• February 12, 2012

Al Gore, how do you respond to bad-faith sloganeering from Sarah Palin’s Facebook and Twitter messages denying your life’s work? [YouTube]

{ 60 comments }

charlesdegoal December 10, 2009 at 1:39 pm

People who don’t believe in global warming should put they money where their mouth is. Buying real estate in the Maldives would be a good start.

Suds McKenzie December 10, 2009 at 1:39 pm

“Al Gore, how do you respond to bad-faith sloganeering from Sarah Palin’s Facebook and Twitter messages denying your life’s work?”

Who knows, but I bet it’s really fucking boring.

trondant December 10, 2009 at 1:39 pm

We are sending her a NObama dildo for Christmas, right?

Snarkalicious December 10, 2009 at 1:40 pm

I can’t see video at work! Is he chuckling while eating 7 pounds of ham?

FMA December 10, 2009 at 1:41 pm

When is Palin going to share her ideas on gravity? Because, you know, it’s only a “theory.”

Gopherit December 10, 2009 at 1:44 pm

Yes, Sarah Palin with her 6 year bachelors in communications. I trust her scientific opinion.

When are the stupid fuckers in the media going to stop balancing facts with retards?

Gopherit December 10, 2009 at 1:45 pm

[re=475701]FMA[/re]: Let her jump out of plane. Jesus will save her.

Cicada December 10, 2009 at 1:48 pm

Grrrr….
The leaked emails are from one research group. They reference one line of evidence for global warming, tree-ring temperature data. There are so many other lines of evidence! Even if you throw out all the tree-ring data there is still a strong case for anthropogenic global warming. Something Palin never addresses, and the news media lets her get away with that!!!!
Sarah Palin is an idiot, and a publicity whore, and an unethical turd brain. The Today show producers who put together this piece are credulous hacks.

kapish December 10, 2009 at 1:49 pm

I would like to see Palin & Pat Buchannan interviewed by J. Fred Muggs.

Extemporanus December 10, 2009 at 1:51 pm

Sarah Palin is anti-Gravity’s Rainbow.

RoscoePColtraine December 10, 2009 at 1:51 pm

co2 holds heat…
The laws of physics don’t give a ripe shit about whether Sarah believes in them or not.

JMP December 10, 2009 at 1:51 pm

Yep, the person to trust on global warming is the resident of an oil-producing state with huge ties to the oil industry, who has a weird personal hatred of what’s likely to be one of the first species driven to extinction by global warming, and who basically admits to being a creationist, which marks someone as too dumb to live. That’s who I trust!

Sharkey December 10, 2009 at 1:52 pm

I bet Al Gore doesn’t even HAVE a Twitter account. So he automatically loses!

Dreamer December 10, 2009 at 1:59 pm

I hope John McCain burns in hell thousand times for inflicting this asshole on us. I hate that fuckwit. How can anyone be that stupid and receive that much attention for serious topics.

proudgrampa December 10, 2009 at 2:00 pm

Al Gore: Harvard. Vanderbilt.

Sarah Palin: Matanuska-Susitna College (!?!). Idaho.

‘Nuff said.

freakishlystrong December 10, 2009 at 2:01 pm

So now Dr. Palin is “duking it out with Gore” over climate change? This is as stupid as the media frenzy over the “debate” that Dick had with Barry over torture. I say cage matches for all.

chascates December 10, 2009 at 2:03 pm

Idiotgate. The scandal of idiots taking over the public discourse.

Come here a minute December 10, 2009 at 2:03 pm

Well, if HE said it, and SHE said it, both sides must be equally valid.

Dreamer December 10, 2009 at 2:07 pm

The funny thing is if Mrs Greenspan was not at MSNBC Olbermann would have declared her “Worse Person of the World”.

depraved indifference engine December 10, 2009 at 2:08 pm

Everyday People?!? Different strokes for different folks??!

Fuck you, Andrea, Meredith, and NBC.

Capitol Hillbilly December 10, 2009 at 2:09 pm

Once Comcast takes over NBC I’m sure this sort of thing won’t happen anymore.

jodyleek December 10, 2009 at 2:10 pm

Doomsday scare tactics. Isn’t that the crux of Palin’s religious beliefs?
Me thinks Sarah dost project too much.

SpikeyDog December 10, 2009 at 2:11 pm

The stupid bitch will say anything to keep her name in the news. I want the tomato concession at any of her future book signings.

Katydid December 10, 2009 at 2:12 pm

[re=475706]Gopherit[/re]: Or, maybe Jesus will save us instead. Win-win.

JSDC007 December 10, 2009 at 2:14 pm

Actually owning an SUV IS an act of total douchebaggery, not to mention a strain on your bank account. But then Palin douchebags would rather not have health insurance than do without their SUVs.

KilgoreTrout_XL December 10, 2009 at 2:18 pm

In NBC’s defense, I thought that they tried to imply that the “republican naysayers” are lunatic greenballooning motherfuckers. Still, “NBC” means “COMCAST” now, so I say FUCK YOU NBC & COMCAST I HATE YOU THIS MUCH.

JooJoo Bee December 10, 2009 at 2:22 pm

Jeebus! Could they have been softer on her? When are the media (yes, all of them, not just us) going to confront this bitch with facts and ask her why she thinks they don’t matter?

JooJoo Bee December 10, 2009 at 2:23 pm

[re=475767]KilgoreTrout_XL[/re]: There is no try, only doo-doo.

KilgoreTrout_XL December 10, 2009 at 2:27 pm

[re=475780]JooJoo Bee[/re]: Yeah you’re probably right and besides I stopped the vid as soon as I heard the woman introduce the two “sides”.

Johnny Zhivago December 10, 2009 at 2:34 pm

Al Gore may have invented the internets, but Sarah Palin INVENTED the Twitters.

Hooray For Anything December 10, 2009 at 2:34 pm

[re=475744]Come here a minute[/re]: If Sarah Palin posted on her Facebook page that men did not in fact land on the moon, will all the cable news networks then have to go running to John Glenn to respond? I can see Andrea Mitchell now “…but some say the astronauts were taken to a Hollywood film studio to film the landings and when they tried to tell the truth were chased by the government and killed.”

norbizness December 10, 2009 at 2:36 pm

Ah, the apotheosis of the Flat vs. Round: Views Differ debate.

markg December 10, 2009 at 2:37 pm

Today, December 10, 2009, the pernicious and intellectually bankrupt “he said, she said” school of journalism pretty much reached its apotheosis, or its nadir if you will. I mean putting this creationist retard on equal footing with Al Gore, Nobel winner, on the subject of global warming? What’s next? Palin and Hawking “duke it out” on the age of the universe? Give me a freaking break.

JMP December 10, 2009 at 2:40 pm

[re=475752]Capitol Hillbilly[/re]: Coming up next on Today: Can satellite dishes give you cancer?

petehammer December 10, 2009 at 2:43 pm

[re=475801]Hooray For Anything[/re]: …and if not killed, they later grew up and killed their ex-wife and boyfriend, were acquitted, and later punished for a gambling/assault thing.

That’s how big the Capricorn One conspiracy is.

RoscoePColtraine December 10, 2009 at 2:44 pm

I don’t know why, but it all reminds me of when your mom says, “you let your sister play, too,” when you’re playing baseball, or building a fort, or any other thing sisters suck at.

Uncle Joe December 10, 2009 at 2:53 pm

Who Wants to Be a Millionaire used to have smarter contestants.

JMP December 10, 2009 at 2:57 pm

[re=475817]petehammer[/re]: No; according to the moon-hoax crowd he was framed because he was about to tell the truth. Really.

Hooray For Anything December 10, 2009 at 2:58 pm

[re=475817]petehammer[/re]: I think you meant “grew up and allegedly killed their ex-wife and boyfriend. But some say it was a conspiracy by the LAPD and a racist cop who dropped the infamous glove.”

petehammer December 10, 2009 at 3:00 pm

[re=475836]JMP[/re]: I thought it was just a mildly entertaining Peter Hyams film.

I was so, so wrong.

What if “The Happening” is real? Does that mean we will all start talking like THAT?

Humpback December 10, 2009 at 3:05 pm

I know Palin’s problem–evil spirits and bad blood.

Mr Blifil December 10, 2009 at 3:11 pm

I can see the melting polar cap from my house.

JMP December 10, 2009 at 3:12 pm

[re=475841]petehammer[/re]: That’s a problem with satirizing the crazy conspiracy theorists, as with the wignuts; no matter how nuts whatever you can make up is, the real ones have gone further.

Accordion-o-rama December 10, 2009 at 3:12 pm

It is the tragedy of human history that, in the battle between the fact deprived and the charisma deprived, the former usually triumph.

yikesahootie December 10, 2009 at 3:13 pm

[re=475830]Uncle Joe[/re]: Heck, “Are You Smarter Than a Fifth-grader?” used to have smarter contestants.

Guppy06 December 10, 2009 at 3:20 pm

Owning an SUV consumes more oil. Oil comes from Saudi Arabia. Saudi Arabia funds terrorism. So while it isn’t a sin to own an SUV per se, it is an indication that you hate our troops.

Accordion-o-rama December 10, 2009 at 3:50 pm

[re=475861]Guppy06[/re]: Owning an SUV consumes more oil. We import the largest share of our oil from Canada. Canadians make poutine. Poutine powers hockey players. Levi Johnson plays hockey. Levi Johnson banged Bristol. So while it isn’t a sin to own an SUV per se, it is an indication that you want to bang a Palin.

SmutBoffin December 10, 2009 at 3:51 pm

Though it is in typically true that “there are two sides to every debate”, sometimes one of those sides is a load of crap. It reminds me of the Strangers with Candy episode where Stephen Colbert is the debate coach and declares the topic “incest” and assigns Jerri the “pro” position.

comicbookguy December 10, 2009 at 3:52 pm

Yeah well I can show you a bunch of out-of-context emails calling Moon deniers loony, refusing to give them tenure, and tell you about some lost NASA footage. QED.

WIDTAP December 10, 2009 at 4:17 pm

[re=475723]Sharkey[/re]: The problem isn’t Al Gore’s Twitter account. It’s that after inventing the internet he hasn’t learned to use it for its two primary purposes: outrageous rumor-mongering and porn.

WIDTAP December 10, 2009 at 4:19 pm

[re=475861]Guppy06[/re]: “Buy an SUV, kill a US Marine.” – we have the new GOP motto.

betterDeadThanRed December 10, 2009 at 4:20 pm

You come up with climate models in the 70′s that say we’ll be in deep shit by the end of the century. Then most of the bad stuff that your models predicted starts to happen. Wow, they’ve been working on this conspiracy for over 30 years!

And The Onion confirmed that Neil Armstrong is now convinced that his moon landing was staged. So there.

Lionel Hutz Esq. December 10, 2009 at 6:12 pm

Remember how Gore took apart Ross Perot on NAFTA? How I would love to see a true debate between Gore and Palin, although by “love” I mean “cruelly relish.”

MissEllie December 10, 2009 at 9:16 pm

Sorry, but when I think about a Palin-Gore “debate”, I’m reminded of that wise old saying, “Never mud-wrestle a pig. You just get dirty and the pig likes it.”

foulmouthed mrscreant December 10, 2009 at 9:38 pm

[re=475701]FMA[/re]: God made it happen so peeple can benifit frum it. Also too, God told my pastor I am the choosen won.
$. Palin

foulmouthed mrscreant December 10, 2009 at 9:55 pm

Palin thinks she would never have a fair debate. I know she’s unelectable because of, well everything, but she is a talking head. A quitting, twittering, spokesmodel that waaayyyy too many God fearing/end of lifers and people who think she is just like them agree with. She is campaigning throughout this whole fucked up charade of a “book tour” and is being given access to military bases and posts. The media SERIOUSLY needs to hold her accountable for the things she says/tweets/insinuates regarding our president. She hid scientific evidence from legislature in Alaska regarding the demise(and possible turn to cannibalism) of the polar bear.
http://marinebio.org/blog/?p=260
Which I found through an informative post today at
palingates.com
My head hurts so much at the ineptitude of the media. Wonkette, please do something.
Fuck!!!!

imissopus December 10, 2009 at 10:35 pm

TPM reports that Wolf Blitzer did a segment on this exact Gore vs. Palin thing tonight. So this ridiculous meme is spreading to other outlets. Can’t wait for the Sunday morning shows to all devote panel time to it this weekend.

CanadianBacon December 10, 2009 at 11:58 pm

[re=476076]Lionel Hutz Esq.[/re]: Unfortunately we are now in the 21st century style of fair and balanced debating. The debate would go like this; Al would start with some kind of long-winded statement using facts and references to scientific studies. Sarah would reply with, “But Al, I can see it is cold outside my window right now, by golly. How can there be global warming when it is still cold in winter?” Wolf would then say, ” Sorry Al but we have to hand that debate to Sarah. When we come back we ask which option the public prefers, have your life ended prematurely by government run death panels or live forever in perfect health under private insurance.”

Mel_David December 11, 2009 at 3:45 am

Vivified? Really, MSNBC?

LowerdPeninsula December 11, 2009 at 4:50 am

Surely, this is a sign of the coming apocolypse.

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