National Public Radio, the left-wing radio station that promoted In Defense of Looting, is also giving puffball interviews to one of the radical “Just Stop Oil” nuts who throw soup at Van Gogh paintings and then glue herself to the wall. NPR host Steve Inskeep promoted Phoebe Plummer, a young, pink-haired woman, on Tuesday’s Morning Edition. She compared herself with Martin Luther King.
STEVE INSKEEP – Phoebe Plummer, who has shocked many people in recent days, says that it’s okay.
PHOEBE PLUMMER – This is not a contest for popularity. We are making changes. Famously, the suffragttes were despised. Martin Luther King was once voted America’s most hated man when he was alive.
INSKEEP: Plummer is associated with Just Stop Oil, a U.K. climate activist organization. Yesterday, the group spray orange paint on London’s government and corporate buildings. Plummer was part of a group that sprayed soup onto a famous painting in Europe in protest against fossil fuels. Although the painting was protected by glass, which can be easily cleaned, Plummer wanted to convey an indelible message.
No ideological label! No, not even “liberal!” Take a look at the facilitations questions, uncorked by Inskeep.
The two of you. You are wearing Just Stop Oil T shirts. You have gone beyond the rope protecting the painting. The tomato soup is all over the wall. Your left hands are all over the wall. ?… What’s the deal?
Was that ?…?
It seems like it would be bothersome until they get you up from the wall.
Why tomato soup ?…
How did you choose Vincent Van Gogh’s painting? What did he do for you?
This was the Twitter promo:
Phoebe Plummer is a climate activist from Just Stop Oil. She threw soup on a Van Gogh painting to explain what the group wants and why they are turning to controversial tactics. https://t.co/8BTALKDvdK
— NPR (@NPR), November 1, 2022
Inskeep suggested late in the interview that stopping oil production could “harm people who have low incomes,” while Plummer said “renewables cost nine times less.” This was the “hardball” question, the one about protests that led to the election of people who would do “terrible and terrible things” — the Republicans.
STEVE INSKEEP – Let’s say you were speaking to someone who is on the same page about climate change, but not on the same page about the policy solution. It could be President Joe Biden or a U.K. official. They might say, “I understand the long-term need for this to be addressed, but we are currently in this conflict with Russia, which includes Ukraine.” High energy prices are a problem. It’s getting to the point that it threatens political majorities and could bring people in power who would do terrible, terrible, things. This must be done carefully. How do you respond to someone who says this?
PHOEBE PLUMMER – The truth is that we don’t have time to waste. Sir David King, former chief scientist adviser to the U.K., stated last year that what we do in three to four years will determine how the future of humanity. When will we start listening to scientists? When will we wake up and realize that we will face catastrophic consequences if we don’t act now?
This is how NPR defines debate. Joe Biden is the most reasonable Opposing View. Plummer was promoted by NPR along with her glue pal, on the October 28 All Things Considered. There, leftist experts debated whether vandalism tactics were constructive.
