CNN Anchor Cites Fictional Hollywood Movie to Defend His Science Reporting

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Can't decide who's the bigger Moran, Inhofe or Miles O'Brien...

CNN Anchor Cited Fictional Hollywood Global Warming Movie, The Day After Tomorrow, to Defend His Science Reporting.

Washington DC - On CNN American Morning today, Senator James Inhofe, the chairman of the Environment and Public Works Committee engaged in a heated exchange with CNN newsman Miles O’Brien over CNN’s biased and erroneous coverage of global warming. Senator Inhofe questioned the journalistic integrity of CNN anchor for ‘Scaring A Lot Of People’ with hyped climate reporting. Senator Inhofe also questioned O’Brien about his 1992 CNN report regarding fears of a coming ice age. O’Brien responded by citing the 2004 fictional Hollywood global disaster movie “The Day After Tomorrow” to back up his science reporting. “This is "The Day After Tomorrow" scenario that we're talking about,” O’Brien said after being confronted by Senator Inhofe on his climate reporting.

WATCH VIDEO OF SENTOR INHOFE ON CNN THIS MORNING

http://epw.senate.gov/pressitem.cfm?party=rep&id=264308

[Synnical]

1. I heard that interview

Inhofe is a loon. O'Brien mentioned The Day After Tomorrow as a "scenario", not as a defense or evidence. It was to make a general point.

[MrCoffee]

2. IIRC, there were tons of these stories when the movie came out...

seems like they do this all the time. Doesn't make it right, and they reporter is a tool for citing a terrible movie, but i expect nothing less than crap from the fourth estate, and especially the morans at CNN.

[Ian David]

3. Yesterday Republicans cited THIS movie as an argument against gun control

Red Dawn - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Red_Dawn

[MrCoffee]

6. You're kidding. Please tell me you're kidding.

[Ian David]

8. Yeah, I'm kidding. But Republicans MADE that movie in 1984

Remember:

Democrats = Footloose
Republicans = Red Dawn

Democrats = The Day After
Republicans = Amerika

[Johonny]

4. Want to scare people

Read any of the actual real climate reports and then listen to Inhofe speak. That should scare any rational human.

[RaleighNCDUer]

5. The science behind "TDAT" is sound, with the collapse of the

gulf current caused by introduction of freshwater from the Greenland icecap. The rapidity of the result is pure fiction.

Inhofe ignores the science and focuses on the fiction.

[Rosco T.]

7. Read the book behind the movie...

"The Coming Global Superstorm". The science is sound (and ghods help us, it being proven out), just the speed of the effects for the movie were exgaggerated.

A lot of what was put forth in the book have already come to pass... it's worth reading.