If you answered, “Fox News, anchor Shep Smith,” you win!
The context is even better. Smith was reporting on the story of “31-year-old Shannon P. Hunter of Lebanon. He was drunk, naked and wedged up to his waist in the hole of the toilet.”
Smith compared “people who get stuck in toilets” to “People who deny the whole global warming thing. They’re just a little crazy.”
When even Fox News compares you to drunk people who get stuck in toilets, it may be time to re-examine your belief system.
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He’s drunk right and he gets stuck in the toilet. Doesn’t seem that far fetched. I think global warming deniers are more like those sober people who get stuck in toilets.
I think global warming deniers are more like those sober people who get stuck in toilets.
At least the drunk guy had an excuse. What’s the sober person’s excuse? Stupidity?
Best,
D
Everyone is wondering what the HELL is going on….
http://www.necn.com/Boston/Nation/Flooding-wildfires-storms-ravage-US-/1213177873.html
I think the press is coming round – this is the watershed year in more ways than one….
1. Q: What kind of person denies that temperatures warmed (“globally”, that is) from 1976 to 1998?
1. A: A (drunk or sober) individual who ignores the observed facts.
2. Q: What kind of person denies that temperatures have not warmed (“globally”, that is) from 1998 to today?
3. Q: What kind of person denies that temperatures did not warm (“globally”, that is) from 1944 to 1976?
For answer to questions 2 and 3, please refer to answer to question 1.