A scientist's job is not to produce propaganda. Their job is to study, examine, prove and discover. So when the term "global warming" was used by climate scientists to describe our warming planet thirty years ago, who knew that it would be so viciously attacked by climate change deniers? Every time it snows or gets a little cold, a denier will claim, "What global warming!"and that's exactly what Eric Bolling did.
Last week when a freak snow storm knocked out power to 3 million homes, Eric Bolling proclaimed on Friday that "it's snowing and not even Halloween" and later on during his program, showed a clip of him last winter throwing Al Gore's book An Inconvenient Truth into a snowbank and proclaiming that his book was a "bold-faced lie" and "here is your global warming". Truthfully, global warming can make winter storms worse!
This is a good example of a talk show host who is using glittering generalities as a propaganda technique. Glittering generalities are emotionally appealing words that are applied to a product or idea, but present no concrete argument or analysis. This technique has also been referred to as the PT Barnum effect. glittering generalities
Attacking Al Gore and his book, while also declaring that there is no global warming because it is snowing outside, is all an emotionally charged argument, and I guess entertaining to watch because Bolling is acting like an idiot, but there was never any concrete argument or analysis, even though there was an appearance of that on his show as he lambasted his experts for attempting to prove that the world was warming, but it was only an appearance because he never really gave them a chance to prove their arguments.
Bolling is a true-believer propagandist. He is a fool, and wants you to be fooled along with him.
true-believer syndrome
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