Glenn Beck: global warming idiot

I wonder: is nationally syndicated radio talk show host and CNN blowhard Glenn Beck vying with Rush Limbaugh to see who can pack more stupid statements into one segment?

Beck's latest bloviation is on global warming. It was on his radio show, not CNN, so it's possible a few people actually heard it (oh, snap!). He said at least six dumb things in two paragraphs-- assuming it was just stupidity on his part and not outright lying. Media Matters has the goods:

BECK: We'll tell you the truth. We'll tell you the things that are politically incorrect. I'll go on and I'll tell you the fires have very little to do with global warming, if anything. The globe was the hottest in 19 -- was it 1934, Stu [executive producer Steve "Stu" Burguiere], or '37? -- '34, 1934 was the hottest year. A stat, by the way, that was, I believe, intentionally distorted by the guy the left holds up as the scientist on global warming. America's temperature peaked in 1934. Since 1934, the hottest year on record was 1998. It has not gotten warmer since 1998. That's a fact.

Now, why are these fires burning out of control? Al Gore and everybody else will have you believe that it is all about global warming. Well, really? A one-degree temperature change that happened at the first part of the century, not in the last part of the century, at least most of it, and a temperature change that hasn't changed since 1998 is causing superfires in California and only California? Only America? It's in the American borders. How is that possible?

Wow. So much to say...

First, 1934 was the hottest year in the US, and not the globe (to the neocons, of course, the rest of the planet doesn't count). 1998 had basically the same temperature as 1934, within errors (Beck should know about errors). The temperature didn't "peak" in 1934, and in fact the last 25 years have seen a strong upsurge in temperatures in the US (this inconvenient fact is generally ignored by those who deny global warming). No one intentionally distorted the temperatures, there was a correction issued to the calculations. Sometimes people correct mistakes they make. That's called science.

I could go on and on... and I did, on my own blog. If you can stand teh stoopid, take a look over there and get the more detailed evisceration of Beck's nonsense.

Somehow, between Britney Spears updates, CNN manages to give this guy a full hour every weekday to spew his nonsense. It's sad and maddening that he gets to distort reality on what used to be a fine network like CNN.

Comments

[ihavenobias]

It's funny, because earlier today a regular conservative commenter on this site tried to trot out those numbers, and now I know where he got them (further reducing his credibility).

It's still amazes me that Glenn Beck is on Good Morning America as a regular commentator.

I resent the fact that this blatantly partisan dope (I don't say dope because I disagree with him, I say it because he's incredibly sarcastic, reactionary and poorly informed) is presented to average Joe moderate Americans (the types that tend to watch the morning fluff shows) as just another average Joe who "tells it like it is".

Look at the press release from when ABC announced the move:

abcnews.go.com/Entertainment/wireStory?id=2781423

[newshound1]

Glenn Beck, Nancy Grace--nasty hatefilled piople interested only in self=promotion. So much for CNN's liberal bias.

[Cassandra2]

Now, don't sell Beck short - there isn't any subject he can't spout complete nonsense about. His one virture (if it is such), is that he's less offensive than Coulter, less obtusely self-serving than O'Reilly, and less reptilian than Hannity. He's the neocon Fred Rogers. Probably why he has such a small audience - cons like offensiveness in their punditry.

[ihavenobias]

Maybe, but he's clearly wins the award for sarcastic obnoxiousness.

And again, I don't say that just because I disagree with just about everything he says. If that were the case, I'd be a fan of say, Stephanie Miller (a liberal talk show host who in my opinion is way too sarcastic and obnoxious), but I can't stand her show.

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