Fox News contributor Lisa Boothe called climate change a “limousine liberal issue” on “The Big Saturday Show” in the aftermath of President Joe Biden traveling through Rome in an 85-vehicle motorcade before the COP26 UN Climate Change Conference on Sunday.
“The issue of climate change is a limousine liberal issue,” Boothe said. “The Republican Party has turned into the party for the American worker, and Democrats are the party for coastal elites. This issue alone underscores that point.”
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Boothe also cited Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, D-N.Y., illegally parking her “$59,000” Tesla outside of a Whole Foods store and U.S. climate envoy John Kerry “exclusively fl[ying] private” as examples of “limousine liberal issues…[that] hurt hardworking Americans the most.”
“If Democrats actually cared about emissions, they would look toward things like natural gas, nuclear power as well,” she continued. “But they don’t care about these issues. They don’t care about emissions. All they care about is virtue-signaling to their other limousine liberal friends.”
Democrat Mario Procaccino coined the term “limousine liberal” in his ill-fated 1969 campaign for New York City mayor. Author and journalist Tom Wolfe perhaps popularized the insult in his 1970 essay, “Radical Chic: That Party at Lenny’s.”
“This is hypocrisy…to the teeth,” Fox News contributor Sean Duffy said.
“What gets me,” he continued, is that “every single one” of the Democrats who “bashed” energy executives for oil production and contributing to climate change at a House hearing earlier this week “flies on airplanes, …drives cars, …heat[s] their homes, …turn[s] on the lights,” etc.
“And they’re bashing every single one of the energy executives who actually produce the energies that make their lives work,” he said.
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