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On Friday, the Trump administration issue a congressionally mandated report about climate change that claimed it looked 100 years into the future and was designed to scare people. The liberal media were apoplectic that the administration dismissed the findings as they tried to spread the panic. New York Times reporter Helene Cooper, during her Sunday appearance on NBC’s Meet the Press, was particularly adamant that everyone in America needed to be running around in hysterics over the report.
“I actually think we should be hysterical,” Cooper demanded in defiance of American Enterprise Institute’s Danielle Pletka who was the lone rational voice on the panel pleading for calm.
“I think anybody that has children or anybody who can imagine having children and grandchildren. How could you look at them and think this is the kind of world that through our own inaction and our inability to do something that we're going to leave them,” Cooper freaked out.
Cooper was irate that the Trump administration had released the report on Black Friday and not a more convenient time with fewer distractions:
I'm really glad you're actually having us talk about this on this show because I think it was the height of cynicism to release this report on Black Friday by the Trump administration. And I just think that at some point we are going to need not just the political leadership but also the corporate leadership to actually sit down and do something about this.
One would think the optics of a “black Friday” climate distress call would be the kind of hysterics Cooper would love.
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