h/t to Kate at SDA. Gotta hand it to her. Being a fan of WKRP in Cincinnati, her headline made me laugh out loud.
As God Is My Witness, I Thought Polar Bears Could Fly
This video however, isn’t so funny.
Don’t know what I’m talking about with WKRP in Cincinnati? Read on.
Being in radio and TV requires knowledge of the groundbreaking broadcast comedy: WKRP in Cincinnati
There’s a famous scene in a 1978 episode where Mr. Carlson, “the Big Guy” (the general Manager) sets up a helicopter promotion to give away live turkeys at a Cincinnati shopping mall parking lot. He launches them from the helicopter into the crowd below. The event is reported by newsman Les Nessman ala the Hindenburg disaster. It is one of the funniest moments in television ever. Here’s the ending.
You can watch the entire episode on Hulu.com, 24 minutes. Well worth your time to see broadcast comedy history.
http://www.hulu.com/watch/322/wkrp-in-cincinnati-turkeys-away
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Plane Stupids are plainly Very Stupid! Sadly I think most are Brits?
Les: Monster lizzard ravages east coast! Mayors in five New England cities have issued emergency requests for federal disaster relief as a result of a giant lizzard that descended on the east coast last night! Officials say that this lizzard, the worst since ’78, has devastated transportation, disrupted communication, and left many hundreds homeless!
Johnny: Monster lizard?
Les: The wire service never lies!
Johnny: Les, the “B” is out on the printer.
It seems that environmentalists are honing their stratagems for leveraging the public’s’ memories of 9/11 to spread climate fear and alarm. At least the planestupid video isn’t as offensive as the recent WWF 9/11commercial that WWF tried to squelch:
http://www.break.com/usercontent/2009/9/crazy-9-11-wwf-ddb-commercial-1180487.html
The allusion to 9/11 is just disgusting.
And this plays EXACTLY into the “Rules of the Game” document found in Jones’ documents file:
People, your minds are being “worked on”.
Resist.
Well they DO call themselves Planet Stupid. What did you expect?
The video is distasteful and the argument implicitly claimed in the video – identifying the weight of CO2 emissions with the weight of killed polar bears – would be wrong by a dozen of orders of magnitude even if the worst IPCC estimates were right.
These people must be finding consumers for such propaganda – otherwise they would probably not create it – and it’s sad.
I was just thinking about the WKRP turkey drop the other day while listening to the djs on a Little Rock station talking about the turkey drop they would be at in a nearby town. Of course, they weren’t talking about live turkeys — or I don’t think they were.
The most attention I care to spend on this … this … piece is — plain stupid.
Should we tell them that the average human exhales 900 kg of CO2 each year, that’s two adult polar bears and a cub.
Those greenies are proof that aliens exist, there is no way that these people come from earth, planet stupid indeed, somewhere in a parallel universe i guess.
I think Polar Bears had enough with this c….
This has got to be the stupidest ********* thing I have seen, evah! It’s a Brave New World, isn’t it!?
Well Al Gore it’s all your fault! Stop flying around the world – YOU are killing the polar bears! See, there’s proof for you on TV.
Sickening. In some ways I hope they produce more of this nonsense. People are waking up to the AGW fraud and such antics will only accelerate the awakening.
What next? Aliens dropping leaflets telling us we should stop breathing out CO2?
It gets even stupider (is that a word?):
Climate change pushes poor women to prostitution.
Message? If you are poor and live in a “coastal area of a poor country” (most of the population of the world) , vote for our policies or your daughter will end up as a prostitute.
It is just nuts.
So how many environmentalists will be flying to Copenhagen next month? What’s the equivalent of the exhaust from these activists in polar bear units?
I don’t know or recall, it has been a very busy w/e for me, but I am sure I read somewhere that for every tonne of fuel, 5 tonnes of CO2 are released. Can anyone confirm/deny that?
I think this is an interview Anthony, and readers of WUWT will appreciate! (Btw I found the link in a comment here a few days ago) :
http://eenews.net/tv/video_guide/1073
“Massey Energy CEO Don Blankenship has been an outspoken critic of the science behind global warming and the push for climate legislation for decades. …”
We should probably thank these guys – after all, the “jumped the shark” meme probably doesn’t mean anything to those under 35 years old or so.
I guess this means AGW has officially “dropped the polar bear”.
Nah mate, they aint’ Polar bears, they’re Aussie Drop bears…. 😉
Yes, each single UN FCCC meeting this year alone prior to Copenhagen attracts at least 1,000 foreign participants — government climate bureaucrats and environmental activists. The meeting in Bangkok 2 months ago attracted some 2,500 climate bureaucrats and activists. And some of those activists could be coming from planestupid or plainstupid.
Polar Bear Population
1950s 5,000
1965-1970 8,000-10,000
1984 25,000
2005 20,000-25,000
Why won’t they let go of the polar bear angle bearing in mind that polar bears are very capable indeed. They have survived warmer periods in the past for goodness sake.
Arctic Sea Ice Extent Up
http://wattsupwiththat.com/2009/09/21/2009-arctic-sea-ice-extent-exceeds-2005-for-this-date/
Polar Bear Numbers Up By 5 Times Since 1960s
http://www.polarbearsinternational.org/ask-the-experts/population/
“Tina Cunnings, a biologist attached to the Alaskan government, questioned whether they needed sea ice to survive, saying they could adapt to hunt on land and find alternative food sources to seals.”
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/1545036/Polar-bears-thriving-as-the-Arctic-warms-up.html
Polar Bear Swims 200 Miles!
http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/2008/jun/05/animalwelfare.animalbehaviour
Polar Bear Swims 100 Km & They Dive And Hold Breath For Up To 2 Minutes
http://www.seaworld.org/infobooks/polarbears/pbadaptations.html
With all the above how can polar bears possibly be in danger apart from through hunting? This question is aimed at current and past observations; while the alarmists base everything on “may”, “might”, “could”, “if” and so on.
Plane Stupid are indeed from the UK.
And apparently overwhelmingly ‘rich kids’, a fact on which even the MSM commented. Certainly all those interviewed seem to be from ‘Public Schools’ (i.e. private schools – to clarify for non-Brit readers here.)
Not that this matters too much. But it would be interesting to know where the money for this pathetic nonsense came from. It must have cost a pretty penny to make the movie and have it aired on TV.
Does anyone remember The Ascent of Man and this:
http://video.google.co.uk/videosearch?hl=en&source=hp&q=bronowski+auschwitz&um=1&ie=UTF-8&ei=gh4JS8PyGsOgjAf04aX3AQ&sa=X&oi=video_result_group&ct=title&resnum=1&ved=0CBAQqwQwAA#
I am aiming this at Plane Stupid.
“Mike Goad (23:11:03) :
I was just thinking about the WKRP turkey drop the other day while listening to the djs on a Little Rock station talking about the turkey drop they would be at in a nearby town. Of course, they weren’t talking about live turkeys — or I don’t think they were.”
Just as an aside…for a few years, I raised heritage breeds of turkeys, both Blue Slates and Red Bourbons. My home is also in a very rural area that is home to several large flocks of wild turkeys, and the little-known fact for many people is that turkeys DO in fact fly. Wild turkeys sleep in trees every night.
JimB