Despite Broad Coverage Of Global Warming Deniers Conference, Right Wing Slams Media For ‘Ignoring’ It
Despite Broad Coverage Of Global Warming Deniers Conference, Right Wing Slams Media For ‘Ignoring’ It
Last night on his CNN Headline News show, Glenn Beck exclaimed that he’d be covering the Heartland Institute’s global warming denier conference “like it was the second coming of Jesus himself.” Beck said his round-the-clock coverage was warranted because the mainstream media would ignore the entire conference:
After all, if this were a traditional gathering of global warming alarmists, the media would be everywhere. But, since it’s full of hundreds of credible, mainstream scientists who happen to disagree with their peers, it’s completely ignored.
Blaming the media for “ignoring” their side is a familiar right-wing trope:
John Fund: All this has led the Western Standard, a Canadian magazine sympathetic to the global warming skeptics, to predict that “the gathering will be completely ignored, even though it’s being held in the news media capital of the world.”
Fox News’ Steve Doocy: But is there another side to this story? Many scientists would say yes, but most media outlets, the mainstream media, only cover Al Gore’s earth has a fever perspective.
Business and Media Institute: Global warming skeptics rarely get any say on the networks…Skepticism is all but shut out of reports through several tactics.
In fact, Heartland’s sham conference has created quite a media stir. The New York Times has published two separate articles on the conference, and the Times’ John Tierney has written about it on his blog.
Other mainstream press outlets that have covered the conference: the Washington Post, the Wall Street Journal, the New York Daily News, the New York Sun, and Reuters.
In fact, getting the media to cover the real science behind climate change is sometimes more of a challenge. As the League of Conservation Voters recently pointed out, the leading Sunday political talk show hosts have dedicated 0.1 percent of their 2,275 questions to global warming.
UPDATE: Despite the above noted press reports, Beck claimed in an e-mail to listeners today that only “one” reporter attended the conference.
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I am denying that this conference exists.
March 4th, 2008 at 12:18 pmAhh yes, nothing screams credibility like a room full of scientists on the Exxon dole.
March 4th, 2008 at 12:19 pmUmmm, isn’t CNN Headline News about as MSM as you can get?
March 4th, 2008 at 12:20 pmIn fact, Heartland’s sham conference has created quite a media stir. The New York Times has published two separate articles on the conference, and the Times’ John Tierney has written about it on his blog.
Other mainstream press outlets that have covered the conference: the Washington Post, the Wall Street Journal, the New York Daily News, the New York Sun, and Reuters UK.
Doesn’t matter. That’s not the story the wingnuts want to tell.
Jeez. It’s almost like you expect facts to matter to them.
March 4th, 2008 at 12:22 pm1. being ignored
2. being the laughingstock of an enlightened public
It’s your choice, deniers. Pick one.
March 4th, 2008 at 12:23 pm“What will it take to wake the Senate upâ€
One of the major shortcomings in last year’s admirable energy bill was its failure to extend vital tax credits to producers of wind, solar and other renewable fuels. This was entirely the doing of the Senate, which caved in to the oil companies and their White House friends.
http://www.priceofoil.org/
the House insisted that the credits be paid for by terminating an equivalent $17 billion in tax breaks over 10 years for oil and gas companies. And right on schedule, Senate Republicans began complaining that increasing industry’s taxes would discourage investment in domestic oil and gas production.
March 4th, 2008 at 12:23 pmYou can’t fix stupid.
March 4th, 2008 at 12:23 pmIt officially is being ignored… as Shayne says…”You can’t fix stupid”….
March 4th, 2008 at 12:26 pmYeah, and conservutards have been right about so many things, like….and, uh….oh, there’s the….uh…..but remember……mmmmm, just can’t seem to think of anything they have been right about…go figure.
Look over there, something shiny!!
Bush/Cheney
March 4th, 2008 at 12:30 pmHague Trials ‘09
“What will it take to wake the Senate upâ€
Comment by Anjuna Laguna — March 4, 2008 @ 12:23 pm
Don’t worry Anjuna. When the Clintons are returned to the White House, their friend Al Gore will be in charge once again.
March 4th, 2008 at 12:31 pmLet me see if I have this straight — these people are jumping up and down and screaming because mainstream media have more important stories than giving coverage to crackpots?
Sorry, just throwing a tantrum doesn’t automatically land you on the front page.
March 4th, 2008 at 12:32 pmFive ’scientists’ were on the corner talking about the Flat Earth and how ridiculous all the other scientists were about insisting the Earth is round.
Global warming deniers have the same scientific weight as the Flat Earthers, but have the right wing in their pocket.
March 4th, 2008 at 12:32 pmBusiness and Media Institute: Global warming skeptics rarely get any say on the networks…Skepticism is all but shut out of reports through several tactics.
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I understand that the Flat Earth Society rarely gets any say on networks, either.
March 4th, 2008 at 12:33 pmI understand that the Flat Earth Society rarely gets any say on networks, either.
Comment by missmolly — March 4, 2008 @ 12:33 pm
I just wish that our schools would “teach the controversy” — the debate on the Theory of Gravity IS NOT OVER!
March 4th, 2008 at 12:35 pmI understand that the Flat Earth Society rarely gets any say on networks, either.
Comment by missmolly — March 4, 2008 @ 12:33 pm
Doesn’t stop Thomas Friedman from hitting the news circuit every six months or so…
March 4th, 2008 at 12:36 pmi really don’t get it…
why not this rush by these “free” marketers to get into the alternative
energy market and try to rip people off THAT way???
why don’t the denial idjits get it?
why don’t they take advantage of this opportunity?
what could it hurt? (well, that rip-off thing…but…)
i really just don’t get it…
March 4th, 2008 at 12:36 pm**zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz**
March 4th, 2008 at 12:36 pmI cannot fathom why anyone would be inbred-juvenile enough to watch Beck. I saw 6 minutes of his antics and was reminded of a petulant society-gossip maven.
Our country is truly lost when Beck’s brand of Springer-ism is perpetuated by what can only be the backwater ignorance of an entire populace (sponsorship by right-wing media conglomerate CNN doesn’t hurt either…). Then again, there were allegedly a large number of brain-dead imbeciles who purposely voted for bush. The insular idiocy of that mindset is far more frightening and threatening to our country than any terrorists…
March 4th, 2008 at 12:39 pmDoes it count if the media covers it and labels it accurately as a Stalinesque “show conference” bought and paid for by Big Energy, by ’scientists’ that are near the bottom of respectability and non-partisanship in their fields (most of which aren’t actually in climatology)?
… as if the media would actually do such a thing. They’re more apt to give the “two-armed reporting” schtick: “One the one hand, scientists say the earth is round; on the other, some scientists disagree and say the earth is flat. The disagreements make for lively discussions, which we’ll be glad to cover; we thrive on ‘controversy’….”
Cheers,
March 4th, 2008 at 12:40 pmI think what the deniers are really pissed about is that their position is not the only story being told. Hence, they feel ignored.
March 4th, 2008 at 12:42 pmBreaking News! The sun is also flat! Our entire world is actually TWO DIMENSIONAL!
March 4th, 2008 at 12:43 pmWe are a comic strip in the cosmic void!
/snark
I just wish that our schools would “teach the controversy†— the debate on the Theory of Gravity IS NOT OVER!
Comment by ralph the wonder llama — March 4, 2008 @ 12:35 pm
LOL This is actually true, the debate on Gravity is NOT Over. Of course Newton was very close – close enough for us common folk moving slowly and Einstein refined it beautifully and very, very accurately. But there is debate on the causes of gravity and the interaction between gravity and the other 3 forces. This debate is sooooo complex as to render 99.99999 percent of the population as incapable of being informed enough to participate in the debate. Naturally, the Global Warming Deniers will jump at the chance to enter this Gravity debate, and solve it, by explaining how god is the cause of gravity and on and on….
March 4th, 2008 at 12:45 pmwhy not this rush by these “free†marketers to get into the alternative
energy market and try to rip people off THAT way???
Comment by katy — March 4, 2008 @ 12:36 pm
I’m sure that’s what the energy companies are doing behind the scenes. But their public face is denial, which buys them extra time without competition.
They’re aided by the right-wing propensity to act on emotion rather than logic. Wingnuts resent that Al Gore got on this ahead of the curve and got an Oscar and a Nobel. So they’re gonna push back as hard as their little feet can carry them against ANYONE who has shown Al Gore any respect.
It’s the way Limpballs has worked forever. Tickle their outrage bone.
March 4th, 2008 at 12:45 pmI caught some of Glenn Beck fawning over a few of these idiots asking them to “talk down to me”. I am really frightened by how proud conservatives are in their stupidity and ignorance.
“Opinions” that are funded are not opinions. It’s time to think of people who whore off what comes out of their mouths as prostitutes.
March 4th, 2008 at 12:49 pmLOL This is actually true, the debate on Gravity is NOT Over. Of course Newton was very close – close enough for us common folk moving slowly and Einstein refined it beautifully and very, very accurately. But there is debate on the causes of gravity and the interaction between gravity and the other 3 forces.
Comment by Nature Rules — March 4, 2008 @ 12:45 pm
Indeed! NASA launched a probe in 2004 to test Einstein’s predictions:
http://www.gravityprobeb.com/
March 4th, 2008 at 12:54 pmThat poster is a perfect example of the “science” of the deniers: if you shout louder than your opponent, you are right and win the debate.
Might makes right. Din means win.
March 4th, 2008 at 12:54 pmI just wish that our schools would “teach the controversy†— the debate on the Theory of Gravity IS NOT OVER!
Comment by ralph the wonder llama — March 4, 2008 @ 12:35 pm
The theory of electricity is just a theory. All rightwingers should avoid using electricity until the “debate” is over. Or try to prove it wrong by sticking a fork in a socket.
As far as the theory of Gravity, all rightwingers should attempt to prove it false, hopefully by jumping off the tallest building.
March 4th, 2008 at 12:56 pmThe world would be much quieter after the initial screams and thuds.
I watched Borat again last night. Anybody wondering who these deniers are should go back and watch the scene at the Pentecostal church, That bunch right there, that’s you’re flat earth group, and I don’t care who you are, they sure look stupid.
March 4th, 2008 at 12:58 pmThe right-wing’s strident Do Nothing NOW! “solution” is just unacceptable to young people.
March 4th, 2008 at 1:01 pmAs far as the theory of Gravity, all rightwingers should attempt to prove it false, hopefully by jumping off the tallest building.
The world would be much quieter after the initial screams and thuds.
Comment by Wayne — March 4, 2008 @ 12:56 pm
This would be quite a good experiment. According to General Relativity, massive objects such as Rush Limbaugh distort the the fabric of their local spacetime continuum far more than smaller objects such as Ann Coulter and Glenn Beck. The only way to test this is to drop all three from a tall building and measure the amount of reality displaced.
March 4th, 2008 at 1:05 pmWhat the heck is Beck talking about, CNN is part of the MSM.
March 4th, 2008 at 1:07 pmmassive objects such as Rush Limbaugh distort the the fabric of their local spacetime continuum far more than smaller objects such as Ann Coulter and Glenn Beck. The only way to test this is to drop all three from a tall building and measure the amount of reality displaced.
Comment by toasterhead — March 4, 2008 @ 1:05 pm
I predict that such an experiment would show no effect on the amount of reality displaced. According to my own theory, the three items mentioned operate on an entirely different dimension than reality. There is no intersection at all between the two planes of existence.
March 4th, 2008 at 1:10 pmThe only way to test this is to drop all three from a tall building and measure the amount of reality displaced.
Comment by toasterhead — March 4, 2008 @ 1:05 pm
I am curious if the black holes they call brains of all 3 would begin rotating each other before the black holes attempt to swallow each other into one singularity.
March 4th, 2008 at 1:10 pmThe right-wing’s strident Do Nothing NOW! “solution†is just unacceptable to young people.
Thank god. They don’t want problems to be fixed they have the American citizen exactly where they want them – drowning in debt to corporations, overconsumed, going bankrupt, and defaulting on their mortgage.
March 4th, 2008 at 1:13 pmScientists across the globe are correct when they say the preponderance of evidence shows a clear trend toward catastrophic global warming.
March 4th, 2008 at 1:15 pmBut the president of an eastern european nation whose economy depends on polluting scoffs. Thanks for that non-important quote gigi.
Czech president again warns of panic over global warming
Ooooh the Czech president
Seriously it’s over for you morons. Yeah, McCain has a chance at the Presidency but Republicans are going to get absolutely manhandles in the congressional and local elections. The days when you could be so proud of being so fcuking stupid are over.
March 4th, 2008 at 1:15 pmfrom wiki
Czech Republic
The principal industries are heavy and general machine-building, iron and steel production, metalworking, chemical production, electronics, transportation equipment, textiles, glass, brewing, china, ceramics, and pharmaceuticals.
Hey, brewing!
March 4th, 2008 at 1:17 pmMeanwhile, the tribal chieftain of a tiny island in the Pacific that is sinking due to rising sea levels says
“glub, glub”
March 4th, 2008 at 1:18 pmSo gone_looney, if Jesus Christ is your personal savior, why don’t you ask him to get you a brain.
March 4th, 2008 at 1:19 pmComment by RUCerious
Ever been to Prague? How pornography is not on that list is beyond me.
March 4th, 2008 at 1:20 pmAll three networks’ evening news broadcasts utterly ignored a gathering of hundreds of people – scientists, economists, other experts and interested lay people – aimed at dispelling the media myth that there is “consensus†on climate change’s causes, potential effects, and suggested solutions.
Comment by good_golly — March 4, 2008 @ 1:14 pm
Ah hahahahahaha. They ignored “hundreds” of you dimwits. They ignore thousands of protester against congress, the administration the war on a daily basis. People who don’t “pretend” to be experts but want change get ignored by the media routinely.
But let a bunch of dipshits enabled by lying propagandists get ignored and the whining just doesn’t end. Here’s a clue, even the whores at the MSM get embarrassed sometimes and giving credibility to this bunch of wingnuts must be the tipping point.
If Jesus can’t help you howdy_doody, perhaps the Wizard of Oz could.
March 4th, 2008 at 1:24 pmAll three networks’ evening news broadcasts utterly ignored a gathering of
Coffins draped with American flags?
March 4th, 2008 at 1:25 pmTwo major national newspapers mentioned the Heartland Institute’s conference, but relegated the story to deep within the papers and downplayed the gathering’s credibility and significance.
Comment by good_golly — March 4, 2008 @ 1:14 pm
Good! That’s the kind of reporting this event deserves.
March 4th, 2008 at 1:26 pmShe didn’t mention Heartland’s disclaimer that “no contributions from any energy corporations are being used to support this conference.â€
http://www.businessandmedia.org/ articles/ 2008/ 20080304110949.aspx
Comment by good_golly
And the idiot troll believes it. Wow, too stupid for words.
March 4th, 2008 at 1:28 pmAh hahahahahaha. They ignored “hundreds†of you dimwits. They ignore thousands of protester against congress, the administration the war on a daily basis. People who don’t “pretend†to be experts but want change get ignored by the media routinely.
Comment by Shayne — March 4, 2008 @ 1:24 pm
Well said, Shayne.
March 4th, 2008 at 1:28 pmEver been to Prague? How pornography is not on that list is beyond me.
Comment by lefty — March 4, 2008 @ 1:20 pm
Closest I ever got was the German/Czech border in August 1968. Remember that?
March 4th, 2008 at 1:31 pmThe 3rd Armored Division was deployed at Grafenwoehr when the Russkies invaded…
“Czech president again warns of panic over global warming…”
Lets see, present Czech ocean front property I believe equals zero…
March 4th, 2008 at 1:39 pmWith a sea level rise they could attract rich corporate developers from other less fortunate seaside areas, Florida, lets say…
I am curious if the black holes they call brains of all 3 would begin rotating each other before the black holes attempt to swallow each other into one singularity.
Comment by Wayne — March 4, 2008 @ 1:10 pm
Hmmm… black holes, singularities – this experiment is starting to sound kind of dangerous.
We should probably launch the three of them into low Earth orbit, just to be sure.
March 4th, 2008 at 1:44 pmAw shucks ralph, now I’m blushing.
March 4th, 2008 at 1:45 pmWe should probably launch the three of them into low Earth orbit, just to be sure.
Comment by toasterhead — March 4, 2008 @ 1:44 pm
You mean in case we need to launch a missile so none of their toxic remains hit the Earth?
March 4th, 2008 at 1:46 pmI’m just wondering. Steve Doocy said the “mainstream media” will only cover Al Gore’s version of global warming. I guess Steverino believes his network must not be MSM; therefore, what is his network? If Fox is not MSM they must be some sort of alternative. So,what are you, Steve? I mean, other than a freakin’ moron!
March 4th, 2008 at 1:47 pmOn the subject of cooling: Everything should feel cold when they pull their heads out of their butts.
March 4th, 2008 at 1:48 pmIt’s time to think of people who whore off what comes out of their mouths as prostitutes.
Comment by lefty — March 4, 2008 @ 12:49 pm
bobby kennedy jr. calls them “biostitutes”.
March 4th, 2008 at 1:49 pmThe Righty Crybabies usually get their way.
Because they are giant crybabies.
And cheaters.
And liars.
With a ton of oil and gun money behind them.
March 4th, 2008 at 1:49 pmmassive objects such as Rush Limbaugh distort the the fabric of their local spacetime continuum far more than smaller objects such as Ann Coulter and Glenn Beck. The only way to test this is to drop all three from a tall building and measure the amount of reality displaced.
Comment by toasterhead — March 4, 2008 @ 1:05 pm
I predict that such an experiment would show no effect on the amount of reality displaced. According to my own theory, the three items mentioned operate on an entirely different dimension than reality. There is no intersection at all between the two planes of existence.
Comment by ralph the wonder llama — March 4, 2008 @ 1:10 pm
geniuses…
March 4th, 2008 at 1:51 pmYou mean in case we need to launch a missile so none of their toxic remains hit the Earth?
Comment by Shayne — March 4, 2008 @ 1:46 pm
Exactly. It’s the least we can do to protect the public.
March 4th, 2008 at 1:52 pmnot to leave anyone else out…
March 4th, 2008 at 1:53 pmExactly. It’s the least we can do to protect the public.
Comment by toasterhead — March 4, 2008 @ 1:52 pm
Wouldn’t we need a giant space vacuum to suck up all the pieces to prevent re-entry?
Oh, I forgot, space IS a vacuum!
March 4th, 2008 at 1:54 pm#23 lefty:
I caught some of Glenn Beck fawning over a few of these idiots asking them to “talk down to meâ€.
Despite the fact that these paid hacks are eedjits, it still remains true that this is the only practical way to address Mr. Beck…..
Cheers,
March 4th, 2008 at 1:58 pm“UNDER A GREEN SKY” by Peter Ward.
Read it and then take some action to conserve, recycle, spread the word andchange your lifestyle.
OR pretend like nothings wrong.
Your choice is to be wisen up and be smart or continue basing everything on yourself and be stupid.
March 4th, 2008 at 1:58 pm#38 Good_golly:
The Washington Post’s Juliet Eilperin noted in a story published on page A16 that the Heartland Institute is “funded by energy and health-care corporations.†She didn’t mention Heartland’s disclaimer that “no contributions from any energy corporations are being used to support this conference.â€
Look up “fungible”. “Fun-gi-ble”. It’s in your dictionary.
Cheers,
March 4th, 2008 at 2:02 pmOh, I forgot, space IS a vacuum!
Comment by RUCerious — March 4, 2008 @ 1:54 pm
Not as much as you’d think – there’s quite a lot of dark matter out there…
March 4th, 2008 at 2:17 pmOh, I forgot, space IS a vacuum!
Comment by RUCerious — March 4, 2008 @ 1:54 pm
Not as much as you’d think – there’s quite a lot of dark matter out there…
Comment by toasterhead — March 4, 2008 @ 2:17 pm
As opposed to a troll-soiled thread at TP, which has a lot of dork matter in it…
March 4th, 2008 at 2:19 pmJebus H. Keerist. Those frikkin’ whiners ought to just shut their stoopid yaps before their one single functioning brain cell falls out.
*eyeroll*
March 4th, 2008 at 2:23 pmI repeat, take the global warming challenge. Win $150,000
If your so sure that global waming is man made, go ahead win $150,000.
http://www.globalwarmingchallenge.com
March 4th, 2008 at 2:46 pmI repeat, take the global warming challenge. Win $150,000
If your so sure that global waming is man made, go ahead win $150,000.
http://www.globalwarmingchallenge.com
Comment by Beethoven Rules — March 4, 2008 @ 2:46 pm
The IPCC already won a Nobel Prize. They really don’t have to prove anything to some skeptic with a web site.
March 4th, 2008 at 2:50 pmdeserves repeating…
You will notice that the cult of conservatism gets in such a tizzy when the “media†does not report the out of touch with reality horseshit being fed the the right by their handlers.
So, if the media does not cover their reality-free EXXON paid for propaganda fest then their cult leaders tell them they are being persecuted. They accept this because they are conditioned to eat any turd their handlers throw them. Moonies function like this.
If you will watch conservatives this happens all the time. They think if you don’t give equal time to their lies and blatant propaganda you are persecuting them. Moonies think like this.
Conservatism is a national security problem. It can only thrive if they have Moon’s WT and Rush to tell them what and how to think – all the trolls here know that is the truth.
Cult members cannot see what they are doing, how they are controlled, neither can conservatives. They have come to believe treason is a good thing and shatting on the constitution is their duty.
They are really very frightend people. Trained like seals to fear those Boogymen, Commies, environmentalists, people who think the constitution should be followed, and people who expose their fraudulant movement – these things frighten conservatives that is why they grasp for any lie Rush tells them – it soothes their conditioned minds. Just like a cult.
March 4th, 2008 at 2:54 pmBeck is a sensationalist entertainer, and a very poor entertainer at that. His lies are blatant and many; he really does not care about the truth– only in getting his radical right-wing, small audience angry. As with most of the right-wing TV ‘personalities’, he promotes bigotry & hate.
March 4th, 2008 at 4:56 pmAn extremely informative, in-depth account of four of the major global warming “confusionists” is available free-online.
I highly recommend this video. It very clearly explains a situation that is causing much harm to the American public’s understanding of a very dangerous situation.
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The American Denial of Global Warming, 12/12/07, free on-line, 58 min.
March 4th, 2008 at 5:56 pmhttp://www.uctv.tv/search-details.asp?showID=13459
I can only imagine if they actually got the attention that they claim they want. I think it’s a great idea: let’s get 60 Minutes, or another reliable TV news magazine, or Time Magazine (do you think Time could be trusted to tell the truth?…well, maybe not Time) or other reporting agency, to dig into who the sponsors are; let’s get thier deniers to go one-on-one with renowned scientists such as Hansen from NASA. How are we going to do this? We need to give them as much attention as they would seem to want, but let’s make sure that the attention digs as far down as possible into who’s behind this meeting. Obviously it’s oil, coal, auto-makers and the like. It shouldn’t be too difficult for a motivated journalist to get to the bottom.
March 4th, 2008 at 7:03 pmLet’s make them sorry that they ever sought attention. I’d love for someone to shut that slimeball Beck up.
My mother is in the process of making the Global Climate change known. She has changed direction over this past year and that change is evident to all atmosheric temperature recording agencies. Over the next few years it will become completely evident to all the world to see.
Mr Nature.
March 4th, 2008 at 7:23 pm