Whoo boy. Maybe he just better stick to bottled water ranting, because he’s now 0-2 for climate and political commentary. Cue the America’s Dumbest Criminals theme intro.
Here’s the tweet the link to the image (image link – which he has already deleted):
Irony? Coincidence? When I downloaded the NYTimes Eastwood convention story, the ad on the page was about dementia. http://twitter.com/PeterGleick/status/241601815081259009/photo/1pic.twitter.com/rANnHafU
Gleick thinks he’s pretty smart, in that Wile E. Coyote sort of way…until Lucia Liljegren comes along with a line worthy of Eastwood himself:
Lucia, you just made my day!
h/t to Tom Nelson
Magnificent. Priceless. Many times, one looks brighter if one stays shut.
He exposed himself not only as a [snip] but an insensitive jerk as well.
An ad about dementia should come as no surprise to Gleick, he has kookies enabled.
Kurt in Switzerland says:
September 1, 2012 at 3:46 am
“Climate Prat of the Year”
http://thepointman.wordpress.com/2012/08/10/announcing-the-inaugural-climate-prat-of-the-year-award/
I am merely a reader and occasional commenter at the above site. I have no other connection with it. However it, seemed apposite when a prat like Gleick makes such an odious observation.
I thought Eastwood was perfectly lucid, I just don’t agree with him though……dementia? Some people didn’t get his little performance.
So Peter Gleick sees fit to mock an elderly man with a dementia joke. Of course, it’s always open season on the elderly (would he have made a similar wisecrack if, instead of being merely old, he was disabled?) But what of Clint’s performance anyway?
It is certainly true that Clint appeared to struggle to recall the words he needed to complete his thoughts, and it is true that he went on longer than was necessary – too long for sure.
But his presentation was well thought out, witty, and appropriate. He said how everyone was crying when Obama won: “Oprah cried (laughter). Even I cried. I have never cried so much until I learned that 23 million Americans are out of work (applause).”
The empty chair routine is old enough in comedy – whether it be an actual chair, or a dummy. Harry Corbet (UK) used to have a glove puppet called Sooty, who, despite not uttering a single word, was able to have a conversation with Harry, who filled in just enough by repeating what Sooty was supposed to have said to make the dialogue understandable. The “dialogue” with the empty chair was also hilarious, although not particularly erudite. For example, Clint to chair: “What was that you said? You can’t say that to Mitt. (pause). How can he do that to himself? (rapturous laughter)”
I don’t think Clint Eastwood made a fool of himself at all. Age affects all of us, and that he was prepared to perform despite these handicaps speaks of his courage. Whether or not it overshadowed Mitt, well, that is another question entirely.
and the real punchline is…. Gleick probably faked the dementia ad thing up to start with.
Either way what a hoot. Purrrfect!
Gleick got my vote as “Climate Prat” of the year. He is a reprehensible little insect and a waste of protein.
I think an important point is being missed here, and that’s the dirty secret of age discrimination on the left. Gleick’s innuendo about Clint Eastwood and dementia was clearly a biased statement on Eastwood’s age. C’mon, it’s rampant on the left and in the Obama administration. I mean look at the 700 billion raided from Medicare. Or the retirement accounts; blown to smithereens, obliterated, wiped off the face of the earth.
sarc
I loved the Eastwood bit. Thought he did a great job. Obama has been the absent President and the empty chair was perfect.
-shrug- I tend to rank jokes about dementia at the same level as fart jokes.
Brilliant, Lucia, just brilliant!
First principles: if you’ve dug yourself a hole, stop digging. It only makes things worse!
Totally justified comment by the hate-panderers on the left. The dems should put him on the stage at their own convention, no?
OMG how perfectly brilliant. But see, understanding logic like this is the difference between real rational capability and skeptical science vs. the mass of frauds, cheats, decline hiders, and stupefied masses that hate and deny non-anthropogenic climate change.
Perhaps Peter could explain his twitter comment, here and now?
Good one, Lucia. Maybe, in 5 or 10 years, when Peter Glieck sees another in a long stream of similarly scathing responses to his pointless ponderings, he may actually begin to understand the profundity of the effects of his criminal behavior. But it’s clear to me is that he hasn’t learned it, yet.
Glad you guys enjoyed it. I went to check whether anyone tweeted on Lewandowsky, and there was Gleick’s tweet. I couldn’t help myself!
Oddly, I don’t tweet much and certainly rarely get off any zingers. https://twitter.com/lucialiljegren
Lucia, I think I love you. 😉
DaveE
andrewmharding says: “The man is obviously a total moron, dementia is not something to be mocked; it is a cruel, terminal, illness that is incurable.”
Yes, as well as progressive.
We’ll be hearing more nonsense from Gleick in future.
She is a bright young lady, Lucia.
Will he please just crawl back under the rock from whence he came.
It appears that he continues to exhibit a serious lapse of his “own professional judgment and ethics”.
Thanks goodness he is no longer in charge of AGU’s Scientific Ethics panel.
If only Obama were in fact absent. While I get the job… and think he’s an empty chair, the fact is he’s not. He’s done most of the things he’s promised. Here’s a short list off the top of my head. 1) He has spread the wealth around, albeit now there is much less of it. 2) He brought us Obama care, and 3) It was rewritten by and then passed the supreme court. 4) He’s made energy and electricity more expensive than it needs to be. All of these things were promises before he got in office. We need to be careful we do not confuse logical understanding with our ability to convince voters this is not a good course.
Got an address where we can send a bouquet?
Say, does anyone know if Lucia is married?