Ahead of President Barack Obama’s speech on climate change early Tuesday afternoon at Georgetown University, FOX Business’s Stuart Varney took issue not at the contents of the remarks, but at the intended audience.
“We can debate carbon emissions all day long, but there’s no question that this speech is for the elite and will be delivered directly to the elite,” Varney said this morning on his show, Varney & Co, according to a rush transcript. “They will laugh it up. Those students the president will address pay $62,500 for tuition, room and board. 62,500. I predict they’ll love what the president has to say. Climate change is their issue and they care about the planet.”
But go “100 miles to the west of Georgetown University they actually go underground to mine the coal,” he contiued. “They take real risk. They get their hands dirty, the miners issue is putting food on the table, putting their kids through community college. It is these people who will be driven out of a job by this president and the elite students will cheer as the president destroys an American industry. Astonishing, isn’t it? In this age of wealth redistribution, the wealthy applaud the ruin of working America.”
“The elites ruined Europe and now they’re doing exactly the same thing here.”
