Dana Perino, stupid shill

[marmar]

Climate change discussions in the aftermath of a record-shattering deadly typhoon serve as "an excuse" to avoid helping people living in the storm's path, according Fox host Dana Perino, who argued that instead of taking action on climate change, we should provide developing nations with "more fossil fuels." Perino's concern for affordable electricity starkly contrasts with the network's usually dismissive attitude toward those living in poverty and ignores the fact that fighting climate change and keeping energy prices in check for low-income families are attainable and confluent goals.

Super Typhoon Haiyan devastated the island nation of the Philippines last week. The storm may be the most powerful typhoon in recorded history, and the death toll left in its wake is still rising, estimated to be between 2,300 and 10,000.

On the November 14 edition of Fox News' The Five, co-host Dana Perino attacked environmentalists who express concern that manmade global warming could impact the strength of major storms like the super typhoon that devastated the Philippines. Perino argued that discussing global warming "is the perfect excuse not to do anything for people living in the Third World." Perino later doubled down, saying, "it's an excuse to not help people in poverty."

Instead of focusing on global warming, Perino's solution to help those vulnerable to the impacts of climate change would be to "help provide affordable electricity to people that are living there, so that they could've had more information so that they could've gotten out of harm's way. With more affordable electricity that is steady, you have better education, you have better health care, you have better well-being and you have the possibility of trade, which will actually help everybody." Perino concluded, "What we should be doing is providing them with more fossil fuels." ......................(more)

The complete piece is at: http://mediamatters.org/blog/2013/11/15/foxs-perino-philippines-needed-more-fossil-fuel/196914

[Berlum]

1. Yet another elitist RepubliWanker against America and the American people

[lpbk2713]

2. It must hurt to be that stupid.

Although she was the perfect choice to be the mouth piece for the BushCo Regime.

[lob1]

3. Just the opposite. The pain goes away when you're that stupid.

[JI7]

4. wasn't she the one who didn't know what Cuba was ?

while she was serving in the bush administration .

[alsame]

5. She didn't know what

the Cuban Missile crisis was. She was the Press Secretary.

"It had to do with Cuba and missiles, I'm pretty sure."

http://rawstory.com/news/2007/White_House_press_secretary_admits_she_1210.html

[2naSalit]

6. She certainly won't be affected

by GoopGas!!

All the comments above made me think of this so I HAD to post it here!



The sad fact is, though that the Philippines has/had one of the foremost renewable resource programs on the planet because they are the third most vulnerable nation in the climate change scenario of rising sea levels and disastrous storms.

Here is where I heard this info:

http://www.msnbc.com/all-in/watch/the-broader-outlook-for-peril-from-storms-63016003867