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MSNBC's Chris Hayes: Preventing Global Warming Is Like Freeing Slaves
Breitbart's Big Journalism ^ | April 23, 2014 | Warner Todd Huston

Posted on 04/23/2014 3:34:20 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet

In The Nation magazine MSNBC host Christopher Hayes spent thousands of words and four web pages explaining how those working at preventing global warming are somehow just like the abolitionists who fought to free the slaves just prior to the American Civil War.

Calling it a "new abolitionism," Hayes opens his article rehashing the South's "peculiar institution," pegging its long life to "so much goddamn money." Then he segues into likening today's global warming alarmists to those moralists and abolitionists of old.

After 11 paragraphs of making this comparison, Hayes then weakly states, "So before anyone misunderstands my point, let me be clear and state the obvious: there is absolutely no conceivable moral comparison between the enslavement of Africans and African-Americans and the burning of carbon to power our devices."

But this one-line disclaimer is hard to take seriously when he goes on with over 4,600 words proving his blithe denial to be a sham. He fully intends to compare the abolition of slavery to the religious cause of global warming. And, perhaps, that is all they really do have in common: a religious fervor on behalf of the believers.

The abolition of slavery, after all, was God's work to folks like Theodore Parker, James Russell Lowell, Wendell Phillips, William Lloyd Garrison, and a host of other abolitionists. They believed it with the intensity of religion. Even "science" at that time often insisted that people of African descent were mentally, physically, and morally inferior. It took an act of faith to defy the scientific (and cultural) "consensus," if you will....

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KEYWORDS: climatechange; globalwarming; media; msm
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To: Psalm 144

Yep, I agree. I hear ya...


41 posted on 04/23/2014 6:03:10 PM PDT by DoughtyOne (Immigration Reform is job NONE. It isn't even the leading issue with Hipanics. Enforce our laws.)
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To: Robert DeLong

Were he and Madcow separated at birth?


42 posted on 04/23/2014 6:21:36 PM PDT by Farmer Dean (stop worrying about what they want to do to you,start thinking about what you want to do to them)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet
The harder this fellow Chris Hayes tries to promote global warming, the more tedious he becomes.
I am struck by the thought that at some point Chris Hayes might resort to an analogy on the order of "preventing global warming is like Homer Simspon in the Land of Chocolate."


43 posted on 04/24/2014 3:42:31 AM PDT by Amagi (Lenin: "Socialized Medicine is the Keystone to the Arch of the Socialist State.")
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

When all you have left is the race card, that’s what you play.


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MSNBC's Chris Hayes: Preventing Global Warming Is Like Freeing Slaves

Wait, slavery was all a hoax designed to let useless, indolent, arrogant tyrants hijack the liberty and treasure of people a thousand times their superior?? Well, Dishonest Abe WAS involved, so maybe......

46 posted on 04/24/2014 3:56:05 PM PDT by Still Thinking (Freedom is NOT a loophole!)
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