CNN Anchor Falsely Calls Joplin 'Deadliest Tornado On Record'
America's media for a full week now have been shamefully hyping last Sunday's natural disaster in Joplin, Missouri.
Continuing with this trend Saturday was CNN's Fredricka Whitfield who on "CNN Newsroom" actually called this "the deadliest tornado on record" (video follows with transcript and commentary):
FREDRICKA WHITFIELD, CNN ANCHOR: Top of the hour right now, we're focusing on the things that are not so fun in Joplin, Missouri. More than 150 people still have not been heard from since the deadliest tornado on record hit there last Sunday.
132 are confirmed dead. More than 1,000 people were hurt. The federal government has approved nearly $3 million in aid, and President Obama actually plans to meet with survivors tomorrow in the city of Joplin.
Deadliest on record?
Fortunately, Whitfield's not even close.
The deadliest tornado in history was the Daultipur-Salturia Tornado in Bangladesh on April 26, 1989, which killed approximately 1,300 people.
Here in America, Joplin currently ranks eighth. The most deadly was 1925's Tri-State Tornado which killed 695 people in Illinois, Indiana, and Missouri.
Don't fret, Fredricka - few Americans really believe CNN is the most trusted name in news.
(H/T NBer Gary Hall)
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Pushing really hard
Submitted by jon_torlin on Sat, 05/28/2011 - 5:34pm.
They are really pushing the global warming agenda real hard. I'm not saying climate change, because one of the reporterettes said "is this what living under global warming be like?" or words to that effect.
Whatever they are going to call it, the libs, the dems, the global warming wackos, the UN climate group that are filled with frauds, are going to push this real hard and make everyone in American start going to work on bicycles.
This is evidence of it, of course as you point out, Mr. Sheppard, from the most trusted (and least watched) name in news.
-Jon
They fired all their
Submitted by Beukeboom on Sat, 05/28/2011 - 5:40pm.
They fired all their fact-checkers?
Fact checker at CNN?
Submitted by jdlybrand on Sat, 05/28/2011 - 8:27pm.
That's like..you know..the hardest job...EVER!
"What a revoltin' development this is!"
Chester Riley
"Fact Checkers"?
Submitted by Chris Norman on Sun, 05/29/2011 - 12:58am.
"Fact Checkers"? Probably none remaining at CNN - certainly not ever at MSNBC. I think they have Liberal Agenda Checkers - busily checking to make sure everything reported advances the liberal agenda.
Hey CNN, your agenda is showing.
Submitted by pbthinker on Sat, 05/28/2011 - 5:43pm.
I don't blame Ms. Whitfield, I'm sure she was just reading the teleprompter, but it doesn't say much for the researchers at CNN. Funny comment, Noel, about no one believe CNN is the most trusted name in news. I'm not even sure they're in the top 3.
The Most Twisted Name in News
Submitted by NC Boy on Sat, 05/28/2011 - 6:13pm.
George Will said it best, "Last month, Barack Obama was asked by an interviewer from Texas why he is so unpopular there. Obama replied: “Texas has always been a pretty Republican state, for, you know, historic reasons.” Well, yes, “always” — if you believe, as many baby boomers seem to, that the world began when they became more or less sentient."
http://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/history-lessons-for-obama-and-oth...
So, if it didn't happen in this country, in Fredericka Whitfield's memory - it didn't happen!
Facts? Facts?
Submitted by Herbster on Sat, 05/28/2011 - 6:22pm.
Facts? Who needs facts? The media stopped using them tears age - they just get in the way of leftist agendas - - - - global whatever, gun control, evil Republicans, etc. And, of course, the current crop of "Journalists" wouldn't know a fact if it hit them in the nose.
Memorial Day - a time to remember.
Do they count
Submitted by Tjexcite on Sat, 05/28/2011 - 6:29pm.
where are the Hurricane spawned tornadoes on the lists of number of tornadoes and deadliest.
According to the Weather Channel
Submitted by ahusser on Sat, 05/28/2011 - 10:35pm.
This is the deadliest tornado season since 1950. If that record is broken then they alluded to the 1930's as the next benchmark for deadly tornados. There wasn't supposed to be global warming/climate change/manmade climate change during that era. So the climate change "True Believers" arguments are already specious and off the mark. There is historic precedent for deadly tornado seasons and logically due to chance and normal cyclic weather fluctuation some seasons would and should be more deadly than others. Our tornado warning systems are much better now but we also have more population than the 30's and 50's. The probability that a tornado would hit a populated area is much greater now than in the past and the path's of tornados are more or less random so damage and casualties from tornados are mostly chance related. Recall the movie "Twister", which I believe was loosely based on a very bad season/cluster of super cell tornados in the late 80's again no climate change then because that was when the ozone layer was being destroyed by aerosol cans and we were all going to be UV'd to death.
"Somehow, I told you so, just doesn't quite say it." Will Smith in 'I, Robot.'
Twisted twisters
Submitted by deadeyedan on Sat, 05/28/2011 - 10:47pm.
Probably more people have been killed by the Democratic Party's Spin Doctors than by tornadoes; the left's spin goes far beyond the Fujita Force Scale. In direct answer to Tj, hurricane spawned tornadoes have never reached F-4 on said scale. An authoritative listing can be found among the publications of the Tornado Project Online.
For a good perspective on the subject, check out what transpired at a campus debate, "Resolved, Global Warming is Man-made" at Triton Community College four years ago. The Geography Department took the affirmative and I the negative. Each had time for presentation and rebuttal and prior to the proceedings we were asked to write out questions to pose to the opposition in closing.
Because so many questions came from the audience, we each had time for only one, and this was mine:
Given the amount of publicity generated by Hurricane Katrina and the record-setting 2005 Atlantic Basin tropical storm season, why was there no attention given to the unprecedented tornado season that same year, despite the supposed rise in tornado intensity and frequency?
The whole answer goes fourteen pages, but condensed it is this:
Except for 1992, for the first time since at least 1875 there were no fatalities from tornadoes anywhere in the country in the months of April and May.
There were no deaths in June or July of 2005 either, allowing almost the entire heart of the season to go by without tornado deaths, a span of no fatalities through April, May, June and July that has no precedent in our nation's historical records going back to 1854.
Despite always having had tornadoes in the month of April since its original inception in the late 1800's, the state of Oklahoma had not one single tornado in April of 2005.
For the first time since making assessments of this nature, there was no tornado of Fujita Force Scale 5 for six years, and in fact it would take another two years before another would occur, thereby extending the new record from five years to eight years between top-end events.
There is no trend of any sort to be found!
ClimateGate - the revelation that the pseudo-scientists at East Anglia University know just as much about the atmosphere as Harvard law professors know about the Constitution - deadeyedan
Learn something new every day here...
Submitted by theprofessor on Sun, 05/29/2011 - 12:28am.
"The most deadly was 1925's "
I didn't know we had a bout of climate change in 1925.
What the public needs on the "Climate" debate.
Submitted by Boil It Down on Sun, 05/29/2011 - 12:30am.
Their are books and videos advocating and debunking the Climate arguments but what we need is a thorough look at what Cap & Trade would do to the country and the world. It should expose who is in favor of it, who gets filthy rich off of it an how it would destroy economies. Yeah, this stuff is out there in one form or another but not consolidated and presented so as to define the need to shut this down. We have to scour the internet to find answers. A well organized offensive against the Cap & Trade disaster needs to be mounted. There doesn't seem to be an effort out there that fits the bill. -bidn-
Like, wow
Submitted by Galvanic on Sun, 05/29/2011 - 11:12am.
FREDRICKA WHITFIELD, CNN ANCHOR: "Top of the hour right now, we're focusing on the things that are not so fun in Joplin, Missouri Read more . . ."
If you're one of the victims in Joplin, how do you take her assessment about "things that are not so fun in Joplin?"
It's statements like this that turned me off to CNN years ago. The vast majority of their anchors are twits.
Hardly evidence of liberal
Submitted by balboa on Sun, 05/29/2011 - 11:28am.
Hardly evidence of liberal bias.
What's it evidence of,
Submitted by bkeyser on Sun, 05/29/2011 - 11:31am.
What's it evidence of, liberal idiocy?
Evidence of ...
Submitted by NL207 on Sun, 05/29/2011 - 11:34am.
journalistic incompetence at the least : reporting falsehoods as fact.
As viewers / listeners, we have no way of knowing if this misreporting was the product of incompetence or deliberate deception. Were it widely reported that this 'extreme' weather was nothing new or unprecedented, such reporting would undermine the 'extreme weather events caused by AGW' narrative that dominates media reporting today.
I hear main stream media
Submitted by TerryWest on Sun, 05/29/2011 - 12:39pm.
I hear main stream media anchors slip in global warming panic signals often, statements such as "what is happening here folks? something! is happening.....then on to more tornado coverage and mayhem shots.
What is ironic (and amusing) is that these same people who are using this tragedy as a global warming tool are the very same who had a good time laughing at the Pastor who predicted the end of the world.
The pastor got the date wrong, the global warming cult facts wrong, both are selling their own versions of "End of the world as we know it!" T shirts at the same concert.
CNN
Submitted by joeschmo1 on Mon, 05/30/2011 - 4:22pm.
What CNN (and the rest of the mainstream media) fails to tell you is that:
1) Tornadoes have always been occuring in this country for millions of years.
2) Areas that once were farmland are now populated with homes which causes the destruction to appear much worse.
3) Years ago, our media didn't have a frenzy over every natural disaster.
4) They are pushing the Global Warming agenda by this false reporting.
It amazes me how all the media outlets are such experts on Global warming/Climate Change and yet know nothing about weather.