CNN rewards Beck's Holocaust smear with a prime time special

[Adenoid_Hynkel]

CNN's Glenn Beck to host hour-long global warming smear-fest
Summary: A CNN press release declared that Glenn Beck's upcoming "special report" will "deflate what Beck perceives as the media hype surrounding global warming" and "question[] the accuracy of Al Gore's claims in the Oscar-winning documentary An Inconvenient Truth." Beck has repeatedly advanced falsehoods related to global climate change, cited debunked scientists to support his doubts that "we're causing" global warming, and regularly attacked Gore.

During the May 2 edition of his CNN Headline News show, Glenn Beck will air an hour-long "special report" titled "Exposed: Climate of Fear" that, according to an April 30 CNN press release, will "deflate what Beck perceives as the media hype surrounding global warming" and "question[] the accuracy of Al Gore's claims in the Oscar-winning documentary An Inconvenient Truth of 20-foot sea level rises and the disastrous effects of increased carbon dioxide levels." As Media Matters for America has noted, Beck has repeatedly advanced falsehoods related to global climate change, cited debunked scientists to support his doubts that "we're causing" global warming and developed a pattern of attacking Gore.

Most recently, on the April 30 edition of nationally syndicated radio show, Beck falsely claimed that "even the U.N. says" Gore is wrong in suggesting sea levels could rise by 20 feet. He went on to liken Gore's climate change awareness campaign to the tactics Hitler used in "rounding up the Jews and exterminating them."

Climate change is a frequent topic on Beck's CNN Headline News show, but a Media Matters search* has found that since the show's inception, Beck has apparently hosted guests who appear to accept the consensus among the scientific community relating to global warming on just two occasions -- compared with at least 17 appearances by guests who have challenged to various degrees the scientific consensus on global warming.
http://mediamatters.org/items/200705020001?f=h_top

[Beaverhausen]

1. That is so weird. CNN also airs global warming specials in which they support the idea

that warming is happening. Anderson Cooper usually hosts them.

[Cha]

2. Hope you fucking lose

viewers over this asshole glen beck's bogus "special".

This is our Planet you're messin' with, chickenoodlenews.

[LiberalVoice]

3. What year do you think the news went from being about fact...

to becoming about opinion? Maybe its because i'm only 24. Young and naive you know? But god damn I cant watch MSM anymore. It's like watching E! or MTV for me.

[Lurking Dem]

4. When cable went to a 24 hour news cycle

and they realized they a) had a lot of hours to "fill" and b) found they needed to "entertain" viewers to retain them for ad revenue.

I'm an old fart. I miss David Brinkley and Chet Huntley.

[blm]

5. When TIME/Warner bought CNN and AOL bought TIME/Warner. House of Saud and

House of Bush now control CNN while their allies GE(NBCs) and FOX control most other broadcast outlets.

The others just follow along for the most part.

[iamjoy]

6. His Hitler Analogy Is Particularly Galling

I wonder how much press this is getting in the Jewish community.

Truly vile. Even if you don't agree with human caused global climate change, you don't need to resort to such low and insensitive smears

[valerief]

7. Does ANYONE watch this turd? I mean, really! At least, O'Reilly's

histrionics are so over-the-top he's entertaining. But this flushwaste? I can't imagine anyone watching him.

[blm]

9. HCNN is doing a HEAVY ad campaign for this Beck special - it's all over radio.

House of Saud NEEDS an America completely dependent on their oil reserves.

[zbdent]

8. Can we afford for the Republicans to be wrong?

That's what I have to say ... yes, the Earth will survive whatever we do to it ... but would Humans survive what we do to the Earth?