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-Short Attention Span Theater-
Greta Thunberg added to CNN’s expert coronavirus panel
2020-05-14
[NYPOST] An upcoming CNN town hall on the coronavirus (aka COVID19 or Chinese Plague)
...the twenty first century equivalent of bubonic plague, only instead of killing off a third of the population of Europe it kills 3.4 percent of those who notice they have it. It seems to be fond of the elderly, especially Iranian politicians and holy men...
 pandemic will feature 17-year-old Greta "Pippi" Thunberg
...an autistic sixteen year old Swedish expert on climate change...
 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,
if you can't say something nice about a person some juicy gossip will go well...
 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.

Her name is a top trending term on Twitter, with some 30,000 mentions on the platform in just a few hours.

In a follow-up tweet, Ali clarified his rhetorical tweet with an explanation: "I understand that but this is a panel of top health experts and administrators. A climate activist would be better suited on a different panel. She’s not a climate scientist. It’s a matter of placement."

Related:
Greta Thunberg: 2020-04-23 Rep. Wotta-Maroon: Americans Should "Just Say No" To Going Back To Work After Society Reopens
Greta Thunberg: 2020-04-04 Greta Thunberg Slams Ocasio-Cortez's Green New Deal
Greta Thunberg: 2020-03-30 Europe Wasn't Ready for Coronavirus. It May Never Fully Recover.
Related:
Sanjay Gupta: 2019-05-27 CNN Lays Off Almost Entire Division
Sanjay Gupta: 2016-09-19 Mercer: First She Scoffs At the Country, Then She Coughs All Over It
Sanjay Gupta: 2010-01-17 Doctors flee like little girls due to "security concerns" . Gupta shamed pansies into returning.
Related:
Kathleen Sebelius: 2018-08-24 More 'Connecting the Dots' and Social Network Analysis
Kathleen Sebelius: 2017-09-08 Menendez Co-Defendant Plays Race Card Almost Immediately
Kathleen Sebelius: 2017-08-27 Welfare Reform in Kansas Caused Individuals to Reenter Labor Force Making Higher Incomes
Related:
Richard Besser: 2015-04-09 The Champ: Global Warming Gave My Daughter Asthma
Richard Besser: 2009-04-29 US reaction to swine flu more muted than elsewhere
Richard Besser: 2009-04-27 Twenty swine flu cases confirmed in U.S. - officials
Related:
Anderson Cooper: 2020-04-26 AOC and a Generation of Lotus Eaters
Anderson Cooper: 2020-04-06 Did globalists Bill & Melinda purchase the Center for Disease Control (CDC) ?
Anderson Cooper: 2020-01-09 As Part Of Settlement With Nick Sandmann, CNN Hosts Must Wear MAGA Hats During All Broadcasts
Posted by:Fred

#20  How is she getting to the panel? I can't believe she'd teleconference, considering the amount of carbon emitted by the server farms...
Posted by: Rob Crawford   2020-05-14 22:03  

#19  CNN has conceded they've failed as news and are now going after Babylon Bee market share.
Posted by: rjschwarz   2020-05-14 17:39  

#18  Sebelius, aks Silver Mullet.
Guess if we're going to talk Wuhan Flu, better have an old bat on the panel.
Posted by: swksvolFF   2020-05-14 11:26  

#17  The Silver Mullet Rides Again!

Host and Panelist Gupta?

Don't even know this Besser feller, but he is already the most qualified blabberhead.

I'm excited. This sounds like a total riot.
Posted by: swksvolFF   2020-05-14 11:22  

#16  Make sure she pays her NYC and state income tax.
Posted by: jpal   2020-05-14 10:21  

#15  Thought her 15 minutes were up long ago?
Posted by: JohnQC   2020-05-14 09:09  

#14  Uff da!
Posted by: Mercutio   2020-05-14 08:45  

#13  St Greta has somehow permanently missed the short bus, oh woe, will no one rid us of this Swedish special ed truant?
Posted by: Cesare   2020-05-14 07:36  

#12  File under Blair's Law?
Posted by: Bright Pebbles   2020-05-14 07:09  

#11  ...the techs and the producer in the control room booth, occasionally.
Posted by: Procopius2k   2020-05-14 06:33  

#10  With Airports closed who IS watching CNN?
Posted by: Bright Pebbles   2020-05-14 03:24  

#9  Soon to be joined by judge Sullivan?
Posted by: g(r)omgoru   2020-05-14 02:36  

#8  Whoops. Great minds and all.
Posted by: Phusotle Dingle5823   2020-05-14 01:29  

#7  "CNN" was the clue. They are beyond parody.
Posted by: Phusotle Dingle5823   2020-05-14 01:28  

#6  Down $1 here too. CNN is beyond satire evidently.
Posted by: Lex   2020-05-14 01:28  

#5  Down a dollar. Sure headline was from the Bab Bee.
Posted by: Phusotle Dingle5823   2020-05-14 01:27  

#4  If she is subject to America’s child labour laws, she might finally be forced to catch up on her missed education, which could prove illuminating...
Posted by: trailing wife   2020-05-14 01:10  

#3  Nothing adds gravitas to a scientific panel like an angry Scandinavian child.
Posted by: SteveS   2020-05-14 01:02  

#2  
CV is removing carbon dioxide emitters (people)
That's what she wanted right?
Posted by: flash91   2020-05-14 00:29  

#1  She's there as eye candy, to prevent apoplexy from the audience looking at the rest of the CNN gang of crooks.
Posted by: Silentbrick   2020-05-14 00:07  

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