Personally, I like the Flatearthers er, Flatlanders:
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.
Personally, I like the Flatearthers er, Flatlanders:
Gosh, I wish I was as smart as this guy.
I would never have thought of simply passing a law to raise standards to solve such big problems. How easy is that - but it makes you wonder why they don't just pass a law to reduce the effects of gravity. My calculation says that just a measly 10% reduction in the value of "G" would save us almost a $Trillion a year. I'm going to write my Congressman.
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.He's totally unburdened by reality. Fuel efficiency is way up; demand continues apace.
There’s a fine line between humor and bad taste. You crossed it, my FRiend.
“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.”
Man, that boy is good at math; by his reasoning if we mandated 50 mpg on average, we’d have to pump the oil back to the Middle East to keep from drowning in it.
He’s one of those future generations whose grandparents dumped all the ills of the 20s, 30s and 40s.
Very nice. It’s repeating this time. Two Gore’s is TOO much, lol.
Lol!
If you want to see an oil slick in the ocean, just look for where a Kennedy has been driving a car, flying an airplane, or operating a PT boat.
His Father was so much better than this little turd. BDS pushes this little butthole to the brink, and the leftists love him for it. I’ll be ignoring this idiot for the rest of his life. Thanks Rose and Joe for giving us this tripe. You must be soooo proud!
I guess he’s been toking with Alice Gore, III......
He is INSANE!!! I’m thinking that Michael was the best and the brightest! YIKES.
You’re known by the enemies you keep. All the Kennedy clan is my enemy and I’m proud of it.
Actually the flat-earthers were elitists and “scientists” that had a consensus of agreement on the shape of the earth during the time of Copernicus and Galileo. Just like the Global Warming alarmists have a consensus of agreement.
RFK Jr is a prime example of how the very wealthy pass along wealth to their semi-retarded offspring, without paying estate taxes. Create a tax free foundation with the stipulation that they hire the moron at a generous salary.
says the boy whos family has made quite a fortune from whisky
But the Earth IS flat!
I know this to be a fact because there used to be a “consensus” that said so...
Well for sure, there is A LOT of scotch in Uncle Ted's water.
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