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As every liberal knows, our strength doesnt come from logic, science and a do-unto-others philosophy; it comes from obscuring the truth with facts. In George Wills latest column on January 27th, 2013, he lays out the prescription for a conservative revival. When Obama mentions global warming a science easily disproved by Will in his article he sets the groundwork for failed policies that the left, especially Obama, were hoping would help impede the economy and keep people on food stamps and welfare. We were so close!
In order for a good conspiracy to work, it must remain hidden. Now that George Will has shown how ridiculous global warming science really is, how can a cap-and-trade scheme be implemented? (It goes without saying that this proves how far left the democrats have moved, now that they would champion a republican idea from the 90s. The 90s! Those guys were indistinguishable from Stalin.) George Will, expanding on the Wall Street Journals Holman Jenkins, noted that although 2012 was 2.13 degrees Fahrenheit hotter than 2011, 2008, in the contiguous U.S., was two degrees cooler than 2006. Weve been counting on people being distracted by the fact that the last 330 months have all had an above average temperature, but Will has figured out how irrelevant that information is. Whats important is that sometimes its colder than other times, thus blowing a hole the size of the arctic ice cap in climate change science. (Which is, strictly by coincidence, getting smaller every year.)
In the best of all possible futures, Obama and the left would be able to destroy job growth, make the scientists even more powerful than they are now, add trillions and trillions to the debt, put millions more on food stamps and have this go completely unnoticed by the right. But unlike most pundits, George Will wasnt satisfied with disproving the worlds scientists. He went on to ascertain that Bushs presidency didnt matter, in fact, it may not have even happened at all. Quoting Richard Vedder of the American Enterprise Institute, If today the country had the same proportion of persons of working age employed as it did in 2000, the U.S. would have almost 14?million more people contributing to the economy. Some may call it dishonest to compare the numbers of one democratic president to the numbers of another democratic president without mentioning the recession caused by the republican president in-between; but lets face it, its actually just damn good math.
This isnt Mr. Wills first foray into the world of obliterating truth, history and science. One needs to pick and choose what numbers to use when making ones points. And George knows how to pick and choose. In a February 2009 column, George Will stated the unemployment rate when FDR took office was, then at 24.9 percent, it was perverse to diagnose the nation's problem as overproduction. When wanting to show how ineffective FDRs policies were, he chose 1939 with, 17.2 percent in a November 2008 article. If he had picked 1940, the number would have been 14.6. See the difference? And all you have to do is ignore the unemployment rate went from 24.9 in 1933 to 16.9 in 1936, in the short period when FDR policies were in effect. After 1936, when austerity became the order of the day, the markets dropped and unemployment rose. Implementing his policies again in 1937/1938, the economy improved dramatically. Picking and choosing dates also works well if you want to discredit Roosevelts policies by an easier method. Start the clock in 1929 and end it in 1936, maintaining that it took FDR seven years to bring the market back to its 1929 numbers. The trick here is to make FDR responsible for the four year drop before he took office. Smart, huh?
But thats not important. Destroying the economy, strengthening the mighty scientists and putting everyone on food stamps is what matters. How are we going to accomplish this with George Will as the smartest pundit in the room?
suede1
(892 posts)version of his latest column?
Nice job of calling Will out on his stupidity, too.
BlueStreak
(8,377 posts)Spitfire of ATJ
(32,723 posts)angrychair
(8,699 posts)Outstanding taste in movies. It is very rare see a "Naked Lunch" reference. Color me impressed. People on this site never fail to impress me. May not always agree but we have a lot of very smart people here. That "kudos" goes for the OP as well. Naked Lunch....love that movie.
Spitfire of ATJ
(32,723 posts)FiveGoodMen
(20,018 posts)n2doc
(47,953 posts)Jackpine Radical
(45,274 posts)This brilliant piece deserves much wider circulation.
20score
(4,769 posts)Much appreciated!
punkin87
(350 posts)ismnotwasm
(41,980 posts)Excellent!
20score
(4,769 posts)rhett o rick
(55,981 posts)ThoughtCriminal
(14,047 posts)closely examine the chocolate ration numbers from 1947-1950 and 1995 to 1997. It could expose our stooges in the Ministry Of Outrage (MOO) and disrupt the five-year plan.
freshwest
(53,661 posts)Jackpine Radical
(45,274 posts)We suspect that you are secretly making fun of our collective Dairy Air.
oldhippydude
(2,514 posts)no MOO'S is good MOO"s
thucythucy
(8,052 posts)Jackpine Radical
(45,274 posts)I say Neigh to this whole topic.
20score
(4,769 posts)Vinnie From Indy
(10,820 posts)dgauss
(882 posts)nxylas
(6,440 posts)Rooby rooby roo!
reACTIONary
(5,770 posts)...so I don't have to read him myself!
NBachers
(17,108 posts)Duppers
(28,120 posts)Impressive account of Will's latest lies. Seldom can I bring myself to read even part , let alone most of one of his columns; I'm glad you had the fortitude to do so and chronicle and dissected the lies so well.
20score
(4,769 posts)Thanks! You rock!
Zoeisright
(8,339 posts)He's the fucking textbook example.
Festivito
(13,452 posts)It's as though he's fed a word a day or per article in order to put a pall over any response.
lunatica
(53,410 posts)Or did you forget to post a link? If not on both points then you should.
20score
(4,769 posts)JHB
(37,160 posts)...When one breaths and re-breaths such a great quantity of flatulence the methane buildup can be catastrophic.
LongTomH
(8,636 posts)And Republican pundits can fill the room with bullshit before Liberal commentators can get their waders on!
Wolf Frankula
(3,600 posts)WILL THE LYING MORON
(thanks to Gordon on Atrios)
(chorus)
Will the Lying Moron
Lived in D.C.
And frolicked in the daily <i>Post</i>
In the Land of Punditry.
Little Ronnie Reagan
Taught that rascal Will
To look surprised at his own lies
And more Atwater swill!
(chorus x2)
To gather facts and trivia
That he could then misstate,
Our Will would say the damndest things
To help his candidate.
He thought he sounded folksy,
But came off elite and rude,
Remember when he blamed Clinton
For "moral turpitude"?
(chorus x2)
A Reagan lives forever,
But not so little lies,
Georgie was discredited
In everybody's eyes.
One gray night it happened,
Georgie's paper called no more,
And Will that Lying Moron...
Became a TV whore!
He got a gig on This Week,
Spent time on Meet The Press,
Every talk show in the land
Demanded him as guest.
And Dubya sure respects him,
Their bond is deep and true,
They both love baseball, are disgraceful,
And both hate me and you!
(chorus x2)
Words: Copyright 2004 by Tom Smith, after Lenny Lipton
Music: "Puff the Magic Dragon" by Peter Yarrow
Expresses my thoughts for Georgie exactly.
Wolf
oldhippydude
(2,514 posts)this generation needs a Kingston Trio... or Smothers Brothers... perhaps they are out there, and my ear is too old!
MADem
(135,425 posts)hfojvt
(37,573 posts)THE MOON RISES AT NOON!!
THE MOON RISES AT NOON!!
Ah well, time to regroup. At least we got the muslin re-elected by covering up his Kenyan birth.
lastlib
(23,233 posts)What's a good, faithful Communist Kenyan socialist Marxist Muslin to do now??!?
. . .
(back to the Little Red Book, I guess.................)
AlbertCat
(17,505 posts)We knew Will would expose our diabolical food stamp universality plan.... but we wanted him to! MWAHAHAHA!
No one will believe him! We've made him the Cassandra of the Right!
By exposing our plans to him, we knew he'd write about them. No one believes what he writes so by exposing us he has hidden us!
We may now proceed unopposed.... while Will cries "Look Out!", but no one listens! Mwahahahaha Mwahahahahahahahaha Mwhahahahahahahahahahahaha...
Lone_Star_Dem
(28,158 posts)That was one of the best rebuttals I've read in quite some time, and such a worthy target you chose.
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(4,769 posts)beac
(9,992 posts)* I figure his blathering deserves an equally intelligent and well-reasoned response.
Pryderi
(6,772 posts)Andy Stanton
(264 posts)He's made a career of saying the dumbest things but getting away with it because he sounds smart while saying them. But virtually everything he writes is ridiculous right wing claptrap that you'd hear from the likes of Rush Limbaugh.
Bainbridge Bear
(155 posts)asshole be called a "super-pundit" when he doesn't have a clue? He and Bill Kristol should hang their heads in shame for all the money they have made being wrong as establishment hacks. Yeah, I know, when pigs fly.
But, whenever I see "damnit," I hear "dam nit."
marions ghost
(19,841 posts)--he blows so much hot air it'll increase Global Warming... I think they just suffer George Will like some demented uncle who remains useful for taking out the trash.
ANYONE who doesn't at least SUSPECT that climate change is occurring is a Neanderthal. So stupid.
Cary
(11,746 posts)Do not disrespect Neandertal that way!
It's true that they had bigger bones but homo sapiens sapiens didn't progress beyond Neandertal, from stone tools to bone tools, for over 10,000 years after Neandertal went extinct. There is no proof that they were as stupid as George Will and some of us have Neandertal DNA. And if you're going to go with the "they're extinct and we're not" thing then understand that they were around for 200,000 years while we're only working on about 40,000 at present and looking at our own extinction at our own hand because of what we're doing to our environment.
marions ghost
(19,841 posts)So people who think Climate Change is an ugly liberal myth are as dumb and delusional as...what?
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Cary
(11,746 posts)People who think Climate Change is an ugly liberal myth are as dumb and delusional as "conservatives."
I was only half joking about Neandertal by the way. There are actually paleoanthropologists who regard the notion of the superiority of homo sapiens sapiens as racist, and actually if you think about it they make a pretty good argument IMHO.
marions ghost
(19,841 posts)Maybe "Troglodyte" would be OK with the paleos. Even tho based on a possibly real group, it has long been fictionalized:
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Homo troglodytes, an invalid taxon coined by Carl Linnaeus to refer to a legendary creature
Troglodyte (Dungeons & Dragons), a race of humanoid monsters in the game Dungeons & Dragons
Troglodyte, a 2009 film also known as Sea Beast
"Troglodyte (Cave Man)", a funk song by the Jimmy Castor Bunch on their 1972 album It's Just Begun
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Re Neandertals or any such--you make a good point. After seeing what modern humans can be like, we should NOT feel at all superior to the caveman.
We're more like the hapless Trilobites (extinct anthropods) --if we don't try to stop global warming by any means possible.
It's hard to convince people that it's now an emergency that scientists have seen coming for a long time. Too big for a lot of people to understand, too scary. But it can no longer be ignored.