On Thursday, NBC's liberal Late Night host Seth Meyers didn't hesitate to provide left-wing actress Jane Fonda with a platform for her latest “activist pursuit” of combating climate change, even in the midst of the COVID-19 pandemic.
The climate brigade had been summoned for the evening, failing to take into account the current global health crisis weighing on the minds of all. Tone-deaf Meyers then proceeded to ask Fonda about her “fire drill Friday” stunts: "So I want to ask about this thing that you started, it has taken off. Are you surprised by the amount of support it's gotten?"
Fonda, hardly objective on political matters, expounded upon her virtue-signaling gimmick:
...Having a rally every Friday with experts and scientists and celebrities that would be followed by civil disobedience and risking arrest who knew well, it turned out that a lot of people seemed to be waiting for an opportunity to take the next step, to put their bodies on the line and people came from all around the country...And you know, there was such momentum when this terrible covid pandemic hit, we decided to continue just the way you are...Doing fire drill Friday’s virtually.
Meyers must have missed Fonda’s notorious anti- American tirades and spiels over the years, as he placed reverence and credibility on her “activist” role:
So you obviously have been an activist for most of your life. And there's a lot to be pessimistic about. Clearly with the environment but are you optimistic about how this younger generation seems to be taking up the cause?
Speaking as though she were some sort of sage on the study of science, Fonda drilled home the leftist warning of near demise as a result of climate change inaction, despite ironically skating over the present pandemic:
This is a horrific experience that we are going through. And the suffering and devastation is mind-boggling. What is positive is seeing the human capacity to really change our behaviors profoundly who knew that we could -- we could do that? And, um -- but maybe to answer your question more specifically, I didn't really realize until we started doing fire drill Fridays that the climate crisis affects young people differently they -- it's their future...We have ten years to cut our fossil fuel emissions in half. And it's going to be quite an extraordinary thing. And there are going to be very specific things we can do, and I will be, and fire drill Friday will be participating, I am proud to say, with them...
As if youngsters and the country at large are not aware enough of the climate hysteria emanating off the lefist faction of the political sphere, Meyers applauded Fonda in her efforts to “spread the word”:
I thought it was adorable that in your tik tok video that was sort of the throwback to the famous Jane fonda workouts, you did put in - and we'll show a still here -- you did advise people that they might want to Google you and I thought that that was a helpful tip to young people who might not be fully up to speed on it.
The link between the COVID-19 pandemic and climate change was bound to happen at some juncture in the interview. Fonda concocted the nexus while inserting a gibe at the President:
...Yeah but you know, just to go back, the covid crisis has a lot in common with the climate crisis. It requires listening to the scientists listening to experts, being prepared, and having a strong central government, and being kind and generous with each other. This is true for the pandemic and for the climate crisis the pandemic will end, the climate crisis won't...For example, the fossil fuel industry has got a back door into the oval office and they're trying to make sure that they get billions of dollars in bailout. Well, they're a dying industry that's killing us and killing the planet...everyone but those CEOs and the Trump Administration know it and we have to make sure that we don’t lock ourselves in into more fossil fuels going forward.
Liberal exploitation knows no bounds and no shame.
Transcript below:
Late Night With Seth Meyers
4/10/19
1:00:52 AM
SETH MEYERS: So I want to ask about this thing that you started, it has taken off. Are you surprised by the amount of support it's gotten?
JANE FONDA: Yeah, when we started, you know, we didn't know what was going to happen. Having a rally every Friday with experts and scientists and celebrities that would be followed by civil disobedience and risking arrest who knew well, it turned out that a lot of people seemed to be waiting for an opportunity to take the next step, to put their bodies on the line and people came from all around the country. Many came two or three times. And 17,000 people have signed up to do fire drill Fridays locally where they live. And you know, there was such momentum when this terrible covid pandemic hit, we decided to continue just the way you are.
MEYERS: Yes.
FONDA: Doing fire drill Fridays virtually.
MEYERS: So you obviously have been an activist for most of your life. And there's a lot to be pessimistic about. Clearly with the environment but are you optimistic about how this younger generation seems to be taking up the cause?
FONDA: This is a horrific experience that we are going through. And the suffering and devastation is mind-boggling. What is positive is seeing the human capacity to really change our behaviors profoundly who knew that we could -- we could do that? And, um -- but maybe to answer your question more specifically, I didn't really realize until we started doing fire drill Fridays that the climate crisis affects young people differently they -- it's their future. They had nothing to do with causing this to happen it's the fossil fuel industry, decades before they were even born but this is their future, and so many of them literally don't know if they are going to have a livable future. And they are grieving and they are angry, but they have stepped up all around the world, by the tens of millions, and woken us all up and they're the ones that inspired me. Greta Thunberg and all the other young people, whether they're the indigenous youth from standing rock. The people from all over - young people from all over the world. And really this Earth day, April -- in April 22nd, 23rd, 24th, they're taking three days to kind of expose people to the climate crisis and what we have to do to address it and how urgent the situation is. We have ten years to cut our fossil fuel emissions in half. And it's going to be quite an extraordinary thing. And there are going to be very specific things we can do, and I will be, and fire drill Friday will be participating, I am proud to say, with them. It's going to be a fascinating time, very interesting to see at a time when usually millions of people would be filling the streets. What do we do now that we are isolated at home but I think it's going to be very exciting.
MEYERS: I thought it was adorable that in your tik tok video that was sort of the throwback to the famous Jane fonda workouts, you did put in - and we'll show a still here -- you did advise people that they might want to Google you and I thought that that was a helpful tip to young people who might not be fully up to speed on it.
FONDA: Yeah. And we got a wonderful response from it. Yeah but you know, just to go back, the covid crisis has a lot in common with the climate crisis. It requires listening to the scientists listening to experts, being prepared, and having a strong central government, and being kind and generous with each other. This is true for the pandemic and for the climate crisis the pandemic will end, the climate crisis won't. And one of the things that we have to try with every ounce of our being is making sure that the transition, the -- as we try to transition out of this terrible economic and health crisis that we're facing, that we do so taking climate -- the climate crisis into consideration at the same time we don't have the luxury of solving the climate crisis and the coronavirus crisis at the same time. For example, the fossil fuel industry has got a back door into the oval office and they're trying to make sure that they get billions of dollars in bailout. Well, they're a dying industry that's killing us and killing the planet. And we have to be sure that the sustainable clean energy gets bailouts so that when we come out of this crisis, workers will be taken care of, small businesses, and the clean, renewable energy future that we have to move into the age of fossil fuel is over, and everyone but those CEOs and the Trump Administration know it and we have to make sure that we don’t lock ourselves in into more fossil fuels going forward.
MEYERS: We're so grateful that you are sort of bringing enthusiasm to a whole new generation of people to face this crisis…
