Rotund Oracle Update: proven wrong about whether fire can melt steel, RO cites John Kerry for her defense
posted at 6:54 pm on April 30, 2007 by Bryan
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Allah’s away on vacation so it’s left to me to update you with the latest ravings from Rosie. She is leaving The View but she won’t be forgotten. How can such a pile of pigheaded ignorance, a woman who was once incapable of calculating fractions on the air but now passes herself off as an authority on structural engineering, possibly just pass quietly into the night?
She won’t. She can’t. She doesn’t need The View to spew, not when she has a blog, a webcam and a personal cast of sycophants.
So she posted a video on the r blog today. In it, she reacts to reader mail about the tanker fire that burned up a good section of highway and, yes, melted steel. Melted. Steel.
In Rosie’s world, the concept that steel can melt defies physics. Even though steel is known to melt at about 1500 degrees F. Even though steel doesn’t just grow in fields of giant I-beams, to be harvested by diamond-tipped tractor blades. Even though the entire process of manufacturing steel involves heat.
Anyway.
You’ll have to go to the r blog and watch a dreadful video of Rosie and pals being, well, themselves–smug in their towering vapidity. But it’s worth it, just to hear her cite John Kerry as a Truther.
That’s based on this exchange, which Allah blogged about a while back. Allah was more charitable to Waffles than I would have been. My take was closer to Ace’s–9-11 Trutherism ought to get the same “let me look at the facts and get back to you” respect that Holocaust denial gets, which is to say, none. It sounds like Big Ro sees Kerry as a potential ally in truthiness. And I’m sure Waffles would be only too happy to have Rosie’s support, even if it means rolling around in the Truther mud with her.
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AH! MOMMY! BAD THOUGHTS!
see-dubya on April 30, 2007 at 6:56 PM
Call off Christmas. Who knew fire could do that? I’m still just using it to cook mammoth with a sharpened stick.
PRCalDude on April 30, 2007 at 7:01 PM
Swift Boat Vets… Google it…
Romeo13 on April 30, 2007 at 7:02 PM
I guess Heinz does go good with pork.
TexasRainmaker on April 30, 2007 at 7:03 PM
If you keep on talking about waffles while talking about that beast, I’m going to have a Clockwork Orange thing going and associate waffles with a huge fat smelly bloated beast of a female she beast with fifth’s of syrup and gallons of melted butter jamming her face repeatedly into a pile of Eggos.
I used to like waffles…
benrand on April 30, 2007 at 7:04 PM
Whew, what a relief. Here I thought I’d have to throw away my gas cutting torch because it would no longer melt steel. Nice to know it’s possible again.
Hollowpoint on April 30, 2007 at 7:05 PM
Halp me Jon Carry!
Bad Candy on April 30, 2007 at 7:05 PM
Well at least we know why all those steel mills in Pennsylvania went out of business. They couldn’t figure out how to melt the stuff.
Can’t. Go. To. RO. Site. Just. Can’t.
Limerick on April 30, 2007 at 7:08 PM
If the Dems win the White House in 2008 the strategy will be to appoint Rosie as the Surgeon General. This will drive many of the hotair posters to give up on all media for years to come!
Bradky on April 30, 2007 at 7:15 PM
I hate to root for someone’s retirement but Curt Schilling needs to hang it up and run for Senate in Massachusetts.
Theworldisnotenough on April 30, 2007 at 7:16 PM
Rosie believes whatever gets her through the day. No amount of facts, truth, or common sense is ever going to break through that.
Rightwingsparkle on April 30, 2007 at 7:30 PM
I would rather play the lead in Edupus Rex for real rather than watch RO doing anything.
P. James Moriarty on April 30, 2007 at 7:34 PM
Rosie calls em as she sees em. Rosie in leather, sigh!
Kini on April 30, 2007 at 7:35 PM
How does Rosie think that they get steel into the shape it is?
amerpundit on April 30, 2007 at 7:38 PM
Allah is on vacation? Let’s invade Iran, Saudi, Yemen,…you name it!
Ropera on April 30, 2007 at 7:40 PM
Rosie O’Donnell is retarded.
Googled it!
JammieWearingFool on April 30, 2007 at 7:52 PM
Ahhhhhh…………. no thank you. Nothing she has to say could ever interest me. I think I’ll just run my finger nails down this old chalk board, and picture her hanging upside down, holding a microphone in her feet, and letting the more intelligent parts of her body sound off.
PinkyBigglesworth on April 30, 2007 at 7:53 PM
I sent Hotair the news that Elizabeth Hasselbeck is taking a leave of absence from the veiw as well due to pregnancy.
William Amos on April 30, 2007 at 7:57 PM
Melted steel just brought down the Bay Bridge.
Valiant on April 30, 2007 at 8:26 PM
Swift Boat Vets… Google it…
Romeo13 on April 30, 2007 at 7:02 PM
Those vets certainly did this country another great service by doing their part to ensure Jon Cary didn’t become POTUS.
*salutes*
Yakko77 on April 30, 2007 at 8:35 PM
hahahaha…..So Rosie acknowledges that perhaps fire can melt steel. But the building didn’t fall symetrically into it’s own footprint, therefore it was brought down. So, then trying to follow Ro-logic, if there is a fire in the building, it has to burn evenly throughout the structure so that the steel weakens at an even pace so that the beams and columns will fail at the same time, making a nice even pancake collapse. Any other type of collapse is due to controlled demolition.
She is the perfect example of ignorance and arrogance on public display.
Mallard T. Drake on April 30, 2007 at 8:39 PM
rosie hangs out with iggy pop? kewl!
jummy on April 30, 2007 at 8:42 PM
aahummmm, how is steel forged in the first place…
…by intense heat, and how do you get intense heat?
FIRE!
pabo on April 30, 2007 at 8:46 PM
She cites John Kerry? John Kerry wasn’t talking about WTC7, but WTC6
Silly 9/11 Deniers can’t even get their claims right.
MarkyX on April 30, 2007 at 8:48 PM
Rosie should say:
Every time anyone mentions the bridge melting.
If you’re gonna be nuts, be completely nutty.
MoxArgon on April 30, 2007 at 9:02 PM
Good God. I could only watch about 15 seconds of that, any longer and I would have started losing losing IQ points. What a bunch of morons!
deadbackpacker on April 30, 2007 at 9:25 PM
Uh oh…nobody tell.
Freelancer on April 30, 2007 at 9:33 PM
Yeah. That vid was just obnoxious.
Can’t we find a way to keep such people off the internet?
unamused on April 30, 2007 at 9:50 PM
You can’t just discount the fact that she is a world renowned structural engineer. I hear she builds a mean gingerbread house. Of course I have no photographic evidence to support this, because according to unnamed sources inside The View, she usually eats the entire house before she’s finished building it, and then smokes a candy cigarette with satisfaction.
RightWinged on April 30, 2007 at 9:51 PM
If she spontaneously combusts, I predict more than steel with melt.
profitsbeard on April 30, 2007 at 9:55 PM
…”will melt”.
(Thinking of this bloated buffoon gives me the shakes.)
profitsbeard on April 30, 2007 at 9:56 PM
I just couldn’t resist mentioning this. You don’t have to “melt” steel to weaken it. Melting means changing steel’s physical state from solid to liquid. However, solid steel has different properties at different temperatures, while still not being melted.
If you ever saw a blacksmith at work, say making a horseshoe, you know he has to heat the metal to make it more pliable. The smith puts the iron into the fire (until it glows), and it’s still quite solid. But it’s less hard at high temperatures, easier to bend into shape with a hammer.
So it is with steel. At near room temperature, steel resists bending, keeping its shape under heavy loads. In buildings, the steel is typically strong enough to hold 50% more load than its worst-case scenario. But when heated high enough, but still below its melting point, the steel can lose more than half its strength. And if the steel (as in beams) were forced to handle more than its normal load, say by the loss of other beams from a jumbo jet smashing into the building, the total strength left in the beam may be insufficient for the load.
This is why the towers fell. Nothing had to melt.
stonemeister on April 30, 2007 at 10:12 PM
load-bearing cantilever
google it
fusionaddict on April 30, 2007 at 10:17 PM
Perhaps he’s hoping to make RO more appetizing by slathering on buckets of wifey’s ketchup.
infidel4life on April 30, 2007 at 10:46 PM
PinkyBigglesworth on April 30, 2007 at 7:53 PM
Ya I wish I read your post first. AAAAAAAAAAAUUUGGGKK MY EYES!
sonnyspats1 on April 30, 2007 at 10:58 PM
In the case of the Twin Towers, the steel didn’t need to “melt”… that is, it didn’t need to liquefy to lose its strength. It only needed to heat to the point that it lost its rigidity. With the windows knocked out at nearly the top of a skyscraper and the wind blowing through and a jet load of fuel to burn, that was pretty close to being a blast furnace and plenty hot enough to weaken the steel.
Of course, that might be a little too complex for Rosie.
Maxx on April 30, 2007 at 11:04 PM
Welcome to the club. I used to like “The Sound of Music”.
csdeven on April 30, 2007 at 11:07 PM
Proof there was no demolition of wtc 7. No warning horn before the blast.
csdeven on April 30, 2007 at 11:15 PM
Watching the whole Rosie blog thing was an unwanted shove into Rosie reality.
I can’t believe there aren’t more comments on the “blue toilet water”. Such a big opening, so little time.
dingoatemebaby on May 1, 2007 at 12:05 AM
Obviously the Bay Area Bridge was brought down by controlled demolitions and then a tanker truck set alight on it just to embarass Rosie the Rocket Scientist.
Rove is just that evil.
Everyone knows steel is impervious to fire. It is bent by massaging it, just like Uri Geller used to do to bend them there spoons.
Do I have to explain EVERYTHING to you people?
Tantor on May 1, 2007 at 12:12 AM
The way she sniffles - she’s so gross. That lady nodding her head in agreement with so much nonsense, precious. And her head being cut off most of the time…
I can’t believe I watched this. Good thing the comments there are closed.
Entelechy on May 1, 2007 at 12:32 AM
If fire can’t melt steel then I guess Rosie eats ice cream with her hands.
Speakup on May 1, 2007 at 1:12 AM
I’m sure that you could explain this to her in detail for hours on end, and her reaction would be something like, “Well, the Bushies let the Bin Laden family fly out of the country. Google it,” in spite of the fact that Richard Clarke approved their exit. The facts don’t really matter.
Sean M. on May 1, 2007 at 5:23 AM
Having a bad case of insomnia this a.m. so I logged on to catch the latest headlines. Why?, why Bryan did you have to post that horrific vid of Ro & pals, I may never sleep again! Every time I shut my eyes all I see are those things looking back at me. And Ro’s comment on having 6 beers on “date night” sent me into a perpetual shudder.
Medication…I need medication.
silenced majority on May 1, 2007 at 5:42 AM
Didja notice the tanker explosion/bridge collapse was in Nancy Pelosi’s district? Coincidence? I question the timing!
Just as God smote the Philistines, He smote the City by the Bay!
SicSemperTyrannus on May 1, 2007 at 9:35 AM
OK the fake tags didn’t work - let’s try this:
[truther on]
Didja notice the tanker explosion/bridge collapse was in Nancy Pelosi’s district? Coincidence? I question the timing!
[truther off]
[Pat Robertson on]
Just as God smote the Philistines, He smote the City by the Bay!
[Pat Robertson off]
SicSemperTyrannus on May 1, 2007 at 9:37 AM
Much better
SicSemperTyrannus on May 1, 2007 at 9:37 AM
Isn’t it about time for this fat lady to sing?
You see, that catch-phrase is really a reference to the late Kate Smith singing at sporting events, it is about Brunhildde, who sings farewell amid the consuming flames of her funeral pyre in the final scenes of Wagner’s “The Valkyrie”. Yeah, the chick in the horned helmet and brass bra that appears in virtually every cartoon about opera.
RO could go out in a blaze of glory in a steel mill!! Oh, the irony.
Disclaimer: my knowledge of opera and German spelling is shakey, but sufficient for these purposes.
drunyan8315 on May 1, 2007 at 10:55 AM
It is “really NOT a refernce to Kate Smith” - that’s what I meant to say, dammit.
drunyan8315 on May 1, 2007 at 10:56 AM
You’re exactly correct stonemeister.
I’d like to add, steel doesn’t just melt, in a coal forge it can actually burn, it oxidizes to nothing.
4shoes on May 1, 2007 at 12:46 PM
I agree entelechy, I couldn’t take watching the whole thing, it was sickening! Those trolls behind “Jabba-the-Hut” knodding in agreement to all her ignorant drivel, obviously their paycheck is more important to them than integrity, but then again they’re probably too ignorant to know the difference between BS and the truth!
All the while queen bee Jabba is sniffling and snorting like a pig, I found myself wanting to yell, “sueey…sueey…here piggy piggy..”
Liberty or Death on May 2, 2007 at 12:21 AM