CNN keeps letting guests and paid commentators lie about climate scientists

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https://www.mediamatters.org/blog/2018/11/27/CNN-keeps-letting-guests-and-paid-commentators-lie-about-climate-scientists/222166

It's not true that scientists do climate research to get rich, and CNN knows it

CNN has let at least three commentators this week argue that scientists are warning the public about climate change because they're getting rich by doing so -- a ridiculous and patently false claim. CNN knows it's ridiculous and false because the network ran a fact-checking segment debunking the claim and interviewed a climate scientist who explained why it's wrong. But even that didn't stop the network from continuing to spread the lie.

To make matters worse, the three people who made this lie on CNN -- former Sen. Rick Santorum (R-PA), former Rep. Tom DeLay (R-TX), and Trump-boosting economist Stephen Moore -- have themselves been the beneficiaries of fossil fuel money, but CNN failed to disclose that information.

CNN lets liars lie

Following the release of the National Climate Assessment, a major government report about the dangers that climate change poses to the U.S., CNN contributor Santorum came on State of the Union on Sunday morning to discuss it. Among other idiotic things, he said:

I think the point that Donald Trump makes is true, which is -- look, if there was no climate change, we'd have a lot of scientists looking for work. The reality is that a lot of these scientists are driven by the money that they receive, and of course they don't receive money from corporations and Exxon and the like. Why? Because they're not allowed to because it's tainted. But they can receive it from people who support their agenda, and that, I believe, is what's really going on here.

Santorum's comments about climate scientists doing it for the money were widely mocked on Twitter. But that didn't stop other conservative commentators from repeating the bogus claim during CNN appearances.

NOTE: This is another case of Republicans PROJECTING their own questionable and unethical behavior onto others. In this case, climate scientists. POLITICIANS are driven by the money they receive, and UNLIKE SCIENTISTS they DO receive money from corporations and fossil fuel companies. And that money IS. TAINTED. They receive it from people they want to support their agenda (getting rid of environmental regulations) and to deny climate change as a reason for gutting said regulations. THAT IS WHAT'S REALLY GOING ON HERE.

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1. Simple fix to this.

Turn off cable infotainment “news”.