MSNBC Goes All The Way To Antarctica To Report About The North Pole

The Whistler  •  May 6, 2008

This MSNBC report is about the ice cap disappearing at the north pole, something that is apparently creating havoc among the penguin population there. Except, there’s just one problem. The last time I checked (and I used to live pretty close to the arctic circle) there weren’t any penguins at the north pole.


As Ed Morrissey notes:

The “expanses of water that weren’t there before” were actually never there at the North Pole. All 17 species of penguins live in the southern hemisphere.
Why would penguins make the long and rather warm journey across the equator to appear in an MS-NBC story about global warming?

Perhaps because it’s convenient for the sort of scientifically-illiterate global warming propaganda MSNBC is trying to spread?

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  • http://proof-proofpositive.blogspot.com/ proof_positive

    I seriously can not believe this post.

    says the Cretinous Kahuna of the Kiddie Pool sitting at home by his inflatable date! Talk about things we seriously can’t believe! Heh.

  • Andrew

    Did I miss something? The video that I just watched mentioned nothing about penguins. It was all about some teenage girl from the UK going to the North Pole to make a documentary. They talked about the ice cap disappearing but nothing about penguins.

  • Hannitized

    HG, no it wasn’t…it was at :45. Cheif appears to have made a mistake.

  • http://www.ski-blog.com/ sayanything-24

    Check the 46 second mark.

    The 15 year old Arctic explorer is kinda cute though. Some kind of fur collared coat wearing Hannah Montana. I like the accent. Her “bum gets cold” when going to the bathroom in the Arctic Circle. And she needed to learn to use a gun to protect against Polar Bears. She would be the bell of the ball at a party in Bitter America where we cling to our guns, except that she is an immigrant and most of us cling to anti-immigrant sentiments.

    First, this is problematic because I didn’t think Brits were allowed to own or shoot guns. Second, SHOOTING AN EFFING POLAR BEAR? AREN’T THEY ALREADY ABOUT TO ALL DIE FROM GLOBAL WARMING? Sounds like she needs to join the NRA and hunt humans like the rich folks that hunted Ice-T. I want a polar bear coat lined with baby seal fur personally or maybe lined with Eight Belles skin. Shooting Polar bears. My word.

  • Hannitized

    I seriously can not believe this post.

    There were no penguins walking on ice. Them are called people!! Vote Republican.

    Un fricking believable.

  • http://magyartruth.blogspot.com/ Chief RZ

    Andrew. At the :50 mark, one or two penguins are shown on a piece of ice.
    This story is about yet another “first” for a girl. To walk on ice in the Antarctic, and also about the hoax of global warming. As noted, penguins live at the South Pole.

    Remember the canoes paddling in “flooded” areas as a person walks by ankle deep!! These people fabricate “news” stories. Stories was a word one principal at my school insisted on using to describe other students lies.
    Mohair, I see you were able to download a picture.

  • http://massbackwards.blogspot.com/ Bruce

    MSNBC has conveniently edited the polar penguins out of the video.

  • http://dougeefargo.blogspot.com/ dougee

    Why did the girl have to learn how to shoot a gun? Didn’t Al Gore tell us that all of the polar bears are drowning?

  • Andrew

    At the :50 mark, one or two penguins are shown on a piece of ice.

    Ok, I missed that part the first time. From the post, it seemed as if the video was going to be about penguins rather than a brief clip of them. I thought that I was somehow watching the wrong video.

  • Pilgrim

    That’s too good. The sad part is that no one at MSNBC, from the film editor to the reporter to the producer caught the fact that penguins don’t live in the Arctic.

    Does anyone check anything over there?

    Yeesh.

  • Mohair Sam

    Fortunately, the report doesn’t have an agenda.

  • http://massbackwards.blogspot.com/ Bruce

    “See! The arctic ice is melting away! These poor penguins barely have anywhere to stand! We just proved that global warming is endangering wildlife!”

    Sad.

    The only thing missing is the revelation that those are actually computer-generated images of penguins.

  • Mickey

    This summarizes the global warming media hype in a nut shell.

  • Hannitized

    Where did you get the .50 marker from anyway HG? Making it up?

  • HG

    H. they edited out the penguins. There were penguins on the original video.

  • Pilgrim

    Justin B:

    I want a polar bear coat lined with baby seal fur personally or maybe lined with Eight Belles skin. Shooting Polar bears. My word.

    Heh. If they’re declared an endangered species you’d better hurry and shoot one before they’re all gone. I hear they make great rugs.

  • Hannitized

    Oh…..ok.

    Well was the penguin footage originally at :50 on the clip counter or did Cheif just make a judgement call there?

  • HG

    H, yes, it was.

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