McCartney, in Interview, Compares Global Warming Skeptics to Holocaust Deniers
Sir Paul McCartney just can’t let it be.
The former Beatle predicted in an interview that the BP oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico might expedite a move to cleaner, renewable energy sources in the world.
Sir Paul could have stopped while he was ahead, but McCartney went on to compare people who don’t believe in global warming to “those who don’t believe there was a Holocaust.”
“Sadly we need disasters like this to show people,” McCartney said in an exclusive interview with The Sun. “Some people don’t believe in climate warning — like those who don’t believe there was a Holocaust.”
McCartney continued, “But the facts indicate that there’s something going on and we’ve got to be aware of it if we want our kids to inherit a decent world, not a complete nightmare of a planet — clean, renewable energy is for starters.”
McCartney also defended President Obama’s handling of the two-month-old crisis.
“I don’t accept the criticism of Barack over the oil spill,” said McCartney, who met the president for the first time earlier this month.
“I think he’s been great. It’s tough if we Brits whinge that he’s whingeing at us. Tough, then don’t spill oil.”
A representative for McCartney in London said the singer would have no further comment.
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“When I’m 64”
“Hope I die before I grow old”
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FWIW, the media has, however, sharply cut down on the amount of alarmist reportage and commentary.
FerdinandAkin says:
June 25, 2010 at 6:54 am
LOL…… Excellent post… Yup.
Alice Cooper = 1
Paul McCartney = 0
Bruce Cobb
I liked the frog song! “… Sink or swim, we’ll all stand together”
It would be a good song for BP right now.
Pascvaks says:
June 25, 2010 at 7:56 am
Yeah, man.
This guy makes me ashamed to be called a musician (at least I had a good education in the subject). But then I remember the ’60’s, ergo, I wasn’t there. And didn’t get my mind
expandedexpunged by illicit plant substances. But I have had to listen, for 50 years, to these idiots promising to liberate me so that I could be less than I am. Sounds like a poor bargain.I read a good definition of ‘intellectual’ in a Tom Wolfe essay. He got it from a French diplomat.:
An intellectual is a person knowledgeable in one field who speaks out only in others.
And Beethoven has not rolled over.
James Sexton says:
June 25, 2010 at 8:39 am
I really liked his music, but music keys and emotional response, not rational. Anyone that gives any credence or validity to what a musician has to say is a twit.
Not so. Try learning to perform a Beethoven piano sonata (etc.). It’s different from that end. And the illicit substances don’t help.
Well, I remember to have read about an hypothesis which assumed there may have been geological periods with natural oil spill on a very large scale which could have calmed the waters, hence diminished the spray effect and therefore the water evaporation rate.
It is kind of dangerous to be saying that if you believe in the holocaust you also have to believe in global warming, or if you believe cigarettes can cause cancer then you also have to believe in global warming. They are in effect saying that our predecessors once made a case that you believe, therefore everything we say is true. They are in effect staking the reputation of everything the politicians and beaurocrats proclaim on everything on AGW rather than answer the criticisms. They may as well just say you are right, but watch your back because we hate you for it. What on earth is pushing somebody like paul mccartney to froth such petty vindictiveness on something he clearly knows nothing about? I have a knighthood and don’t like to see titled people having their motives questioned perhaps…
Al Gore, Laurie David, Paul McCartney, Prince Charles, Annie Lennox – Axis of Drivel?
A guitar playing hippie from the 60’s. And I should put some value on his opinions because???????????
Roger Sowell says:
June 25, 2010 at 11:35 pm
“DirkH, re Beatlemania departed, I agree to the extent that the screaming teenage girls are now in their 60s, and are no longer prone to such fits of screaming.[…]”
Heh, it was just a quote from London Calling, indicating that Punk and New Wave was the music i grew up with. And coincidentally London Calling says “An ice age is coming, the sun is growing thin…” which doesn’t mean that Joe Strummer was a great climatologist but it’s just funny – i always admired the Beatles, especially John Lennon and George Harrison. There’s a great version of a Harrison song on Patti Smith’s album “12”, “Within You Without You”, very hippyesque but great music.
Ralph says:
June 26, 2010 at 2:39 am
“Holocaust denial (and therefore AGW denial?) Is common across the Near and Middle East. In Syria the most popular book in every shop window is Mein Kampf.”
I’m not surprised. Yasser Arrafats uncle, The Mufti of Jerusalem, was a high ranking officer in Waffen SS.
BTW, here’s Alice Cooper in a recent German ad campaign for our biggest electronics discounter:
(His voice has been dubbed over but the text is not important)
McCartney has become an INQUISITOR who demands CONFORMISM.
I really wish that entertainers that have no clue about anything other than getting their mugs in the press would shut up about ecology or politics.
I could say more but I think that’s is pretty concise and to the point and shouldn’t get me in trouble.
🙂
Casper,
I agree with the idiot part but I’m not so sure about useful?
I really don’t understand why pepoole waste money on concerts or record of men who prance around the stage in tight pants and faces that are so wrinkled and puckered that you have to wonder if they are alive or animatronics???????????
I’m really not certain why people bought his stuff after helter skelter came out.
kwik has it at 11:38.
Entertainers of all stripe, icons, pop flashes in the pan, are actively courted by those with something to sell because they can piggyback on the marketing success of the icon.
If kids rush out in the first hour of an album release and buy it directly to platinum, how many kids’ minds will also soak in the fact that the artist said “global warming is real”? How many baby boomers and aging hippies still see a Beatle as youth, change, transformative, earth-shaking?
Algore and others often invited rock people, whom they then sold on AGW crud.
Look back on the Aerosmith website and blogsite, to see how they became not only believers but advocates on their fansite–they were guests of Gore, and OVERWHELMED that a former vice president would take an interest in meeting them personally, when they’re just…rock stars.
How many rock stars come from the societal and educational backgrounds that give them standing other than their music?
They are courted, they are used, and twitter-witted fans soak in the AGW spew along with everything else.
It is a calculated marketing ploy.
And I don’t know if John was the “smart” Beatle. he married Yoko, didn’t he? Yeesh.
He was the angry bitter raving socialist.
“Imagine” was so sweet when I was young, and so bittersweet after he was killed.
Now it has enough distance to be an insipid nihilist anthem to nothingness.
It isn’t sweet or smart in the least, other than using their immense popularity to get “the message” out in droning soft song.
larry says:
June 26, 2010 at 6:26 am
It is kind of dangerous to be saying that if you believe in the holocaust you also have to believe in global warming, or if you believe cigarettes can cause cancer then you also have to believe in global warming. They are in effect saying that our predecessors once made a case that you believe, therefore everything we say is true. They are in effect staking the reputation of everything the politicians and beaurocrats proclaim on everything on AGW rather than answer the criticisms. They may as well just say you are right, but watch your back because we hate you for it. What on earth is pushing somebody like paul mccartney to froth such petty vindictiveness on something he clearly knows nothing about? I have a knighthood and don’t like to see titled people having their motives questioned perhaps…
Maybe Prince Chaaahles —or his daddy— had a long talk with him?
Maybe he’s in hock up to his gills, and needed some ‘relief?’
Or maybe —just maybe— the boy is as clueless as he appears?
Only time will tell.
kwik says:
June 26, 2010 at 7:55 am
Ralph says:
June 26, 2010 at 2:39 am
“Holocaust denial (and therefore AGW denial?) Is common across the Near and Middle East. In Syria the most popular book in every shop window is Mein Kampf.”
I’m not surprised. Yasser Arrafats uncle, The Mufti of Jerusalem, was a high ranking officer in Waffen SS.
That’s interesting, in the consideration that the Nazis considered dark-skinned (non-Aryan) people to be ‘inferior’ and therefore in need of ‘elimination.’
barbarausa says:
June 26, 2010 at 4:20 pm
[–snip–]It is a calculated marketing ploy.
And I don’t know if John was the “smart” Beatle. he married Yoko, didn’t he? Yeesh.
He was the angry bitter raving socialist.
“Imagine” was so sweet when I was young, and so bittersweet after he was killed.
Now it has enough distance to be an insipid nihilist anthem to nothingness.
It isn’t sweet or smart in the least, other than using their immense popularity to get “the message” out in droning soft song.
You’ve put your finger on it: Superficiality.
Many people buy into it, if only that their own lives are essentially meaningless, droning ruts of boring sameness.
Maybe I’m amazed at just how ignorant you are,
maybe I,m amazed at your silly whining.
Maybe I,m amazed at what a hypocrite you are,
you drive a big,flash car,
And maybe I,m amazed at your vanity and your ego.
Maybe your a clown,maybe a performing clown who just really hasn,t noticed
that his record sales are down.
Maybe your a sham,maybe your a dumbass sham whos just been asked a question that he really doesnt understand.
I see from a gossip news item that Paul McCartney has revealed that he has been ‘sneaking’ into parliament to watch the debates. I wonder if he is thinking of becoming a member — perhaps someday … PM?
Paul McCartney wanted to say that we need catastrophes like the oil spill in order to realise that there’s a problem. He didn’t want to say that the spill is a proof of AGW.
Just one logical step before the logic of the eco terrorists of Crishton’s “State of Fear”
899 The nazis wanted to kill all the jews in all of Europe (and they were not dark skinned) , they had an alliance with the Japanese the Italians , radical muslims and some nationalist Hindous (Bose) .
There existed a muslim division in the waffen ss (Handchar division) mainly Bosnian muslims and volunteers (estimated at about 50 000) who listened to al Husseinis calls on german arabic radio.
We’re getting off the topic but this issue is a very intersting one.
Well Spector, he IS a Lord, and he certainly has the bankbook to buy a seat.
As for Prince Chaaaaaarles, I am in love with the end of the Simpsons episode, where cameras are installed by a British security team around Springfield. By the end of the episode, they’ve been removed, and the British security expert has to tell the Queen that Britain’s favorite reality show has gone dark.
Her Majesty says, “I’ll miss that Ralph Wiggum (ADD/HD child on meds, who speaks in complete non sequitur); He reminds me of my boy.”
Enter Charles stage right, with an angora cat on a pillow, saying “Mummy! Guess what?! My cat’s breath smells just like cat food!” Broad toothy grin. Queen rolls eyes.
As we get progressively more stupid (by design? sigh), this is what we have to look forward to in one world governance.
An “aristocracy” of moonbats.
Now that mr. McCartney has demonstrated his level of intellectual faculties, I’m not surprised he is an AGW believer.
kwik says:
June 25, 2010 at 11:48 am
“Its easy to explain why you should get wound up;”
You missed my point – getting wound up about what the next bandwagon-jumping celebrity says is a pointless waste of energy. Good grief, get a grip… if we all got wound up about the likes of Bono and Leonardo DiCaprio spouting off from their platforms of celebrity, we’d all be dead from exhaustion.
The best way to deal with this tripe is to ignore the hell out of it, and instead concentrate on the science. Those who sling mud tend to find it sticks to them by association, and those who blindly believe in what celebrity says will most certainly not be affected by the likes of thee and me pointing out the stupidity of his statements.
Of course, if you want to get wound up, knock yourself out :).