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With one minor adjustment, you can fill in step 2 from reality.

Step 1: Fool Real Amurricans into believing global warming<b> is a </b>conspiracy/hoax. Step 2: Sell lots of oil, SUV's, and bombastic teevee advertising time Step 3: Profit!!

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Can't hear Faux News in space? Where do I sign up?

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The dweeb was probably still challenged by the task of processing sentence 1 when sentence 2 came out... and it snowballed on him. My 5-year-old daughter, on the other hand (now studying neuroscience), had no problem with Nye, and loved his show. Bit of a liberal, too -- I blame the Pell grants.

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Equal time for facts and fantasy ... you can't get more balanced than that!

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No ma'am. Her name was Rachel.

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That image will carry me through the day. Thank you.

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Sadly, you are quite correct. Just as soon as Jon Scott figured out Bil Nye was linking science with facts with global climate change, he cut off the discussion.

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Bill O'Reilly actually said that to Richard Dawkins, making the task of me ridiculing him embarrassingly easy.

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Having Bill Nye on is part of Fox's commitment to being Fair and Balanced® by including "facts" as a way to tell the other side.

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He dug the Rat.

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I bet you were really clean though.

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Back when I still had a romantic soul, I thought it would be a great idea to play a love song under the window of a young woman I was wooing at the time. And it would have been a great idea except I was standing under the wrong apartment window.

Nasty old bitch threatened to call the cops on me.

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"Think you're in love".

If you're hot for Bill Nye, that would explain the global warming that isn't happening. [long pause] On the moon. [longer pause] Using science.

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I think in this case it's more like anchors that are dragging down the SS Critical Thought.

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The bigger question is what was Fox thinking when it asked BN to come on the show? Fox usually brings in atheists that are dumber on science than Bill-o

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