Yesterday, while he was supposed to be doing his job running the entire country and ostensibly leading the free world, the man whose brain has been reduced to a broken mass of bile and Big Macs by a lifetime surrounded by sycophantic yes-men did the only thing he actually knows how to do: watched good ol’ reliable Fox and Friends.
In between tweets about a made-up movement of Jewish people leaving the Democratic party, and a bizarre anti-Einstein rant about how planes are too fancy these days, our very stable genius of a president took a minute out of his super important and not-at-all-euphemistic “executive time” to tweet a quote from Fox and Friends guest Patrick Moore, citing him as they do, as the “co-founder of Greenpeace.”
On the show, Moore told panel of ad hoc presidential advisors that the “climate crisis” is “Fake Science” [per Trump’s recounting]. There “is no climate crisis;” instead, “carbon dioxide is the main building block of life.”
Now, he’s not wrong that carbon dioxide is sort of a building block, at least to plants. But just because carbon is important to (plant) life doesn’t mean too much of it isn’t bad. Water’s a pretty important building block of life, but that doesn’t make floods any less dangerous or drowning any less deadly. Pretty simple logic.
Moore’s obviously not interested in logic or facts. He replied to Trump’s tweet to say that he’s in DC to meet with fellow denier-for-hire William Happer, who’s leading Trump’s ill-fated attack on climate science. The Venn diagram between Fox and the Trump administration churns perpetually closer to a perfect circle.
About those Greenpeace “creds”--like most everything else this paid industry hack says, this bio is a lie. Moore joined a year after the group was founded, then left in 1986. He’s since done PR work for the nuclear, fossil fuel, and pesticide industry.
While his climate denial got him on-air this time, Moore’s promotion of Monsanto’s Roundup is probably his greatest hit. He claims that its main ingredient, glyphosate, is not cancer-causing, telling an interviewer in 2015 that “you could drink a whole quart of it and it won’t hurt you.” Putting that to the test, the interviewer offers Moore some to drink. But despite his insistence that he’d “be happy to” have a drink, and that he knows “ it wouldn’t hurt me,” Moore declines the offer to drink this pesticide he says is safe, saying that “I’m not stupid.” Moore reiterates that it’s “not dangerous to humans” but still refuses to drink it, because “I’m not an idiot.”
Apparently, Moore is more than happy to make a claim about something not being dangerous, but then immediately imply that anyone who would actually listen to his advice is “stupid” and “an idiot.” Clearly, Fox and Friends the perfect show for him, and Trump his ideal audience.
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