It’s become more apparent than ever that the liberal media isn’t done politicizing the coronavirus. Lately, the media has become more brazen in their attempts to use the national lockdown to force radical public policy on the environment and health care, all the while scoffing at those concerned about their constitutional rights. Leftist filmmaker Michael Moore cheered on these efforts on MSNBC’s The 11th Hour, Wednesday evening, where he stopped to chat about politics as well as his new climate change documentary.
Moore even claimed the virus lockdown was "Mother Nature" punishing humans for not doing enough to take care of the planet.
After he personally blamed President Trump for everyone who’s died from COVID-19 in the United States and dismissed protests in his state of Michigan as “Trump rallies,” Moore, and Williams, turned to the environment. Williams asked Moore for advice in how journalists could make climate change the number one story in the country:
“Michael Moore, as a political and journalism issue, when does climate change come roaring back to the front page and the very top of the newscast?” he implored.
Moore insisted we needed to use the lockdown to “reinvent” society by not letting this crisis go to waste. He callously suggested human life was less important than what’s best for the planet, a thought echoed by CBS last night: “We need to think what's best for the planet, not what's going to be best for business,” Moore gushed.
He also showered MSNBC with praise for its commitment to becoming environmental activists in its “journalism:”
"I love it when I see during whatever that month is that MSNBC, the whole logo's all green and I know the commitment on the part of your company to this issue because it's not a partisan issue," he gushed.
Moore then explained his theory that “Mother Nature” was punishing us with this lockdown because of what “we had been doing to this planet":
And we've got to come out of this pandemic on the other end of this and we've got to say, you know, one of the reasons we were just in this pandemic was because nature was reacting to something that we had been doing to this planet. This virus didn't just come out of nowhere. It happened because of the way that we've been treating other species and how it made its way from these species to us. We need to really examine this. Frankly I think mother nature has put us in its time out room right now, literally, not just figuratively. So we may have some time to think about how we're treating this planet. But we've got to change. We have got to change and we need a revitalized new environmental movement amongst people who have not been involved in the environmental movement before but who just want this planet to survive and leave their grandchildren with something better.
Moore wasn’t the only one blaming man-made climate change on coronavirus. CNN’s Bill Weir this week also claimed too much deforestation was to blame.
Read a partial transcript, below:
MSNBC’s The 11th Hour
4/22/20
BRIAN WILLIAMS: Michael Moore, as a political and journalism issue, when does climate change come roaring back to the front page and the very top of the newscast?
MICHAEL MOORE: That's a good question. I do think that a lot of people who now, especially the people who are sitting at home, have had time to think about a lot of things, whether it's our broken health care system or any of the other things I think we want to address. And I'm one of those people that do not want to go back to quote ‘normal.’ I do not want the old normal. I want us to reinvent some things here. And one of those things has to be how we're dealing with our environmental emergency. The road we've been going down, Brian, let's just admit it, it's been 50 days -- 50 years today since the first Earth day. Is the Earth better off after these 50 years? No. We're worse off. We are so close now. The amount of carbon that's in the atmosphere, all the other things we were warned about where if we go past a certain limit we're going to be in serious trouble. Well, we're already past those limits. We're in serious trouble. And we need -- we almost need a new environmental movement. That's why I've been so inspired by Greta and a lot of the young people in this last year because the baby boomers and other generation that have handed this Earth to the younger generation, the younger generation knows they've been handed a choking planet and they're going to have to figure this out. But we can't just let them like here, go figure it out. We've got to help them do this. And we've got to get -- we've got to wrestle this away from so much of corporate America now and Wall Street, Goldman Sachs. They're all tied in now to the green energy movement. They all profess to be green. And while they're doing sometimes some good things there's too much profit motive involved in this right now and we need to think what's best for the planet, not what's going to be best for business. And that's a bitter pill for some people to swallow. I know we want to feel good about all the things we all do environmentally.
I love it when I see during whatever that month is that MSNBC, the whole logo's all green and I know the commitment on the part of your company to this issue because it's not a partisan issue. And we've got to come out of this pandemic on the other end of this and we've got to say, you know, one of the reasons we were just in this pandemic was because nature was reacting to something that we had been doing to this planet. This virus didn't just come out of nowhere. It happened because of the way that we've been treating other species and how it made its way from these species to us. We need to really examine this. Frankly I think mother nature has put us in its time out room right now, literally, not just figuratively. So we may have some time to think about how we're treating this planet. But we've got to change. We have got to change and we need a revitalized new environmental movement amongst people who have not been involved in the environmental movement before but who just want this planet to survive and leave their grandchildren with something better.
