Again, Rehm has a talking head from a right wing think tank on her show who dominates the other people present and spews lies unchallenged. This time, the lies are about carbon trading and the reality of climate change.
here's the show info:
10:00Cap and Trade
President Bush recently unveiled a plan to reduce greenhouse gas emissions beginning in 2025. Critics say it does not do enough to address global warming. What to do about climate change.
Guests
Kit Batten, Managing Director for Energy and Environmental Policy, Center for American Progress
Juliet Eilperin, reporter, Washington Post
Kenneth Green, Resident Scholar, American Enterprise Institute
Yet another exercise where talking heads from political groups distort science and don't get even the basic premise of what is needed to combat atmospheric carbon.
Years ago, I used to listen to Rehm every day; and I will admit, I was not as critical listener as I am today. No doubt, I was being brainwashed. And now, the few times a month I do catch the show I hear things that outrage me, almost without exception.
Ken Green is a liar, a serial distorter of the truth and it's an embarrassment to Rehm that she allowed the garbage that fell out of his mouth to go unchallenged. He dismissed callers to show with lies and distortions and was allowed to prattle on with his pro-corporatist agenda unimpeded.
I had to turn the show off at roughly 50 after the hour, I could not take it anymore. During that time, not once did I hear a discussion about changing people's behavior, other than treating them as some sort of cattle to be motivated and controlled by prices or taxes.
As always, the supposed 'liberal' counter to the fascist shill was weak and ineffectual. It seems that either the 'liberals' are chosen to be meek, or maybe they are simply all too meek and submissive to actively challenge the bullshit spewed forth from these crackpots from the right.
It's amazing; the solution to reducing carbon and pollution overall is right in front of us, and yet Rehm allowed her show to be used as a vehicle to present nothing but bullshit and lies.
No solutions, and plenty of distortions.
Her show has become such an embarrassment, I'm tempted to listen to some of the older shows and see what I could have been missing years ago, that I thought was any good at all.