Beam me to Planet Gore !
Posted on 12/16/2009 5:51:38 PM PST by 2ndDivisionVet
The latest running debate between Al Gore and Sarah Palin reveals once more the absurdity behind today's Republican Party, which looms increasingly as a far right pressure group rather than a viable political entity.
The Republicans indicated the direction where they were heading when Republican National Committee Chairman Michael Steele dared to speak of right wing talk show host Rush Limbaugh as an "entertainer," which was construed to mean that he was undermining his stature as a serious political analyst.
A furious Limbaugh demanded an apology. The blustery talk show host had declared himself to be the titular head of the Republican Party. Generally that title is conferred on the party's last presidential nominee, in this case Senator John McCain of Arizona.
It was soon learned how much clout Limbaugh wields on the Republican Party as a penitent Steele issued an apology. This prompted Limbaugh to reiterate his claim as titular party head.
An over the top, self-admitted drug abuser who engages in perpetual name calling rather than policy analysis laid claim to intellectual leadership of what used to be called the party of Lincoln without so much as a whimper, much less a protest, from the ranks of the Republican Party hierarchy.
The aforementioned contretemps prompted many political analysts to conclude that the Republicans had degenerated into a far right, insulated pressure group with an accent on insults and opposition to any form of constructive change with no concern about developing policy.
This charge and the concern registered within it was recently substantiated by comments from Sarah Palin on global warming. As Republican vice presidential nominee Palin and her supporters alleged that gentle interviewer Katie Couric had engaged in ambush journalism by asking her which newspapers she read, to which she had no answer.
Could she not have thought of her own Alaskan newspaper, the Anchorage Daily News, or perhaps the New York Times?
The same Palin who could not think of one newspaper she read issued an instant challenge to a unified contingent of some of the world's most brilliant minds, some 47 Nobel Prize science winners along with scores of others in the international scientific community.
A few e-mails from East Anglia University that involved more spleen venting than intellectual substance were presented by Palin and her allies as refutation of Al Gore and others pleading the case for immediate action in global warming policy before it is too late.
Demagogues took the Palin critique and ran with it. At a recent Gore book signing one critic of the angry tea bagger variety was seen being escorted out of the store after shrieking that the former vice president was a proven fraud.
As Gore and other rational analysts have pointed out, the melting Arctic polar ice caps provide proof positive of ongoing global warming. A report on the December 15 edition of PBS' Jim Lehrer News Hour revealed more such evidence with melting ice caps in Nepal's Himalayan mountains.
Needless to say, the "scholars" of the Palin community, including Republican titular head Limbaugh, who has contended for years that global warming is a made up scare tactic of far left political extremists, will never consider melting ice cap evidence.
That is what the school of Palin-Limbaugh-Fox adherents love, accepting what they wish without devoting a scant second to factual analysis. These are the adherents that dominate the current Republican Party.
How do I lie to thee? Let me count the ways.
Did an angry 4 year old write this?
Wow, that’s truly a heapin’ helping of utter lies!
There will be no quarter given.
“The same Palin who could not think of one newspaper she read”
People who still read newspapers need not suggest that anyone else is ill informed.
“issued an instant challenge to a unified contingent of some of the world’s most brilliant minds, some 47 Nobel Prize science winners along with scores of others in the international scientific community.”
Let one of them give a competent solution to the concerns of chaos in computer modeling that does not involve that riotously laughable monte carlo simulation.
They can’t so they won’t...
Ha, you nailed it.
I seem to recall that “Gentle Katie”, who had her researchers look up all the answers beforehand, tried to ambush Sarah with questions about Supreme Court decisions, obscure foreign diplomats, and everything else she could think of. Then edited the interview to purposefully cast Palin in the worst possible light.
I'm still waiting for one of the “media darlings” to ask Obama a real question.
Meanwhile, you can gage the fact that Palin is dead on target by the number of lies coming out of this guys rant per sentence.
And judge his character and intelligence from his comments on Rush.
Discussing possibilities of extreme weather without an audience is no different than wailing at the moon at night (lunatics).
What newspapers she read. Show me where any other candidate was asked that. Why was it assumed that because she is a woman she is stupid and uninformed? Or is it because she is attractive so she must be dumb? The left-wing knuckle-dragging moron press.
PALIN/BACHMANN 2012!
I’d take my chances with Palin’s intelligence over Obama or Couric’s any day. As for the writer of this story . . . he is easy enough to peg, just another self precious twit who is more than a little peeved because he doesn’t live in a world fair enough to recognize his “genius” for what it is.
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Wow, talk about spin.
Of course, after a perusal, it’s obvious that the blogger’s screed would show up in a “news” search on the Google.
Thanks 2ndDivisionVet.
LOL....damn!
“How many lies can one shoe-horn into a short column?”
Yes, but, in both style and substance it reads like it was written by a braindead & facts-challenged schoolboy.
I’d give it a B+ on the watered down Obama scale if it was indeed written by a cell-challenged 14 year old (and only for encouragement). Otherwise, a fat zero.
“The aforementioned contretemps....”
Ya know - I’m not sure if I can’t stand Liberals, or just the way they write?
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