Glenn Beck's climate czar called for quarantining AIDS patients "for life"

[babylonsister]

http://mediamatters.org/blog/200912110038

Glenn Beck's climate czar called for quarantining AIDS patients "for life"

December 11, 2009 5:14 pm ET by Jeremy Schulman


Media Matters Action Network, our partner organization, has unearthed a 1987 American Spectator article in which Lord Christopher Monckton -- one of the right's favorite global warming deniers -- advocates requiring the entire population to undergo monthly HIV tests and forcibly quarantining "for life" those who test positive.





You would think that such views would have made Monckton a marginal figure. But apparently there are no views too extreme for the right-wing media.

On October 23, for instance, Glenn Beck said on his Fox News show that Monckton is "one of the world's foremost authorities on what the global warming hoax is really all about and what they are about to sign over in Copenhagen."

Monckton appeared as a guest throughout Beck's October 30 Fox show. Beck introduced Monckton by saying: "With me now, Lord Christopher Monckton, former adviser to British prime minister, Margaret Thatcher and climate change expert."

On October 19, Rush Limbaugh described Monckton as "a voice of sanity," saying, "The hysteria on the left on virtually everything is all over the place. So you got to hear a voice of sanity in this. Last Wednesday, St. Paul, Minnesota, during a presentation at Bethel University, a portion of remarks made by Lord Christopher Monckton regarding the United Nations' climate change treaty."

[Mike Nelson]

1. Quarantining Beck is better

or, maybe he could put his picture on beer bottles!

[howard112211]

2. He certainly is infectuous.

[BOSSHOG]

3. There must be great joy in being stupid

glen has chosen not to take my advice. I suggest he spend his days doing what he does best, getting drunk. He would be a far less embarrassment to his family then what he does on a regular basis.

"Former advisor to (war monger) maggie thatcher" and "climate change expert." And ignorant trash keep them all rich.

[Uncle Joe]

4. Kicked and recommended.

Thanks for the thread, babylonsister.

[Sub Atomic]

5. Unfortunately, this viewpoint was widewpread in the mid- to late-80s.

I was freshly kicked out of the Navy for being gay back then. In Seattle, AIDS was just starting to show up and as it spread out from San Francisco, there were many calls for those infected to be isolated from everyone else for 'public health' reasons.

It was a very sad time to be coming out as a gay man.

[ThomCat]

6. I remember. Come out to anyone, and the first question you got

was, "do you have AIDS?" The assumed link between being gay and having AIDS was absolute in most straight people's minds. :(