CNN Anchor Bill Weir to Fox Nation: ‘You Willfully Ignorant F*cksticks’ (UPDATED)
It’s safe to say CNN anchor Bill Weir is not a fan of climate change deniers.
On Thursday, the Twitter account for Fox Nation, a blog run by Fox News, tweeted a link to a post headlined, “Climate Doesn’t Cooperate With Al Gore’s Group’s Visit to Denver EPA Hearings.”
The story, aggregated from the Washington Times, relates to a Denver visit by former Vice President Al Gore‘s “Climate Reality Project” for EPA hearings on power plant emissions.
The group showed up to hand out ice cream even though it was 58 degrees.
Weir retweeted the link, with his own comment: “Weather is not climate, you willfully ignorant fucksticks.”
We’ve requested comment from CNN.
Tweet below:
Weather is not climate, you willfully ignorant fucksticks. MT @foxnation: Climate Doesn’t Cooperate With Al Gore
http://t.co/QKe0PkyYQK
— Bill Weir (@BillWeirCNN) July 31, 2014
UPDATE — 3:35 p.m. ET: Weir took to Twitter to apologize. See below:
The glop of Midwestern guilt stuck in my chest prob won't go away until I apologize to @foxnation for name-calling.
Dumb move.
My bad.
— Bill Weir (@BillWeirCNN) July 31, 2014
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