Caption for both: "I know better than you, what's best for you!"
Posted on 07/09/2007 2:13:11 PM PDT by Sub-Driver
RFK Jr. Calls Rush Limbaugh, Sean Hannity and Glenn Beck Lying ‘Flat Earthers’ Posted by Noel Sheppard on July 9, 2007 - 16:47.
For those whose gastrointestinal tracts couldn’t allow them to stomach the goings on during Saturday’s Live Earth concerts, conceivably one of the best moments was Robert F. Kennedy, Jr.’s rant at Giants Stadium.
Not only did Kennedy attack the politicians and the media as “corporate toadies” for the oil industry, but he also slammed conservative radio hosts Rush Limbaugh, Sean Hannity, and Glenn Beck as being lying “Flat Earthers.”
I kid you not.
For those that can take it, the full transcript follows, with video available here:
Now we've all heard the oil industry and the coal industry and their indentured servants in the political process telling us that global climate stability is a luxury that we can't afford. That we have to choose now between economic prosperity on the one hand and environmental protection on the other. And that is a false choice.
In 100% of the situations, good environmental policy is identical to good economic policy --- if we want to measure our economy, and this is how we ought to be measuring it, based upon how it produces jobs and the dignity of jobs over the generations, how it preserves the values of the assets of our community and how it averts the catastrophe of global warming.If, on the other hand, we want to do what they've been urging us to do on Capitol Hill which is to treat the planet as if it were a business in liquidation, convert our natural resources to cash as quickly as possible, have a few years of pollution based prosperity, we can generate an instantaneous cash flow and the illusion of a prosperous economy. But our children are going to pay for our joyride with denuded landscapes, with poor health, with huge cleanup costs and with climate chaos which is going to amplify over time and that they will never be able to pay.
Environmental injury is deficit spending. It is a way of loading the costs of our generation's prosperity on to the backs of our children. Climate change is upon us. Its impacts are going to be catastrophic and we are causing it. The good news is, we have the scientific and technological capacity to avert its most catastrophic impacts. We only need the political will.
If we raise fuel economy standards in our automobiles by one mile --- we generate twice the amount of oil that is in the Arctic National Wildlife Refugee. If we raise fuel economy standards by 7.6 miles per gallon we yield more oil than we now import from the Persian Gulf. We can eliminate 100% of Persian Gulf oil.
Think about what that would do for our economy, for our foreign policy, for our global leadership, it would dramatically improve our balance of payments, reduce our national debt and make all of us more prosperous and more independent and spare us from wars in the Mid-East that are costing us, already, a trillion dollars and from entanglements with Mid-Eastern dictators who despise democracy and are hated by their own people.
Now you've heard today a lot of people say that there are many little things that you all can do today to avert climate change on your own. But I will tell you this, it is more important than buying compact flourescent light bulbs or than buying a fuel efficient automobile. The most important thing you can do is to get involved in the political process and get rid of all of these rotten politicians that we have in Washington D.C. -- who are nothing more than corporate toadies for companies like Exxon and Southern Company. These villainous companies that consistently put their private financial interest ahead of American interest and ahead of the interest of all of humanity. This is treason and we need to start treating them now as traitors.
And they have their slick public relations firms and their phony think tanks in Washington, D.C., and their crooked scientists who are lying to the American people day after day after day. And we have a press that has completely let down American democracy. That's giving us Anna Nicole Smith and Paris Hilton instead of the issues that we need to understand to make rational decisions in a democracy - like global warming.
And so I am going to tell you this, that the next time you see John Stossel or Glenn Beck or Rush Limbaugh or Sean Hannity --- these Flat Earthers, these corporate toadies, lying to you, lying to the American public, and telling you that global warming doesn't exist --- you send an email to their advertisers and tell them that you are not going to buy their products anymore.
And I want you to remember this, that we are not protecting the environment for the sake of the fishes and the birds, we are protecting it because nature is the infrastructure of our communities. And if we want to meet our obligation as a generation, as a civilization, as a nation, which is to create communities for our children that provide them with the same opportunities for dignity, and enrichment, and good health, and prosperity, and stability as the communities that our parents gave us, we've got to start by protecting our environmental infrastructure.
The air we breathe, the water we drink, the wildlife, the public lands, the things that connect us to our past to our history that provide context to our communities and that are the source, ultimately, of our values and our virtues and our character as a people and the future of our children.
And I will see all of you on the barricades.
Man-made global warming is the 21st Century way of saying “flat earth”.
When the last Kennedy from that bunch is buried the world will be a better place.
Let's start with Al Gore, Teddy Kennedy, and Schwarzenegger (RFKjr's puppet).
Fat chance.
The only place we're likely to see this moron is sailing and boozing with Teddy or jetsetting to Davos.
Haven't all of those already been debunked? The Ozone hole healed itself. It seems this hole waxes and wanes along with sunspot activity. Of course we managed to outlaw Freon and the enviro-wackos claim this solved the "problem". IIRC, Freon was replaced with new more expensive refrigerants that happened to be waiting in the wings. Convenient for Dupont, since its patents on those refrigerants were running out or expired. Too bad for those dirty third worlders who might not die as frequently if cheaper refrigerators were available to keep food and medication fresh. Too bad, so sad. Acid rain, if I remember was going to kill off all the fish in all the lakes and destroy all the crops. Turns out to be bad science with no basis in reality. Smog, admittedly aint too good for you, but in my state, it seems mostly a thing of the past. Here in New Jersey, we used to be proud of having air you could really sink your teeth into. I guess we've exported most of that pollution to China. And DDT, millions in the Third World die of malaria because they don't have access to this effective pesticide.
RFK Jr. has become the Inquisitor of the Church of Global Warming and is trying to root out all heretics and unbelievers.
self-ping.
Ironic to see a liberal Democrat trying to lecture anyone about treason given their behaviors during a time of war. The Dems have been cheerleaders for treason the past five years.
Raising fuel economy standards will generate nothing and yield nothing. Those actions may conserve the described amounts of petroleum but they produce nothing.
Flashbunny posted:
"RFK Jr. Nixes Wind Farm Near Kennedy Compound" (Link)
ROFL! Perfect.
RFK Jr. rants about so called "lying corporate toadies" like Stossel, Beck, Rush, and Sean?"
Let's talk about false "outrage" from lying, hypocritical Marxists angry that so far, their "weather scheme" has not fooled enough people into giving up their freedom.
His dad, grandfather used the mob to elect his Uncle President and another uncle named Ted killed a girl and got away with it.
I think he and his own family need a good exorcism before he goes on a rant against others.
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You forgot his cousin Michael Skakel murdering the neighbor girl and another cousin Smith who was suppected of date rape and senator Patrick Kennedy recovering alki that is what we hear imagine what you don’t hear....
Caption for both: "I know better than you, what's best for you!"
Of course. They are violating an even more fundamental principle of socialist revolution. I won’t tell what it is so that they might not realize their error and supply an effective correction.
rfk jr? Has this stinky kennedy killed anyone yet? How can the left give him credibility?
Actually, flat-earthers are people who believe in something that they take on faith, but is not true, that predicts disaster if they are not heeded. Does that sound like anyone we know of?
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