CNN Anchor Bill Weir to Fox Nation: ‘You Willfully Ignorant F*cksticks’

[babylonsister]

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CNN Anchor Bill Weir to Fox Nation: ‘You Willfully Ignorant F*cksticks’
by Eddie Scarry | 11:15 am, July 31st, 2014 1671


It’s safe to say CNN anchor Bill Weir is not a fan of climate change deniers.

On Thursday, the Twitter account for Fox Nation, a blog run by Fox News, tweeted a link to a post headlined, “Climate Doesn’t Cooperate With Al Gore’s Group’s Visit to Denver EPA Hearings.”

The story, aggregated from the Washington Times, relates to a Denver visit by former Vice President Al Gore‘s “Climate Reality Project” for EPA hearings on power plant emissions.

The group showed up to hand out ice cream even though it was 58 degrees.

Weir retweeted the link, with his own comment: “Weather is not climate, you willfully ignorant fucksticks.”

We’ve requested comment from CNN.

Tweet below:

Bill Weir ✔ @BillWeirCNN
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Weather is not climate, you willfully ignorant fucksticks. MT @foxnation: Climate Doesn’t Cooperate With Al Gore http://bit.ly/1qMaMKg
10:25 PM - 30 Jul 2014

[Image via Twitter]

[Erich Bloodaxe BSN]

1. ...

[napkinz]

2. :)

[sheshe2]

8. Daaummm!

I love that one napkinz!

[awoke_in_2003]

24. my new favorite Obama pic. nt

[IrishAyes]

65. It goes nicely with the one where he's raising a glass to toast someone

but the look in his eyes says something more like 'up yours' or 'so sue me!' or even 'kiss my black ass if you don't like what I'm doing.' That's one thing about the weird thread wondering if President Obama has a spine; I can hardly imagine anyone not seeing how he's whipping some rear ends right now. Even if I have to do the public 'hard language' interpretation on his behalf for some people that don't know what the hell they're seeing.

[awoke_in_2003]

67. I don't agree 100% with the president...

but to claim he doesn't have a spine is laughable. He calls these fools out regularly. I don't think we have ever had a president who has had to put up with so much shit from the opposition.

[freshwest]

34. "We don't have time for a meeting of the Flat Earth Society." ~ President Barack Obama, 6/25/13

Freeing the Prisoners of the Mercator Projection

“Geography, sir, is ruinous in its effects on the lower classes. Reading, writing, and arithmetic are comparatively safe, but geography invariably leads to revolution.” (1879 testimony before a Select Committee of the House of Commons, London, England, regarding expenditures of the London School Board)

http://geographer-at-large.blogspot.com/2011/06/freeing-prisoners-of-mercator.html

This is what Faux is really upset about! Obama is turning the world upside down.

Bartlett was not as advanced as President Obama. Must not have been coached by Alinsky and Ayers and stuff...



Okay, that's all I got.

[flamingdem]

46. lol potus gives good when he gets going

[IrishAyes]

66. It's more than enough!

You're right about turning the entire GOP worldview upside down, too. 'bout time they found out some things.

They must really hate hearing him say that other countries have the right to determine their own fate, too - that's really what democracy's about, not us imposing our own will on everyone else. But dear lord in heaven, to admit in public that we don't and can't control every square inch of the planet.... heresy!

[liberaltrucker]

39. Shared to FB, thanks!

[malaise]

52. Sweet

[sharp_stick]

3. Now if only CNN would just retweet it

in response to the request for comment.

[Bobbie Jo]

13. Perfect response. nt

[SummerSnow]

4. Go Bill go!!

[Wait Wut]

5. !

That will be my phrase of the day.

[7962]

31. I love that screen name.

[Wait Wut]

58. Thank you! n/t

[lpbk2713]

6. Dan Aykroyd revisited.

BWAHAHAHA

[joeybee12]

7. Willfullly ignorant is right...they're not just ignorant, they make a determined

effort to be that way...oh, and they are fucksticks.

[Fortinbras Armstrong]

48. A brief note on willful ignorance

Thomas Aquinas established the moral principle someone deliberately keeping him- or herself willfully ignorant is as morally culpable as if he or she was acting with full knowledge, and this is also well established in law. If you want the religious argument, see Aquinas' Summa Theologica I-II, Question 6, articles 3 and 8. If you want the legal arguments, Rebecca Roiphe's "The Ethics of Willful Ignorance" is good.

[IrishAyes]

68. We aren't allowed to look the other way, are we?

Here in the great American bible belt I'm constantly advised to keep my long damnYankee nose out of the world's business and quit wasting time on things over which I have no control. Which to the locals means anything outside a 50 mile radius of town. They're willfully ignorant about most of what's going on in the world, and I've met so many who are proud they've never been so much as a hundred miles from home. That imbues them with an extra sense of ownership and territory they think they do control, however. And many can tell you the geneologies and crimes and misdemeanors of the various bloodlines HERE going back centuries.

One of the saddest things I remember hearing anyone say here was a mother literally bragging how her daughter had travelled to big bad Chicago for her college freshman year and came running home in weeks because the big city scared her too much. That was proof positive the kid had good sense and was a true scion of her wealthy bank-owning family. They'd set her up in her own lakefront condo, etc. but it just wasn't 'home'. She saw for herself how evil and dangerous the outside world is and came running home to mommy and daddy like a good girl. Made the whole family SO proud!

[sheshe2]

9. :) Great Quote!

[Jack Rabbit]

10. Perhaps Mr. Wier should have chosen a more appropriate word or term . . .

. . . like willfully ignorant Koch whores.

Please feel free to post your own suggestions. Please be creative.

[Rebl]

32. You got it just right

Koch whores is perfect.

[DiverDave]

11. New sig line

willfully ignorant fucksticks LOL priceless...

[Cha]

29. Thanks DD.. it's classic and should be passed on in perpetuity!

[Uncle Joe]

12. Kicked and recommended, they're most assuredly willfully ignorant.

Thanks for the thread, babylonsister.

[redqueen]

14. Outstanding.

K&R

[ErikJ]

15. Hardly ignorant, more like willful Big Oil/ ReichWing fascist propaganda nt

[samsingh]

16. i like Bill Weir

[amandabeech]

40. So do I.

I wish he was on a lot more and Wolf Blitzer was on a lot less.

[lunasun]

53. Liked Bill Weir since his local WGN days before he went national

Glad he is still telling it like
Like it is

[Enthusiast]

17. That's great!

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[bvar22]

18. "willfully ignorant fucksticks" ?

Bill Weir was being much too kind.

[DrBulldog]

19. Now I know what WIFs stands for ...

The GOP is just a bunch of WIFs ...

[chrisa]

20. The modern equivalent of "the world is flat" people.

They're proud to be idiots. They loudly and obnoxiously show others how stupid they are. When they aren't acting stupid, they're playing the part of the fearful/useful idiot.

[tanyev]

21. Good for him. Didn't he used to be on ABC?

[Rebl]

33. He was on

weekend GMA, then moved to Nightline I believe.

[MissDeeds]

22. Dude!!!

K&R!!!!

[NightWatcher]

23. (holds lighter in the air)

[badtoworse]

25. What a classy guy!

[WhollyHeretic]

36. Let me guess, you're a climate denier? It would certainly go with the rest of your opinions

I'm not quite sure you're on the right site

[badtoworse]

37. It was a commentary on his language.

As far as the climate goes, I haven't decided yet. To me, the science of it has become tainted with politics and I have doubt's about how objective the scientists really are.

[WhollyHeretic]

38. Oh, a climate skeptic. Shocking!

You've really taken a wrong turn on the intertubes.

[mdbl]

60. ROFLMAO "The science has become tainted with politics"

Yah, by the one percent of scientists bought off by big oil and industry pacs. Where has he been living? Under a bridge?

[hatrack]

41. ZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZ

Oh, gosh, where am I? Glenn! Glenn! Help me!!

[snooper2]

51. It's okay, we don't need you to decide because smart folks are already on the job---

[BillZBubb]

55. Ouch!

[TDale313]

54. Oh, FFS!

[maddiemom]

63. In other words, Whollyheritic {sic) nailed you perfectly.

[Spitfire of ATJ]

26. The Right Wing has tried to claim the choice is between science and faith....

So who are you going to believe?



or

[blm]

27. FOX - Broadcast partner of Moonie News. The BS always starts in Moonie News then spreads

The Idiocracy of the GOP voter base have been conditioned over the last 3 decades to Swallow the propaganda cooked up and then to spread it unquestioningly.

Swallow then Spam. It's the Republican Way.

[Pisces]

28. Wow, he was being generous.

[supercats]

30. Bill Weir Should Be Praised For Telling The Truth....

And how he told it!!!

[LiberalElite]

35. "F*cksticks"

is that a synonym for "F*ckheads"?

[littlemissmartypants]

42. Kicking. Thank you, babylonsister!

We needed a new vernacular to verbally berate teh pooblickanz. F*ckstick will work for a while.
Bill Weir, I'm in love. I've been a fan of his for a couple of years.
Thanks again for your post.

Love, Peace and Shelter. Lmsp

[IkeRepublican]

43. I'M OUTRAGED!

Outraged I tell you. Where is the outrage?

[freshwest]

47. Lou needs a daddy, so does McCain:

Even the Shrub needs friends, too:

[davidpdx]

44. Then he apologized for it

He shouldn't have done that. He was right on with the tweet.

[mdbl]

61. He only apologized for the language

Not the reason for it.

[davidpdx]

69. Ok, fair enough

[blackspade]

45. And that should be the response of everyone dealing w/ the GOP.

‘You Willfully Ignorant F*cksticks’ Classic.

[mountain grammy]

49. Willfully ignorant fucksticks.. perfect!

[raouldukelives]

50. Paid to be ignorant.

They are just relaying the demands of every investor in Wall St.
"I know this will only help the corporations continue to destroy the environment, wildlife, regulations, rig elections and exploit the most vulnerable people of this world for our mutual benefit but the money is just too nice not to assist them. Count me in!"

[maddiemom]

64. USA! USA! Embarassing to have become the most backward thinking (or willfully ignorant)

"advanced" nation during my adult lifetime. I grew up during the "space race." It's a strange coalition: the Wall Street investors you mention, and the right wing "Christians" and science deniers. Of course, this isn't an official "coalition," just something Wall Street can sit back and enjoy. The "willfully ignorant" will do their job for them at a grassroots level. Meanwhile the one percent can hole up anywhere in the world, unlike the rest of us. Do they care about their own grandkids? I think it's more likely that they feel assured, with their superior investment knowledge, that their vast amounts of money will be secure before everything falls apart. This will take care of their own generations to come.

[L0oniX]

56. K & R

[JEFF9K]

57. I'm not familiar with the term "f*ckstick," but I can't imagine a better word to ...

... describe Republicans.

[Billy Budd]

59. willfully ignorant

coitus batons ...perhaps

[mdbl]

62. naww

that sounds too much like vaginal probes, it will just get them all excited.