Stossel trashing Gore

[globalvillage]

On Scarborough. Correction, both of them are. Unbelieveable.

[smoogatz]

1. Stossel=corporate propagandist=moron

So of course he's trashing Gore. What else?

[Atman]

2. Unbelievable?

Not any more unbelievable than the sun rising.

[globalvillage]

9. OK, bad choice of words.

"Is Global Warming Real?" Aparently, the National Academy of Sciences, to these two morans, is not to be trusted.

"Al Gore- myths, lies, absolute stupidity", "Hatred of capitalism."

Yikes. OK, not unbelieveable. Crazy, but not unbelieveable.

[stepnw1f]

3. That Guy Was Always a Corpo-Hack (nt)

[The Backlash Cometh]

4. Stossel has no integrity on scientific issues.

Didn't he get caught for manipulating information on an agriculture issue to try to push his right-wing agenda? Why is he even on television? Most people who get caught red-handed as he did, generally go a la Jason Blair.

[Junkdrawer]

5. Oh John...Make that Global Warming stuff go away...Tell me again it's fake

It's soooo inconvienient....

[leftchick]

8. has he reproduced?

please tell me no! :scared:

[Junkdrawer]

13. I worked with some otherwise decent folks who, when this subject would...

come up, listen to me and then go home and turn on Stossel/Fox so they could be assured I was wrong. Next day, I'd get all the stock lies. They really, really just wanted to be lied to.

BTW: Here's his Wiki page:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Stossel

[leftchick]

15. a 1969 graduate of Princeton makes him about 59 years old?

and he appears to be a bachelor. Thank god!

[catmother]

17. obviously dyes his hair. probably had plastic surgery. men do

it too now.

[KyuzoGator]

6. I heard a brilliant radio interview of Stossel a few years back.

They were talking to Stossel about his then-recent book called "Give Me a Break : How I Exposed Hucksters, Cheats, and Scam Artists and Became the Scourge of the Liberal Media..." and basically kept hammering him with, "what do liberals have to do with that?" over and over (in Texas, no less!).

Eventually, Stossel admitted that the publisher put "liberal" in the title to appeal to certain demographics and he had no say in the matter.

[TomInTib]

7. I turned off that crap.

Stossel sucks. Always has.

[eleny]

10. Stossel:"Global Warming" is a socialist plot

Well, Stossel, you're a far radical right wing tool. Nya-nya-nya.

[marmar]

19. Did he say that?

What a little prick!

[Junkdrawer]

21. I flipped it on for about 20 seconds and heard Stossel say...

"This is ALL anti-industrial nonsense. If the Planet HAPPENS to get warmer, well it's our industrial capacity that will make it livable for us. The last thing we need to do is give in to the socialist"..Click..Ahhhhhh

[Gabi Hayes]

22. if he uses the word "socialist," is it OK to call him a

fascistic lying shill for the neo-feudalists?

[Junkdrawer]

24. Technically correct, but wordy. I prefer "lying asshole". n/t

[Gabi Hayes]

32. got carried away...couldn't just stop after fascistic

it's HARD work, I tell ya

HARD!

[eleny]

27. He said the solutions sounded like socialism to him

Said that after the other person suggested that some of the solutions were things like developing renewable energy sources.

[LaPera]

31. MONEY is far more important to me & my portfolio than to believe the truth

Even though capitalism would flourish with new cleaner industries, entrepenurialism of new products, and new ideas and venture capitalist would create new jobs using new safer technologies...doesn't matter...

They might be the wrong kind of capitalist, you know, liberals, with long hair and I wouldn't be in on the ground floor like I am now...

No, we can't have any changes because the MONEY flow might change from my direction...

[Roland99]

11. Yeah, Scarborough was feeding off of moustacheman

[Warren DeMontague]

12. It's a gwobal wawming conspiwacy! Every scientist on Earth is in on it.

Because, you know, they stand to profit so much from encouraging humanity to find other sources of power besides finite, polluting fossil fuels.

Thankfully, we have Paid Energy Industry shills to bravely speak the truth, out of their own altruism and loyalty to mankind.

[tuvor]

14. John Stossel?! Give me a break!

[Wrinkle_In_Time]

35. OK, Mr Stossel... arm, leg or neck? (n/t)

[Deja Q]

16. Stossel is a jackass. Karma's jack will kick him in the...

He thinks offshoring is great too... I wish somebody would offshore HIS job (which is standing, looking pretty, and talking garbage... funny how THAT can pay hundreds of thousands of dollars... ANYBODY can do it.)

[Sugarcoated]

18. He's a professional skeptic

it's like a religion for these "professional skeptics", Facts. Don't. Matter. They are anti-(fill in the blank) and they have their mind made up and no amount of proof will convince them. They will manipulate information to fit their agenda - which is debunking whatever it is they feel it's their duty to debunk.

He has a deep-seeded need to be right. And he's a corporate tool, bad, bad combination.

[OhioBlue]

20. Stossel too far "out there" for me to watch

his voice and mannerisms is totally irritating and the man never makes any sense. He's half Jerry Seinfeld stand up and half Archie Bunker logic.

[Gabi Hayes]

23. run, don't walk to reat THIS

Competitive Enterprise Institute's Category 5 Gore bashing....
Conservatives having a field day with the release of Al Gore's new film on global warming

.....Another longtime, and leading, purveyor of disinformation about global warming is the Washington, D.C.-based Competitive Enterprise Institute (CEI), which is attempting to discredit Gore's film, while continuing its campaign aimed at convincing the public that the jury "is still out" on the issue and there is no global warming crisis.

According to SourceWatch, a project of the Center for Media and Democracy, CEI's commentators and commentaries frequently appear in a broad assortment of media venues including ABC's 20/20, the American Spectator, Christian Science Monitor, Consumers' Research, CNN'S Crossfire, Forbes, Good Morning America, Larry King Live, PBS' The News Hour with Jim Lehrer, Moneyline, New York Times, PBS, Reader's Digest, USA Today, Wall Street Journal, Washington Post and the Washington Times.

CEI has apparently established a special relationship with John Stossel, a correspondent on ABC's 20/20, SourceWatch reported:

''When Stossel came under fire in August 2000 for citing nonexistent scientific studies on a 20/20 segment bashing organic foods, CEI set up a "Save John Stossel" website to help him keep his job.

Stossel returned the favor the following year by working with Michael Sanera to put together a program titled "Tampering With Nature" that focused on attacking environmental education. In March 2001, a pesticide industry front group known as Responsible Industry for a Sound Environment (RISE) sent out an action alert memorandum to its members. "Mr. Sanera has been contacted by ABC News," the memo stated." A producer for John Stossel is working on a program on environmental education. He needs examples of kids who have been 'scared green' by schools teaching doomsday environmentalism in the classroom. ... He has some examples, but needs more. Would you send out a notice to your group and ask if they know of some examples. Then contact Mr. Sanera ... Let's try to help Mr. Stossel. He treats industry fairly in his programs."

Apparently neither Stossel nor CEI applied similar standards of fairness toward the schoolteachers and students they interviewed. Prior to the program's air date in July, several California parents of children interviewed by Stossel filed a complaint with ABC, stating that they had been misled about the nature of the program and the types of leading questions their kids would be asked. Seattle teacher John Borowski also being approached by ABC producer Ted Balaker, who attempted to trick him into appearing on camera by claiming that he was making a documentary about Earth Day, while denying that he was working with Stossel and Sanera.''





much, much more here....I love this

http://www.mediatransparency.org/storyprinterfriendly.php?storyID=131

[globalvillage]

25. Good article.

"ExxonSecrets also noted that "With more than a $3 million annual budget, CEI is supported by ... corporate fund ... ExxonMobil ... the American Petroleum Institute, Cigna Corporation, Dow Chemical, EBCO Corp, General Motors, and IBM."

http://www.mediatransparency.org/storyprinterfriendly.php?storyID=131

[Gabi Hayes]

26. too easy

http://www.workingforchange.com/blog/index.cfm?mode=entry&entry=8821C5B9-F5E0-57BC-CF2C71D3CF168EC5

John Stossel is a pathological liar....

Webster's Medical Dictionary defines a "pathological liar" as "an individual who habitually tells lies so exaggerated or bizarre that they are suggestive of mental disorder." Next to this definition should be this picture - a photo of a self-important, smarmy looking, all-too-coiffed ABC News "reporter" named John Stossel. You may have noticed that Stossel is out hawking a book called "Myths, Lies, and Downright Stupidity" purporting to debunk those things. Instead, what we see is that Stossel is spewing them - and using his media platform as a megaphone of dishonesty. Stossel, in many ways, is exactly why I wrote my new book Hostile Takeover - to strip bare the opportunists, shills and half-wits who dominate our political debate and show them for what they really are: pathological liars.

Here's what I mean. According to the right-wing, Scaife-owned Pittsburgh Tribune-Review, Stossel appeared on ABC's "The View" to talk about his book's assertion that the minimum wage supposedly hurts low-income workers. The host was surprised that someone could make such a ludicrous claim. "Why does raising the minimum wage -- this one I don't get -- actually hurt poor people?," she asked Stossel. "I don't understand that one at all."

Mind you, Stossel is making this claim at precisely the same time President Bush is claiming we need a guest worker program because there are actually too many entry-level, low-wage jobs that aren't being filled. But beyond that, the actual data exposes Stossel's pathological lying. As I note in my book's section on this very lie about minimum wages supposedly hurting the job market:



"In a comprehensive 2004 study, the nonpartisan Fiscal Policy Institute reported that since 1997, states that had boosted their minimum wage above the federal minimum actually created jobs faster than those that did not. In higher minimum wage states, employment grew by 50 percent more than it did in states still at the pathetic federal level. Even in tough economic times, the minimum wage doesn't hurt jobs: Princeton University economist David Card found that even the minimum wage increases during the 1990-91 recession 'were not associated with any measurable employment losses.' As Republican Sen. Arlen Specter (PA) once noted, “history clearly demonstrates that raising the minimum wage has no adverse impact on jobs."...In Oregon, for instance, the state raised its minimum wage in 1998, and the average earnings of newly-employed welfare recipients climbed by 9 percent, while the percentage of welfare recipients who found a job actually rose."

[globalvillage]

29. I see him more a whore than a 'pathological' liar.

Pathological liar seems to suggest, to me anyway, that he can't control what he's spewing. I think he's doing it for the cash.
Either way, he's a lying bastard.

edit title for clarity
Sheesh. edit again for spelling error on the clarification.

[Gabi Hayes]

34. simple answer: he's both

it makes it that much easier for a psycho to believe the crap he spews. he's always been that way, and the power/fame/money he's accrued has just made his illness more pronounced

he reminds me a LOT of Harry Reams

[Gabi Hayes]

40. or, perhaps...pseudologia fantastica?

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/query.fcgi?cmd=Retrieve&db=PubMed&list_uids=3279719&dopt=Abstract

[jillan]

28. I heard where the conversation was going

and turned it off.

How can they lie like that?

[orleans]

30. weasels ripped his flesh & then they ate his brain

[Gabi Hayes]

33. interesting video of Sirota nailing Stossel on Kudlow

Get down tonight....get down tonight...

David Sirota (listed in my blogroll------------------>) took on John Stossel on highly unfriendly turf, CNBC's Kudlow & Co., over the minimum wage.

Sirota cleaned Stossel's clock.

http://72.14.203.104/search?q=cache:g6HISggz21kJ:simplyleftbehind.blogspot.com/+rep.+peter+king+yale&hl=en&gl=us&ct=clnk&cd=7

scroll about 2/3, 3/4 of the way down, til you see the above snip, then a picture of the youtube screen. I couldn't figure out a direct link

VERY satisfying

[Yavin4]

36. And The Floods in the Mid-Atlantic Are Also A Socialist Plot

to get us to stop driving Humvees, which is our God-given rights as Americans.

[Cha]

37. Jon Stewart brought

up some people like insanewinger's reaction to Gore and his documentary tonight on The DAily Show.

Anyway, how utterly stupid to trash someone talking about Global Warming or "The Climate Crisis" as Al Gore put it on Jon's.

[mitchum]

38. Must see TV: a Libertarian douchebag and a murdering douchebag

[samsingh]

39. stossel is a sickening asshole, liar, and fool

[Gabi Hayes]

41. great comments from the Sirota/Huffingtonpost article I linked earlier

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/david-sirota/john-stossel-is-a-patholo_b_21903.html

John Stossel is not only stupid and a liar, the guy is downright dangerous.

This past season he did a sham segment questioning the efficacy of car seats and boosters for children above 2 years of age. The crux of his analysis was this - most people do not install the seats properly for those ages and, rather than learning to install the seats correctly, we should just stop worrying about it altogether. In fact, according to Stossel, kids above 2 are probably better off with just a seatbelt.

Seriously, this was he argued on a national news program. He then tried to buttress his argument by implying, in an almost absurd fashion, that data in favor of car seats is rigged by car seat manufacturers.

Never did he truly analyze existing data with respect to the safety benefits of correctly installed car seats. More importantly, never did he cite applicable data supporting his bogus claim that kids may be better off just wearing a seat belt.

How ABC escaped a total PR meltdown from this episode I will never understand. My wife and I sat watching the Stossel piece in a sate of near shock, refusing to believe that a seemingly legitimate journalistic program could be offering up such ludicrous and dangerous information.
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