Outrageous Outrage of the Day, Starring Danny Glover
In today’s outrageous outrage, tu quoque specialists everywhere are faking outrageous outrage over remarks made by leftist actor Danny Glover in a phone interview. Cut to the video recording:
This is the section being pulled out of context:
The threat of what happened to Haiti is the threat that could happen anywhere in the Caribbean, to these island nations. You know, they’re all in peril because of global warming, they’re all in peril because of climate change and all this. And we need to find … when we did what we did at the climate summit, in Copenhagen, this is the response, this is what happens, you know what I’m sayin’? That we have to act now.
Danny Glover’s a pretty hardcore Hollywood leftist; hangs out with Hugo Chavez, visits Cuba, talks a lot about American misdeeds in Central America. (And there have been a few.) Glover attempts to politicize the Haitian disaster, clumsily, by saying that all the Caribbean island nations are in danger from global warming, and that “a new kind of internationalism” is needed to address it. He rambles for a while about this, then finishes by saying that what we saw in Copenhagen led to the “response” — the international relief effort.
This is all very muddled and stream of consciousness, but you’d have to really stretch to say he meant the earthquake was the response to Copenhagen. He never says anything remotely resembling what’s already going around numerous right wing blogs — that global warming caused the Haitian earthquake.
Tim Blair is one who comes right out and makes this claim:
Actor Danny Glover believes that the Haitian earthquake was caused by climate change and global warming…
Blair proceeds to the inevitable comparison with Pat Robertson’s remarks, which isn’t totally off base — Glover and Robertson are both trying to politicize the disaster — but the comparison breaks down because Glover is at least making a point (murky though it is) based on facts: it’s true that island nations will the first to feel the effects of rising sea levels.
But Glover never says the earthquake was caused by global warming. Tim Blair is twisting Glover’s words to make him seem as much of a crazy “zealot” as someone like, say, Pat Robertson. It’s all about the tu quoque!
Robertson, on the other hand, said the Haitian earthquake was divine retribution incurred by Haitians who signed a pact with Satan. You know, Beelzebub? That’s another level of crazy entirely.
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Now we have Obama stopping his rescue of Haiti on sunday…to go up to massachusetts and campaign for this lady who is losing to scott brown
Our commander in chief sends thousands of troops to haiti…and then he takes off for partisan politics
Your faux outrage is pathetic. …
In response to another comment. See in context »I agree with you, it is amazing to have a commander in chief, a president, who can actually multitask, who can as he claimed during the campaign to be able to “chew gum walk at the same time”. I am sure you know that the stakes of the Massachusetts election go beyond local politics and will have impact on the entire nation, the nation that we elected Obama to lead. I also doubt that he will able to shore up the terrible democratic candidate that was chosen to run, much to your delight.
In response to another comment. See in context »The threat of what happened to Haiti is the threat that could happen anywhere in the Caribbean, to these island nations. You know, they’re all in peril because of global warming, they’re all in peril because of climate change and all this. And we need to find … when we did what we did at the climate summit, in Copenhagen, this is the response, this is what happens, you know what I’m sayin’? That we have to act now.
No, Danny apparently no one knows what you are sayin’. But apparently you aren’t quite as crazy as Pat Robertson.
Sorry my last comment was for andy.
Personally I think everyone should stifle their impulse to comment on this horrible disaster, liberals, conservatives and every other stripe. There are professionals out there from governments, private industries, the UN and religious organizations that know what they are doing and we need to support them with out wallets and moral support and let them do what they do so well. This is our world at its best, this is what international cooperation can achieve. This should be seen as what can be achieved when we work together…let us observe and learn.
I have to ask why. I HAVE to ask why. Did other countries jump in to help us after 9/11? Katrina? the 1999 Oklahoma tornado? NO.
America has been trying to project this “Benevolent Big Brother” image ever since the end of WWII. We helped the Japanese rebuild. We have been helping Iraq rebuild and we have been helping Afghanistan rebuild, while our own infrastructure goes for the most part ignored. And Iraq and Afghanistan? They don’t appreciate it, they want us the f*** GONE. The Haitians are screaming “HELP US” now, but wait and watch in the period of one year are they going to express their gratitude? NO! It’s going to be GTFO of here. Why? Because you know and I know we’re going to be over there meddling in their internal affairs “trying to train them to build their own infrastructure” and what not. Sooner or later they’re going to yell at us to go home. You watch.
The Haiti crisis is an emotional thing, sure, everyone wants to help, I say send me on down there too. But I don’t want to bankrupt the country doing it. Nor am I going to say help others through foreign aid while neglecting the needs of Americans here.
In response to another comment. See in context »Actually you are flat out 100% WRONG. After both 9/11 and Katrina many countries offered help. Hell, even Cuba tried to send a rescue team in for Katrina and our government denied them access…
In response to another comment. See in context »We have “professionals” writing the health care bill and they are doing their best to bring the worse health care to america…..let’s not trust in professionals…especially ones with government association
In response to another comment. See in context »Really? Other countries didn’t send aid after Hurricane Katrina?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_response_to_Hurricane_Katrina
I’m sure I can find the same statistics for September 11th. And I’m assuming you live in Oklahoma, because nobody outside of there even really knew there was some big tornado in 1999. I certainly didn’t. While I do think outpourings of foreign aid are wasteful and pointless, it’s preposterous to state that there is no international response to disasters in the US. An outright lie.
“…when we did what we did at the climate summit, in Copenhagen, this is the response, this is what happens, you know what I’m sayin’?”
How do you spin the syntax so that “this” doesn’t refer to the earthquake? And what do you make of “response”? Mother Earth got pissed because of Copenhagen and caused an earthquake?
Face it: another dumb-ass remark by a dumb-ass ideologue, but at least not mean spirited, and nowhere near as dumb ass as Robertson’s remark.
Why do we waste ink on these oxygen wasters? Why am I wasting my time commenting on them? Good question. Out.
Really, dumb-ass, why are you here?………
….Sorry, F. Paul,…I just couldn’t help myself. (smile)
Danny Glover is a great actor, although like most other Hollywood celebrities, he needs a script to sound intelligent.
Despite the general public’s reaction to Pat Robertson’s observation regarding Haiti’s alleged “pact with the Devil”, Haiti’s history seems to indicate the distinct possibility of Robertson being correct. Robertson’s claim would have been given serious consideration only if he had provided unimpeachable witnesses to that deal actually having been made. Since Haiti is the Western Hemisphere’s primary representative of a “Voodoo Society”, I think it may very well have occurred.