by Scott Creighton
Chris Mathews proves both his sycophancy and his ignorance once again.
It’s all about man-made … I mean … I mean global warming. Can’t question those scientists because we have to get Barack Obama ready to force the failed UK carbon credits market on the U.S. just as soon as the fraud election is over (read as “Romney takes a dive like McCain, Kerry, and Gore before him”)
Chris Mathews went on Hardball yesterday and breathlessly drooled over Bill Clinton saying that Sandy proves man-made global warming is real. He also called deniers of this new religion “pigs” and “Luddites” (for the “Luddites” quote see this)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=oYGnw4BmnsI
Chris’ quests certainly framed this non-issue in terms of the election claiming that they can vote for saving the world (Obama) or vote for the Koch brothers (Romney)
Chris and his guests get a couple of things wrong here:
First of all, wasn’t it Obama who went to the Copenhagen Summit and deliberately blew the deal out of the water because he set the bar so incredibly low and cut a deal on the side with the big emitter countries to pretend they are doing something while crippling industry in developing countries? Oh yeah, that was World Savior Obama…
There’s plenty of blame to go around, but there was one country that possessed unique power to change the game. It didn’t use it. If Barack Obama had come to Copenhagen with a transformative and inspiring commitment to getting the US economy off fossil fuels, all the other major emitters would have stepped up. The EU, Japan, China and India had all indicated that they were willing to increase their levels of commitment, but only if the US took the lead. Instead of leading, Obama arrived with embarrassingly low targets and the heavy emitters of the world took their cue from him.
(The “deal” that was ultimately rammed through was nothing more than a grubby pact between the world’s biggest emitters: I’ll pretend that you are doing something about climate change if you pretend that I am too. Deal? Deal.) Naomi Klein Guardian, Dec. 2009
Obama saving the world from man-made climate change? Yeah right.
The second thing Mr. Mathews gets wrong is his use of the term “Luddite” to describe those of us who question the legitimacy of the religion of man-made climate change in the face of all the scandals, lies, leaked emails telling other to lie, changed “facts”, dropped monitoring stations, and the vast wealth that lies at the heart of the entire Global Warming industry.
When he calls us Luddites in reference to backward people who refuse to accept new technologies or science.
Chris Mathews is a fucking moron.
The Luddites didn’t destroy textile weaving machines in Nottingham Britain on March 11, 1811 because they were backward people… they worked on those machines for a living.
This of course is the standard way the truth is suppressed in modern America these days… the claim that the Luddites hated new technology is ridiculous and stupid at its core. It’s designed to cover up the REAL FACTS surrounding what those textile workers did and why they did it.
The Luddite disturbances started in circumstances at least superficially similar to our own. British working families at the start of the 19th century were enduring economic upheaval and widespread unemployment. A seemingly endless war against Napoleon’s France had brought “the hard pinch of poverty,” wrote Yorkshire historian Frank Peel, to homes “where it had hitherto been a stranger.” Food was scarce and rapidly becoming more costly. Then, on March 11, 1811, in Nottingham, a textile manufacturing center, British troops broke up a crowd of protesters demanding more work and better wages.
That night, angry workers smashed textile machinery in a nearby village. Similar attacks occurred nightly at first, then sporadically, and then in waves, eventually spreading across a 70-mile swath of northern England from Loughborough in the south to Wakefield in the north. Fearing a national movement, the government soon positioned thousands of soldiers to defend factories. Parliament passed a measure to make machine-breaking a capital offense.
But the Luddites were neither as organized nor as dangerous as authorities believed. They set some factories on fire, but mainly they confined themselves to breaking machines. In truth, they inflicted less violence than they encountered. In one of the bloodiest incidents, in April 1812, some 2,000 protesters mobbed a mill near Manchester. The owner ordered his men to fire into the crowd, killing at least 3 and wounding 18. Soldiers killed at least 5 more the next day.” Smithsonian
Yeah, go ahead and call me a Luddite Chris and I’ll still call you a spineless sycophantic moron because you’re too stupid too realize you paid me a compliment..
Yes, I suppose the modern day Luddites do wish to cripple the machine of global conquest which is what is really what is lurking behind your man-made global warming dogma.
Go ahead and use Sandy to garner votes for Clinton I mean Obama.. but I wonder who that makes the bigger “pig”
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