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‘Power of ridicule’ – New weapon against climate deniers
The Seattle Post-Intelligencer ^ | June 23, 2013 | Joel Connelly

Posted on 06/23/2013 10:03:51 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet

As President Obama readies his program to curb greenhouse gases, climate change action advocates are rolling out a new strategy for controlling verbal emissions by climate change deniers — turning allies of Big Oil and Big Coal into national laughingstocks.

“The power of ridicule should be deployed here,” said Sen. Brian Schatz, D-Hawaii. “You have to get to the point where a major candidate for public office is disqualified when he or she denies climate science.” Schatz was speaking to the annual Netroots Nation conference of progressive bloggers.

Jon Carson, head of Organizing for Action — the group formed as an issue-based successor to the Obama presidential campaign — put it this way: “When a Republican or a Democrat says something crazy on climate, we should be ready to hold them accountable as progressives did on human biology.”

The “War on Women” became a great 2012 selling point for Obama and the Democrats, helped in no part by Republican politicians’ intemperate remarks about rape.

Rep. Todd Aiken, R-Mo., blew away his Senate candidacy by discoursing on “legitimate rape” and how a woman’s body can “shut down pregnancy.” Indiana Senate candidate Richard Mourdock argued that a pregnancy caused by rape was “something that God intended to happen.” Washington’s U.S. House hopeful John Koster discoursed about “the rape thing” and an acquaintance who bore a rapist’s child.

By contrast, Republican presidential candidates in 2012 made all manner of unsubstantiated, often off-the-wall statements about climate. The national media greeted such hot talk with glacial indifference, and has treated alarming climate news in the same fashion.....

(Excerpt) Read more at blog.seattlepi.com ...


TOPICS: Business/Economy; Crime/Corruption; Culture/Society; Government
KEYWORDS: climatechange; coal; energy; fascism; globalwarming; obama; palin; rickperry
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Once in awhile, the Left takes the mask off so you can peer into their real motivations.
1 posted on 06/23/2013 10:03:51 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
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Then they better crank up the ridicule machine. I’m prepped and ready. LOL! Let them take a bite. They don’t know the meaning of ridicule. Bring it on asshats. I pissed off a collection agency so bad one time that they actually hung up on me. Proud day.


2 posted on 06/23/2013 10:07:14 PM PDT by rktman (Inergalactic background checks? King hussein you're first up.)
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ME too....and I once made a telemarketer up on me!


3 posted on 06/23/2013 10:09:22 PM PDT by goodnesswins (R.I.P. Doherty, Smith, Stevens, Woods.)
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4 posted on 06/23/2013 10:10:51 PM PDT by RightGeek (FUBO and the donkey you rode in on)
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Yes, and we can ridicule these people too. Just pull out a freakin’ thermometer and remind them about ‘global warming’.


5 posted on 06/23/2013 10:11:26 PM PDT by Viennacon
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I beat them to it and ridicule them for being such useful idiot fools.


6 posted on 06/23/2013 10:12:40 PM PDT by laplata (Liberals don't get it. Their minds have been stolen.)
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“The power of ridicule should be deployed here,” said Sen. Brian Schatz

Schatz. Ridicule this.

7 posted on 06/23/2013 10:13:14 PM PDT by dead (I've got my eye out for Mullah Omar.)
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So instead of logic, it comes down to ridicule from the libtards? I guess race-card throwing lost it’s edge from these imbeciles.


8 posted on 06/23/2013 10:14:06 PM PDT by max americana (fired liberals in our company after the election, & laughed while they cried (true story))
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Ridicule is right out of Rules For Radicals by Saul Alinsky.

I am sadly amazed, that the news media has never dug into how much Saul Alinsky influenced both Obama and Hillary Clinton. They simply ignored his influence on them and other liberals.

Media bias is not only based on the spin they put on stories, but also on stories they fail to report at all.


9 posted on 06/23/2013 10:14:56 PM PDT by Dilbert San Diego
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Alinsky’s rule # 5.

“Ridicule is man’s most potent weapon.”


10 posted on 06/23/2013 10:16:41 PM PDT by aquila48
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“The power of ridicule should be deployed here,” said Sen. Brian Schatz, D-Hawaii. “You have to get to the point where a major candidate for public office is disqualified when he or she denies climate science.” Schatz was speaking to the annual Netroots Nation conference of progressive bloggers.”

Baahaaahaaahaaa!! You fool, Mr.Brian Schatz-in-the-toilet, it was global cooling 30 years ago! Make up your mind already.

Hey he’s right, ridicule is fun, and he should be ridiculed.


11 posted on 06/23/2013 10:16:57 PM PDT by jughandle
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I laugh at these global climate change idiots.
It's called Spring, Summer, Fall, and Winter.
The weather is great.
12 posted on 06/23/2013 10:17:54 PM PDT by Yosemitest (It's Simple ! Fight, ... or Die !)
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Since this is all based on science according to the liberals, my questions are ... how does one control God's creation? Is taxing the only method of controlling God's universe? What if God refuses to pay?
13 posted on 06/23/2013 10:20:19 PM PDT by no-to-illegals (Scrutinize our government and Secure the Blessing of Freedom and Justice)
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As President Obama readies his program to curb greenhouse gases, climate change action advocates are rolling out a new strategy for controlling verbal emissions by climate change deniers — turning allies of Big Oil and Big Coal into national laughingstocks.

Won't work. Obama is already becoming a national laughingstock himself. The "climate change deniers" are being vindicated by research in ways and to degrees that the "climate change action advocates" could only hope for. Besides, we are "anthropogenic climate change deniers." We fully acknowledge that the modest warming that started in the late 19th century ceased in 1998 (a climate change), plateaued from then to 2002 (a climate change), and has radically reversed itself after 2002 (another climate change). If Obama were merely ignorant, then he'd be simply a buffoon. As it is, he's a dangerous dirigist lunatic deliberately trying to kneecap American and Western economic strength. We have our own private homicide bomber in the White House.
14 posted on 06/23/2013 10:20:25 PM PDT by aruanan
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To: Dilbert San Diego

The people who control obama and hillary have owned the MSM for decades. You are right about the Rules for Radicals.

They also use Hegelian Dialectics——to force us to totally transform into a Slave State and to do so they have to eject God (Christianity) Given Rights and the Constitution. As Mark Levine states we are Post-Constitutional now.

We have Unjust Laws-—exactly like Hitler had in Germany-—where Justice (a Virtue) didn’t mean anything-—it was ejected and Vice is being forced through laws (which is unconstitutional in our judicial system).


15 posted on 06/23/2013 10:23:31 PM PDT by savagesusie (Right Reason According to Nature = Just Law)
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You are so right. They are now also useful didiots.


16 posted on 06/23/2013 10:24:11 PM PDT by rktman (Inergalactic background checks? King hussein you're first up.)
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"Climate change", lol.. How retro!

Remember, though, there were a lot of regular people who nearly fell for that scam before it was exposed in November, '09. The con men will never stop. Heck, when I was in college the climate change scam was called "global cooling". That was just as crazy as the "global warming" scam.

Newsweek: The Cooling World (April 28, 1975)

Meet the new con men, same as the old con men.
I guess in 35 years they'll be back with another "climate change" scam.

It's about the money. It's ALWAYS about the money.

17 posted on 06/23/2013 10:27:03 PM PDT by Lancey Howard
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When people can no longer get to work because they ran out of money and their tanks are empty, and gas is $4 a gallon, and milk is above $4 a gallon, and everything they buy or use costs what it does because gas is $4 a gallon, and the media finally decides to report how DAMNED LOUSY IT IS BECAUSE GAS IS $4 A GALLON, and we have more oil and gas and coal in our country than anybody else does in the world but we aren’t allowed to touch it, and that is driven into the.... oh hell, you know it.


18 posted on 06/23/2013 10:28:16 PM PDT by Dogbert41 (Thy Kingdom come!)
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Liberalism: Where pathological altruism meets oikophobia.


19 posted on 06/23/2013 10:29:45 PM PDT by TChad
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[[‘Power of ridicule’ – New weapon against climate deniers]]

Sorry- but truth trumps petty childish ridicule any day- they can squeal all they like- the truth still remains that man is not responsible for climate change


20 posted on 06/23/2013 10:30:01 PM PDT by CottShop (Scientific belief does not constitute scientific evidence, nor does it convey scientific knowledge)
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