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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Pat should be miffed. The warmers ripped off his game some time ago:
http://newsoffice.mit.edu/2009/roulette-0519
I liked the one where he didn’t understand why cold winters are expected but warm winters aren’t. What a knucklehead.
Readers who are not familiar with “Wheel of Fortune” should try to watch an episode. Once you do that, notice that contestants (and hoards of viewers at home) actually know how to spell English words correctly. They are folks who are paying close attention to the spotty information provided in the clues. They can discern what letters are missing, often blazingly quickly, and guess the complete phrase.
I’m thinking that the slackers among our population who fracture the English language in their attempts to communicate electronically, or make up goofy-sounding nonsensical phrases to recite rhythmically because they think it makes them sound cool, are those whom we often call “low-information voters”.
I didn’t know Pat Sajak was conservative. Now it makes sense!
I wonder what the demographic of “Wheel of Fortune” is….
Zucker might find that controversy is more interesting than settled science. Try providing a little coverage of the opposing viewpoint and they might actually spark a little interest. Of course the political correctness mob including Mann, et al will have a cow, but maybe they will actually educate some people of the real issues. God forbid that they become relevant.
Scott says: “I am sure this is NOT Pat Sajak of Wheel of Fortune…”
Actually, it is. He’s pretty conservative politically.
Here is a link to the blog post by Dr. Marshal shepherd on the Sajak tweet :
http://wheelandcoriolis.blogspot.ca/2014/05/big-picture-lessons-from-unfortunate.html
Loved the comments on tmz’s report of this. Someone claiming that there have been only 23 peer-reviewed papers disputing global warming since the nineties.
Pamela Gray says:May 21, 2014 at 5:43 am
“You have got to be kidding me. Wheel of Fortune???? Get outa here!!!!!!”
Pamela, do not judge a book by it’s cover:
Excerpt from a commencement address given by Pat Sajak in 2002
…”I could go on with a laundry list of silly and hypocritical things said and done by some of my fellow Show Business luminaries, but the point here is not to make them look silly. They’re perfectly capable of doing that without my help. The larger point is the disconnect between the realities of this nation and its people, and the perceived realities of many in the entertainment community. I don’t mean to sound too harsh — or hypocritical. After all, I seem perfectly happy to have cashed my checks for the more than 30 years I’ve been in television. And I’m not exactly working on the Dead Sea Scrolls. I do make a living by selling vowels and spinning a giant multicolored wheel! So who am I to be pointing fingers? Well, I’m just someone who wants to feel prouder than he does — as proud as he once was — about what goes on in his industry. And that’s why I spend only part of my time around it. I need to step back occasionally. I think it does help me see the world more clearly.”…
…”They think they have diversity in their midst because they take pains to hire a representative mix of gender and race. But there is no diversity of thought. On the great social issues of our time, there is an alarmingly monolithic view held by what has become known as the “media elite.” You can bet that the New York Times is careful about how many women it hires, but you can also bet that it is not very careful that these women hold diverse views on issues they’ll be writing about, such as the environment, gun control or abortion. My guess is that a pro-life view within the walls of the Times is a pretty rare one. And the same holds true on the entertainment side. It is just assumed that “right thinking people” hold certain views. If you don’t… well there’s the problem. How can you portray people fairly in film or on TV if you think their attitudes are so foreign? “…
Read the whole thing. Time well spent.
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/744038/posts
There is, in fact, a significant difference between loving your country, loving and being loyal to your Constitution and loving and being loyal to your government, particularly when that government has abrogated the Constitution repeatedly, and taken action against the interests of the country, only to preserve and expand its own power and authority. I am sure that climate alarmists are loyal drones of the Emperor and thus can be considered patriotic, whether it is loyalty to Obama and his tyranny, or the UN globalist movement, or loyalty to Crazy Prince Charlie, what have you. None of them, however, have any loyalty to the truth, or to their nations, or to principles of liberty enshrined in our Constitution, or those of other countries.
Mark Twain: ” Patriotism is supporting your country all the time, and your government when it deserves it.”
Richard G, gud one. What’s the opposite to patriotism, would it be traitor? One thing ‘where did the racism critique come about?’ Must have missed something
“While dropping the race card here is rather foolish (and has nothing to do with alarmism, really)”
I think he is using racist in the sense how warmist treat people that is critical or asks questions? Deniers are people that they don’t need or want. In other words deniers loose their human values and rights and are treated as subhumans?
Deniers can feel somewhat how it was to be afroamerican in Alabama in the 50s and 60s?
try… just try to understand what Pat meant in a 140 character tweet.
Was there sarcasm? Humor? I assume so. He may have been drunk?
Twitter…the lowest form of dialogue.
“+1 for Sajak.If you’ve heard Harry Reid on the US Senate floor over the past month calling conservatives/CAGW Skeptics racists, unpatriotic, etc then I think you might know who Pat Sajak was making fun of with his tweets. Pat was just flipping the script. The same can be done by calling CAGW Believers, deniers. They deny the facts and live in a fairy tale model. They deny the pause. Deniers. Pat just flipped the script on Harry Reid.”
The real political Agenda behind UNEP, UNFCCC and IPCC is global government.
So we are unpatriotic toward UNEP global government, but hardly toward our nations?
Settle down, Spanky. Sajak was being facetious with his first remark. Read between the lines folks. He was just turning the tables on the Clima-TOILET-gists that excoriate, humiliate and ultimately want to eliminate and other opinion.
Doug Proctor says:
May 20, 2014 at 9:07 pm
Wow.
What, 40% of Americans are unpatriotic racists misleading others for their own ends?
Those who live in ivory towers think the world is a very small place: their tower and the moat below it.
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Ok a little hyperbole to make a point. Simply change it to “40% of Americans are unpatriotic and prejudiced, mislead by others for their own ends.”
Their prejudice is their inability to see a sceptical viewpoint, and their wrong assumption that 97% of scientist support the idea of CAGW being true. They are unpatriotic due to their quick and prejudicial willingness to throw away the individual liberties that the USA was founded on, all in the name of CAGW theory, which is daily being disproven by the observations.
you missed the followup tweet
https://twitter.com/patsajak/statuses/469204466873667584
As most of you know, original Tweet was intended to parody the name-calling directed at climate skeptics. Hyperbole.
there was another too I cannot seem to find now done right after the original where he made it plain he was trolling.
here it is
https://twitter.com/patsajak/statuses/468828847337512960
Wheel Of Fortune=Hang-Man With Cash.
Parody. Hyperbole.
Pat is one of the funniest guys on Twitter. His comment was intended as snark. Of course he doesn’t believe racism has anything to do with it, but the comment demonstrates the efforts of the political left to construe *everything* as racist. The dig was aimed at them.
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I do believe you forgot your “/sarc tag”.
Not to be unpleasant about it, but global warming alarmists, to the extent they argue against fossil fuel energy development in Third World countries, ARE racist because the burdens and harm resulting from the policies they advocate overwhelmingly fall on people of color, who constitute the huge bulk of people in those countries.
Der Fuehrer himself acted out global warming alarmist racism when he told those people in Soweto not to aspire to driving an SUV or having an air-conditioned home – even as his unrepentantly, phenomenally hypocritical self was in the midst of a totally fossil-fueled $100 million vacation.
Sajak is extremely smart and witty. He has just performed a brilliant Twitter experiment. Why? Because accusations of racism and lack of patriotism have already been made against skeptics by AGW activists such as Al Gore and Bill Nye, to name a few.
There is a large contingent of “Well, one thing we need to do, is sterilize all the ‘extra’ people!” eugenicists
among the AGW wackos.
A large contingent.
What that means in code is “the poor extra brown people” and anyone whose presence they find inconvenient.
Ever wonder what’s gonna start happening to medical records once liberals move into the field of administration of THAT and start thumbing through political “insects” ‘ lives?
People are gonna be effin’ killed for their religious views, for their political activism, for this and that, as their most intimate medical information floats out on a giant government employee web perused by vehement, malicious, political Gleick types: psychopaths with agendas and a “clear mandate from the concensus of intelligent” people.
They’re dangerous effing people and you mark my words on it for telling your grandchildren people saw it coming
while liberals squealed with delight at the thought of having possession of their most despised enemies’, most vulnerable life sustaining information.