Given how much hatred CNN seems to have for conservatives and Trump supporters, this week’s NewsBusters Time Machine flashback is ironic. Four years ago this week, CNN’s Carol Costello insisted that you either agree with liberals or you’re a hater. Talking to far-left celebrity Bill Nye on May 29, 2015, she lobbied the liberal to lecture on climate change: “Bill Nye, the science guy is here, ready to fight the haters. Before we begin, I just want to say 97 percent of scientists say climate change is real and much of it is driven by man, so let's go on.” Costello added, “You tweet about climate change after extreme weather events all the time, and each time it makes climate change deniers freak out. Is this your strategy?” Nye compared climate change denial to those who would reject a link between smoking and lung cancer. “I just want to remind voters that, suppose you had somebody running for congressional office in your district who insisted there was no connection between cigarette smoking and cancer. Would you vote for that person? You might, but if this person were adamant, ‘no the scientists who study cigarette smoking are, they don’t know what’ – if they were adamant would you vote them? So, in the same way the connection between climate change and human activity is at least as strong as cigarettes and cancer.”
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