CNBC anchor slams ‘bona fide cult’ of ‘enviro-socialists’

By Ben Geman

The battle between CNBC anchor Joe Kernen and environmentalists is escalating on Twitter and over the airwaves.  Kernen, co-host of CNBC’s “Squawk Box,” on Friday bashed“enviro-socialists” who are criticizing him, and shortly afterward added, “It is a bona fide cult.”  Kernen’s remarks come as the anchor and his network are under fire from climate advocates. His Twitter exchanges with critics can be viewed here.

A June report by the liberal watchdog group Media Matters for America said more than half of CNBC’s 2013 climate coverage cast doubt on human-induced climate change.  Two other groups — Forecast the Facts and Environmental Action — have launched an online petition criticizing CNBC’s climate coverage.

“Tell Joe Kernen and your other on-air personalities and guests to stop denying climate science and start reporting the facts on the economic risks of fossil-fueled climate change,” states the petition directed at the network’s president.  On Friday, Kernen’s “cult” comment arrived during his interview with John Hofmeister, the former Shell Oil Co. president who now heads the group Citizens for Affordable Energy....To ReadMore....

My Take – What’s of real concern is the article goes on to quote a former CEO of Shell Ohio as believing all the greenie claptrap.  If this was the average person, who has been inundated with all the propaganda from the media, their government and academia I could understand his views.  But this man has access to the best minds and the information available in the world.  And what has he chosen for his new life’s work.  The head a group called Citizens for Affordable Energy.  Two things!  He is either stupid and Shell was fortunate to have gotten rid of him, or he’s corrupt and attempting to mimic Al Gore and expand his personal fortune at the expense of humanity.  Either way; what he thinks stinks.