CNN puts teen climate activist Greta Thunberg on coronavirus panel with health experts — and observers are in mockery mode

Dave Urbanski
 
CNN said Wednesday it's featuring teenage climate activist Greta Thunberg on a coronavirus panel alongside health experts.  In addition to Thunberg, the network's "Coronavirus — Facts and Fears" live town hall Thursday night will include former acting Centers for Disease Control Director Richard Besser and former Health and Human Services secretary Kathleen Sebelius, as well as Anderson Cooper and Dr. Sanjay Gupta.....................

While some are defending the network and Thunberg, as you might expect, a whole bunch of Twitter users are dragging CNN for including a teen climate activist on a coronavirus town hall panel with health experts.  Ben Shapiro, editor-in-chief of The Daily Wire, was incredulous:

Others saw it exactly the same way:

• "LOL Greta Thunberg has not graduated high school. How can she be an expert at anything but having parents with money? CNN doesn't even care anymore. They are TMZ with a suit and tie."
• "Did CNN say what medical qualifications Greta Thunberg has to justify her taking part in a coronavirus discussion? I must have missed her Ph.D.'s in immunology & virology. Or is it because she is sponsored by Neoliberal Totalitarian Globalist George Soros?"
• "WTF. We have reached peak levels of ridiculousness."
• "While not an epidemiologist, scientist, researcher, virologist, or official with any governmental power, Thunberg is a high school student from Sweden who is famous for not attending high school."....... To Read More....  

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