Posted on 03/23/2020 7:46:55 AM PDT by rktman
On Sunday's Velshi show, one day after MSNBC host Ali Velshi recommended using the coronavirus pandemic to push for more welfare programs in the U.S. to fix capitalism, he devoted a segment to talking up the possibility of also using the deadly pandemic to pressure the airline and fossil fuel industries to adhere to more regulations to effect climate change.
At 9:51 a.m. Eastern, Velshi took the time to note "silver linings" in the epidemic:
ALI VELSHI: It's been a hard couple of hours of TV to watch on a weekend morning. With this ongoing national crisis, it can be hard to find silver linings when there's nothing but a dark cloud above you, but we think we found one or two. Take a look at these images -- the waterways in Venice, Italy, have gone from dark cloudy to clear after the countrywide quarantine. How? Because less canal traffic means an absence of sediment.
He then added:
VELSHI: The European Space Agency says countries practicing lockdowns like Italy, seen here, are seeing a significant drop in air pollution, specifically dioxide emissions -- kind of why the price of oil is down as much as it is. Researchers have also found pollution from nitrogen dioxide in China has fallen by 40 percent.
After bringing aboard former Obama administration EPA administrator Gina McCarthy as a guest, Velshi fretted:
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VELSHI: I guess I am a little worried that the discussions -- the very active and regular discussions that you and I and others would have about climate on a very regular basis have been pushed aside a little bit by coronavirus, and maybe some of the strides that we are making on a matter that is going to effect our health for decades to come is getting sidelined a little bit.
Who has a show on some ersatz network? I'm pretty sure some of us have opined on here that the 'climageddonists' will use the 'cleaing' of the environment to push for new and more dangerous rules and regs. You know, to save us. Hey velshi and charlie mccarthy------fah Q.
I wondered how long it would take.
Democrats do as Democrats do. Never let a crisis go to waste. Of course.
Send that Canadian fool back to Canada.
This statement is mind bogglingly stupid.
They should pray they're not successful, lest they precipitate CW-II.
What do you really expect from Watermelons?
I was just going to say that. They want to use this crisis to push global warming, and God knows what other unrelated liberal agendas on us.
Yeah, I know. Fidiots!
The border is closed! You can keep him. Unfortunately, we get to keep all the leftists that seem to populate the coastal and east-central areas of Canada. Your bad luck (on Velshi) and our bad luck (all the lefties).
They want to push MORE GUBMINT CONTROL. That is their ultimate agenda. They believe that we, the mere ‘proles’, have not the brains to accomplish anything more than feeding ourselves, reproducing, and excreting. THEY, the ‘intelligent’ types, ARE the way to survival, in their minds!
What so many of the lefties do not realize, is that the vast majority of them will not be ‘leading’. THEY, the leftist sheeple will be led by the most ruthless, power hungry. Same as it ever was!
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