Christiane Amanpour’s latest segment on PBS wasn’t journalism at all — it was political campaigning for Jane Fonda and her climate PAC.
She opened by quoting Al Gore — who in turn was quoting folk singer Joan Baez — saying:
“Now former US Vice President Al Gore recently recalled that the famous Joan Baez line that the antidote to despair is action. And so the antidote to climate despair is climate action. And our next guest embodies that spirit…”
This is what PBS calls journalism: Al Gore’s recycled climate panic wrapped around a folk singer’s slogan.
Then Amanpour brought on Jane Fonda as the face of “climate action.” Fonda, who has spent years staging protests and getting arrested, now claims the real solution is electing her chosen “climate champions” through her PAC.
When the discussion turned to President Trump’s criticism of green energy — calling it a “giant con job” — Fonda dismissed it, saying:
“He just needs some education. He doesn’t understand. And so we will talk to him.”
Funny — because it looks a lot more like Jane Fonda is the one who needs an education on the failures and cost of green energy.
After years of protesting, lobbying, and even getting arrested, Fonda admitted the movement still wasn’t getting the legislation it wanted. The reason, she claimed, was simple:
“And we realized the reason is that so many people elected to office in Washington take money from the fossil fuel industry.”
Her solution?
“If you can’t change the people, change the people. So we started the Jane Fonda Climate PAC and we elect climate champions all over the country…”
Jane Fonda blasts politicians for taking fossil fuel money — while she’s running her own PAC to funnel cash into politics. Same game, different players.
Instead of debating the science, PBS gave the stage to Jane Fonda — a protesting celebrity turned PAC leader — and presented it as headline news.
PBS’s message? Trust Al Gore’s failed prophecies, hand your vote to Jane Fonda’s activists, and ignore anyone who questions the green energy racket President Trump rightly called a “giant con job.”
Can you believe this channel, this show, and this kind of political activism used to be publicly funded? For decades, taxpayers helped bankroll PBS through the Corporation for Public Broadcasting. That ended when President Trump shut it down — no more tax dollars for political activism disguised as news.