Posted on 06/22/2011 4:45:51 PM PDT by PROCON
A frothing Chris Matthews on Wednesday excoriated Rush Limbaugh as "evil" for spreading "lies" about global warming.
The Hardball host highlighted a new Rolling Stone article by Al Gore that chides Barack Obama for not doing enough on climate change.
Matthews, however, chose to attack Glenn Beck and Rush Limbaugh: "These people are evil in what they're doing. I'm not saying their souls are evil, but what they're doing is really, really wrong and it's not the President."
[See video below. MP3 audio here.]
The MSNBC host declared no room for debate on global warming, announcing, "But here is a fact on the table. Global warming, climate change, Rush Limbaugh says stuff that...is just not true. I never use the word lie, but it's appropriate here."
Piling on, Matthews accused Limbaugh of being disingenuous: "Rush Limbaugh is not a stupid person. Glenn Beck is not stupid. They're saying it on purpose."
After calling Limbaugh "evil," Matthews compared him to a raging inferno: "Churchill, my hero, said this once, 'I refuse to be impartial between the fire brigade and the fire.' The President is the fire brigade on this. He may not be the greatest fire brigade, but damn it, he's not the fire. Glenn Beck is. Rush Limbaugh is the fire."
"Evil" is a term Matthews likes to throw around. He previously used the word on Newt Gingrich and mocked him for looking like "the devil."
[Thanks to MRC intern Alex Fitzsimmons for the video.]
There was a flawed - but REAL rational for global warming - based on the greenhouse effect. Simple to understand - an example is a locked car with the windows up - light comes in - gets trapped - and becomes 'heat'. We've all experienced it getting into a hot car in summer. Turns out the light wasn't being trapped - that other mechanisms were at play with our earth... but on some levels the idea made sense.
But there's NO idea behind climate change. As far as I can see the only 'idea' is to keep the money flowing into the old global warming folks... That's it. NO theory... no plans ... nothing. Just 'keep giving us the money for the discredited plan..."
Matthews needs to ask some questions.
Heretics! Heretics! Incinerate them at the bio-friendly combustion device! (No burning at stake because it causes global warming).
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