BREAKING: Glenn Beck's climate czar called for quarantining AIDS patients "for life"
December 11, 2009 5:14 pm ET by Jeremy Schulman
Media Matters Action Network, our partner organization, has unearthed a 1987 American Spectator article (available here) in which Lord Christopher Monckton -- one of the right's favorite global warming deniers -- advocates requiring the entire population to undergo monthly HIV tests and forcibly quarantining "for life" those who test positive.
You would think that such views would have made Monckton a marginal figure. But apparently there are no views too extreme for the right-wing media.
On October 23, for instance, Glenn Beck said on his Fox News show that Monckton is "one of the world's foremost authorities on what the global warming hoax is really all about and what they are about to sign over in Copenhagen."
Monckton appeared as a guest throughout Beck's October 30 Fox show. Beck introduced Monckton by saying: "With me now, Lord Christopher Monckton, former adviser to British prime minister, Margaret Thatcher and climate change expert."
On October 19, Rush Limbaugh described Monckton as "a voice of sanity," saying, "The hysteria on the left on virtually everything is all over the place. So you got to hear a voice of sanity in this. Last Wednesday, St. Paul, Minnesota, during a presentation at Bethel University, a portion of remarks made by Lord Christopher Monckton regarding the United Nations' climate change treaty."
Mr. News
"Abraham Lincoln Was A Horrible Public Speaker" Umm Glenn, who gave you this Quote, Jeffrey Dahmer?
I always assumed that you were not a Fool but you just Played one on TV.
Now it seems that Dementia may have kicked in & you have lost all since of Reality.
Speak truth to power.
Mr. News
If this is what passes for sanity among conservatives, I'm even MORE proud than usual to call myself a liberal.
Keep digging. You may find more dirt on all those other McExperts.
You know Fox never does any fact checking.
This little 'scoop' has been all over the internet for about as long as one can remember. There's even a Section on Wiki- ... about it.
Enjoy...
And tomorrow on the Glenn Beck show:
Joe the Plumber, famous plumber and climate expert.
Joe may be having trouble with his plumbing business, but he don't need no liberal weatherman to tell which way the wind blows.
Note: whenever you hear the global warming deniers talk about the "thousands" of scientists who are skeptics. Ask them how many of those scientists are climate scientists. Very few.
"The strongest consensus on the causes of global warming came from climatologists who are active in climate research, with 97 percent agreeing humans play a role."
http://www.cnn.com/2009/WORLD/americas/01/19/eco.globalwarmingsurvey/
They're all sinners who stray outside of their marriage, or born of sinners, so why shouldn't they live secluded? It's what Jesus would've wanted.
The Amish look like the most progressive people, with lax laws on Earth compared to the Teabaggers.
"IOKIYAD"
This holds as much weight as when those RWers try to rip apart Barack Obama on something he said in high school.
We've been able to resolve other deadly infectious diseases - at a minimum, any informed person should have realized that it's highly unlikely that this is a problem that would require confinement for life - that's how far from reality Lord Monckton was back then.
His uninformed conclusion that there's only one way to stop AIDS shows him to a naive black and white thinker. It seems to always be rightwingers who think in black and white.
If someone were to ask him the same question today, his answer might change.
I wonder if ol' Grand Wiz Byrd has changed his tune?
I think it's important to note that if Byrd didn't renounce his past behavior, you could make the argument that he may not have the same views today, but that doesn't mean much. It's not like you never note past behavior because of such a possibility. So I'm not really sure how I'm making your point, unless you think that Byrd's past racist behavior wouldn't be fair game for critics merely based on a hypothetical change of heart. Is that your position here?
When is Glenn Beck's friend going to express regret for his past fascist, bigoted beliefs?
"But in 1987 (IIRC) a lot more people believed AIDS to be a contagious disease than people do today."
HUH???????
Are you claiming that AIDS is NOT contagious??????
What rock did you just crawl out of?
Which people do NOT think AIDS is contagious? Oh, that would be YOU! Do you even know what AIDS IS????
Damn, ignorance is contagious. We should put the ignorant in some colony like lepers. BTW - Leprosy is also CONTAGIOUS.
I wondered. I know AIDs isn't in the news as much as it was 20 years ago, so some may not realize it's still a big problem.
I just saw a report on the news in the past few months that some people don't realize it's still a major issue.
http://www.21stcenturysciencetech.com/Articles_2009/Monckton_interview.pdf
Pg. 48, right-hand column last paragraph
So, we've seen these lies and manufacturing of data before. Same with HIV, where, as with any other fatal, incurable infection, it should have been treated as what's called a notifiable disease, carriers isolated immediately to protect the rest of the population. This was not done.
It would seem to me this is still his opinion today.
I thought I would post this twice to make sure you got it.
Who believes "lies and" manufactured data?
Whether what he wrote was extreme by any standards at the time or not, it shows that he is not the voice of sanity and reason that Beck and Limbaugh claim.
http://www.21stcenturysciencetech.com/Articles_2009/Monckton_interview.pdf
Pg. 48, right-hand column last paragraph
It would seem to me this is still his opinion today.
I don't know why you can't understand the use of WAS vs. IS
He didn't invent the internet, so I guess he isn't qualified to comment on GW.
He said in 1999 that it wasn't possible to quarantine all AIDS infeced people. If his idea in 1987 was implemennted then how many lives would have been saved? I don't believe he was being anything beside concerned for the well being for humanity. He is doing the same with this GW cult-like scam.
Apparently, when Beck backs someone whom he describes as an expert, none of the weird, strange, or far-out views of those so-called experts makes a difference.
This is one of those guys who never lets facts get in the way of his opinions.
...so what does his inflammatory 1987 statement have to do with the global warming debate? I guess to an irrational mind everything that Lord Monckton says, whether related to AIDS or not, is discredited now.
If Adolf Hitler said, "the sky is blue," is he not telling the truth because of the evil things he did?
MMfA: we can do a lot better at discrediting Monckton. Can we perhaps get him in a debate with Al Gore or Ken Lay?
And the appropriate answer would be, "No, we can tell he's not telling the truth because the idea that the sky is yellowish-green is preposterous, but why in the world are you putting him on TV as a sky-color expert ANYWAY, when the man is one of history's most notorious mass murderers?"
Meanwhile, some nutcase would be looking out the window while Glenn's gold commercial interrupts "News" programming, deciding that yes, the sky DOES look yellowish-green." Good job, Glenn Beck.
If you knew of a bunch of fellows who would cause the death of millions of people during the next 40 years, would you not put them in a prison?
What about all the millions of children who die each year because of what those guys did.
And don't try to tell me that some other place in the world spread that disease, like your friends on Que&rtown by the Bay.
http://news.pacificnews.org/news/view_article.html?article_id=eed74d9d44c30493706fe03f4c9b3a77
...but trust me: they ain't for illegal immigrants. -Didn't have time to look up the original Houston Chronicle article.