On 7/13/13 9:21 PM, in article krt8vk$o5b$5...@dont-email.me, "Red Blade" <penac...@yomomma.hot.invalid> wrote:
> On Sat, 13 Jul 2013 21:11:42 -0700, Snit wrote: > >> >> Fox is about as insanely anti-Obama and anti-science and anti-rights as >> any "news" organization can be. That is why their viewers are the least >> informed - thinking Obama is a Kenyan born Muslim, denying global >> warming, etc. They push those views and attract those with such views. > > No more. > > Kenyan-born stuff was "settled" after a charade with Donald Trump and > Michele Bachmann just as the 2007 election season began, and hasn't been > subject of discussion since, even though there have been much new > developments and several unanswered questions (missing school records, > identifying traits of Obama belonging to other people in IL and MA, the > Supreme Court ruled in the 1800s that natural-born citizen required two > American-born parents and the case was dismissed, etc). > > Same with global warming - as soon as the Koch brothers realized the > profitability of carbon tax schemes, global warming is promoted by Fox > and ClearChannel as scientific fact despite thousands of years of missing > and scattered climate data. Neil deGrasse Tyson ----- People often ask if I believe in global warming. I now just reply with the question: "Do you believe in gravity?" ----- Obama is an American born citizen, born in Hawaii. The evidence for man influencing global climate change is overwhelming. Obama is not a Muslim. If you cannot agree to these things we are not starting a conversation with a basis in well established and known facts. -- "There are 'extremists' in the free software world, but that's one major reason why I don't call what I do 'free software' any more. I don't want to be associated with the people for whom it's about exclusion and hatred." -- Linus Torvalds _______________________________________________ gnu-misc-discuss mailing list gnu-misc-discuss@gnu.org https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/gnu-misc-discuss