In January, NBC News couldn't breathe a single word about the thousands of pro-lifers who came to Washington for the annual March for Life. But Brian Williams hailed 12 hard-left Greenpeace activists illegally hanging a banner at Mount Rushmore on Wednesday's Nightly News and showed their banner on screen for a full 15 seconds. Williams announced:
Look at what they did to [Mount] Rushmore and Abe Lincoln today. Three Greenpeace climbers rappelled down to hang a 65-foot-tall banner featuring President Obama's face. There were 12 arrests in all of environmental activists. They say they timed their message to coincide with that G-8 conference going on in Italy, and to remind the president that great presidents show leadership.
The banner read "America honors leaders, not politicians. Stop global warming." Obama's eyes and nose appeared between the sentences. Note Williams never even called Greenpeace "liberal."
NBC's free time for Greenpeace even acknowledged they were using the activist group's own photo. On screen was the photo credit "KATE DAVISON / GREENPEACE."
Ironically, NBC, the same network that aired hour upon hour of Al Gore's Live Earth concerts, didn't air a single story on the House "cap and trade" bill until after it passed. Then there was this brief story on the Saturday night news of June 27:
LESTER HOLT, anchor: In Washington, the House last night narrowly passed a sweeping climate change bill. President Obama says it's a bold and necessary step to fight global warming and encourage a new era of green energy. Critics, however, say the new cap and trade system to limit greenhouse gases will lead to higher energy costs. Today the president used his weekly Web address to push the Senate to follow the House's lead.
OBAMA: We cannot be afraid of the future and we must not be prisoners of the past. Don't believe the misinformation out there that suggests that there's somehow a contradiction between investing in clean energy and economic growth. It's just not true.
HOLT: The climate bill will be one of the topics tomorrow on NBC's "Meet the Press."
Naturally, Greenpeace complains from the left that the House bill is way too weak:
[It] sets targets far below those mandated by science — largely because the fossil fuels industries were allowed a huge amount of influence in revising the legislation. The bill is so weak that it may actually spur a new generation of dirty coal and dangerous nuclear plants.
The excuse we’re given is that this legislation is all that is politically feasible. But the climate doesn't care about what's politically feasible. If we don't take action in line with the science, we face catastrophic climate change.
In President Obama's inaugural address, he vowed to "restore science to its rightful place." ACES, which will soon be voted on in the Senate, falls woefully short of that mark.
—Tim Graham is Director of Media Analysis at the Media Research Center.
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Greenpeace
July 8, 2009 - 19:31 ET by allanfGreenpeace cannot back the climate bill. If the problem is "solved" they lose their reason for being.
I hope I live to see the
July 8, 2009 - 19:36 ET by bigtimerI hope I live to see the end of the groups like GreenPeace, EarthLiberationMovement and all their ilk...let alone the big three networks...plus more than anything the EPA altogether...it should be state issues...not federal govt.
Plus make it a law congress has to stay out of session for 351 days a year unless a national emergency calls them....other than that...stay out of our lives, you've already done enough destruction to our country...you need to be paid to stay absent.
On and on we could go...they are all past infuriating.
Doubling down on stupid is not a particularly good idea. ~Andrew Breitbart
Brian Williams
July 8, 2009 - 19:36 ET by TexndocI still remember staring with my mouth open when after Sarah Palin's speech at the Republican convention he immediately put his head down and read word for word a Democrat pre-written press release in front of him that was over a page long. Since then he's gone on to "bow" good-night to the Messiah. President Lincoln as "Abe" and his messiah as "President" (and a "great" one if he furthers liberalism) is no surprise to me now.
Brian Williams is what is
July 9, 2009 - 10:12 ET by The Real TonyBrian Williams is what is known as a "tool" and I don't mean in the useful "Sears Craftsmen" sort of way.
Not just a mindless liberal but he's not even a "newsman" by any stretch of the word; he's a liberal mouthpiece and an embarrassment to those of us who once knew him.
Shameless doesn't begin to describe his behaviour.
Fight Terrorism at home - defeat a liberal!
The only good thing green
July 8, 2009 - 19:57 ET by kangarooThe only good thing green peace has done is try to save the whales and dolphins from the non world team player asians, and keep the bastards out of other countries national waters.
The only thing green the
July 8, 2009 - 20:22 ET by bigtimerThe only thing green the greenies really want is total control/destruction and the green back dollar in their pocket...from us.
Doubling down on stupid is not a particularly good idea. ~Andrew Breitbart
Hi bigtimer, you are
July 8, 2009 - 20:41 ET by kangarooHi bigtimer, you are probably right from this side of the world about the greenies. In the south the asians sneak into our waters and kill all of our protected animals so they can make a buck, so at least the greenies stop most of them, they are good for something. Gota take the good with the bad in this case. cheers
roo... They good for
July 8, 2009 - 21:09 ET by bigtimerroo...
They good for absolutely nada.
...on any side of the world.
You trying to tell me they aren't making money and don't have an agenda?
Give me a friggin' break.
Doubling down on stupid is not a particularly good idea. ~Andrew Breitbart
I thought their agenda was
July 9, 2009 - 12:30 ET by balboaI thought their agenda was to save dolphins and whales.
..... we face catastrophic
July 8, 2009 - 21:52 ET by MidAmerica..... we face catastrophic climate change.
hhhmmmmm.... but environmentalists are the ones who say there are way too many people. After all, climate change only matters to humans. Are we to believe that their primary concern is maintaining a comfortable existence so that the earths human population can keep expanding? If there was to be actual global warming that was 'catastophic' it would clear out a lot of the human population and that would allow Mother Gaia to heal herself. The earth will eventually be incinerated by the sun as it dies so why do they worry about climate change? Could it be that environmentalists are just another power grabbing bunch of fascists who use junk science and scare tactics to bully their way into positions of power?
MA... I vote
July 8, 2009 - 22:02 ET by bigtimerMA...
I vote Aye!
Doubling down on stupid is not a particularly good idea. ~Andrew Breitbart
"Could it be that
July 9, 2009 - 11:56 ET by mattm"Could it be that environmentalists are just another power grabbing bunch of fascists who use junk science and scare tactics to bully their way into positions of power?"
You have to ask?
(I know you were being ironic, so am I)
It's time for a hostile takeover of one of the major networks by conservatives. I'll put in $100.....
Silly conservatives. There is no media bias.
July 9, 2009 - 09:05 ET by locomotivebreath1901Only that wicked FOX news which must be silenced.
Note to the oxymoronic eco-terrorists called 'greenpeace': "America needs educated citizens, not propogandized sycophants. Start critically thinking."
http://locomotivebreath1901.blogspot.com
After reading this article, my first thought:
July 9, 2009 - 13:57 ET by BO STINKScan you imagine the outrage, media storm, senate committee hearings, etc.that would erupt if a pro-life sign was hung near Abe. Something along the lines of:
Liberal Dems: funding and promoting the extermination of inner city babies for almost 40 years (hat-tip to NB poster)
"The preservation of the sacred faith of liberty & the destiny of the republican model of gov't. are justly considered deeply...finally, staked on the experiment entrusted to the American people." G.Washington's 1st inaugural address
So Greenpeace ...
July 9, 2009 - 16:17 ET by SentryDanSo Greenpeace wants Obama to show leadership like other great presidents. First, Obama isn't a great president and never will be. He will be infamous like Carter. Second, Obama can't show a trait that he never had. Third, Obama isn't an honorable man.
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For those who fought for it, Freedom has a flavor that the protected will never know.
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