ENSLER: Well, I just think the idea that she doesn't believe in global warming is bizarre.
BEHAR: Every scientist at every note believes in it but Sarah Palin doesn't believe in it.
ENSLER: And I think we just kind of have to walk around the world at this point and look at what is happening to nature and earthquakes and tsunamis.
BEHAR: Right.
Behar also characterizes this as insane and unbelievable.
Unlike, for instance, the believable and sane notion that carbon emissions and cow toots cause earthquakes and tidal waves.
I understand Ensler's confusion. It's only natural. I mean, anybody, just anybody could be confused by the fact that earthquakes cause tidal waves. That's such a complex idea that it's only natural she would then take earthquakes and tidal waves for two separate things caused, not by plate tectonics as witch doctors formerly thought, but by people asking for ice in their glasses at restaurants and driving SUVs. And the cow toots.
Read more
See also Ace, who notes:
A point I've made to death is that part of the appeal of liberalism for the intellectually insecure is the belief that simply buying into liberalism makes one smarter. Here, we have a couple of yentas who are scientifically illiterate talking about how scientific they are.
(In case you'd forgotten, tsunamis are not a weather-related phenomenon, but are tidal waves caused by underwater earthquakes and such.)
As they go on, Behar and Ensler mock tea partiers, "who have a level of intelligence that hasn't really evolved, yet" and accuse Palin of playing fast and loose with the facts. Ace again:
"...unlike Ensler and Behar, who are quite certain that rising temperatures may cause tectonic plates to "sweat," and thereby become more "lubricated," and thereby slip past each other and cause earthquakes and tsunamis.This is not science; this is magic, and a particularly primitive and dunderheaded system of magic at that."I can't decide if it's on a par, or just a little bit funnier than Al Gore's confusion about the difference between the earth and a star. Pin It
Do you believe in global warming? No, sir. Sorry, you're automatically disqualified as a candidate. Next, please.
ReplyDeleteWhat is "insane and unbelievable" is the number of people who give any creedence whatsoever to this babble.
Don't you feel sometimes as though you've stepped through the looking glass? ~sigh~
I don't think I'd go so far as to say it's insane to believe in global warming. It's both hilarious and very bizarre to believe global warming causes earthquakes and tsunamis, though.
ReplyDeleteYou may have seen this video before... I'd like to see Al Gore surprised with the same questions sometime.
ReplyDeletehttp://www.learner.org/resources/series28.html?pop=yes&pid=9
While I appreciate the humor involved, what I really don't get is why ANYBODY cares about ANYTHING Joy Behar says. Do any real people actually watch that show? I know I don't, but I am constantly being told by everyone from you to Bill OReilly what Joy Behar said today. I'm guessing you didn't actually watch it, and I can guarantee you that Bill OReilly didn't either, but I've heard about it from both of you now in the last 24 hours. I take that as an indication that it's a really slow news day and nothing much is happening. Joy Behar is just another failed public school teacher - another excellent reason to homeschool. Can you imagine your child being trapped with her all year - the poor kid would never get over it.
ReplyDeleteNo, I don't watch Joy, but I thought this segment was just too pricelessly clueless to skip. I have watched The View a handful of times, and I always thought she was the weakest link.
ReplyDeleteI don't watch Bill O'Reilly, either.
I really can't stand Bill OReilly either, but my husband loves to yell at him, so he's often on at our house!
ReplyDelete