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John Oliver, Bill Nye present the way media SHOULD hold climate change "debate" (Original Post) Adenoid_Hynkel May 2014 OP
Don't you want to leave a better earth for your children? 90-percent May 2014 #1
And what has posterity ever done for me? (n/t) Jim Lane May 2014 #8
That was brilliant!!! Cooley Hurd May 2014 #2
absolutely brilliant! handmade34 May 2014 #3
That was a great debate Gothmog May 2014 #4
Brilliant times 1,000,000 Perseus May 2014 #5
But debate sells air time ads ffr May 2014 #6
But..but..but what if it is a big hoax and we create a better world for nothing? KurtNYC May 2014 #7
Wow...that changes everything, let me procrastinate on that for awhile. A Simple Game May 2014 #10
That was outstanding! progressoid May 2014 #9
Bingo nailed it! zebonaut May 2014 #11
Love it! Gumboot May 2014 #12
Excellent, I'm sending this to my co-worker who keeps 'mocking' climate change. johnnyrocket May 2014 #13
Well, there you HAVE it... MrMickeysMom May 2014 #14

90-percent

(6,828 posts)
1. Don't you want to leave a better earth for your children?
Mon May 12, 2014, 06:55 AM
May 2014

And we've all collectively responded; "fuck 'em.!"

-90% Jimmy

 

Cooley Hurd

(26,877 posts)
2. That was brilliant!!!
Mon May 12, 2014, 07:01 AM
May 2014

Actually laid it out in numbers - 2 climate change denying scientists vs 98 climate change proving scientists.

handmade34

(22,756 posts)
3. absolutely brilliant!
Mon May 12, 2014, 08:10 AM
May 2014

WTF does it take the comedians to get it so right... John Oliver is GOOD! (and Bill Nye)

 

Perseus

(4,341 posts)
5. Brilliant times 1,000,000
Mon May 12, 2014, 09:28 AM
May 2014

Fantastic...John Oliver nailed it...I am passing this around.

Thank you for the post...

I love John Stewart, Stephen Colbert, John Oliver and all their cast, I just wish people would take them seriously because these are the only people in the media who actually tell the truth, yes in a funny way, but it is still the truth and people laugh but do not seem to compute.

ffr

(22,665 posts)
6. But debate sells air time ads
Mon May 12, 2014, 10:54 AM
May 2014

If you have a channel that's always right, there's no debate and no viewers and no ads. It's a capitalistic rock-and-a-hard-place. The channel would go off the air.

Just turn them all off. We know there's no debate and John Oliver just displayed it perfectly.

A Simple Game

(9,214 posts)
10. Wow...that changes everything, let me procrastinate on that for awhile.
Mon May 12, 2014, 01:02 PM
May 2014

Don't do anything until I get back to you.

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