Fox News: Facts Don’t Matter on Global Warming – It’s What Resonates with Voters
(h/t ThinkProgress ) Facts? We don’t need no stinkin’ facts. We’re Fox News . On Fox & Friends Sunday, anchor Clayton Morris admitted that Fox News factcheckers have confirmed that man-made global warming is “certainly” real, but argued that it “doesn’t matter” because climate denial is popular among Fox News-watching conservatives. Morris contrasted Jon Huntsman’s defense of the National Academy of Sciences with Rick Perry’s claims that scientists have “manipulated data” to concoct manmade global warming: MORRIS: If you dive into the weeds a little bit on this global warming thing, you see that it seems that facts are certainly on Huntsman’s side on all of this and fact checkers have come out, we’re actually having our own brain room look look at this right now that any of Perry’s comments don’t seem to hold a lot of water . It doesn’t matter . What’s resonating right now in South Carolina is helping Governor Perry tremendously and he fired back at Huntsman on global warming and gaining traction, facts or not. Hmmm….that’s a pretty amazing admission, though sadly one that will likely pass by the notice of the Fox News viewers. Because they don’t really want to face reality, or operate in truth, they merely disregard it. That’s it. Leave it to the whiny liberals to take care of it, while Fox News hosts disparage and mock them. Once again, it’s up to the reality-based community to save the world.
Fox News: Facts Don’t Matter on Global Warming – It’s What Resonates with Voters
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