Rove And Hannity: By Calling For Action On Climate Change, Obama Is Taking A ‘Jab At America’
Rove And Hannity: By Calling For Action On Climate Change, Obama Is Taking A ‘Jab At America’
Yesterday, President Obama delivered a speech at the U.N.’s climate change summit, saying the U.S. is “determined to act,” that “the threat from climate change is serious, it is urgent, and it is growing,” and “the time we have to reverse this tide is running out.”
Last night on Fox News, host Sean Hannity and former Bush adviser Karl Rove predictably mocked Obama. It’s “his mandatory jab at America,” Hannity said. “I love the blame America first,” Rove piled on. The anti-Obama duo then moved into global warming denier territory:
HANNITY: You know, we just came off one of the coolest years on record. [...]
ROVE: In 2006, only one major industrial economy in the world actually grew and at the same time reduced the absolute level of greenhouse gas emissions put out. Guess what that country was, Sean? The United States of America. He should be heralding our leadership in reducing greenhouse gases by applying technology and market economy to the problem of greenhouse gas emissions.
Watch it:
Actually, 2008 was the coolest since 2000, not “on record,” as Hannity claimed. In fact, according to a NASA Goddard Institute for Space Studies analysis released in January, last year was likely the ninth warmest on record. The warmest ten years have all occurred since 1997. Moreover, the study said that we should expect the warmest year on record within the next few years:
NASA climate scientists released a new analysis today showing 2008 was the coolest year on record since 2000 but warned a new high temperature record could be broken in the next couple of years. [...]
“It still seems likely that a new global temperature record will be set within the next 1-2 years,” the authors said.
Rove’s global warming denier claim is slightly more sophisticated than Hannity’s but also highly misleading. While overall emissions dropped from 2005-2006 in the U.S., 2007 saw an increase from 2005 emissions. The 2006 decline was mostly due to a mild winter rather than as a result of any Bush administration policies as Rove suggested. Moreover, the U.S. wasn’t alone in seeing a drop in greenhouse gas emissions that year; the European Union’s emissions also dropped slightly during that same period.
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Actually, 2008 was the coolest since 2000, not “on record,” as Hannity claimed.
Hannity thinks history started when George W. Bush was appointed to office.
September 23rd, 2009 at 11:42 amhannity needs his ass kicked in the worst way.
September 23rd, 2009 at 11:45 amChurl Stove and Pawn Vannity
PASS!!
September 23rd, 2009 at 11:45 am- – O.T. – -
No post on Palin’s Asia speech? Heh….
“Two US delegates left early, according to AFP, with one saying “it was awful, we couldn’t stand it any longer.” He declined to be identified.”
Here’s the tweet from someone during the speech:
September 23rd, 2009 at 11:46 amhttp://twitter.com/cellomonkey
Its like watching Laurel and Hardy porn.
September 23rd, 2009 at 11:47 amWhy is Rove still billed as a “political analyst”? He is nothing more than a wealthier Dick Morris, a GOP hack who uses his “analyst” tag to add legitimacy to his anti-Obama/anti-Democratic screeds.
http://www.political-buzz.com
September 23rd, 2009 at 11:47 amDumb and dumber.
September 23rd, 2009 at 11:47 amThey are jiggly, flabby fatties who are jealous of the sleek athletic Obama.
In addition, those two have size issues, related to their personal racism.
September 23rd, 2009 at 11:47 amThis is getting tiresome. Every day, every 24 hours Faux News subjects it’s viewers to anti-Obama news. These guys aren’t even subtle anymore. From what he wears, to what he eats, from his ‘Czars’ to his demeaner, to his ‘infamous’ twitch when that SOB Wilson dissed him. If I were a Faux News viewer, I would need professional help. I would be drowning in paranoia.
September 23rd, 2009 at 11:47 amYeah, it’s a real jab to advocate for building an American manufacturing base around green energy.
Shittttttttt. You Morons.
September 23rd, 2009 at 11:48 amA single data point (2000, or 2006) does not indicate a trend.
September 23rd, 2009 at 11:49 amHey Turd Blossom, how’s that permanent Rethuglic party majority working out these days/
snark
September 23rd, 2009 at 11:51 amCue Backup…. in…5…4…3…
September 23rd, 2009 at 11:51 amGlobal warming? Running out of natural resources? Killing off all the frogs? It is time for Americans to stop over-reproducing. Human over-population is rapidly destroying what remains of our natural world. Time for decreasing the human foot-print by decreasing human numbers.
OI/T: Today President Obama tried to tell the United Nations about how wonderful our endless, stupid, imperial criminal occupation of the Republic of Afghanistan really is… You know, rigging their recent Presidential Election, war crimes, bombing wedding parties, torture…
September 23rd, 2009 at 11:51 am*YAAAAAAAAAAAAWN*
Oh, sorry about that, did the Republicans say something again? I wasn’t listening. As soon as I saw their mouths start to move, I uncontrollably started to yawn.
September 23rd, 2009 at 11:53 amHANNITY: You know, we just came off one of the coolest years on record. [...]
Here’s the report showing an anomalous drop last year in global temperatures. Here’s what the person who compiled it had to say about others citing him:
Here’s another article on the subject which is doomed to failure since it attempts to explain science to wingnuts.
September 23rd, 2009 at 11:53 amSeriously we need to reduce the warming in oceans so people dont have to look at Roves prancing about in swimsuits on public beaches.
September 23rd, 2009 at 11:54 amEmails Karl. Where are the missing emails?
September 23rd, 2009 at 11:54 amHey.
Do you guys know what’s really awesome???
COAL!!
Coming up with world-changing new technologies isn’t what the US does anymore, because we found out that geeks like it, and we’re NOT geeks. Let the Asians develop the tech that the world relies on for everything for the next 400 years. We’ll be just fine, right here at home, trading derivatives back and forth, and being each others’ way-cool, non-geek accountants.
September 23rd, 2009 at 11:54 amRove and Morris appearing on KKKlannity is WAY TO MUCH for anyone to take.
They all three make my stomach turn – LITERALLY. I get sick.
The Fairness Doctrine looks better to me all the time.
September 23rd, 2009 at 11:55 amYou would think that GWB’s former czar Mr. Rove would remember that it was HIS boss who announced that America was the world’s biggest polluter at the G8 Summit in Japan. I’m sure his parting words at the summit won over many hearts and minds:
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/2277298/President-George-Bush-Goodbye-from-the-worlds-biggest-polluter.html
And YES President Obama most definitely does need to apologize to the world on behalf of America for unleashing eight years of George Dumbya Shithead on the planet.
September 23rd, 2009 at 11:59 am“jab at america’?
Obama: World failing to deal with challenges
September 23rd, 2009 at 12:00 pmCNN – ?51 minutes ago?
NEW YORK (CNN) — President Obama said Wednesday that the nations of the world are failing to work together to confront the most pressing challenges of today.
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spearNmagicHelmet says:
hannity needs his ass kicked in the worst way
I volunteer for that job. Where do I sign.
September 23rd, 2009 at 12:01 pmAhh yes, Hannity and Rove. Two of the world’s leading stupids on climate change. If climate change was a bird crapping on their heads, they wouldn’t know it to feel it. I am a scientist and the data is quite clear. The temperature is going up. There are multiple causes for this. But to make it simple for these two idiots, humans have a hand in the increased temperatures due to our over production of green house gases and the deforestation of the planet. Wake up you two.
September 23rd, 2009 at 12:01 pmPoor Repubs and their 1950s vision of an America that only exists in their sad little minds.
Remember, this is an America where coal doesn’t pollute, cigarettes don’t cause cancer, and women are at home where they belong, not out earning a living as equals.
Oh. And people who look like Barack Obama couldn’t vote for him in states like NC and VA.
September 23rd, 2009 at 12:02 pmWasn’t karl a ‘Czar’? (Actually as a crossword buff, it is usually spelled ‘Tsar’) What did Karl do exactly? Advise the Pres.? Then he was a friggin ‘Czar’. What a crock.
September 23rd, 2009 at 12:03 pmThat does beg a valid question…
Why would ANYONE, anyone SANE that is, take Rove and Hannity seriously when they talk about climate change?
September 23rd, 2009 at 12:04 pmIf we really want to nitpick, we should point out that President Obama should NOT be apologizing for America – only for Rove, Hannity, Limbaugh, O’Reilly, Palin, Bachman, Inhoff, Santorum, Bush, Cheney, Rumsfeld, Kristol, … (It’s too tiring and depressing to continue the list – just apologize for America.)
September 23rd, 2009 at 12:07 pmROVE: “He should be heralding our leadership in reducing greenhouse gases by applying technology and market economy to the problem of greenhouse gas emissions.”
Leadership?? Reducing GHGs?? Bush administration?? ROFLMAO
September 23rd, 2009 at 12:07 pmI wonder if they have blow up sex dolls of each other stowed away under the bed.
September 23rd, 2009 at 12:08 pmThe 2006 decline was mostly due to a mild winter rather than as a result of any Bush administration policies as Rove suggested.
Yep it was pure coincidence yet the Bushies tried and apparently still tries to take full credit for it.
September 23rd, 2009 at 12:11 pmChurl Vannity
September 23rd, 2009 at 12:12 pmUncivil Louts
Whine Pout
Hear piggie-piggie…
September 23rd, 2009 at 12:16 pmChurl Love: In 2006 gas emissions dropped.
Pawn Vannitea: Yes, Churl it did. Why was that?
Churl Love: Whorhay Arbooshto fired me.
September 23rd, 2009 at 12:16 pmYa know, I really wish that these global warming deniers would have to first pass a course on chaos theory. They should at least have to understand the difference between a trend and an instantaneous point.
The same goes for Faux news and the stock market.
September 23rd, 2009 at 12:18 pmKarl Rove’s “political analysis” is about as useful as your best friend’s relationship advice when you’ve just broken up with someone.
You know what he’s going to say, and you know that what he’s going to say has nothing to do with reality. It only has to do with what he wants you to think.
September 23rd, 2009 at 12:19 pmYou know, every time a pundit claims that “global warming” is dead due to cooler local temperatures, a penguin dies.
September 23rd, 2009 at 12:21 pmKKKarl RoverBoy and Little Seanie Vanity = Mutt and Jeff.
Hey, boys. If you insist on dancing incessantly with each other, please save it for next year and join the cast of next season’s “Dancing with the Stars”. I understand that it’s doing wonders for that rat-catcher, Tom Delay’s reputation!
September 23rd, 2009 at 12:21 pmIt’s clear that Karl is just using his “math” skills.
September 23rd, 2009 at 12:21 pmQaisar
September 23rd, 2009 at 12:21 pmRemind me again why KKKarl is not in prison.
He corrupted the DOJ. He phucked over innocent people.
He participated in or encouraged the commission of WAR CRIMES!
How many crimes must a sh|thead commit before the sh|thead is arrested.
September 23rd, 2009 at 12:23 pmThese two are truly too stupid to be out of cages… the only way these buffoons get their mugs out and about are the stooges over at cluster-fox have nothing better to do. Don’t you think this irrelevant mumbling would get old after a while even to the stupid??
September 23rd, 2009 at 12:24 pm@40, Yes he was. He advised Pres. Bush (Very badly, I might add) So wouldn’t he be described as a ‘Czar’? But then again, Faux News viewers aren’t very smart. I guess they can’t make the connection.
September 23rd, 2009 at 12:25 pmI think we can stop doing research on global warming. It is obvious that it is caused by man – one man, Karl Rove, specifically. The hot air that he has been blowing since his birth is the cause. Now, for the solution…
September 23rd, 2009 at 12:25 pmSpeaking of RoverBoy, Matt Latimer has a wonderful take on him in his new book:
“Karl was not the hero of the Bush White House, the brilliant behind-the scenes strategist. He was what all the liberals said he was: the villain. And to make matters worse, a clumsy one at that. He employed ham-handed tactics, put forward obviously unqualified subordinates, and stubbornly defended them. He’d turned out to be less a Voldemort than a Boris Badenov chasing Rocky and Bullwinkle.”
September 23rd, 2009 at 12:26 pmWhy is it always what these bastards think is America?
I’m America, and so can you! as Colbert says. It’s not just their country no matter how much they wish it were.
September 23rd, 2009 at 12:27 pmtigger@46, They want their ‘America’ to be as unintelligent and as narrow minded like they are. None of this ‘Let’s come together’ for these people. They view America as a White Bread society and a ‘Either you are with us or without us’ attitude. It worked so well for them so far hasn’t it? Snark!
September 23rd, 2009 at 12:32 pmIs America so weak that it can’t withstand criticism? Is America REALLY so perfect that all criticism is unfounded? Without criticism, how will our correctable flaws be addressed?
It is a good thing that our country is not as pathetically thin-skinned and insecure as Hannity and Rove.
September 23rd, 2009 at 12:34 pmHeh…
Matt Latimer’s new book on Bush is surprisingly critical of Karl Rove, given that he remains a darling of conservatives. Latimer correctly notes that Bush should have won the 2000 election easily and that it was close only because Rove stupidly wasted millions of campaign dollars in a futile effort to win California in the last days of the campaign instead of shoring up Florida. Latimer also notes that Bush’s re-election should have been a slam-dunk but ended up being close. Thus Latimer thinks that Rove’s reputation as a political genius is totally undeserved. I agree. Here Latimer summarizes his assessment of Rove:
“Karl was not the hero of the Bush White House, the brilliant behind-the scenes strategist. He was what all the liberals said he was: the villain. And to make matters worse, a clumsy one at that. He employed ham-handed tactics, put forward obviously unqualified subordinates, and stubbornly defended them. He’d turned out to be less a Voldemort than a Boris Badenov chasing Rocky and Bullwinkle.”
September 23rd, 2009 at 12:35 pmUmm… Why so much attention on Gadhafi? I remember when Hugo Chavez called Bush ‘The devil.” And he could still smell the sulfur. And yet MSM only spent an hour or so on him. Gadhafi has been going on for about two hours now. Is there something I don’t know about?
September 23rd, 2009 at 12:36 pm“I love the blame America first,” Rove piled on.
You heard it right there folks, Rove loves to blame America first.
September 23rd, 2009 at 12:43 pmThe difference between climate and weather is beyond Fox News understanding. I am getting the perception that Fox and the Republicans are reduced to the most trivial and weak criticism of Obama, that they are retreating.
September 23rd, 2009 at 12:45 pm***
will somebody please
wake up senator bunning?
!
September 23rd, 2009 at 1:03 pmjoe,
He’s not sleeping.
He’s cryogenically frozen.
THAT is how cold it has been this summer.
September 23rd, 2009 at 1:18 pmTo even use the term analysis and Rove in the same sentence should be cause for imprisonment.
September 23rd, 2009 at 1:21 pmMaybe if parsed into anal y sis, roughly meaning bonking your sister’s bum, I could fit Karly into that without much problem.
5th Estate says:
A single data point (2000, or 2006) does not indicate a trend.
Agreed. If Fox viewers think one year of data constitutes sufficient evidence, then the rebuttal argument would be stats from another year that “prove” the opposite view.
September 23rd, 2009 at 1:22 pmP.D. @ 12:45pm
KKKarl was appointed “domestic policy czar” by Bush in 2004, without senate confirmation.
September 23rd, 2009 at 1:47 pm“Bush’s brain” has been underwriting campaign and political GOP strategy since Nixon.
It’s doubtful that g.w. would have become president without Rove.
KKKarl now holds court at faux, as Manipulation of the Truth czar.
RUCerious says:
To even use the term analysis and Rove in the same sentence should be cause for imprisonment.
You sure they didn’t say anal-cyst? Aka. a “turdblossom?”
September 23rd, 2009 at 2:00 pm[rolls eyes]
Anyone still arguing for President Obama to appear on faux??
September 23rd, 2009 at 2:43 pmElBruce says:
September 23rd, 2009 at 2:47 pmAnal cyst? That explains why he’s always talking out of his ass!
Rove and Hannity the newest ignorant comedy duo! Can’t wait for the Cheney and daughter act soon to be appearing on a faux news network near you!
September 23rd, 2009 at 2:54 pmRove & Hannity– according to them, trying to make the world better = being nasty to America. So, what are they really saying? Seems they are really saying the U.S. is doing really bad things, & to try to reverse that is insulting. What a bunch of idiots. anti-Americans, & anti-earth these 2 are.
September 23rd, 2009 at 3:54 pmIgnorance won’t stop Hannity’s and Rove’s butts from frying right along with the rest of us. Well, Karl might not have more than a decade or two of life expectancy left, maybe less, considering his appearance of perfect zombie health, so he may be gone before things really go in the deep vat cooker, but Hannity will be around for a while.
Welcome to Toast, gents. Sorry, but the thermostat’s out of whack….
September 23rd, 2009 at 4:45 pmYet more textbook neoconservative rhetoric. Why express your disagreement respectfully when you can use the most extreme kind of provocative and inflammatory language possible without obviously crossing the line into slander? The fact that the words and phrases they invariably choose to use are so heavily loaded emotionally is the reason why I’m firmly convinced they’re doing this with malice aforethought in a deliberate attempt to instill or strengthen a global cognitive bias against Obama within their viewing audience. There’s no doubt in my mind that they know the power which certain words and phrases have to instill almost instinctive visceral responses in many people — especially people who lack either the skill or the inclination to question what they’re told, and who depend on the judgment of others more than their own. I’m certain that they also know people are even less inclined to think objectively when in the grip of emotion, especially violent emotions such as fear and anger. Rove and Hannity aren’t content to simply represent Obama’s statements and decisions as poor judgment. They’re determined to do anything in their power to make people view them as a deliberate and malicious effort to destroy the “American way of life” — which, of course, only they understand correctly.
September 23rd, 2009 at 5:11 pmLet’s face it…neoconservatives are the political equivalent of a dysfunctional and co-dependent family trying desperately to avoid confronting the addict in their midst. The problem(s) they face are like a 50-ton elephant(!!) in the middle of the room which they stubbornly insist doesn’t exist, isn’t really there, or isn’t really as big as all that. Instead of facing the problem(s) head-on and trying to find solutions which will really work — even though it might mean making changes which would require some adjustment and feel uncomfortable at first — they cling to the status quo, deny or minimize the problem(s), use every means at their disposal to justify or rationalize the situation, and lash out at anyone who tries to bring attention to the problem. Just like being part of a family doesn’t (and shouldn’t) mean a person ought to automatically excuse or tolerate anything and everything that someone else in the family does, being a patriot doesn’t (and shouldn’t) mean that someone ought to automatically excuse or tolerate anything and everything that their country or government does. In fact, there are times when it’s more important and more caring to engage in tough love — to point out behavior which is detrimental to the well-being of the whole, whether it be a family or a country.
September 23rd, 2009 at 5:56 pmThe Republican method for controlling greenhouse gas emissions is to slow the economy.
September 23rd, 2009 at 6:51 pmThank you for your sharing.!
September 29th, 2009 at 7:07 amThe consequences of climate change that affect us to-day is either too much rain or drought. Just look at to-day’s reports of torrential rain and flooding in the American South. It’s happening every day and it has an impact on all of us. estetik ameliyatlar
September 30th, 2009 at 7:40 am