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RUSH: Sound bites, couple real quick ones here. This is on the McLaughlin Group Sunday morning. Syndicated columnists Pat Buchanan and Eleanor Clift have this very brief exchange about climate change.<\/p>\n

BUCHANAN: I think I\u2019m with Rush on this one.<\/p>\n

McLAUGHLIN: Rush who?<\/p>\n

BUCHANAN: Rush Limbaugh. We hope it fails.<\/p>\n

RUSH: (laughing) I forgot. I told Mike to play the right sound bite. I cued the wrong one. Grab three, since I talked about it. This is Buchanan and Clift.<\/p>\n

BUCHANAN: There\u2019s no known proof that it\u2019s because of man.<\/p>\n

CLIFT: (screeching) There\u2019s no known proof there\u2019s God, either! <\/p>\n

BUCHANAN: It\u2019s not a danger!<\/p>\n

MCLAUGHLIN: Hang on, Eleanor.<\/p>\n

CLIFT: (screeching) How much proof do you need, Pat?<\/p>\n

RUSH: ‘There\u2019s no known proof that there\u2019s God, either. How much proof do you need, Pat?\u2019 Religion does not pretend to be science; science is now pretending to be religion. You see how easy this is? Here\u2019s Paul Krugman. Now, this guy\u2019s a genuine idiot. This was on This Week during the roundtable. He said this about the e-mails from East Anglia University…<\/p>\n

KRUGMAN: All these e-mails, um, people have never seen what academic discussion looks like. There is not a single smoking gun in there. There\u2019s nothing in there. And the travesty is that people are not able to explain why the fact that 1998 was a very warm year, uhh, doesn\u2019t actually mean that global warming has stopped.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Here is a respected economist in the New York Times proving his absolute idiocy. Ah, we just don\u2019t know. The scientists use the word ‘trick\u2019 and they send e-mails to each other. We just don\u2019t know what an academic discussion looks like. We\u2019re too stupid, too stupid to understand what we\u2019ve read. It\u2019s sort of like saying, ‘Hey, look, of course politicians steal. They\u2019re politicians! What\u2019s the big deal? It\u2019s no different than that. Of course scientists lie. That\u2019s what they do! You\u2019re just not smart enough to understand what it all means,\u2019 and then during the roundtable, George Will spoke with Cokie Roberts. He said, ‘Is there a larger venture capital firm in this country than the Energy Department of this government which right now is sending out billions and billions of dollars in speculation on green energy?\u2019<\/p>\n

ROBERTS: But I think that that\u2019s something the — the — the American people want. I mean we — we — we want green jobs. We don\u2019t want to see those polar bears, you know, on those ice floes without any ice around them.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Cokie Roberts speaking for liberals everywhere: Forget the evidence. Forget the evidence! We need green jobs. We\u2019ll support cap and tax to save the polar bears. <\/p>\n

This is what an academic discussion looks like. George Will is an academic; Cokie Roberts fashioned herself as one. Here\u2019s an academic discussion. ‘Of course the American people want that. We want green jobs.\u2019 There aren\u2019t any! There\u2019s no such thing! ‘We don\u2019t want to see the polar bears on ice floes without…?\u2019 Those are doctored pictures, Cokie. Besides, a polar bear can swim 60 miles. Sometimes they like to frolic, but those are not melting glaciers. How is it that we know this and the supposedly smarter media people around us just are as ignorant as a whale?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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