Idiotic CNN Host Argues With Meteorologist About Radiation

CNN’s Nancy Grace argues with a meteorologist about the supposed danger California is facing from radiation that has blown across the Pacific Ocean from the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear accident:

With channels like CNN giving air time to people who speak out in support of baseless fear-mongering, it’s no surprise that many people in the United States are fearful about Japanese radiation.

Related Story: Fear is gripping thousands of US military families in Japan, most of whom rely on the American media for their news about Japan. According to Stars & Stripes, nearly 8,000 families are hoping to flee the country on government-organized evacuation flights.

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54 comments - What do you think? Posted by James - March 22, 2011 at 10:45 pm

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fh

I just died a little inside, watching that.
manimal

WOW… People actually tune in to listen to that woman talk!!??
It’s like that saying where they tell ugly people that they have a “face suited for radio”. This woman has a voice better suited to print, that was just grating.
Michael Jones

Why this woman still has a job is beyond me. She’s all fear, all the time. Doesn’t matter what the story is.
- [PT]Snake
  
  because 90% of americans are stupid.
  
  Yeah, i just made that number up, most likely, it’s higher.
  - jcpb
    
    This, and the ugly truth that many Americans don’t know about anything beyond their immediate house plot.
  - http://www.billowykimono.com Senor Science
    
    No, I’m afraid you’re pretty much right.
  - Tranker
    
    Because it’s clear that 90% of all Americans both watch Nancy Grace and furthermore agree with her. Nothing like meeting idiocy with more idiocy–were you hoping they’d cancel each other out? If only.
Kevin not kevin

God damn. I’m finding myself raging a lot, nowadays. This woman needs to be sacrificed to the Fukushima reactor gods before they spew radiation all over Southern California – IT’S IMPERATIVE!

Oh, and DOOM!
- Ted
  
  Nah I’ve got a better idea. Use Debito to cover the Daiichi reactor (since he’s The Most Japanese Japanese Person In The World(tm), his Yamato-damashii spirit of selflessness combined with his huge bulk will do the trick) and use Nancy Grace to bridge the 50 Hz/60 Hz divide between Kanto and Kansai so the power can flow.
T-rock

OK these are supposed to be professionals LOL and gee they got
paid loads of money for this as usual!
You kidding me right?
Meteorologist and a JD what the heck do they know about
radiation except one with the weather and another with law um
OK?
A PHD or a physicist needs to intervene
- Rob A
  
  It doesn’t take a PhD to read what maximum safe levels are, read (from a reputable news source, not CNN/Fox News/MSNBC) what the ACTUAL levels are, and compare.
  
  As I’ve said before, a few atoms are not harmful, and even less than that is actually reaching across the ocean.
- http://theinconvenienttruthonwhaling.blogspot.com/ kujirkira
  
  I think they need a psychologist to intervene. Or better yet, a producer to just pull the plug.
bob

This is retarded.

Most of the news organisations are more interested in selling copies / getting people to tune in, just so they can sell their fucking ads, rather than actually doing their damn job and giving us accurate information.

Commercial interest has destroy the journalism worldwide.

It’s now all about money.
- Morten
  
  True. And one gets a little sadder every time this shows. Which is a bit to often recently:(
- Rob A
  
  What he said.
  
  I once had a news anchor reporting on a ‘hit list’ made by one of the students at my High School tell me “Nobody cares about the details, if it bleeds it leads.”
  
  I punched him in the gut, said “Congratulations, you’re a headline.” and walked away.
  - Simon
    
    No you didn’t, but that’s funny regardless.
T-rock

True that LOL
This is serious stuff about people`s lives and they act like two spoiled rotten rich kids unbelievable
Gonr

I am back on the weekend – I make no apologies for getting out of Japan last week as the information was conflicting and let’s face it we are all much more knowledgable about radiation then we then but for me the aftershocks were causing a great deal of stress The western media does sensationalize the situation, but tepco and gov. Have/had an interest in downplaying the situation – a better balance between the press clubs sycophantic approach and the western mediaS desire to sell viewers and hits
http://hanlonsrzr.blogspot.com Mr. S.

And we wonder why the Republic has died in America?
trololol

now where is my baseball bat…
Osakadave

“Your mouth to god’s ear! Your mouth to god’s ear!”

That has to be the stupidest comeback of all. (>.<)
piranhamoose

this worman consumes more carcinogens in the form of preservatives, microwavable foods, livestock induced with artificial growth hormones, and daily make-up and hair products than any nuclear reactor can produce. as you can see, her thought processes are already exhibiting slight schizophrenic symptoms such as paranoia delusions and suggesting to everyone that her delusions are facts. “From you mouth to God’s ears,”????? This lady is a waste of space, water, oil and air, and there are way too many people like her on this earth. Lets conserve our natural resources, and eliminate as much people like this person on this planet, and we will see a drastic change in the world we live in.
Hank

As I mentioned in a previous post, that woman is psychotic ! She earns a living off the misery of others. This site sums it up well.
http://nancygracemustdie.com/
Rob A

Someone throw this know-nothing waste of life off a large bridge, please.

Or maybe we can use her fat stupid ass to plug up the holes in containment over at Fukushima Daiichi…
- lovely
  
  good one and i woule LOVE to help make it happen. too bad i am too far away.
apple407

She is also selling that large bridge, Brooklyn Bridge.
New Sanno Hotel -Tokyo,Japan

8,000 families are hoping to flee the country

good riddance and don’t come back.
- yom
  
  *high five*
  
  also, I’ve never wanted to punch a woman more in my life than this “woman”
New Sanno Hotel -Tokyo,Japan

America tested atomic bombs in the Pacific which
resulted in real radioactive nuclear fallout
and death.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daigo_Fukury%C5%AB_Maru
Daigo Fukuryū Maru
Anonymous

And what’s worse is that, not only has Nancy Grace been on television for years, but the sentence “idiotic CNN host argues with about ” can be used for everything she “covers”.

Well, either that or the fact that she makes millions a year doing this kind of garbage.
flowby

This is exactly why I was overjoyed when CNN was replaced by BBC on my cable service last year.

Do they actually believe the stuff that they spout forth?

Anyone know?

Or is it agit-journalism designed for the lowest common denominator?
Xenon

I simply made a huge facepalm to her…americans can sometimes be..stupid.
- jcpb
  
  Replace ‘sometimes’ with ‘often’.
  - JT
    
    Please do not equate this degenerate waste of life to the rest of the American population.
    - manimal
      
      Yea, funny how so many comments are like “typical American” or something similar. Pretty sure I haven’t seen any Americans posting here to support this crazy cow. The guy she is arguing with seems like more of a typical American to me, but whatever. Enjoying believing your stereotyping.
TofuUnion

She should learn we all live in natural radiation background which might cause potential cancer but normally Not. He is saying that.

In Japan all the cities have now normal radiation level except Fukushima.
andrew

this nancy idiot is just a fear mongering fool. She doesn’t know what she is talking about….seriously, she has no clue. She is dumb in regards to this topic. As much as her comments disturb me, what is even more disturbing is that people actually listen to her. PEOPLE FIND HER REPUTABLE. this is just plain and simply sad. Booooo on you Nancy for being an idiot and talking as if you know what you are talking about.
patricia

CNN has sunk really low, airing a show with that woman talking, proudly parading her ignorance. It’s disgusting.
sublight

Face for radio, voice for print, brain for CNN.
Me

Someone needs to school that fat biatch by slapping her silly.
sendaicam

How anybody can stand to watch when she’s on CNN is beyond me. She is the epitome of the loud, outspoken, know-it-all, in your face ugly American.
Haseeb

Americans at their utmost stubborn and arrogant behavior. Someone outta correct from the shooting crew (get it, the shooting crew :P).
Bad Wolf

Her Wikipedia page notes, “She frequently discusses issues from what she describes as a victims’ rights standpoint…” I bet she and Debito would get along fabulously: abrasive personality (check); speaking from ignorance (check); personal attacks on opposition (check), and so on.
Me

FROM YOUR MATH TO GED’S YEAR.
I don’t like americans.
Where else… ?
Lenne Hardt

This woman is a menace to society and I formerly put in my petition that she be removed from the airwaves.

She is ill-equipped, ill-informed and ill-mannered!

I and many of my fellow residents in Tokyo (who by the way are perfectly healthy and happy just 250 kilometers away-so what she is worried about who knows?) are boycotting CNN till you make significant changes in your policy and presentation.

It is not just this woman but the entire sensational, non-researched, non-sourced non-sense that you have been airing that appalls and angers.

Allowing your anchors to suggest that there is a Japanese government cover up, as this hysteric and rude woman submits, is also offensive.
CNN in very large part, has contributed to the mad fear and exodus of Japanese and foreigners alike and will be to a great extent, to blame for the economic, social and psychological damage afflicted on an already traumatized region of our world.

Do the right thing
Clean up your policies and presentation.
Lenne Hardt
Alex

I’m surprised she didn’t say “Well, speaking as a mother…”, whilst claiming Al-Qaeda trained dolphins were secretly bringing it over in Russian vodka bottles…

Still, she seemed pretty rational compared to what I’ve seen of Fox News presenters.
Alex

“Yea, funny how so many comments are like “typical American” or something similar. Pretty sure I haven’t seen any Americans posting here to support this crazy cow. The guy she is arguing with seems like more of a typical American to me, but whatever. Enjoying believing your stereotyping.”

I do agree with you, but the trouble is with a country driven by market forces, if her crap didn’t sell, she’d be out of a job. We all know not all Americans are like it, hell we probably know most Americans aren’t like her, but there must be enough who are, or who are prepared to give what she thinks and spouts their time in watching it to make CNN a shed load of money and think it’s worth keeping her…. and if we’re very honest with ourselves, we see very little to counter it other than ‘we aren’t all like that’ We know… it’d just be nice to have it confirmed sometime.
- http://theinconvenienttruthonwhaling.blogspot.com/ kujirakira
  
  Part of the problem is that there is no BBC or NHK in America to center the situation. PBS or whatever we have is just not very credible nor mainstream. People talk a lot of smack about how NHK is a “yes man” of sorts, but I envy Japan having them.
  
  As a result, the Rupert Murdoch methodology has been left to ravage the ratings of any semi-credible news reporting. All the news channels have revolutionized their setup in the worst way possible. Everyone is either a fire-breathing libtard or a chicken-hawk conman. It’s one extreme or the other, and then they bash eachother for their inevitably hypocritical stances, double standards, and partisanship — that’s American News / Political “Debate” (more like cat fight)
  
  That said, the American-bashing doesn’t bother me so much. We’ve taken some potshots at the French, so it’s all fair in jest.
Elizabeth

I haven’t watched the video yet but I do take offense to the nasty comments left about Americans being stupid and etc. I’m not sure if this site has an auto translate option on it, but if not then if we’re so stupid then how come so many of you have decided to learn the English language? Was it only to insult us? If so then I’m about 100% convinced that Americans are no longer the stupid ones here. Which as to not misconstrued what my opinion is, not everyone who learns the English language wants to use it in such an insulting and vulgar manner but those who do are clearly ignorant and will be and should be ignored by all.
- http://tepido.org/ LB
  
  if we’re so stupid then how come so many of you have decided to learn the English language?
  
  1. Many of us are native English speakers.
  
  2. Perhaps those here who are not native speakers learned English out of admiration for the British? You remember them – the people who invented English? Americans aren’t the only English speakers on the planet, you know.
  
  3. You walk into a conversation without even having bothered to learn what the conversation is about (said so yourself: “I haven’t watched the video yet but…”) just to bitch?
  
  You’re right darlin’, all Americans are not stupid. Just you (and Nancy Grace).
- http://theinconvenienttruthonwhaling.blogspot.com/ kujirakira
  
  If it was me, I would say I learned your language because Americans are too stupid to learn anyone elses.
  One could also point out that America is hardly the only country to speak English.
  
  not everyone who learns the English language wants to use it in such an insulting and vulgar manner but those who do are clearly ignorant and will be and should be ignored by all
  
  Reading this I imagine a stately Victorian English woman sitting with perfect posture upon a rigid chair. Her pet poodle snarls from beneath the table while she has tea and crumpets, daring the staff to say so much as a peep.
  Just saying.
  - http://tepido.org/ LB
    
    Her pet poodle snarls
    
    Welsh Corgie, methinks. No proper British lady would own a French dog!
    - http://theinconvenienttruthonwhaling.blogspot.com/ kujirakira
      
      Touche.
      Wait… dammit, I did it again.
- http://www.billowykimono.com Senor Science
  
  Maybe because some of us are Americans who are angry at how we’re perceived by the rest of the world thanks to the idiocy of our own countrymen?

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