Posted on 09/07/2009 5:47:55 AM PDT by PurpleMountains
I don't usually watch 60 Minutes, having learned 20 years ago how left-wing the program is and how much of it is devoted to liberal propaganda. Last night though, after seeing a promo, I decided to watch the episode on forest fires to see if it would be a propaganda piece for Cap & Trade (Climate Change or man-made global warming).I was right. My suspicions were justified. With no evidence whatsoever, except that forest fires in the west have increased substantially, the program blamed the fires on global warming. They did mention in passing the fire problems caused by past fire-fighting procedures of the National Forest Service, but they completely ignored the controversy over the past several years regarding the National Environmental Policy Act and its role in creating these huge forest fires.
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I used to watch 60 Minutes, but now it is only so much more liberal/progressive Barf.
Great drinking game:
Pick any recent movie or news program and drink whenever the liberal propaganda is mentioned.
Watched a recent movie with Russel Crowe and Ben Affleck and my girlfriend was ‘worshipping the porccelain god’ by the end of the movie.
Guess they missed the part about the fires being deliberately set.
When everything goes through the same filter, eventually there is formed within that filter some easy pathways, and others blocked out altogether. “60 Minutes” cannot even COMPREHEND that a quite different but more complete view of the world may exist, and from time to time, they are brought up against hard realities, because of their earlier selective blindness.
Their response is to first deny, then ridicule, then with rising anger, they try to move to squelch any dissent. Occasionally, they surrender when the evidence is so overwhelming as to make further support of a given hypothesis look as if they are lying.
And they are lying, of course.
this is still on the air?? Why didn’t CBS lose their Broadcast License after all the shenanigans they have been party to.? Maybe it is time to Mount a Challenge next time their renewal comes up.
The late great Bill Buckley observed that liberals are open to all points of view, then are appalled to learn that there ARE other points of view.
Was it Mark Twain who described a liberal as having his feet firmly planted in midair?
WFB also declared that he would rather be governed by the first two thousand names in the Boston telephone directory than by the two thousand faculty members of Harvard and Yale.
Best regards,
We can’t clear out the dead brush because it is “vital” animal habitat.
Yes, To liberal/progressives animals are vital and humans are not.
But you don't understand. Global warming (and perhaps even Bush) made them do it.
China and India to view episode?
I knew it was going to be a global warming piece because that is about all that Scott Peley reports.
The next segment about the soldiers in Afghanistan was surprising in how fair it was to the troops. But if I was a soldier stuck out in outpost boondocks Afghanistan and that hot CBS reporter with the accent came visiting then it would be hard to think about the enemy.
And slowly dying. But not fast enough for me.
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