House of Eratosthenes

Need a break from Palin at this point…but it’s important to take a look at this Newsbusters item about Eve Ensler, creator of The Vagina Monologues. She and Joy Behar have agreed that Sarah Palin is one of just a select few idiots sparsely strewn across the landscape who show some skepticism about the global warming thing, and this is strong evidence of insanity.

The post-modern dream continues: Me and my pals are going to draw up some plans that will have a direct impact on everyone, and would all of you who are not part of the “everyone” I happen to like, kindly leave us alone. So we can proceed with not leaving you alone.

ENSLER: Well, I just think the idea that she doesn’t believe in global warming is bizarre.
BEHAR: Every scientist at every note believes in it but Sarah Palin doesn’t believe in it.
ENSLER: And I think we just kind of have to walk around the world at this point and look at what is happening to nature and earthquakes and tsunamis.

How would you like to have some friends like these, huh? Look at the earthquakes and tsunamis and that’s “proof” of global warming…which means we’re spewing carbon, breaking the earth, but the healing will come just as soon as we stop spewing and pay higher taxes so it can be cleaned up somehow. Buy it, buy it all, or else you’re a crazy person.

All these glittering generalities that don’t have a single thing to do with real friendship: Make you laugh, wonderful drinking buddy, fun to be around, warm personality, blah blah blah. Except when you go with them somewhere, the minute you excuse yourself to go take a whiz, you just know they’re going to indulge in a lot of hateful gossip about you, how you’re not one of them because you don’t seem to believe in what they believe. Ever have friends like that?

Two other things really jumped out at me: It was impressive how many times these two told each other, as well as the audience, what “we” all believe. I’ve never figured out why people tolerate this passive-aggressive rulemaking, this “here’s what we all are thinking” thing. It must be something brought forward out of middle school, something that went flying over my head back then. On a times-per-minute basis, the frequency of this was pretty high. The other thing was class. Behar, obviously, thinks she has some and Palin doesn’t have any. Well, now. Palin went through a period just shy of about a year with reporters flying up to Alaska to go through her garbage cans. They didn’t find anything. There wasn’t even a pre-Todd boyfriend stepping forward to talk about “The Sarah I Knew.” The bikini photos had to be ‘shopped.

Behar, on the other hand, took a shot right there & then at Bristol; a low one that drew “oohs” out of the none-too-Palin-friendly audience…

And between the two of them, it’s easy to see they can make a conversation about a vagina, out of a conversation about damn near anything else. This makes them pretty proud.

It reflects poorly on womanhood in general when “ladies” like this are not lonely. On some level, women like this wish to be. You realize that, right? They certainly don’t want to be around just anybody; they really want to identify the “right” people, and restrict their company to just those. You have to be into their jokes about female body parts, you have to believe in global warming, you have to have voted for Obama, always look for the union label I suppose. What else? The list probably goes on at some length.

Every now and then you see immature young girls behaving like this. They’re “there” — wherever “there” happens to be — to be sociable. They can’t be alone even for a second. Always listening, always chattering, doing both at the same time somehow. But only with certain people. Constantly reaching out, often literally, to grab hold of an acquaintance by the elbow and ratchet them in. And then whisper. “Everybody” thinks what we think, sister. But not any ol’ everybody. Just our everybody. Yeah, that’s it!

But those girls are about sixteen. What’s Joy Behar’s excuse?

Update: Welcome, HotAir readers.

Every scientist at every note believes in it but Sarah Palin doesn’t believe in it.

Once again, if you get to define away any scientist who doesn’t agree with you as not being “of note” … then of course you can say that. But it doesn’t mean anything at that point.

And I think we just kind of have to walk around the world at this point and look at what is happening to nature and earthquakes and tsunamis.

If she can still say that with a straight face after the last three months of climate ‘science’`s imploding house of cards, it only shines a gigantic broadway stagelight on her gargantuan ignorance of geology and meteorology.

The frightening thing is is there are millions of women like my mother-in-law who watch these women every day and believe that they are therefore “informed”

“Don’t believe I’m taken in by stories I have heardI just read the daily news and swear by every word” – Steely Dan, Barrytown
- philmon | 02/10/2010 @ 08:45
Guess you can’t use a tag in a blockquote. But you can read it.
- philmon | 02/10/2010 @ 08:46
Ok… I gotta admit. I said everything I wanted to say in there but it’s a bit jumbled up. I got hosed up by some server errors and the re-editing process did not go well.
- philmon | 02/10/2010 @ 08:47
What’s Joy Behar’s excuse?

Joy was always the dimmest bulb on The View. The change of venue hasn’t increased her seriously deficient IQ at all.
- Physics Geek | 02/10/2010 @ 09:29
Joy, you ignorant slut! This dialogue reminds me of the days when SNL was good.
- russb | 02/10/2010 @ 09:55
Well now I do NOT want to seem crude or mean or cranky, but here are two women (or should I say “womyn”?). One, speaks from her vagina while the other talks out her rectum. I cannot (or will not) click anything to hear either of them produce flatulence. There’s enough sewage floating about, I’ll not assist them in spreading more.
- oldleprechaun | 02/10/2010 @ 10:13
Hey MK,! I am impressed. Can’t believe I got back to you from Hot Air. Congrats pal. Great article BTW.

RR
- RunningRoach | 02/10/2010 @ 10:50
Uh, earthquakes and tsunamis are caused by plate tectonics. The temperature of the earth has nothing to do with causing them. This is middle school science.
- maxine | 02/10/2010 @ 11:12
Great to see you out & about, RR. Hope things are well with you.
- mkfreeberg | 02/10/2010 @ 11:37
maxine: Uh, earthquakes and tsunamis are caused by plate tectonics.

Well, there’s no better time for this, then:

The Obama Administration will be honoring the 43rd President of the United States by naming the gap between the tectonic plates beneath Haiti after him.

The area will now officially be referred to as “Bush’s Fault.”

Sorry for the digression. 😉
- bpenni | 02/10/2010 @ 11:40
No, Buck. Thank you for the digression. It was worth it!!!! 😀
- philmon | 02/10/2010 @ 11:41
My man hit the big blogger time!

Rock on, Morgan.
- Daphne | 02/10/2010 @ 19:18
It was impressive how many times these two told each other, as well as the audience, what “we” all believe.

Aren’t left-wingers the ones who keep insisting that people just need to “think for themselves” and “stop believing the lies” and “don’t swallow the wingnuts’ propaganda?” It’s inconceivable to them that someone intelligent might actually reach a different set of conclusions, particularly about the Earth’s climate.

Funny how the skeptics are always accused of being on the payroll of Big Oil or something, but the believers’ are never accused of being on the payroll of Big Government or Big Education. I suspect the latter charge is actually closer to the truth. Think – which gets more grant money? The claim that everything’s fine / there is a problem but it’s out of our control? Or the claim that we’re facing a climate crisis due to man’s activities / we need intense study of the problem followed by radical changes?
- cylarz | 02/11/2010 @ 01:14
Always listening, always chattering, doing both at the same time somehow. But only with certain people.

Well, yeah. They pride themselves on being members of an exclusive club, but exclusivity means nothing if any old fool can join that club. They NEED people on the outside looking in, in order to feel special and important.
- cylarz | 02/11/2010 @ 01:16
If she can still say that with a straight face after the last three months of climate ’science’`s imploding house of cards, it only shines a gigantic broadway stagelight on her gargantuan ignorance of geology and meteorology.

Yes, but don’t count on anyone on the Left calling them on it, not when there is an agenda to sell.

The frightening thing is is there are millions of women like my mother-in-law who watch these women every day and believe that they are therefore “informed.”

Gah. Your M-I-L too? It’s an epidemic among older women, I guess. Mine never misses “The View.” Sadly, watching that stupid show is about all she does do…that, and sit around feeling sorry for herself. She can’t do anything productive, like say, watch my daughter so my gal can get a break from motherhood.
- cylarz | 02/11/2010 @ 01:19
It’s easy to remain ignorant of inconvenient facts when you only indulge in the dinosaur media. These people who pride themselves on independent thinking and finding your own voice and rejecting authority don’t seem to be able to construct an opinion outside of the New York Times and CNN.
- chunt31854 | 02/11/2010 @ 04:18
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- House of Eratosthenes | 02/11/2010 @ 07:58
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