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While CNN’s Don Lemon makes ‘Azz’ of himself in US, Aussie network rings in 2023 with drag queens January 2, 2023 | Melissa Fine | Print Article

 

While CNN’s Don Lemon makes ‘Azz’ of himself in US, Aussie network rings in 2023 with drag queens

January 2, 2023 |  |  Print Article
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ABC started 2023 with an outpouring of anger and disappointment from Australian viewers who blasted the network for its “woke” New Year’s Eve coverage of Sydney’s celebration which featured drag queens and a segment devoted to Indigenous artists Carmen Glynn-Braun and Dennis Golding, creators of the 9 p.m. “Calling County” fireworks display.

Drag Queen Courtney Act took to the stage with a tribute to Olivia Newton-John and a version of the Divinyls hit, “I Touch Myself.”

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It was enough to prompt many viewers to take to Twitter with their frustrated complaints.

“What an absolutely boring 9 p.m. display with absolutely boring, unknown ‘music,’ and with what is supposed to be a celebration for all, being hijacked by a woke minority,” fumed one viewer. “What an absolute disgrace, a display of the exclusion of the majority.”

“Could they have missed the mark more with the kids’ fireworks music selection?” tweeted another. “I’m sure many kids are saying WTF was that. It’s really not that hard~just get Bluey to sing baby shark then run TikTok vids~ save the obligatory woke snooze fest for the adults’ fireworks.”



“I watched the pre 9 o’clock ABC,” wrote a third, “and I thought I’d been spiked with LSD.”

The displeasure was echoed over and over again in brutal tweet after brutal tweet.

“People think taxpayers’ money is wasted on NYE fireworks,” tweeted one user. “Then #ABCNYE takes that money down the toilet to a whole new level.”

“Looks like @ABCTV #SydneyNYE is trying to appeal to a younger audience this year but they don’t seem to understand young people don’t stay at home on #NYE watching the #ABC,” stated another.

“Sick of the LGBQZ community shoving there (sic) values down our families while telling the very vast majority we are the wrong ones,” yet another raged.

 

Meanwhile, back in the States, CNN, a network in desperate need of redemption following the loss of half its viewers, had its own cringeworthy moments.

Morning host Don Lemon managed to make an Azz of himself–despite CNN’s vow to limit its hosts’ alcohol intake during the live coverage.

“CNN has redeemed itself by ringing in the new year in New Orleans with ‘Back That Azz Up’ and not acknowledging the stroke of midnight in any way,” noted one Twitter user.

True enough, Lemon was chucking beads into the audience and, thanks to an earpiece malfunction, was oblivious to the fact that the big countdown to midnight was taking place.

Said one Twitter user, “He had one job.”

Republished with permission from American Wire News Service

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60 Minutes airs apocalyptic predictions to ring in the new year: ‘Humanity is not sustainable’ January 2, 2023 | Laurel Duggan |

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60 Minutes airs apocalyptic predictions to ring in the new year: ‘Humanity is not sustainable’

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CBS’ “60 Minutes” opened 2023 by airing a segment about the dangers of population growth featuring biologist Paul Ehrlich, who has long predicted societal collapse and disaster due to high population.

Ehrlich, a Stanford University professor, said humanity was not sustainable and reiterated his concerns that the planet’s human population was crowding out the natural environment to our own peril. While the world population is still rising, the rate of human fertility plummeted by roughly 50% across the globe in the last 70 years; the average family had five children in 1952, but now has fewer than three.

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“Oh, humanity is not sustainable. To maintain our lifestyle (yours and mine, basically) for the entire planet, you’d need five more Earths. Not clear where they’re gonna come from,” he said. “Resources that would be required, the systems that support our lives, which of course are the biodiversity that we’re wiping out. Humanity is very busily sitting on a limb that we’re sawing off.”

Ehrlich has long predicted mass starvation and environmental collapse due to population growth and recommended taxing children, mass sterilization, abortions to limit population growth and “whatever steps are necessary to establish a reasonable population size” in his 1968 book “The Population Bomb.”

Earlier in his career he predicted that hundreds of millions of people would starve to death in the 1970s, that England would not exist by 2000 and that “an utter breakdown of the capacity of the planet to support humanity” would occur by the 198os, according to The New York Times.

Host Scott Pelley mentioned that Ehrlich had been viewed as an alarmist when “Population Bomb” came out.

“I was alarmed. I am still alarmed. All of my colleagues are alarmed,” Ehrlich said. “The rate of extinction is extraordinarily high now and getting higher all the time.”

Ehrlich and CBS did not respond to the Daily Caller News Foundation’s request for comment.

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