Post by W.O.M.I on May 22, 2007 13:26:35 GMT -5
Interesting- and overly lengthy- conversation between 'Pope Algore I' of the Church Of The Hysterical EnvironMENTALists and Diane Sawyer on Good Morning America this morning.
Newsbusters reports thusly:
newsbusters.org/node/12927
GMA Gives 15 Minutes to Al Gore; Helps Him Compare Americans to Chickens
Read that last quote again:
If that doesn't describe exactly what Gore is doing, I don't think I've heard a better definition. "Projection", anyone?
Is it just me or do I see a pattern wherein those on the far Left keep trying to tell us their voices are being silenced while making the case on national television, given 15 minutes- with no opposing or dissenting view naturally- to lament the fact they're not being heard?
Sawyer- rightly- says that the media is hypnotizing the public.....but they are hypnotizing the public into thinking that anthropogenic global warming is real and that the debate is over, which isn't right.
Is Gore angry because only 97% of the media coverage on global warming parrots his view? Apparently so....that 3% is a threat to his 'vision', by the Earth Mother!
Newsbusters reports thusly:
newsbusters.org/node/12927
GMA Gives 15 Minutes to Al Gore; Helps Him Compare Americans to Chickens
For the second time in two days, "Good Morning America" co-anchor Diane Sawyer interviewed Al Gore about his thesis that the media are obsessed with celebrity, while "politicians are heard in sound bites." That point may be undercut by the fact that, by Tuesday, the ex Vice President has received 15 and a half minutes of air time to complain about the subject.
After prompting Gore to compare Americans to chickens on a farm, the co-host allowed herself to be interrogated and challenged over how the media operates. But first, Sawyer and GMA helped Gore along with his analogy that Americans are like frightened chickens in the way they allow themselves to be manipulated:
Sawyer: "You even talk about chickens when, when you were young and on the farm, that you could hypnotize chickens this way."
Clip of 50s instructional video: "It's no trick to keep a chicken from straying through the fence if you know how."
Gore: "Anybody who’s spent time growing up on a farm has probably had that experience. But the point is larger than that."
The ABC graphic set the tone for the masochistic way that GMA accepted the former Vice President’s criticism. It read, "Is the news media hypnotizing you?" Ms. Sawyer introduced the segment, which aired at 7:41am on May 22, by dutifully repeating the complaints Gore makes in his new book, "The Assault on Reason":
Sawyer: "He says it's a cycle. TV news more and more obsessed with things like Paris Hilton while politicians are heard in sound bites and their words are shaped by media manipulators. He says democracy has been losing its muscle as we all become virtually hypnotized by four and a half hours of passive TV viewing every day."
First off, if Gore thinks that television anchors are hypnotizing Americans, they are doing it in a way that should please the global warming activist. As an April 2007 MRC study indicated, 97 percent of all climate change stories aired on the network morning shows featured the alarmist position expressed by Gore.
Sawyer then allowed Gore to expand on his "Americans-as-farm-animals" theme. GMA helped punctuate his point by providing a clip from a 1950s instructional video:
Sawyer: "He even evoking how chickens are paralyzed by repetitive motion and says TV makes us passive."
Gore: "Being in the television business, that one of the most valuable things you can have is a time slot following a hit show. Because even with a remote, there are millions of us who will sit and watch a show and be sufficiently immobilized by it that people can't move a thumb muscle."
Sawyer: "You even talk about chickens, when, when you were young and on the farm, that you could hypnotize chickens this way."
Clip of 50s instructional video: "It's no trick to keep a chicken from straying through the fence if you know how."
Gore: "Anybody who’s spent time growing up on a farm has probably had that experience. But the point is larger than that. The point is that, instead of engaging in a free and vigorous discussion, that anybody can take part in, instead, now, candidates for office and those who want to influence public opinion, use these sophisticated propagandistic techniques to try to give emotional impressions and sort of, you know, herd people this way or that.
Read that last quote again:
"...now, candidates for office and those who want to influence public opinion, use these sophisticated propagandistic techniques to try to give emotional impressions and sort of, you know, herd people this way or that."
If that doesn't describe exactly what Gore is doing, I don't think I've heard a better definition. "Projection", anyone?
Is it just me or do I see a pattern wherein those on the far Left keep trying to tell us their voices are being silenced while making the case on national television, given 15 minutes- with no opposing or dissenting view naturally- to lament the fact they're not being heard?
Sawyer- rightly- says that the media is hypnotizing the public.....but they are hypnotizing the public into thinking that anthropogenic global warming is real and that the debate is over, which isn't right.
Is Gore angry because only 97% of the media coverage on global warming parrots his view? Apparently so....that 3% is a threat to his 'vision', by the Earth Mother!