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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsConspiracy Theorist Sweeps Tuesday’s GOP Presidential Battles
Conspiracy Theorist Sweeps Tuesdays GOP Presidential Battles | Conspiracy theorist Rick Santorum swept Tuesdays Republican presidential battles, winning the sparsely attended Colorado and Minnesota caucuses and non-binding Missouri primary on a platform anchored by his denial of global warming. I for one never bought the hoax, Santorum said at the Colorado Energy Summit on Monday, claiming that climate change is an absolute travesty of scientific research that was motivated by those who, in my opinion, saw this as an opportunity to create a panic and a crisis for government to be able to step in and even more greatly control your life.
http://thinkprogress.org/green/2012/02/08/421006/conspiracy-theorist-sweeps-tuesdays-gop-presidential-battles/
http://thinkprogress.org/green/2012/02/08/421006/conspiracy-theorist-sweeps-tuesdays-gop-presidential-battles/
Rick Santorum is literally the worst
By Jess Zimmerman
Santorum swamped Romney (sorry) at two caucuses and a nonbinding primary yesterday, suggesting that his candidacy is a less funny joke than previously thought. Well whatever, theyve clearly been playing King of the Mountain all campaign season, knocking each other off the top of the dung heap at this point, do we care which of the anti-gay, anti-choice, anti-healthcare climate deniers gets the nod? Yeah, because when it comes to climate change (and everything else), Santorum doubles down on the wild-eyed conspiracy theories.
While campaigning in Colorado one of the caucuses, by the way, that he went on to win Santorum called global warming a hoax. This is far from a new meme, but as Chris Mooney explains at DeSmogBlog, it goes well beyond Romney-style mealy-mouthed denialism.
There are plenty of troglodytic voters who will respond to the idea that the scientific elite is fabricating evidence, probably to get all that sweet sweet science money...But its a measure more chilling when the person pulling the Foucaults Pendulum schtick is also the one who could be in charge of environmental policy and research funding for the entire country.
http://grist.org/list/rick-santorum-is-literally-the-worst/
By Jess Zimmerman
Santorum swamped Romney (sorry) at two caucuses and a nonbinding primary yesterday, suggesting that his candidacy is a less funny joke than previously thought. Well whatever, theyve clearly been playing King of the Mountain all campaign season, knocking each other off the top of the dung heap at this point, do we care which of the anti-gay, anti-choice, anti-healthcare climate deniers gets the nod? Yeah, because when it comes to climate change (and everything else), Santorum doubles down on the wild-eyed conspiracy theories.
While campaigning in Colorado one of the caucuses, by the way, that he went on to win Santorum called global warming a hoax. This is far from a new meme, but as Chris Mooney explains at DeSmogBlog, it goes well beyond Romney-style mealy-mouthed denialism.
A hoax, after all, implies nothing if not a coordinated effort to make people believe something that is known not to be true. So there has to be a cabal, a conscious effort at deception. And if the issue is global warming, then the cabal itself has to be globalfor so is the scientific community and the international community seeking action on the issue.
What such a hoax would actually entail boggles the mindit could never be pulled offbut never mind. The point is that Santorum is now lending implicit credence to the idea.
What such a hoax would actually entail boggles the mindit could never be pulled offbut never mind. The point is that Santorum is now lending implicit credence to the idea.
There are plenty of troglodytic voters who will respond to the idea that the scientific elite is fabricating evidence, probably to get all that sweet sweet science money...But its a measure more chilling when the person pulling the Foucaults Pendulum schtick is also the one who could be in charge of environmental policy and research funding for the entire country.
http://grist.org/list/rick-santorum-is-literally-the-worst/
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Conspiracy Theorist Sweeps Tuesday’s GOP Presidential Battles (Original Post)
ProSense
Feb 2012
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(18,541 posts)1. A conspiracy theorist too? He's the full boat, the far-right wet dream.
If they knew how much we were enjoying this, they'd call the whole thing off.