{"id":10053,"date":"2007-02-27T13:15:49","date_gmt":"2007-02-27T18:15:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thecarpetbaggerreport.com\/archives\/10053.html"},"modified":"2007-02-27T13:15:49","modified_gmt":"2007-02-27T18:15:49","slug":"falwell-sees-climate-conspiracy-with-satan-liberals-and-the-weather-channel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/falwell-sees-climate-conspiracy-with-satan-liberals-and-the-weather-channel\/","title":{"rendered":"Falwell sees climate conspiracy with Satan, liberals, and The Weather Channel"},"content":{"rendered":"

TV preacher Jerry Falwell has been denying global warming for years, but this week, he was a little more specific<\/a> about his perspective.<\/p>\n

The religious right leader sees a conspiracy, working to convince people to accept a myth. Who’s involved with the scheme? Al Gore, liberal politicians, the media, “radical Hollywood,” … and The Weather Channel. From Falwell’s latest sermon:<\/p>\n

The Weather Channel has taken up that task with its series ‘It Could Happen Tomorrow’. The Weather Channel started its “It Could Happen Tomorrow” series in January 2006. The program includes episodes where a tornado destroys Dallas, a tsunami destroys the Pacific Northwest, Mount Rainier erupts and destroys nearby towns, and San Diego is devastated by wildfires. What is the Weather Channel up to? … The big lie, conceived by the Weather Channel in cahoots with environmental extremists, is to get us in a tizzy over global warming.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

OK, but why<\/i> is The Weather Channel working with Hollywood and liberals to “get us in a tizzy”? Don’t worry, Falwell can explain that, too. As he sees it, there’s a three-prong strategy in place: ” (1) To Create Major Economic Damage to America. (2) The Desire To Change the Subject Concerning the World’s Moral Bankruptcy. (3) Most importantly, it is Satan’s Attempt to Re-direct the Church’s Primary Focus.”<\/p>\n

I should probably note that these aren’t mutually exclusive — Falwell appears to believe that The Weather Channel\/Liberal axis may be working alongside<\/i> Satan.<\/p>\n

Of course, I’d be remiss if I didn’t put this in the appropriate political context.
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\nThe Falwell who sees this climate conspiracy is the same Falwell who’s teamed up with Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.).<\/p>\n

* Falwell hosted a reception<\/a> for McCain at the National Religious Broadcasters Convention.<\/p>\n

* McCain hired<\/a> a top Falwell staffer for his campaign.<\/p>\n

* McCain has appeared on national television defending<\/a> Falwell’s tolerance.<\/p>\n

* And McCain appeared alongside<\/a> Falwell in March, giving the commencement address at the TV preacher’s college.<\/p>\n

McCain has cozied up to a man who believes global warming is not only a myth, but a tool in a Satanic plot.<\/p>\n

Something to keep in mind for the next person to call McCain an independent-thinking “maverick.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

TV preacher Jerry Falwell has been denying global warming for years, but this week, he was a little more specific about his perspective. The religious right leader sees a conspiracy, working to convince people to accept a myth. Who’s involved with the scheme? Al Gore, liberal politicians, the media, “radical Hollywood,” … and The Weather […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[617],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10053","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10053","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10053"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10053\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10053"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10053"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10053"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}