Smart As A Whip

by digby

If you wonder why people are so unbelievably misinformed in this country here’s one good place to look:

LIMBAUGH: I love it when the global warmers — and I think they’re — you know, you people run around and you talk about the birthers and how irresponsible and off their rockers they are. The global warming believers are just as wacko as the birthers if you want to look at them as wacko. I mean, if there is a leftist equivalent of the birthers out there, it is the global warmers. And this story, they’re blaming the ocean for falling global temperatures. The sun warms the oceans, so any fluxuation comes from the sun! There is no other heat source for the ocean. At any rate, who in their right minds trusts Gore or Obama on this? The reason that we’re in a cooling period is sunspot activity — anybody knows this. The sun’s cooled a little bit and only a fool would be surprised that Earth’s temperatures have fallen as a result. I mean, for crying out loud, folks, the sun is in a solar minimum phase right now. And we’ve studied these, and we know when they’re in minimum phases, and they’re in one now. And it’s — it just makes common sense if you’re in a solar minimum phase that the temperatures are going to be lower here on Earth. I — have you ever just been as amazed as I am that the global warmers just discount the sun? It’s not a factor, as far as they’re concerned. And it’s the only factor! Without it, we wouldn’t be.

People listen to this kind of drivel all day long on talk radio and Fox News. Why should anyone be surprised that they think the government is going to be sending Death Agents to nursing homes to kill old people? Why are we startled to hear people claim that Obama isn’t an American citizen or that medicare isn’t a government program? They are being indoctrinated in idiocy by radical demagogues and for some reason everybody persists in thinking there is no harm in it.

These fatuous gasbags empower the teabaggers and swift boaters and I think we can see the result — ill-informed, know nothings holding the country hostage with total irrationality.

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