This week’s Mainstream Media Scream features HBO’s Bill Maher making one of the strangest ties to Syria’s gassing of its citizens and pollution in American cities.
From April 21’s Real Time with Bill Maher on HBO:
“The Syrian problem started with climate change. It did – 75 percent of Syrian farms failed. A million and a half people migrated to the cities. That’s where it began. And, by the way, these people who are starving, which is, you know, whether you’re bombed or you’re sarin-gassed or you’re starving, death is death. But, I mean, we talk about Assad gassing people, we’re gassing them, too. We’re just doing it slower with CO2.”
Media Research Center Vice President of Research Brent Baker explains the pick: “Maher disdains religion, but ‘climate change’ is his religion, spiraling him into crazy moral equivalence contortions to somehow equate murderous war crimes with the industrial state which has brought prosperity and longer lifespans to any nation that has adopted free enterprise.”
Rating: Four out of five screams.
Paul Bedard, the Washington Examiner’s “Washington Secrets” columnist, can be contacted at [email protected]
