Bernie Sanders Hammers Corporate Media For Ignoring Climate Change

[GoLeft TV]

Bernie Sanders is the only candidate remaining in the race that wants to talk about issues – and he’s making sure that the corporate-controlled media knows that he won’t be dragged into the mud-slinging contest that they’re hoping to create. Ring of Fire’s Farron Cousins discusses this.

[highprincipleswork]

1. All this political caterwauling will come to very little if we continue to allow the planet to burn

[Triana]

2. Never hear any other politician addressing it.

Hillary promotes fracking everywhere regardless.

Pfft.

[SunSeeker]

4. That is false. Hillary raises climate change issues constantly and has a plan to deal with it.

And she has never "promoted fracking everywhere."

She addresses the issues at every campaign stop and on her website:
www.HillaryClinton.com

[LiberalLovinLug]

6. How Hillary Clinton's State Department Sold Fracking to the World

A little light reading for you:

http://www.motherjones.com/environment/2014/09/hillary-clinton-fracking-shale-state-department-chevron

Clinton urged Bulgarian officials to give fracking another chance. According to Borissov, she agreed to help fly in the "best specialists on these new technologies to present the benefits to the Bulgarian people." But resistance only grew. The following month in neighboring Romania, thousands of people gathered to protest another Chevron fracking project, and Romania's parliament began weighing its own shale gas moratorium. Again Clinton intervened, dispatching her special envoy for energy in Eurasia, Richard Morningstar, to push back against the fracking bans. The State Depart­ment's lobbying effort culminated in late May 2012, when Morningstar held a series of meetings on fracking with top Bulgarian and Romanian officials. He also touted the technology in an interview on Bulgarian national radio, saying it could lead to a fivefold drop in the price of natural gas. A few weeks later, Romania's parliament voted down its proposed fracking ban and Bulgaria's eased its moratorium.

[SunSeeker]

10. That is not "everywhere."

As the article you cite said, Clinton’s support of fracking was "part of a broader push to fight climate change, boost global energy supply, and undercut the power of adversaries such as Russia that use their energy resources as a cudgel."

[robbob]

7. As SoS she promoted fracking around the world

Now that she is running for president she has a more nuanced approach:

http://www.politifact.com/truth-o-meter/statements/2016/apr/13/bernie-s/does-hillary-clinton-support-fracking/

[SunSeeker]

9. As your link states:

Here’s how Clinton detailed her position during the March 6 debate in Flint, Michigan:

"I don’t support it when any locality or any state is against it, No. 1. I don’t support it when the release of methane or contamination of water is present. I don’t support it — No. 3 — unless we can require that anybody who fracks has to tell us exactly what chemicals they are using.

So by the time we get through all of my conditions, I do not think there will be many places in America where fracking will continue to take place. And I think that’s the best approach, because right now, there are places where fracking is going on that are not sufficiently regulated."

[robbob]

11. Exactly what I wrote!

She was for it before she was (sort of) against it. I still like Bernies response, something along the lines of "my position isn't as complicated: no, I do not support fracking."

And it doesn't change the fact that, as my previous post states, as SoS she worked hard to promote fracking around the world.

[SunSeeker]

12. That is not what you wrote.

Sanders is fond of his simplistic positions, but the world is not that simple.

[Enthusiast]

3. Kicked and recommended to the Max!

[SmittynMo]

5. They should be slammed

The 1% fed corrupt media don't give a shit about climate change. That doesn't make money. I tell you one thing. This damn election has taught me one thing. DO NOT trust corporate media. It's the news THEY want you to hear. I'm done with them.

[Auggie]

8. "He's the only one talking about the issues." DAMN STRAIGHT ...

and it's why I've supported him from the beginning, sent him money, and gave him my primary vote.