Full Frontal host Samantha Bee joined a long list of media figures Wednesday as she heaped praise on teenage climate activist Greta Thunberg. Bee noted that "there's nothing more terrifying than a teenage girl" before introducing Thunberg as "one teenage girl in particular" who "is scaring the crap out of all of us." Bee appeared to buy into Thunberg's climate alarmism, praising Thunberg for asking the leaders at the UN "to do something before the whole planet melts and we all die." A starstruck Bee declared that "the only thing scarier than a 16-year-old girl is a 16-year-old girl with an agenda who knows how to hold a grudge. Greta Thunberg terrifies me and I love her for it." Bee commended Thunberg for "bringing something very important to the discourse about climate change: shame" and "ripping into our craven leaders like a miniature Don Rickles in braids." Bee argued that "her international shaming tour" is working; highlighting recent developments by other countries to combat climate change. Bee went on to slam those who disagree with Thunberg as "misogynists" who believe that "preserving a livable planet has somehow become a threat to the entitlements of masculine primacy." Bee complained that "the ludicrous resistance to climate change has become so deeply entrenched, especially among America's right-wing man children, that an actual woman child is now our best hope for survival."
