Inhofe's Grand Climate Conspiracy Theory: It's All About Barbra Streisand

[kpete]

Inhofe's Grand Climate Conspiracy Theory: It's All About Barbra Streisand
That's what the GOP senator who'll be taking control of the environment committee told me several years ago.

—By David Corn | Tue Dec. 2, 2014 6:30 AM EST

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As he strolled through the media center one afternoon, accompanied by several camera crews recording his pronouncements, I approached and politely asked if I could put a question to him. Sure, he said, in his folksy avuncular manner.

Look around us, I said, spreading my arms wide. There are thousands of intelligent and well-meaning people in this gigantic conference center: scientists, heads of state, government officials, policy experts. They believe that climate change is a serious and pressing threat and that something must be done soon. Do you believe that they have all been fooled?

Yes, he said, grinning.

That these people who have traveled from all points of the globe to be here are victims of a well-orchestrated hoax?

Yes, he said, still smiling.

That's some hoax, I countered. But who has engineered such a scam?

Hollywood liberals and extreme environmentalists, Inhofe replied.

Really? I asked. Why would they conspire to scare all these smart people into believing a catastrophe was under way, when all was well?

Inhofe didn't skip a beat: To advance their radical environmental agenda.

I pressed on: Who in Hollywood is doing this?

The whole liberal crowd, Inhofe said.

But who?

Barbra Streisand, he responded.

I nearly laughed. All these people had assembled in Copenhagen because of Barbra Streisand. A singer and actor had perpetuated the grandest con of the past 100 years?

That's right, Inhofe said, with a straight face. And others, he added.


We are DOOMED:
http://www.motherjones.com/politics/2014/12/james-inhofe-barbra-streisand-climate-change-hoax

[DetlefK]

1. The GOP should launch an investigation to expose this conspiracy.

No, really. They should.

[11 Bravo]

2. BARBGHAZI!

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

16. You win the Internet today.

[Jeff Rosenzweig]

19. DUzy n/t

[Petrushka]

20. ^^ Like

[mountain grammy]

28. Ha, perfect!

[Tommy_Carcetti]

3. Don't you see? She's just doing it to fool Lloyd Braun! nt

[monmouth4]

4. Bwahahaha, I actually remember who that is/was...Very good...n/t

[msanthrope]

11. You won the Internets today with that one! Godamn, we're old....nt

[spanone]

5. he's either really, really ignorant or just an ideologue who couldn't care less about his fellow man

[Shrike47]

6. Inhofe and people are frightening to me in that they refuse to admit science and facts exist.

They smile and just say no. And people elect them to positions of power.

[procon]

7. I shudder to think that this cretin will chair the Environment Committee.

Where we were once renowned for the breadth and scope of our scientific expertise, now we have devolved to this insane GOP parody of an SNL skit. These shallow, small-minded and avaricious men are foisted on us as the best of the GOP's shining beacons, the exemplary representatives of our manifest destiny who will ensure that our reign as the supreme global superpower remains secure... just as soon as they do a beatdown on the 72 year old singer, Barbra Streisand.

[JaneyVee]

8. The collapse of western civilization.

[niyad]

9. one would hope this to be an Onion piece, but, having heard many of his idiotic pronouncements, I

know that is wishful thinking.

[Orsino]

10. Big Oil hadn't updated his scripts.

The kind of mind that actually believed that Streisand runs Hollywood wouldn't be aware of the last decades of climate science, either.

But Inhofe is a paid liar, of course.

[Jim Lane]

12. No! It's not Streisand! It's the Trilateral Commission! I'm surprised Inhofe doesn't know that. (nt)

[packman]

29. Nope-

It's the Illuminati.

[SammyWinstonJack]

13. Damn Hollywood Liberals, the bane of our existence.

[vkkv]

14. Friends don't let friends vote Republican

Problem solved.

[yellowcanine]

15. Dang it Barbara. You just couldn't keep your mouth shut, could you?

Now the cat is out of the bag.

[raouldukelives]

17. Not the Onion? WTF

This guy is a corporate gimp who is grinning and bathing in proceeds from AGW while doing all he can to assure future generations of Americans and all people and what few animal species do survive are faced with lives of immense suffering and pain.

[gregcrawford]

18. Even a cursory investigation...

... of Inhofe's personal history will reveal him to be a malicious sociopath utterly devoid of conscience or any capacity to entertain the possibility that he might be wrong. About ANYTHING. Sadly, the halls of Congress are filled with such personalities. It's like an cataclysmic infestation of lice, fleas, bedbugs, and cockroaches all at once. And THAT'S no hoax! Now I'm all itchy...

[hifiguy]

21. How can anyone this stupid manage to use the

bathroom by himself or tie his own shoes much less get elected to a position of major societal responsibility? I am serious here.

We ARE doomed.

[tclambert]

22. It was really Al Gore disguised as Barbra Streisand.

And really, behind it all, if you follow the big money (thousands and thousands of dollars), you will find the thermometer manufacturing cartel. See? It all makes sense now, doesn't it?

[olegramps]

23. I thinkthey will be needing a oven thermometer that goes way pass 110 degrees.

[DemandsRedPill]

24. the pond fills up

As an engineer I deal almost daily with other engineers

The other day a fellow engineer, who by the way listens religiously to right wing talk and not surprisingly is also religious stated categorically that man is not capable of doing damage to our atmosphere.

He agrees with Inhofe on this statement

When I asked him if he had ever seen or heard of a pond or lake being poisoned by pollutants, thus rendering the water useless to man or beast he said "of course"

So I said "so whether or not man can screw up the atmosphere with similar poisons is only a matter of its size"

Now remember this guy has been to college and can do calculus

He said "so what's your point"

Case closed

[JohnnyRingo]

25. Exxon lobbyists have their hand up his ass.

Moving his mouth like a ventriloquist's dummy. It helps that he's a knot head dummy to begin with.

Inhoffe claims that for every person he hears who believes in climate change, there's another voice that dismisses it. Considering the corporate interests he entertains, he's not lying.

[tanyev]

26. Dang. She is one evil jeenyus mastermind.

How'd she ever find time to have a mega superstar career AND engineer a giant hoax?

[Derek V]

27. Gosh...

I wonder why the rest of the world thinks we're dumber than a fucking bag of nails?

[NastyRiffraff]

30. Finally...

Inhofe stages a self-parody. This is beyond rediculous.

And to Barbra, good on you! Great job! Who knew a superstar could pull off an epic hoax? (Oh yeah, better put in the obligatory )

[Beartracks]

31. And somehow Hollywood liberals are doctoring the data of 1,000s of scientists, amiright?

So when scientists pull a core sample from the ice of Antarctica, Streisand has ALREADY BEEN THERE and replaced the ice layers in advance!!

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