By Steve Hynd
I know it's wrong to mock the afflicted but I just can't help it. And I'd at least try to argue that showing up such mouthdropping stupidity and the bigotry that comes from it is a public duty.
First up, via Steve Benen and Alex Kopelman, is FOX host Brian Kilmeade.
Kilmeade and two colleagues were discussing a study that, based on research done in Finland and Sweden, showed people who stay married are less likely to suffer from Alzheimer's. Kilmeade questioned the results, though, saying, "We are -- we keep marrying other species and other ethnics and other ..."
At this point, his co-host tried to -- in that jokey morning show way -- tell Kilmeade he needed to shut up, and quick, for his own sake. But he didn't get the message, adding, "See, the problem is the Swedes have pure genes. Because they marry other Swedes .... Finns marry other Finns, so they have a pure society."
Salon has the video. But seriously "marrying other species" as well as ethnic inter-marriage? Kilmeade must be thinking about anti-abortion activist Neal Horsley and his self-admitted intimate relations with the farm mule.
The ignorance and bigotry just shines through Kilmeade's Fox pas but there's a video doing the rounds today of a conservative so embarassingly ignorant that even the rightwing Little Green Footballs website can't resist mocking.
Arizona Republican State Senator Sylvia Allen argues in favor of uranium mining on state land, because our planet has managed to last 6,000 years without any environmental laws, and look, we�re just fine.
I can�t say enough how it�s time that we get beyond, and, and start focusing on the technology we have, and move forward into the future so that our grandchildren and, can have the same lifestyle we have, and, and, this earth�s been here 6,000 years and I know I�m goin� on and on and I�ll shut up ... It�s been here 6,000 years, long before anybody had environmental laws, and somehow it hasn�t been done away with.
Of course, as Phil Plait at Discover magazine notes:
The irony, of course � and there�s always irony when creationism is involved � is that she�s talking about uranium mining, and it�s through the radioactive decay of uranium that we know the Earth is billions of years old. And she also praises technological achievements!
This, folks, is the party of opposition. The one DC Dems keep falling over themselves to appease. Jeezy Creezy!
Well now I feel really bad. Me, a German citizen, married a Finnish lady and sired two children with her.
ReplyDeleteIf I would have known that that meant pooping into the pure Finnish gene pool, I would of course have tried to control my animalistic desires. And what have I done to my children!
Btw, Mr Kilmeade obviously doesn't know squat about healthy gene pools. Never heard of inbreeding and hybrid vigor.
I'm not a regular follower of LGF, but last time I looked at it, Charles Johnson seemed to have three main themes:
ReplyDelete(1) Hatred for all things Muslim coupled with unqualified support for Israel;
(2) Alarm at the extremism and bigotry of others who share (1); and
(3) Scorn for creationism.
"...it�s through the radioactive decay of uranium that we know the Earth is billions of years old."
ReplyDeleteActually, it's the radioactive decay of carbon; carbon dating doesn't use uranium, it uses Carbon-14, but...
Bill H, carbon has too short a half-life for billions of years radio-dating.
ReplyDeleteRegards, Steve