On Monday night's Jimmy Kimmel Live, Kimmel devoted a segment of the show to debunking Sarah Palin and other climate change deniers. He said then he knew he would get "beaten over the head" for the bit, and on Tuesday's show, he read some of the comments. Social media is a double-edged sword, he began, noting that before Twitter and Facebook, people had to send nasty comments through the mail, while now "they can go online and torpedo that rage directly at me immediately."
With the explanation of social media out of the way, Kimmel read a "sampling of the warm sentiments I received, and I just want to say up front, it might seem like I only pick comments from people whose grammar is bad, but the truth is, the vast majority of the negative comments came from people whose grammar is bad." If you've ever taken the time to read the comments section of any website, you've seen worse, but there are some doozies. Kimmel ended on a pretty dark note, though: "Some of it got me kind of mad, the ignorance, but ultimately, I have to say, after reading all this, I'm now kind of okay with global warming wiping out the human race. It turns out we deserve it." Watch. Peter Weber
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