume good will on the part of the AGW community.
As for being patriotic, I believe Pat means that the AGW crowd would happily see the country reduced to penury to meet their agenda. He thinks that’s unpatriotic. It depends on the importance one places on prosperity. Some people–people who consider themselves patriots–believe that global warming is impending doom and that penury is worth it. I think people can disagree about what constitutes “patriotic” in the debate.
I think Mr. Sajak was simply dishing out what we on the political right have to take every day
If you disagree with President Obama it is because you are racist. If you want secure borders, you are racist. If you want to control spending, you hate the poor, etc. etc. as nauseam, ad infinitum, with variations.
How people are responding to him demonstrates how silly the political left sounds to the political right, only the right does not have the backing of the government, “educational” institutions and mainstream media.
Too blanket a statement (“racists”) by Sajak. The people at the very top – in the UN, top policy makers at institutions like the IPCC, some people at top levels of some western governments, etc – are indeed racists. The majority – the low-level grunts/foot soldiers – typically are not racists. Once again, the term “useful idiots” comes to mind., especially when it comes to the media and entertainment worlds.
I’m a news junky, but when I switch over to CNN it’s rare when I think “That’s interesting.”
CNN went on for weeks and weeks about the missing jetliner, spouting some of the most inane drivel I’ve heard from a news organziation.
Pamela Gray (and others)
Pat Sajak doesn’t need a defender (especially me), but he’s a well known (and read) columnist. I’ve always found his articles thoughtful and well written. You can read some of them here at Ricochet and at Human Events, among others.
I guess two links put my comment in the spam bin.
Pamela Gray says:
May 21, 2014 at 5:43 am
You have got to be kidding me. Wheel of Fortune???? Get outa here!!!!!!
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He actually had a pretty good late night talk show on one network, I forget which one, and he’s written some conservative opinion pieces in magazines. He’s no dummy.
Hell, Merv Griffin was a game-show host and he ended up owning half of Hollywood and Las Vegas, it seems.
Calling climate obsessed fanatics ‘racist’ is in some ways kinder than calling skeptics den^alists.
We now have a former Governor claiming that Republicans are unAmerican for supporting reasonable voting ID laws and ballot security. I think there is no reason to hold back on pointing out the self-serving climate hypesters and con-artists for what they are: Racists who want the poor to die in the dark and fleece the tax payers of the world to support their failed energy scams.
Steve from Rockwood says:
“I L_V_ _AT _AJ_K”
Can I buy a vowel?
RE: CNN quote
tremendous amount of lack of interest
At first, I thought this was an amusing “Big number times zero” convoluted expression.
The more I think about it, what is probably closer to the truth is
“Our mail box is overflowing with messages saying ‘Enough already!'”
Or, “We are long past boring people. Now they are throwing tomatoes!”
Sajak is going to influence a huge section of the public. if he makes these comments during The Price is Right.
Sajak is going to influence a huge section of the public. if he makes these comments during The Price is Right.
KevinM says:
“Are you sure that’s really Game show host Pat Sajak??
Must be uber-confident in his job security.”
Sajak has made similar comments in the past. He probably doesn’t worry about his job. After doing it for thirty years he is probably extremely wealthy. And Pat is so popular in his show that if the warmist crowd tried to mount a boycott, they would probably experience a backlash that would make “super-storm” Sandy seem like a gentle mist.
An individual alarmist may not be racist – but as mentioned in a previous comment, when implemented, “carbon control policies” have a far more devastating effect in undeveloped countries like Africa than they do in the US. Sure, the poor here are a little worse off here from these policies, but its nothing compared to what happens in other countries.