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Al Gore and the Blue Sky Theory

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Posted on Oct 21, 2007

By Will Durst

So Al Gore got the Nobel Peace Prize for his incessant blabbing about “global warming.” Big deal. The committee that hands those things out is the most motley collection of Norwegian Marxists you ever did see. Previous peace prize nominees have included Adolf Hitler, Joseph Stalin, Benito Mussolini, Satan, Michael Moore and Mother Teresa. But the worst part is the encouragement this Scandinavian Cracker Jack prize has given the former crime confederate of Hillary Clinton’s husband to proselytize other harebrained speculations.

Now the Global Gloomy Gus is going around trying to convince people the sky is blue. He doesn’t call it an opinion. He neglects to cite scientific evidence linking other colors to the sky. Nope. The sky is blue. Because Al Gore says so. And we’re supposed to take his word for it and shut the hell up. I don’t think it’s any big secret why Tipper’s old man wants the sky to be blue. Certainly can’t have the sky being red, now can we, like Florida turned in 2000?

Exactly where does this guy get off? Who voted him mister science expert of the world guy? He’s a failed politician who blew his last race and apparently can’t get over being deprived of the limelight. What does he know about skies? Googled his bio: Not surprisingly, there were no university degrees in “Sky.” Although, to be fair, there were no degrees in “Manure Spreader” either, and I have to admit, he’s one of the best.

Correct me if I’m wrong, but isn’t the sky often full of clouds? When he looks up, does he see blue clouds too? Makes sense when you consider all the hallucinogenics he must have swallowed at Harvard with his East Coast Ivy League, little-light-in-their-loafer buddies. All of whom, I’m sure, still see green pigs and polka dot trees under those liberal blue skies of theirs. 

To hear the way Gore and his cabal of elite environmental extremists tell it, you’d think general scientific consensus has signed off on the whole “sky is blue” hypothesis, but they’d be dead wrong. What they don’t want you to know is several highly respected Texas-based scientists who haven’t drunk from Gore’s pitcher of socialist Kool-Aid vehemently dispute this contention, calling the theory just that: the “blue sky theory.” According to them, there’s not enough evidence either way. Jury is still out.

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So what if, on occasion, the sky is bluish; who’s to say that it isn’t turning back to its original color of green or magenta or cerulean real soon? Has Hollywood’s favorite mascot ever thought of that? Or is he too busy trying to divert billions of dollars to his good friend Osama bin Laden and the Islamo-fascists by scuttling important domestic oil research?

By ramming these irrational beliefs down the throats of ordinary people, Al Gore and his goth band of America-haters revel in their disdain for the hard-working men and women of this country, while at the same time flagrantly endangering the safety of our brave freedom-fighting troops in Iraq.  I imagine the next piece of junk science propaganda nonsense this world-class snake oil salesman will try peddling to a gullible public is that water is wet or war is bad. God help us all.


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By cann4ing, October 24, 2007 at 8:28 am Link to this comment

Come on CY, you Al Gore-loving pinko.  Next thing you know, you’re gonna try and convince people that having their homes burn to the ground is a bad thing, or that fire is hot, or the earth is round.

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By Jim Parris, October 24, 2007 at 7:49 am Link to this comment
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Wow… this story caught a lot of flack.  I thought it was pretty brilliant - since I’ve read stuff just like it.  Yesterday I went link-hopping on the subject of Stark’s apology and I found rhetoric JUST LIKE THIS (although serious) regarding that issue.  Bizarre references to a liberal-run world, media conspiracies, and the like encased in the same type of venom-filled bloggists’ humor.  Really, this satire was spot on.

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By Louise, October 22, 2007 at 3:13 pm Link to this comment

Methinks some folks don’t understand Satire.
Pity. Although I have to say, this probably goes off a lot better if delivered by voice rather than writ. That note of sarcasm can be heard, but is difficult to see. Especially if one lives to find a word to justify blind anger.

Oh well.

Just in case any of you want to try again ...
It’s all in the last paragraph!

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By Dookiestix, October 22, 2007 at 3:04 pm Link to this comment
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“I imagine the next piece of junk science propaganda nonsense this world-class snake oil salesman will try peddling to a gullible public is that water is wet or war is bad. God help us all.”

I think Durst brought it home in that last comment.  He merely reveals the delusional mindset of the many rightwingers who insist on p*ssing away our beloved planet’s environment as they suffer from abject deniability. Durst is as liberal as they get.  He and Willie Brown used to have a show here in the City on the Quake.

Although to be sure, Colbert is by FAR funnier and MUCH more poignant in making these kinds of points.

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By Conservative Yankee, October 22, 2007 at 10:58 am Link to this comment
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“I heard this same rant at my last meeting of the “know-nothings” only they were trying to be serious, and failing as badly as Mr. Durst. 

It is 86 degrees here on the northern coast of Maine.  The forest fires in the west have burned over 2 million acres this year and there are still two weeks (in the traditional “fire season”) to go. Last year was the most devastating fire season since they began keeping records 125 years ago. Bugs such as black flies, mosquitoes, house flies and chiggers which have always been gone by August 30th are still here.

Atlanta is almost out of water. disease   which once stayed below the equator is now in North America.

...and this guy thinks he’s funny.

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By Akira_Maritias, October 22, 2007 at 4:35 am Link to this comment

Wow…hardly humorous. And another Gore-fest, at that. I suppose that Truthdig has shown its’ colors: We like Hillary and Gore, we wish they would make little Gillary’s and Hores (oh dear) so we could vote for them and write annoying articles about how they’re awesome.

Sheesh, get a room! You can hump Gore’s leg in there; I am not at all interested in reading about your sick desires.

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By SamSnedegar, October 22, 2007 at 1:19 am Link to this comment

What next? Are you going to suggest that there were NOT dinosaurs and mastadons on Noah’s Ark? If you are going to be scientific about selling shoes, you have to understand that gravity only makes the FIRST shoe drop; the other one may hesitate for eons before falling.

And how to explain that if you fly around the world fast enough you fly up your own anus? Science can hardly explain that one, when you ought to have fallen off the flat earth some time previously.

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By Stephen Cassidy, October 21, 2007 at 10:21 pm Link to this comment

“Americans are fed up with the President’s stalling and Congressional failure to act. Frankly, it is well past time we make a choice. And the only responsible choice left to us is to get all of our troops out of Iraq, with no residual forces left behind—no combat forces, no non-combat forces.”

“A hungry world will also hunger for scapegoats. A thirsty world will thirst for revenge. A world in crisis will be a world of anger and violence and terrorism.”

Sounds like Gore?  It is not.  It’s Bill Richardson. If you’re looking for a Democrat who believes all of our troops, and he means all, should be brought home from Iraq now and has global agenda to address climate change, environmental destruction, energy, poverty and hunger to save our planet and improve the welfare of the human race, learn more about Richardson.

Take a look at http://www.dailykos.com/storyonly/2007/10/19/184344/54

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By Carlos Jimenez, October 21, 2007 at 4:20 pm Link to this comment
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Will, get a shoe salesman job.  You’re anything but funny.

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