Great receipt MB4–
A twist of humor
A pitcher of truth
Quick–add some artic ice cubes before they melt

dragondrop on April 22, 2008 at 2:43 PM

I’ve seen this add a couple of times. You could cut the sexual tension with a knife.

VolMagic on April 22, 2008 at 2:44 PM

Pat Robertson and Newt on these ads is puzzling.

cannonball on April 22, 2008 at 2:34 PM

Newt is a strange man that panders to the left all to often, I’ve never trusted him. I admire Pat Robertson, I’ve read some of his books, I think he’s done a lot of good.

But Pat falls for every mainstream hoax that comes down the pike. Pat was all worried about the Y2K scare too, which of course was just another big money making scare tactic.

Maxx on April 22, 2008 at 2:46 PM

It is sad to see these conservatives check their intelligence at the door and quaff the Kool-aid.

Grafted on April 22, 2008 at 2:47 PM

I wonder if we are missing something here…
Global warming could turn out to be a fad, just like global cooling was, disco, and a host of other issues that our country has faced over the years.

Eventually interest will hit criticle mass and people will loose interest and move on. At least I think thats possible.

Wyrd on April 22, 2008 at 2:50 PM

I like Newt. He makes perfect sense to do this. Here is his quote on the subject:

I completely understand why many of you would have questions about this, so I want to take this opportunity to explain my reasons. First of all, I want to be clear: I don’t think that we have conclusive proof of global warming. And I don’t think we have conclusive proof that humans are at the center of it.

But here’s what we do know. There is an important debate going on right now over the right energy policy, the right environmental policy, and making sure we do the right things for our future and the future of our children and grandchildren. Conservatives are missing from this debate, and I think that’s a mistake. When it comes to preserving our environment for future generations, we can’t have a slogan of “Just yell no!”

I have a different view. I think it’s important to be on the stage, to engage in the debate, and to communicate our position clearly. There is a big difference between left-wing environmentalism that wants higher taxes, bigger government, more bureaucracy, more regulation, more red tape, and more litigation and a Green Conservatism that wants to use science, technology, innovation, entrepreneurs, and prizes to find a way to creatively invent the kind of environmental future we all want to live in. Unless we start making the case for the latter, we’re going to get the former. That’s why I took part in the ad.

Therefore, I also have come to the same conclusion that if we do not get a handle on this before the left makes us all pay dearly in our pockets, we will pay dearly. At least we will have an insider who can argue the case when it comes to getting screwed in our pockets with the global warming alarmists who want to tax you to death. What is that saying - Keep your enemies closer? We must do something. If we do nothing, then we get what we deserve and I sure do not want to pay taxes on the air we breath. The left would surely want us to pay for breathing, eventually.

txstar on April 22, 2008 at 2:52 PM

So the conservative base won’t drink the Kool-Aid but they think global warming is a socialist conspiracy? Put on the tin foil hat!!

crr6 on April 22, 2008 at 2:46 PM

Nice try there crr6, but you just ran one affirmative into another. That’s correct … we won’t drink the green kool-aid and we won’t buy into the socialist global warming hoax.

Now who’s wearing the tin foil hat?

Maxx on April 22, 2008 at 2:52 PM

Its now official…RedPill is a certifiable loon:

“as you all know, Mike Huckabee himself has withdrawn from the race. It’s not Mike Huckabee telling me that he will be the next POTUS. That message comes from a higher authority. I know that puts me in the category of “lunatic” to some of you, but consider the following:

1) It wouldn’t be the first time God, who is the alpha and the omega, and who sees the beginning and the end, has given a prophecy to an average God-loving and God-fearing man.
2) It takes “Malkins” to say what I am saying when no Earthly power believes Huckabee will be the next POTUS. Think about it, if this prophecy were to not come true, at best I would never be able to “show my face”, so to speak, on Hot Air again. At worst, someone might try to deliver the Old Testament punishment for a false prophet (stoning). I don’t make that statement about Huckabee lightly.
3) When Mike Huckabee does become the next POTUS, know that it was foretold, know that it was by God’s power, not man’s power, and give glory to God.”

Hey RedPill, do the people taking care of you all wear white coats? Are there bars on the doors and windows?

Scary, man, scaaaary.

Roger Waters on April 22, 2008 at 2:56 PM

We can argue about semantics all day long but in the end you will have to admit, Huckabee buys into the whole Global Warming hoax. So he is hardly the one for us GW skeptics to stand behind. No?

Zetterson on April 22, 2008 at 2:51 PM

I will concede that point.

However, I don’t think, considering there are two conflicting quotes by the same guy, that one of them constitutes OWNAGE. If nothing else, the contradiction should reflect badly on Huck, and not on the guy who believed what he said on one occasion.

Correct?

fossten on April 22, 2008 at 3:01 PM

calling global warming a “conspiracy” or a “hoax” or whatever is one conspiracy I’m perfectly willing to sign on to. I definitely beleive(and with some evidence) its being used by Socialist around the industrialized world as a Trojan horse politically, and I think they’ve been planning their strategies for sometime.

while I’m on the topic, I think the paultards could’ve found much wider appeal had they focused on a real conspiracy like that instead of all their nuttiness. In theory they should be on this side of the debate, but not a topic really interstingly enough.

jp on April 22, 2008 at 3:02 PM

Correct?

fossten on April 22, 2008 at 3:01 PM

Correct.

Zetterson on April 22, 2008 at 3:05 PM

Its OK E. Something tells me that we better get used to beating back this Huckabee problem for many years to come. He doesn’t strike me as the type that just agrees to simply go away when unwanted.

Zetterson on April 22, 2008 at 2:38 PM

And fight we will. Hypocrits exist on both sides of the isle.

Are you, unfortunately, having flashbacks to the days of communism when you see this global warming alarmists preach their gospel?

Rick on April 22, 2008 at 2:44 PM

No flashbacks. They’re permanently ingrained with me. I’ll fight them to the last breath.

Entelechy on April 22, 2008 at 3:09 PM

Ok, Newt did say “Climate Change”, and that is what has been happening, forEVER. And neither said one word about what to do about anything. It’s all just a clever ploy make people feel good about themselves.

We need a good crisis to get us out of this foreign oil dependency though. And that’s about the ONLY good thing I can see coming from “climate change”.

kirkill on April 22, 2008 at 3:12 PM

Eventually interest will hit criticle mass and people will loose interest and move on. At least I think thats possible.

Wyrd on April 22, 2008 at 2:50 PM

It will never go away until we get Congress to cut funding for global warming “research.” Currently the global warmers are propagandizing us with our own money, and they stand to gain huge in terms of both money and power if they can get legislation passed and carbon credit trading started by government mandate.

Maxx on April 22, 2008 at 3:15 PM

My inner demons write it.

MB4 on April 22, 2008 at 3:17 PM

LOL…strangely, I believe you…

fossten on April 22, 2008 at 3:19 PM

Global warming might kill me, this I know,
Though my thermostat is turned down, oh so low.
Though my lights are all set on dim,
Still Al bids me to scrimp more for him.

Yes, Global warming might kill me!
Yes, Global warming might kill me!
Yes, Global warming might kill me!
The Goracle tells me so.

Though my Honda is oh, so slow,
With my brain in his hands I’ll go.
On through life, let come to me what may,
He’ll be fling in a private jet going his own way.

Yes, Global warming might kill me!
Yes, Global warming might kill me!
Yes, Global warming might kill me!
The Goracle tells me so.

Though I am no longer young,
I have learned so much which He’s begun.
Let me live in a cave like my ancestors did for the Oracle with a smile,
Go with him the extra carbon credit pile.

Yes, Global warming might kill me!
Yes, Global warming might kill me!
Yes, Global warming might kill me!
The Goracle tells me so.

When the days are hot and long,
In my hand He puts a bong.
Telling me in words so clear,
“Have no fear, I am the Oracle and I am near.”

Yes, Global warming might kill me!
Yes, Global warming might kill me!
Yes, Global warming might kill me!
The Goracle tells me so.

When his work in America is done,
And his bank accounts weigh a ton.
He will take my roof above,
Then I’ll understand all about his love.

Yes, Global warming might kill me!
Yes, Global warming might kill me!
Yes, Global warming might kill me!
The Goracle tells me so.

I praise the Goracle, does he know?
Have I ever told Him so?
The Goracle loves to hear me say,
That I will buy his carbon credits every day.

Yes, Global warming might kill me!
Yes, Global warming might kill me!
Yes, Global warming might kill me!
The Goracle tells me so.

MB4 on April 22, 2008 at 3:23 PM

I love Newt, but I have to say, I didn’t care for this.

CP on April 22, 2008 at 3:30 PM

Newt might be getting invite-me-to-your-cocktail-party-please disease.

misterpeasea on April 22, 2008 at 3:33 PM

“Together we can do this” — as long as it’s done the Democrat way with higher taxes, more regulations, and carbon taxes!

saltydogg14 on April 22, 2008 at 3:38 PM

Maxx on April 22, 2008 at 3:34 PM

I’m on your side here - not sure why you think otherwise. When I mentioned that Gore is “not the only one telling us so,” I was referring to Pelosi, Newt, Robertson, Obama, Pony, etc.

Rick on April 22, 2008 at 3:41 PM

I think Newt is shrewd. And, I think he’s being shrewd here by choosing his words carefully. All he mentions is “climate change.” Not “man-made climate change” or “global warming” but “climate change.” Can’t argue with that: the climate has been changing from the day the earth was formed and it will continue to change until the day it ceases to exist. Saying that the climate will change is like saying the sun rises in the east. This, of course, leaves his options open: he doesn’t alienate all of the researchers and entrepreneurs who are busily pumping effort and money into alternative energy sources. Energy sources that they hope will pay off big-time, like ethanol subsidies and the sham that are carbon credits.

Kalifornia Kafir on April 22, 2008 at 3:53 PM

What happened to acid rain? Wasn’t that supposed to kill us already?

Theworldisnotenough on April 22, 2008 at 3:55 PM

What happened to acid rain? Wasn’t that supposed to kill us already?

Theworldisnotenough on April 22, 2008 at 3:55 PM

Come on. Get with the times. You are so 80’s.

shick on April 22, 2008 at 3:57 PM

What happened to the mooses in Alaska; wasn’t the pipeline supposed to snuff them out too?

Theworldisnotenough on April 22, 2008 at 3:58 PM

What happened to the mooses in Alaska; wasn’t the pipeline supposed to snuff them out too?

Theworldisnotenough on April 22, 2008 at 3:58 PM

The plural for moose is moosen. Everyone knows that.

shick on April 22, 2008 at 3:59 PM

Noted…

Theworldisnotenough on April 22, 2008 at 4:02 PM

No one can truthfully examine the MODIS instrument on the AQUA satellite and see the numerous image examples of entire countries of smoke and haze from agricultural burning and land clearing and take this hoax seriously. Not one peep from the media or the UN. The places look like volcanoes going off. Deforestation is as big a problem as any imaginary CO2 excess ever will be.

Yes it is mostly third word countries, but Russia and China are embarrassing themselves. Hardly a day goes by in the spring without another image of the travesty.

Why is no one talking about this? The sheer size of the land area involved with agricultural burning, for food crops, and now land clearing to grow bio-fuels, is astounding.

Have a look for yourself here. Just search through the images — Also have a look at the various dust storms and the plumes they leave — Their size is astounding.

tarpon on April 22, 2008 at 4:06 PM

In the nick of time, we’ll all be saved by the coming ice age.

marc@hubsandspokes on April 22, 2008 at 4:07 PM

txstar on April 22, 2008 at 2:52 PM

Thanks for that.

So it seems that he’s saying that if you don’t take part in the conversation the conversation goes on without you and you have no chance to input.

I would have to say that that is a darn good point.

29Victor on April 22, 2008 at 4:13 PM

To quote Barry Goldwater when he was asked about Newt Gingrich:
“That boy talks too much”.

Never impressed me, and this is going to be the nail in the coffin for Gingrich with conservatives.

What an ass-kissing big-government pimp.

TexasJew on April 22, 2008 at 4:16 PM

This is sad, it isn’t like Newt even met the libs halfway, he capitulated. This gives the appearance that he has bought in to the whole thing, including carbon taxes. Seeing Pat Robertson with the criminal Sharpton was pretty depressing too. Meanwhile it looks like the climate is getting colder, how embarrassing for these idiots. Write them both off…

echosyst on April 22, 2008 at 4:21 PM

To quote my 13 year old son who just saw this ad, “Newt Gingrich is a dumbass”.

Buy Danish on April 22, 2008 at 4:32 PM

I’m glad most of the commenters here aren’t in politics or public policy. Sounds like they’d rather sit back and get steamrollered by a leftist majority’s dream legislation, then ever have their fingerprints on anything that’s a compromise with pure conservatism.

RBMN on April 22, 2008 at 4:41 PM

They look kind of cozy, don’t they?

I love the Robertson/Sharpton version… nicely shot.

D2Boston on April 22, 2008 at 4:50 PM

Robertson hasn’t been an evangelical spokesman since he said God told him not to run for President, & he ran a few years later.

jgapinoy on April 22, 2008 at 4:52 PM

What really makes me cringe when I see/hear this ad is that the most powerful woman in the United States (She is next in line after Cheney) asking us to write to our leaders to get them to take action. If she isn’t a leader (ex-officio, but demonstrably not, in practice), then who is?

So, everyone should sit down and write Mrs Pelosi to do what she says needs to be done.

Am I missing something?

new2wnc on April 22, 2008 at 5:21 PM

We are going to be steamrolled, precisely because people like McCain and Newt are standing for conservative values on this issue. Just because the libs have bought into this garbage we should too for political reasons? I guess we should go along with them on everything else too then.

echosyst on April 22, 2008 at 5:27 PM

Reading the give and take on this -
Just how is giving into the hideous 2 trillion-dollar scam “standing for conservative values”? How is McCain being the deciding vote to NOT drill for the 15 billion barrels of oil under our own reserves in ANWR or Gingrich turning into a greeny-weeny big-government pimp standing up for any conservative values?

TexasJew on April 22, 2008 at 5:36 PM

“So, everyone should sit down and write Mrs Pelosi to do what she says needs to be done.”

Yes, I think that we should write her and tell her that she should shove our hard-earned tax money up her left-wing witch’s arse.

I am a geologist in the energy industry - oil to be precise, and every single day I sell a solid five figures of oil to the pipeline company just from the wells that I have personally drilled in the past 2 years. I’ve been in the energy business for over 30 years and I can tell you that this country is being destroyed by these leftwing politicians and their Republican enablers and that they want to control our energy, our future and to own everything we have to enrich themselves and their buddies. I personally think that $119/ barrel oil is insane. The only reason that it is so high is because of the scumbags up in Washington. This is entirely of their doing. And it’s just going to get worse when the price of cheap coal-produced electricity triples and quadruples from the CO2 sequestration and carbon credit scams.

If you think that not drilling in ANWR or anywhere else is a good idea, or that we should burn our food for fuel, or that carbon credits are a dandy idea and that we should play along with the left-wing traitors (or, carbon credit “traders” like Al Gore) then enjoy being impoverished by what’s coming. And you will be.
Consider yourself warned..

TexasJew on April 22, 2008 at 5:55 PM

That anthropogenic global warming is a scam and a hoax is proven by the media’s methods of reporting CO2 emmissions.

In all the serious literature on climate change, the amount of carbon moving through the carbon cycle is expressed in gigatonnes (billions of metric tons)of carbon only.

However, in the media and the hysterical literature, emmissions are expressed in billions of U.S. tons of carbon dioxide. This inflates the numbers by a factor of more than three - then they add another ten percent by using U.S. tons. So, when they say that humans poured 24 billion tons of CO2 in 2006, the actual amount of carbon emitted was only 7 billion tonnes (the weight of the oxygen doesn’t matter, it’s always there anyway).

It’s been my experience that when someone uses little tricks like these to pump up their numbers, they have a hidden agenda.

And speaking of climate change, google Milankovitch Cycle, look at the graphs and see how often climate changes.

lonesomecharlie on April 22, 2008 at 6:35 PM

Forget the content….that commercial was just awkward to watch. Neither one of them seemed too natural, but, Pelosi’s speech was ridiculously stilted. It would drive me crazy if she spoke to me like that.

JadeNYU on April 22, 2008 at 1:36 PM

Speaking in to a camera isn’t the same as speaking to a person. Throw in Botox and the fact that she’s a politician and you get an uncanny android effect.

aengus on April 22, 2008 at 6:58 PM

Die Newt. Soon.

revolution on April 22, 2008 at 7:45 PM

Rush Limbaugh spoke to a caller today whose 14 year old daughter did a presentation to her fellow classmates rebutting the effect of so-called manmade global warming.The caller related that the teacher showed his obvious disagreement to her theory by contiously making negative utterances and facial gestures throughout her presentation. Nevertheless, her daughter soldiered on, using facts that solidly debunked the whole mannmade global warming myth. After her presentation, the teacher ( no lees, quite confident of his indoctrination ) asked the class how many minds were changed by the presentation; half of the class raised their hands.
Someone should introduce John McCain and President Bush to this 14 year old before they signed on to this myth. A myth that will not only lead to the destruction of the American economy, but most functioning economies on this planet.

RMR on April 22, 2008 at 8:07 PM

And the sad part is that CO2 is required for vigorous plant growth. Take too much CO2 out of the air and the crops don’t grow.

This scam is not only a big money and power grab, its an attack on our food supply. But the global warming socialist don’t care if people suffer, they will do anything to grab power and our money.

I’ve found a working link for the The Great Global Warming Swindle video, anyone that has the slightest inclination to believe global warming is real needs to watch. I hope they do.

Maxx on April 22, 2008 at 7:07 PM

Hey Maxx, is that supposed to be the whole video? For some reason even though it shows 75 minutes it cuts off at a certain point. Any way around that? Was fascinating stuff.

CTDeLude on April 22, 2008 at 8:38 PM

Heh…should check this out another profile in corporate common sense.

CTDeLude on April 22, 2008 at 9:31 PM

I appreciate that Maxx.

CTDeLude on April 22, 2008 at 9:39 PM

Second unsolicited comment today from my 13 year old kid:

I hate Earth Day. I could understand if it was about recycling or not polluting and stuff, but when they start talking about “climate change” they’re so full of it…

Yes!

Buy Danish on April 22, 2008 at 10:00 PM

Here are some concise notes on the movie.

This is one of my favorites, Senator Inhofe’s site which has an enormous amount of well written and well documented information.

Another is the CO2 Science site, which also does a good job of exposing the fraud of global warming.

Maxx on April 22, 2008 at 10:27 PM

Bob Lutz (CEO of GM) not backing down on the whole global warming is a “total crock of sh*t” thing

Thank you Bob, finally somebody with courage to stand up to these assclown global warming socialist thieves. Just might sell my Jag, (currently a Ford product) and buy something GM.

Maxx on April 22, 2008 at 11:05 PM

And is it a coincidence that earth day is celebrated on April 22, Vladimir Lenin’s birthday.

Johan Klaus on April 22, 2008 at 11:38 PM

And is it a coincidence that earth day is celebrated on April 22, Vladimir Lenin’s birthday.

Johan Klaus on April 22, 2008 at 11:38 PM

Of course. Of course.

Nothing to see here. Everybody move along.

sanantonian on April 22, 2008 at 11:41 PM