Former acting CDC director Richard Besser, former HHS secretary Kathleen Sebelius and activist Greta Thunberg join @AndersonCooper & @DrSanjayGupta for a live #CNNTownHall. Coronavirus – Facts and Fears, Thursday at 8 p.m. ET pic.twitter.com/I4FrXgwaL6
— CNN (@CNN) May 13, 2020
An upcoming CNN town hall on the coronavirus pandemic will feature 17-year-old Greta Thunberg alongside a panel of medical experts.
The program, “Coronavirus Facts and Fears,” also includes CNN broadcaster Sanjay Gupta, 50, former Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius, 71, and former Centers for Disease Control and Prevention director Richard Besser, 60. CNN anchor Anderson Cooper, 52, will host alongside Gupta.
However, social media watchdogs are foaming at the mouth over the choice to place a teen climate activist on a panel with public health experts.
“What place does Greta Thunberg have in this town hall?” asks Twitter rabble-rouser Yashar Ali to his 618,000 followers. His rhetorical question was liked by more than 12,000 since this morning.
More at the NY Post
She skipped school to to protest can we make her pass a HS equivalency test to get on the panel?
My my, this bright young female sure does rile the party of predominantly white old men.
You see Dr John, a panel of experts giving factual data isn’t a realistic variable for the party of Trump or his cultists. As Paul Krugman presented today:
Greta Thunberg may be a child but she’s drawn international attention and while she does infuriate Trump apologists who think along the same lines as McConnell does towards our previous black president- that they should shut up, there are many people that have respect for her.
So CNN has an audience ranging from political annalist to the crazy uncle in the basement to the stay at home mom who may not realize or put together the reality of how sinister and deadly the GOP is on handling the virus or even in regards to destroying the planet, all for, as Krugman put it, to “Die for Dow”.
Thunberg was on 1 hand a drawing card to her followers for an opportunity to give a different perspective than those with expertise, and on the other hand to point to the parallels of science rejection Republicans have for the virus and the earth.
Even our extinguish Retire05 says his big pet peave of Trump is that he hasn’t fired Dr Fauci so we know there are many of the unhinged that reject top scientist. If CNN wanted to bring on Bozo The Clown or Peewee Herman to draw people to reality and the truth rather than the deadly snake-oil Trump is selling, I’d be all for it.
@Ronald J. Ward: She is a slacker given tons good press, to be on a panel of experts seriously? It has no college education, who knows if she has a HS diploma, spoiled, indulged and raised by activists, so by facts learning impaired.
As she fits so well in a virus panel of experts someone should ask her the definition of a virus. CNN is in hard competition with the onion and falls behind the babylon bee.
piece of liberal fecal material . SFB’s ! sebelius was instrumental in overseeing the implementation of the affordable care act another piece of crap. she still has some very ?? behaviour during her job. gupta is a media doc. he love ratings. cooper, we all know what his IS. greta, just a matter of time when a liberal, high paid plastic surgeon get his hands on her face: nose job, cheeks, chin in plant and eyes. it is about 2 1/2 hours of surgery but totally different appearance. she needs to put glasses on to look more studious.
Let’s be fair, now.
CNN billed this as a Town Hall on
“Coronovirus: Facts and FEARS.
Greta well represents the fear mongers of the world.
A mentally deranged high-school dropout who can fear monger better than those with PhDs and pussyhats!
@Ronald J. Ward: Speaking of old white men, it was shown that her father was doing the posting on her Facebook page. Yes, what a brilliant little girl.
Maybe she thinks COVID19 should be stood up against a wall and shot?
@Ronald J. Ward:
She’s a mentally ill Swedish girl being exploited by your Democrat Mas-stahs.
You a good plantation worker, ain’t you sambo?
They gonna give you the scraps from Mastah’s table.
Good boy.
P.S. – the Democrat Party enslaves and oppressed blacks for the explicit purpose of getting votes.
Too bad Blexit is a thing…only to be fully realized in November.
Republicans are all white supremacists? That’s a meme from the 80s, you dumb f*ck.
now we have even more reasons to not watch the Communists News Network(CNN)its a total waste and i quit watching CNN years ago and i just plain quit watching the M.S. Media as well and i quit reading the lie a day Newspapers