BMI's Dan Gainor Rings in New Year on Cavuto, Attacking Media Bias on Global Warming

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Dan Gainor, director of MRC's Business & Media Institute (BMI), and Cato Institute's Dr. Patrick Michaels appeared this afternoon on Fox News Channel's "Your World with Neil Cavuto" to talk about liberal media hype about climate change.

Video: Windows (4.26 MB) or Real (5MB) Plus MP3 (2MB).

BMI's comprehensive study of over 100 years of liberal media hype on global climate change can be found here.


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Dan

How could Dan Gainor be on t.v.? Al Gore, the Dems, and the media have claimed that the debate is over. Global warming will destroy the earth--just ask them. But if this is true, don't ask them what we can do about it, because they don't know. Hype, thy name is liberal.

NEVER,NEVER trust a liberal

So when does it stop?

You should see the looks I get when I ask people warning of the human caused global warming what exactly the goal is. I mean, really, supposing for a moment that all of Al Gore's dreams came true, what would be the final aim? When would we know and be able to declare "mission accomplished"? By what measure would we know that we succeeded? (of course, I think the global temperature would change naturally but all these interest groups would 1. take credit for it and 2. start warning us about global cooling and a new ice age)

Al Gore was recently heard saying...

Al Gore was recently heard saying that "something must be done about the cows and their flattulance which is having a significant effect on ozone damage". In response to Gore's comment Barbara Walters disagreed and said she was proud of her decision to hire Rosie O'Donnell.

If you claim to be a conservative, please don't disgrace yourself and conservatism by thinking and arguing like a liberal.

GAT

Good one. LMAO!!!!!!!

If you haven't read Michael

If you haven't read Michael Crichton's State of Fear, I highly recommend it. A mostly interesting plot, and lots of good data about how badly the Global Warming fearmongers have overhyped the threat.

LNTHOMP previously posting as LEENT. U.S. Navy (ret.)

I have enough money to last me the rest of my life. Unless I buy something.

You're absolutely right, LNT.

You're absolutely right, LNT.  I read State of Fear last year and thought it was great, not only as a work of fiction, but also as an educational tool that gives those of us who don't buy into the global warming theorist's data hook, line & sinker. 

Predictably, Crichton was lambasted in the scientific community, the media and even the book world for taking on the vaunted theory of Global Warming. 

I especially liked his section at the end where he explained why it's very dangerous to politicize a scientific argument.  In it he traced what the people who promoted eugenics ("good genes") in the 20's & 30's and how Adolf Hitler took those theories to their logical conclusion.  Now, global warming proponents don't want to terminate an entire race like Hitler did, but they do want to "kill" at least intellectually and socially those who disagree with them.

Dutch

the scariest thing

Actually dutch, considering that it's not hard to find websites and groups claiming that man is the polluntant of the world, it would be pretty easy to justify genocide or any sort of mass killing from some of the global warming rethoric. After all, if you want to reduce CO2, why not kill a lot of the people exhaling it and driving those nasty cars around..... etc

http://www.vhemt.org/  here

http://www.vhemt.org/  here you go.

“The object of life is not to be on the side of the majority but to escape finding oneself in the ranks of the insane.” – Marcus Aurelius

Scary but interesting find. W

Scary but interesting find. What can one say. They're nuts. And too many people don't realize it.

Statements as: " We don't carry on about how the human race has shown itself to be a greedy, amoral parasite on the once-healthy face of this planet. " sound too much like the warmers.

Insane.

"Whoever undertakes to set himself up as a judge of truth and knowledge is shipwrecked by the laughter of the gods."  Albert Einstein

Come on!   I just finally w

Come on!   I just finally watched "Inconvenient Truth" yesterday - you know that Al Gore tell us what most of us know slide show that ends with fine print (small print) even saying we have the cure or something to that effect.  Al, why after all that shock and awe didn't you put such in bold and broad type?  --- Because this admistration and learning institutes and schools already are on the issue.  Is it so wrong that this administration did put human rights for all - you know like Martin Luther preached - higher on the list than saving the planet first.  How many millions has this administration given the chance for representation and participation in a democracy?  Good thing Gore wasn't elected back when and administered on Global Warming first - you know with cutting our oil consumption and thus the economy of the Middle East just because US might be better with new waterfront.  Imagine how radicals would have responded with this policy so soon following Hillary's parades around East and Middle East saying all women deserve freedom and rights???  Oh! and don't forget this would have been following up after Clinton One and his cuts in intelligence and defense.  Thank you President and First Lady Ford for your wonderful service as a working couple that gave all their union had to offer.  Mr. President I think the National Guard taught you well.

Come on!   I just finally w

Come on!   I just finally watched "Inconvenient Truth" yesterday - you know that Al Gore tell us what most of us know slide show that ends with fine print (small print) even saying we have the cure or something to that effect.  Al, why after all that shock and awe didn't you put such in bold and broad type?  --- Because this admistration and learning institutes and schools already are on the issue.  Is it so wrong that this administration did put human rights for all - you know like Martin Luther preached - higher on the list than saving the planet first.  How many millions has this administration given the chance for representation and participation in a democracy?  Good thing Gore wasn't elected back when and administered on Global Warming first - you know with cutting our oil consumption and thus the economy of the Middle East just because US might be better with new waterfront.  Imagine how radicals would have responded with this policy so soon following Hillary's parades around East and Middle East saying all women deserve freedom and rights???  Oh! and don't forget this would have been following up after Clinton One and his cuts in intelligence and defense.  Thank you President and First Lady Ford for your wonderful service as a working couple that gave all their union had to offer.  Mr. President I think the National Guard taught you well.

Didn't mean to leave comment without this so I just signed back on:  When Gore came to election day against Bush I while in Carvilles' restaraunt told James that I would likely move out of the country if Gore got elected.  That is how much then I feared Gore's likely policies and this was after years of helping Clinton's.  Still don't like thinking back to days I wondered why (as a private citizen) Saddam thought he could keep Kuwait.  Wouldn't it be wonderful if Democrats looked for leadership from someone who has twenty five years in congress or something equivalent and not primarily junior senators with Sorros money or Bill Clinton money?

Balmy

Balmy = crazy > media hype.   Great analogy by Dan......

Also intereresting take on media being fed data from researchers/scientists (pssst - they don't work for big oil) with a self-serving agenda.

Well done.

Some points occured to me thu

Some points occured to me thus getting me to sign back on.  Ignore for a moment though that market forces are at play and effecting change under the Bush administration without legislation - just look at Ford and GM.  Ok now, take a wise political perspective and think of Boston Harbor and Massachusett Democrats and Baltimore inner harbor and Maryland Democrats and why not Chicago Democrats and their water front as well. --- Kennedy's own waterfront property also and it is possibly closer to sea level  than Bush's Kennebunkport waterfront.  Now I know Trent Lott knows about waterfront property as well so I ask with all these Democratic harbors even San Fransico when is the time to be as concerned as Al Gore and won't we be hearing from more Democrats first?  Just some thoughts while international human rights are spread and dictators fall.  Maybe Kennedy's will let it get worse and ruin their property before fighting for change?  Who else could we imagine.   I did say the market system is effecting change without legislation - and the children are our future.  We may need legislation but when will it be clear that such is so?  Happy New Year and happy looking forward to lower CO2 for all.

I don't profess to know much

I don't profess to know much about global waming, but it was 50 degrees before, during, and after Xmas. Something's getting warmer. Why, I don't know. Perhaps it is cyclical. Perhaps it's all the sun. But I'm freaking out with these thunderstorms in December and January....

I'll just bet that those folk

I'll just bet that those folks in Colorado and Kansas wish that global warming would hurry up and make it to their area.

"A communist is someone who reads Marx.  An anti-communist is someone who understands Marx."  Ronald Reagan

I'll just bet that those fol

I'll just bet that those folks in Colorado and Kansas wish that global warming would hurry up and make it to their area.

I'm not sure the folks in Vail, Aspen, and other ski resort areas are wishing for that! :-)

Prolly not.  The higher elev

Prolly not.  The higher elevations usually get their snows.  I doubt very much, though, that Kansas wants to start a "Ski Kansas" tourism campaign.  If they did, they could forget artificial snow, they'd have to build some bodacious artificial hills! :->  Hmmmm...Jessica Simpson size ... nah, I'm not going there.

"A communist is someone who reads Marx.  An anti-communist is someone who understands Marx."  Ronald Reagan

OK, I'll pay good money for a

OK, I'll pay good money for a "Ski Kansas" T-shirt. It's gotta be out there somewhere.

Actually, Kansas does have skiing.

Actually, Kansas does have skiing.

They have artificial runs (for many years - at least 30).

And Kansas has a lot of real hills.  Everything in the Western side is flat, everything on the Eastern side is hilly.  If you weren't told you would think you were in Sonoma County, CA for nearly all of Eastern Kansas.

ACA

...

Acaiguana says:  "Which city is next?"

Really? Had no idea. OK, mayb

Really? Had no idea. OK, maybe a "Ski Arkansas" T-shirt?

My wife's from. Little Rock.

My wife's from. Little Rock. Spent many Christmas' there. About 1/3 of them white. I believe there's skiing in NW Arkansas in the Ozarks. Maybe around Heber Springs.

How about SKI Florida. Though they do have Cypress Gardens. But that's a different kind of skiing.

 

"Whoever undertakes to set himself up as a judge of truth and knowledge is shipwrecked by the laughter of the gods."  Albert Einstein

Huh!  Ya learn something new

Huh!  Ya learn something new every day.

"A communist is someone who reads Marx.  An anti-communist is someone who understands Marx."  Ronald Reagan

Would you settle for a "Ski I

Would you settle for a "Ski Iowa" T-shirt?

I remember seeing them many years ago, with a picture of an oversized pig pulling a skier.

Hotsy-Totsy Journalists...

Excellent conclusion by Neil Cavuto in the video clip - "Maybe the output would change if all of us hotsy-totsy journalists got on a plane and traveled around."  MSM journalists reporting from Iraq display the same problem.  They all stay in one dark hotel and quote other people yet they claim to be "reporting from Baghdad".  If all of the hotsy-totsy journalists would open the door and step into the sunshine, perhaps their reporting would become more balanced and show some of the sunny side of the real victory under way in Iraq.

More than just "Northeast Arrogance" as Mr. Cavuto so succinctly phrased it - there is a Journalistic Arrogance that goes way beyond the truth.  These “journalists” are more interested in "changing the world" than in telling the story.

James Stoertz

Winston-Salem, North Carolina