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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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TOPICS: Culture/Society; Government; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: climatechange; globalwarming; media; msm
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How many trillions of dollars do they intend to make from this scam? Elsewise, why push it at every turn?
1 posted on 04/23/2014 3:34:20 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Freeing Slaves ,something the Democrats are still fighting to stop


2 posted on 04/23/2014 3:36:18 PM PDT by molson209 (Blank)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Global Warming is like Exodus. Or Genesis. But more important.


3 posted on 04/23/2014 3:38:12 PM PDT by Uncle Miltie (Mohammed was a Child Rapist and Islam is a Totalitarian Death Cult.)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

It’s the opposite: Global warming is just another fake crisis that democrats created to grow government(grow socialism) and to enslave us.

If you made $100,000 per year after taxes then you could buy anything you could ever need in the free market because someone would produce it for money( look at the millions of products for sale on Google , internet , ebay , amazon,Walmart, Dollar Tree etc etc). So we don’t need government for ANYTHING. A private company created a whole city DISNEY WORLD in Florida. So democrats create fake crisis like “global warming”,”no health insurance crisis” to justify the very existence of government and the continued growth of government(socialism)

government is the enemy and the problem. the news media and democrat party are also the enemy and the problem

I’m proud to be a climate denier : come and get me you communist Obama and communist democrats


4 posted on 04/23/2014 3:38:50 PM PDT by Democrat_media (Obama ordered IRS to rig 2012 election and must resign)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

No..., preventing global warming is exactly like preventing the sky from falling.


5 posted on 04/23/2014 3:39:42 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: 2ndDivisionVet

Some Journalists are indeed mentally, physically, and morally inferior.


6 posted on 04/23/2014 3:39:55 PM PDT by hosepipe (This propaganda has been edited to include some fully orbed hyperbole..)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

These people are CERTIFIABLE INSANE!

Good grief. When will they get OVER themselves, already?!?!


7 posted on 04/23/2014 3:40:27 PM PDT by workerbee (The President of the United States is DOMESTIC ENEMY #1!)
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To: Democrat_media

In the 70s 80s and 90s, it was global cooling. It was as much a certainty back then as global warming is now.

Somewhere along the line, they decided they could unravel Western civilization if they change it to warming. And so, while Eastern nations do whatever the sam hell they want, we in the West set up hurdle after hurdle to hinder progress and Western civilization.

Quite a coup for those who have wanted to destroy and or subjugate the Western World even before Hitler wanted to.


8 posted on 04/23/2014 3:42:58 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: 2ndDivisionVet

MSNBC’s Chris Hayes: “Spay and Neuter your pets. Otherwise, it’s just like the Holocaust for cats and dogs.”


9 posted on 04/23/2014 3:43:14 PM PDT by The KG9 Kid
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To: workerbee

making no sense , what MSNBC are very good at


10 posted on 04/23/2014 3:44:42 PM PDT by molson209 (Blank)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

More drivel from another MSNBC “genius”.


11 posted on 04/23/2014 3:45:40 PM PDT by windsorknot
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It's not just about money but it also about growing socialism(government power and control over us)

marxism/socialism is like a religion to democrats , liberals or whatever they call themselves progressives, democrats,liberals , leftists. they are all one and the same :marxists/socialists/communists.all these terms are all the same people. so I just call them democrats because they ARE ALL of them democrats

This is why reporters show only pro government stories as news.it's not to make money but to shape public perception to allow democrat politicians to pass more laws

also they create fake crisis like global warming to justify the growth of government . they in the government can be our saviors from the fake hobgoblins they menace us with

12 posted on 04/23/2014 3:46:03 PM PDT by Democrat_media (Obama ordered IRS to rig 2012 election and must resign)
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The face of a useful idiot (since none of us watch him).

13 posted on 04/23/2014 3:46:09 PM PDT by Robert DeLong (u)
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These people are demonically possessed.

That’s the only explanation that makes sense to me of their psychotic obsession with a mission that is not only hopelessly quixotic, but for which they are prepared to imprison and kill any and all opposition to it, however mild.

The reaction from these zombies is akin to the reaction you get when you try to tell a person having a psychotic episode that the voices and visions are not real.


14 posted on 04/23/2014 3:46:36 PM PDT by Westbrook (Children do not divide your love, they multiply it.)
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What A brain dead donor!


15 posted on 04/23/2014 3:54:15 PM PDT by fedupjohn (America...Designed by Geniuses...Now inhabited by Idiots..Palin 2016...)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Driving a hybrid for one year is the equivalent of freeing twenty slave shoulder-blades.

If you bring a canvas sack to the store one time it’s like liberating five slave eye-brows, and if you do so ten times, well that’s doing the same for 3 slave torsos.

If you burn down the average residential American home it’s the equivalent of setting three-fourths of a slave free —permanently.


16 posted on 04/23/2014 3:54:31 PM PDT by gaijin
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Hmmm....after this last winter (which doesn't feel like it's over yet...feels like early March out there, rather than late April)...seems to me that Preventing Global Warming is like loading a slave ship for a six-month voyage.

Just to keep up with the breathless overexaggerated tenor of the original.

17 posted on 04/23/2014 3:54:52 PM PDT by ExGeeEye (The enemy's gate is down...and to the left.)
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To: Democrat_media

Love You!


18 posted on 04/23/2014 3:55:48 PM PDT by fedupjohn (America...Designed by Geniuses...Now inhabited by Idiots..Palin 2016...)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Carbon credit scams enslave the masses under Socialist redistribution schemes.

Stalinsts lie. ALWAYS


19 posted on 04/23/2014 4:00:39 PM PDT by a fool in paradise (The new witchhunt: "Do you NOW, . . . or have you EVER , . . supported traditional marriage?")
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To: Robert DeLong

#13. The photo of Hayes reminds me of the rear end of a horse we once had. Only what came out of it made more sense than what comes out of Hayes’ mouth.

Somewhere in-between, there is a correlation about a horse’s ass and Chris Hayes mouthings.


20 posted on 04/23/2014 4:06:10 PM PDT by MadMax, the Grinning Reaper
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