Posted on 01/30/2013 3:55:36 PM PST by Kaslin
Hours before the Senate Judiciary Committee held Newtown-inspired gun control hearings, MSNBC's Morning Joe program brought on former Playboy chairwoman and CEO Christie Hefner to warn that warmer weather in Chicago has been a contributing factor in the number of gun deaths in the Windy City. "[W]e are having this climate change effect that is driving" young men in Chicago to commit 500 homicides in 2012 she insisted.
For his part, quasi-conservative host Joe Scarborough made no attempt to press Hefner on this outrageous claim, although he did mildly mock it. In doing so, however, he dismissed conservative bloggers with a lame stereotype:
CHRISTIE HEFNER: Well, to answer the question about is it higher? Yes. Last year we hit a record number of murders from guns. And this year we are already outpacing last year's numbers. Now, there are contributing factors that are not under anybody's control and may seem odd, but it is factually true. One of them is actually the weather. There is a dramatic increase in gun violence when it is warmer. And we are having this climate change effect that is driving that. But I do think -- and from people I talked to in Chicago--
JOE SCARBOROUGH: By the way, Chris – Christie, can I just stop you and say conservative bloggers across America, thank you for saying that climate change is responsible for the rising murder rates in Chicago. You have just made a lot of people in their basements of their mothers' homes very happy.
HEFNER: I don't believe that's exactly what I said. I said there are a number of contributing factors and a correlation between heat waves and gun violence.
The funny thing is Christie contradicted herself. She said climate change was affecting the epidemic violence gripping Chicago, but said that she only meant heat waves. What have climate warmists talked about to support their claim? They use the rising global temperatures, which have stalled for sixteen years, to back up their claim. ABC News used did a segment on 2012 being the "hottest year" to promote climate change initiatives. So, in this little exchange we see an unhinged theory that climate change causes us to kill people, news hosts failing to press Hefner on it, and the gun control debate taking a rather bizarre turn into climatology.
LOL,
I like your thinking. But let’s put on our moon bat helmets and try to conjure up some whoopie here.
It was so cold, they made the AK-47 knowing that it would “heat things up” and CAUSE global warming, thereby making Siberia a less frozen tundra!
Rooskies are sharp like that.
Be creative!
Hey, its no more simpleminded than Hefner’s air headed musings. (Obviously, she’s been hanging out with bimbos for so long, she has regressed into one.)
Not really. All they need to do is stop exhaling (creating carbon dioxide) and the number of pirates should start going back up.
At one time Playboy had the best and longest interviews with people in journalism. I saved a lot of them because of the information found in them, esp. that of Tom Hayden, Phillip Agee, and other leftists.
Really good cartoons and jokes.
Shannon Tweed rules. See her on the cover of one issue in the early 80’s. Absolutely beautiful woman.
Today PB would probably put Helen Thomas in as their centerfold.
Hmm.. I could use that to scare away rats and burglars.
Copyright that, Dano!
Teaching logic will be a hate crime within 10 years.
I have no objection to allowing gun conrtol and global warming advocates to demonstrate their stupidity and embarrass themselves and their stupid causes.
Christie, stick to what you know best...keeping Daddy supplied with Bunnies.
I have only seen one Pirates baseball game (I was on TDY to Pittsburgh for work). They were playing the Cleveland Indians (or Chicago, I don’t remember which) in the old stadium and the fans were razzing Albert Belle big time.
Then he got up to bat. He hit a ball so hard (hit the second level wall at the seats to my right and down one level), that the stadium literally shook.
There was NO MORE razzing after that!
That’s my Pirates story and I’m sticking to it.
Chicago needs to pray for snow, not gun control........
The only question is which hypocrite has the bigger carbon footprint?
Pray for America
I’m starting to believe Joe Scarborough was the banjo playing kid in Deliverance!
It’s tied to the increase in silicon breast implants, Christie.
What was the question again?
Except for the boobs, most 5th graders could give her a run for the money. That being said, she seems exceedingly intellectual when compared to most of the MSM staffers.
I bet she has a securiy detail or has a few guns herself
in her very large expensive home. If the bitch doesn’t want a gun than don’t get one but leave the rest of us alone.
I am not able to decipher your post.
I promise I pressed one for English.
I meant to say Ms. Hefner is a HYPOCRITE.
In another study it was found that homocide rates and ice cream consumption rates showed a similar pattern of increase and decrease throughout 2012. Hence, the need for the Obozo administration to begin working on drafting legislation to place controls on ice cream sales./s
>>>Looks like Pittsburgh had better do some real hiring<<<
Zoooom!
Right over my head!
I thought Max had choppered into the middle of the wrong thread.
But the follow-up made me LOL...
And if Joe replaced Mika Brzezinski with a box of rocks, he would increase the IQ of the show staff by a good 20 points.
Well said. (I figured your autocorrect had kicked in.)
If they taught logic, the students might apply it to the Left’s agenda.
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