Speaking of conservatives 80s icons:
Serious question: what's the reasoning linking climate science & racism? http://t.co/0ykI3SL6jc pic.twitter.com/lcNNqeyrup
— John McQuaid (@johnmcquaid) May 20, 2014
Anyone want to take a guess? Is it that the ecoterrorists hurt blahs here by slowing economic growth here or hurt blahs in other countries by slowing economic growth there or is this REVERSE RACISM where white people are hurt by the ecoterrorists somehow?
dmsilev
Isn’t it a racist trope that black folks can’t swim? Therefore, something something rising sea levels something something.
JPL
Don’t feed the trolls.
DougJ
@dmsilev:
Yes, they lack buoyancy.
ulee
As a professional alcoholic, I suggest Pat should give it a break until he can handle it.
Enhanced Voting Techniques
FREEDOM! That’s why
Ash Can
Empty-headed has-been says what?
Hal
I’m going to guess it has something to do with President Obama’s recent climate change statements, and Sajak is a too much of a chicken shit to just come out and link the two. Obama hates white people, and believes in climate change, therefor, climate change believers are racists. I don’t speak nut bag, but that’s my best guest at Sajak logic.
donnah
Have you ever heard a little kid try to insult someone? Well, “You’re a big mean Poopyhead” is about the best they can do. And Pat’s just about that same level.
rikyrah
Watching Rev. Al.
Do you know those muthafuckas in the GOP are doing a Summer Lunch Program FOR ONLY KIDS IN RURAL AREAS?
They have written into the law – to exclude urban areas.
MattF
@donnah: Projection, again, I guess– since Pat really is a poopyhead.
sharl
A short USA Today article on this by Duncan Black (‘Atrios’) was posted a short while ago. It includes a number of links (which I haven’t checked out, but DB is pretty good about doing his homework well).
Bobby B.
I’d advise reading the “Ricochet” blog or at least the un-paywalled part. It’s a good source of Conservatives Letting Their Pants Down, and a good chunk of its writers like James Lileks are National Review regulars. Pat Sajak is a frequent contributer, and “Cheers” producer Rob Long is one of the editors.
And yes, it’s nauseating.
Ash Can
@rikyrah: Whoa. Got any further information on that? I tried googling that and got nothing. That would be a real shocker if it were true.
Amir Khalid
OMG they still have Roda Impian in America? It went off the air here years ago.
me
FU_K PA_ SA_AK
mai naem mobile
Doug you really need to follow chuck woolerys Twitterfeed. He makes sajak look like Eisenhower
Ajabu
@dmsilev: As a Caribbean native, I suggest white folks spend a little time in the islands if you want to see if Black folks swim. (And water ski, jet ski, sailboat, etc.)
I LOVE inane – and erroneous – stereotypes…
gogol's wife
I don’t speak wingnut, but when I saw this quotation, my hypothesis was that if you believe in climate change, you’re just trying to limit economic growth in China and India, hence you’re a racist. But maybe that makes too much sense.
Howard Beale IV
Now you know why Sajak failed at having a late night show-and now can be laughed and mocked with impunity.
@mai naem mobile: He’s hawking some nonsense called Australian Dream on the Opie and Anthony Channel on SiriusXM. While O & A have an audience, between the other questionable ads on that channel and his pitching that stuff, he’s certainly has seen better days.
cleek
has been?
the guy’s still doing the job that made him famous.
Howard Beale IV
Give WaPo the Blind Squirrel award for today: https://twitter.com/washingtonpost/status/468835284550184961/photo/1
rikyrah
@Ash Can:
House GOP releases ag budget
By DAVID ROGERS | 5/19/14 11:39 AM EDT
……………
In the case of nutrition programs, the House bill seeks to open the door for starchy, white potatoes to be added to the list of qualified vegetables under the WIC supplemental feeding program for pregnant women and their young children. The Agriculture Department would also be required to establish a waiver process for local school districts which have found it too costly to comply with tougher nutrition standards for school lunch and breakfast programs.
And in a surprising twist, the bill language specifies that only rural areas are to benefit in the future from funding requested by the administration this year to continue a modest summer demonstration program to help children from low-income households — both urban and rural — during those months when school meals are not available.
Since 2010, the program has operated from an initial appropriation of $85 million, and the goal has been to test alternative approaches to distribute aid when schools are not in session. The White House asked for an additional $30 million to continue the effort, but the House bill provides $27 million for what’s described as an entirely new pilot program focused on rural areas only.
http://www.politico.com/story/2014/05/house-gop-agriculture-budget-white-house-106831.html?hp=l22
Tumbrel for Hire
I’d like to buy an F and a U, Pat.
Bill
He “now” believes this. Did he have some other belief and then after some kind of exhaustive study come to this new enlightened conclusion?
Omnes Omnibus
@rikyrah: And if you have catsup on your fries, does it count as two veggies?
Citizen_X
Seriously, DougJ? You may as well ask what the climate change alarmists have to do with BENGHAZI!!!
@rikyrah: Holy fucking hell.
Keith P
I could never quite put my finger on what the deal is with politicians’ appearances (the weird smiles, strange vocal affectations, the damn hair). Now it dawned on me: they’re trying to look like game show hosts, of whom Pat Sajak is their David Miscavige.
Mustang Bobby
When you get right down to it, Pat Sajak’s reason to get up in the morning is to point at a woman who claps and give away someone else’s dining room furniture. No wonder he’s such a bitter little man.
rikyrah
There was a rather quaint earnestness to Per On jobless benefits, ‘I’m worried’
05/20/14 12:42 PM
By Steve Benen
A couple of weeks ago, Labor Secretary Thomas Perez sent a fairly detailed letter to House Speaker John Boehner (R-Ohio), suggesting a dialog on extended federal unemployment benefits. “You have indicated that [Emergency Unemployment Compensation] should only be extended in combination with job-creation measures, but EUC is itself an effective job creation tool,” Perez explained.
There was a rather quaint earnestness to Perez’s appeal – the Labor Secretary seems to believe there’s a policy dispute that can be resolved by information and an exchange of ideas.
Alas, there’s ample evidence to the contrary. The Speaker’s office quickly dismissed Perez’s letter, saying it didn’t include a new plan for creating jobs. What about the fact that an extension would itself create jobs? Boehner’s aides brushed that aside.
The issue seems to have largely faded from front pages, but it’s been nearly six months since congressional Republicans cut off unemployment benefits for roughly 1.3 million Americans – a number that climbs by about 72,000 people every week. It’s also been nearly two months since the Senate approved a bipartisan compromise to extend the jobless aid.
Where do things stand now? Pretty much nowhere (via Laura Clawson).ez’s appeal – the Labor Secretary seems to believe there’s a policy dispute that can be resolved by information and an exchange of ideas.
Alas, there’s ample evidence to the contrary. The Speaker’s office quickly dismissed Perez’s letter, saying it didn’t include a new plan for creating jobs. What about the fact that an extension would itself create jobs? Boehner’s aides brushed that aside.
The issue seems to have largely faded from front pages, but it’s been nearly six months since congressional Republicans cut off unemployment benefits for roughly 1.3 million Americans – a number that climbs by about 72,000 people every week. It’s also been nearly two months since the Senate approved a bipartisan compromise to extend the jobless aid.
Where do things stand now? Pretty much nowhere (via Laura Clawson).
http://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow-show/jobless-benefits-im-worried
RSA
@gogol’s wife:
It does make too much sense, especially if he’s the brand of conservative who thinks that the only significant form of racism these days is against white people. (I got nothing.)
Anya
Let me help you out DougJ.
Coutries with large emission cause climate change.
Climate change affects the poorest in developing countries
If you mention these facts you are being racist against whites.
Wallis Lane
TE_ P_RTY PINHE_D
(raises hand) I’d like to solve the puzzle.
waspuppet
Any liberal who has ever had anything even remotely to do with show business can spend years/decades familiarizing themselves with the facts and perspectives, but they will never be anything but a Hollywood fluffhead.
But Pat.
Fucking.
Sajak.
will always be taken seriously. Always.
maya
I reserve judgement about global warming until I hear what Bob Barker has to say.
Fluke bucket
WDWMT? (What does Wink Martindale think?)
Calouste
@dmsilev:
Oh, really? I guess this guy was walking on water or something.
maya
Is the planet in Jeopardy, Alex?
Victory
Trolled by The Sajak.
SiubhanDuinne
@rikyrah:
What state?
SiubhanDuinne
@mai naem mobile:
@Howard Beale IV:
Yeah, I’ve started listening to MSNBC in my car on Sirius XM and every now and then I hear “Hi, I’m Chuck Woolery,” and quick as you can fart I’ve hit the button for Symphony or Classical Pops. I caught this guy occasionally about 30 years ago on some TV game show, detested him then, don’t want him polluting my beautiful mind now.
Brother Dingaling
The reasoning is that we are imposing white, Western values on non-white nations that will keep them from having our level of prosperity.
(I know, I know. Don’t tell me–tell him.)
trollhattan
@me:
Me like.
–Mongo
Now, give Mongo Sajak head on pike.
mclaren
Racism was probably thrown in because it’s a useful all-purpose smear. I’m really surprised the term “child molester” wasn’t used. That’s even more inflammatory, and even harder to prove, so it’s an ideal McCarthy-style piece of character assassination to use.
mainmata
Climate change is my field. Of course, I have to get out of the boat to see this garbage. Unfortunately, it is all so conveniently mindless blather that is just a form of La-La-la-La.
bullsmith
Is this so complicated? Good fair minded conservatives make fair minded arguments and libs scream racism. Hence the real racists are exposed.
And who is it behind the global warming hoax?
Ipso facto motherfucker, or words to that effect.
Anton Sirius
Old man yells about clouds.