Robert Kennedy Jr. schools Fox News contributor Michelle Fields at Climate March

[ErikJ]

She apparently just got picked up by Fox as a contributor. Has been a regular on one of their shows.

[peabody]

1. I can see why Fox picked her up.

All she asked were stupid got-ya questions that did nothing to further the conversation or help better inform viewers. I'm glad Robert Kennedy Jr. called her out.

[ErikJ]

3. I would just say to her

Why do your billionaire big-oil bosses keep lobbying congress to stop the development of clean energy electricity for my phone and car?

[drynberg]

11. Schooled?...I'd say she was deservedly bitch slapped, especially at the end...Typical Faux News

[Adenoid_Hynkel]

19. I'm sure Rush edited the clip

as always.

[livingonearth]

26. You are correct, sir.

I'm not sure if it was Rush, but I was listening to my local AM station today and heard a very edited version of this played several times. I'm glad I could come here and hear what was actually said.

[Midnight Writer]

2. Rush Limbaugh was crowing about this

on today's show. He says that she made a total fool of him with the "will you give up your cellphone" question.
which is a classic straw man argument. At least she did let him answer the question, although he did have to force through it at one point, which means she needs a little more work to be a FOX headliner.

[nxylas]

7. Yes, she has much to learn

I predict that after a year on Fox Noise, she'll be interrupting people like RFK after 3 seconds.

[freedom fighter jh]

10. Yeah, I think that's the main thing she missed.

Her long silence gave him a chance to destroy her logic.

[Jack Rabbit]

16. Destroy her what?

She's not the first political activist (not all from the far right) posing as a journalist to ask stupid gotcha questions like "If you're such an environmentalist, are you going to give up your cell phone or your car?"

Of course he isn't. However, he is going to drive less and not make any unnecessary trips for which he could use a bicycle or his feet. He's going to maintain his vehicle so it burns fuel more efficiently, unlike the assholes who think it's good fun to turn their pick ups into coal rollers. And he is going to continue to advocate for renewable energy sources to supplement and eventually supplant fossil fuel, unlike the Koch brothers who want to levy a tax on homeowners who install solar panels.

Mr. Kennedy will also participate in mass demonstrations on Wall Street. There's no point going to Congress when most congressmen are servile villains to Wall Street or fossil fuel corporations. We're bypassing the politicians and going to their bosses.

[RBInMaine]

27. Who gives a flying fuck what fuckface Limbaugh says about anything? A bag of shit has more brains.

[NBachers]

4. I gotta get off here before I start using terms that will get me banned and condemned

[951-Riverside]

5. A right wing anti vax loon vs. A right wing anti climate loon n/t

[tomm2thumbs]

6. PJTV is PeeWeeTV - subscription with low quality production value and financed for ego

PajamaTV is more like it -- something they produced while half asleep in their PJs

[tomm2thumbs]

8. a video that shows exactly what PJTV is all about - Pajama TV

http://pjmedia.com/blog/dicaprio-sanders-out-of-touch/

Bernie Sanders got her number and dialed it, but hard!! Love it how the supposed-'reporter' does a 180 when Bernie asks a simple question back... "I don't get my funding from anywhere..." -- oops, could I interpret that to be a complete lie? Let the word go out far and wide, PJTV appears to be low-brow FoxNews wannabe without 'any funding from anywhere', and yet somehow they have studios, operate cameras, rent studio facilities, edit and produce, interview and have reporters. Soooo interesting how this is all without funding.

I wonder if Scott Ott out of Texas has any ideas?

bwahahahahaha

[freedom fighter jh]

9. As obnoxious as she is, she does point out a real paradox . . .

and, however unintentionally, she gives him a platform to describe a reasonable resolution to that paradox.

Climate change is the biggest challenge that the human community faces. The leaders of the movement to address climate change believe that street protest is essential to the movement. Street protest requires fossil fuel transportation (even if you took the bus or the train) as well as the use of electronics like iPhones. These things contribute to the problem. (Not sure I see how electronics contribute, but give her that point for the sake of argument.)

Ask RFK Jr. rightly points out, the only way out is to change the system so that people *can* live in a sustainable way. In our system, to give up your own transportation and electronics is, unfortunately, to give up your voice. Rather than giving up your voice, change the system that requires you to pollute in order to be heard.

[iandhr]

12. Hasn't he joined up with the wacko Anti-Vaxers.

Not exactly the best spokesman.

[mountain grammy]

13. sad but true. No one has been more forceful and active

regarding climate and evironmental issues like mountaintop mining, which is destroying the beauty of West Virginia. I've listened to him often on Ring of Fire and have considered him a leader on environmental issues, but this new anti-vax junk is just depressing.

[iandhr]

14. And the saddest part is...

… unlike the wacko Christian "faith healers" he should know better. Bill Maher does a routine where is talks about "smart stupid people" I guess we have to add RFK Jr to the list.

[Adenoid_Hynkel]

18. I have to wonder what Papantonio thinks of it

RFK has been pushing the anti-vax garbage onto Ring of Fire.

[Spitfire of ATJ]

15. The only talking point she has is to claim environmentalists are anti-technology?

I suppose this goes back to the 60s stereotype of the "back to nature" type environmentalists who acted like we could all make it fine if we stripped down naked and walked into the woods.

[Adenoid_Hynkel]

17. He's an anti-vaccine nut

and it's best to cut all ties with him if we want credibility on our side.

[WhoIsNumberNone]

20. Question for the Koch tools at PJ Media: How much political clout do the Amish have?

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I'm sure the right wing would love it if everyone who cared about the environment would marginalize themselves by giving up their cel phones and moving into mud huts and eating moss. Yeah, that's be a great way to lead by example. Adopt an 18th Century lifestyle.

[ErikJ]

21. The Kochs dream is to make the environmentalists disappear

so they can brainwash the public completely unopposed. Looks like they and their Tea Party are losing in numbers.

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Left is the Impeach Obama rally Sept 2014

[The Wizard]

23. In the 18th Century

slavery was legal.

[The Wizard]

22. Everyone on Pox News

is anti American.

[RVN VET]

24. Should not have identified her by name

Would be better to leave her as the anonymous tool she is, asking inane questions in a smug, adolescent voice.

She is exactly the reason why Fox is a pox on American journalism and it's already sadly declining values of honesty, integrity, and thirst for truth. Far from "interviewing" a man with considerable knowledge of environmental issues, she spits talking points and smarmy, irrelevant questions at him and completely ignores his responses.

Not that the rest of the "news" media was much better, hardly whispering about this most massive protest for the environment in history and leaving it virtually unreported. But better silence than the ignorant nastiness of this young lady.

[ErikJ]

25. I wanted as many Google key words as possible.

for more exposure.

[marym625]

28. Do you think she thinks she actually won

That little debate? I am surprised that they showed the whole thing

[burfman]

29. Give Michelle Fields some time to learn the ropes, figure things out and become a real reporter.

Give her some time to grow into her job, I don't think she has been doing it that long.....

These days like she says on her c-span interview "all you need to be a 'reporter' is an i-phone".

Remember that Barbara Walters was originally the weather lady on the today show.

Mike Wallace was originally a game show host.

It's just a shame that she will do her 'internship' at Fox and not at CBS, it will take her years to unlearn what they will teach her there...

Here's her c-span interview: http://www.c-span.org/video/?302838-1/qa-michelle-fields