What Are They Waiting For?

by: Mike Lux

Wed Dec 19, 2007 at 14:20

I just got an e-mail from LCV, which just launched an incredibly cool campaign to push the media to focus more on climate change. Check out this incredible fact from their research:

We analyzed the transcripts from all the debates and Sunday interviews that these top reporters--Tim Russert, George Stephanopoulos, Wolf Blitzer, Bob Schieffer, and Chris Wallace--have hosted.
Even we were shocked by what we found:
Between the Sunday shows and debates, these five reporters have interviewed the candidates 126 times in 2007. They have asked the candidates 2,275 questions. In that time, the words "global warming" and "climate change" have only been mentioned in 3 questions. Three. All year. Even if you include global warming related questions such as fuel efficiency and oil subsidies, it is only 24. There have nearly been more presidential candidates this year then questions about global warming.

Now that is truly absurd. If Gore and virtually every scientist who has studied this are right, are even half-right, climate change will be the most catastrophic thing that has ever happened to the human race, and we don't have long to change things before we reach the point of no return. And none of these reporters is even asking about the issue? Insanity...

Update: I forgot to include their great video.

Mike Lux :: What Are They Waiting For?

Tags: Chris Wallace, Bob Schieffer, Wolf Blitzer, George Stephanopoulos, Tim Russert, league of conservation voters, Sunday talk shows, global warming, (All Tags)

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Un-f*cking believable! (0.00 / 0)

And yet the ask if the candidates believe in evolution?
They ask Kucinich about UFOs?
They ask Obama what mask he will wear?

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by: bluethunder @ Wed Dec 19, 2007 at 20:40:14 PM UTC

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But Brittney's sister is pregnant! (0.00 / 0)

John McCain won't insure children

by: magster @ Wed Dec 19, 2007 at 20:50:34 PM UTC

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National Enquirer (4.00 / 1)

Goes after Edwatds today on a story that was denied six months ago. I knew there would be a dirty twist at the end. This is it.

Why don't Republican scandals get the play of Democratic ones? Guess which side the monied class backs? Gossip over policy.

And yet, even though I'm so far out even I can associate nearly every Republican President of the last 70 years with some scandal that the media skipped unlike the dogged investigation ad nauseum into Whitewater, Monica, etc.

Eisenhower, of course, had his affair with his female driver in WWII, Kay Summersby. A scandal, incidentally, that was covered up by Marshall and Truman.

Nixon reportedly received large payoffs from Chiang Kai Shek. An aunt of mine who was a reporter in the 30s and 40s told me about that.

Jerry Ford was clean but Betty's personal life was all over the tabloids. Not nice. I guess not one of the in crowd.

George H. W. Bush, besides involvement in Iran Contra, was was pretty clean. The rumors strangly were about Barbara and her alleged affair. Mever made the legitimate press.

George W. Bush was AWOL, lied on jury papers about alcohol. drug use and was totally faithless in his duty to the Constitution, the taxpayer, and the common citizen. That means, of course, that Dan Rather is the one that is in the soup.

Sorry, media. Fidelity to the Constitution is required by the oath of office. Not a religious test. Not fidelity to one's spouse. Not kids without problems. Hint, hint: the Johnson girls married soldiers who served in Vietnam. The Roosevelt kids served in WW II. Not neccessary for the Bush girls to do anything but party.

by: David Kowalski @ Wed Dec 19, 2007 at 21:28:05 PM UTC

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One Problem Is It's Too Big (4.00 / 1)

The Edwards haircut is just about the size of issue that they can handle. Not that they handle it well, mind you. But they can feel comfortable talking about it, because they've all had ridiculously over-priced haircuts themselves--for all the good it did them.

Global warming, however, is at least three or four orders of magnitude too big for their pea-brains (technical term of art there, peas don't actually have brains, but these guys grow in pods, so...).

I've just made a related point in a year-end review, roundup story I'm writing, looking back at our story about the California wildfires and global warming. It's not that global warming caused the wildfires--causation in a system as complex as global climate is always a very complicated thing--but rather, it's that the wildfires give a glimpse of the kind of world that global warming will bring us. It's a way of making the somewhat distant, abstract future world quite close and immediate, so that people can grasp it directly.

People, that is. Not pod-people. Not pea-brain people. But people people.

And once enough of them catch on...

"You know what they say -- those of us who fail history... doomed to repeat it in summer school." -- Buffy The Vampire Slayer, Season 6, Episode 3

by: Paul Rosenberg @ Wed Dec 19, 2007 at 21:38:23 PM UTC

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Oh..... (4.00 / 1)

you mean Barb's 'little people....'

Heh...

I'm not really laughing. Somebody over at dKos suggested that Dodd bring a bazooka to the next filibuster.

I suggested the guillotine as more appropriate. And, frankly, it's use would probably meet with a lot of people's approval if applied to the likes of PumpkinHaid and Tweety.

Metaphorically speaking...of course.

Peace, Health and Prosperity for Everyone.

by: ACitizen @ Wed Dec 19, 2007 at 22:01:37 PM UTC

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