Posted on 07/09/2021 8:49:37 AM PDT by rktman
Pinch-hitting for Chuck Todd on Tuesday's MTP Daily, MSNBC's Garrett Haake picked up the climate-panic card, underlining a New York Times op-ed hysterically titled "Democrats Have a Year to Save the Planet." We're missing "an opportunity for the United States to finally take grand action to curb the worst effects of a climate barreling toward catastrophe."
Haake's guest was Leah Stokes, a professor who pointed out she was quoted by Manjoo in his panic piece. He told her "I want to talk about how pivotal you think this is. The New York Times’ Farhad Manjoo described it as a do or die moment, we’ll put a little bit of his piece on the screen."
But he only put this part on screen: "This could be our do-or-die moment — with Democrats holding the White House and barely controlling Congress, this may be the country’s last best political opportunity to do something big on the climate."
He left out the next thought: "After Biden’s announcement last week of a watered-down compromise with centrist senators on an infrastructure plan, I’m terrified that we are heading straight for die rather than do."
(Excerpt) Read more at newsbusters.org ...
Stop driving. Stop using air conditioning. Or ultimately, to show you really care, _________(fill in the blank).
Eggs act lee.
Did he tell all his viewers to sell their cars and ride bikes? Problem solved.
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