Holy Crap! Mark Levin Is A /b/tard!
Posted on April 23rd, 2010 by D. Aristophanes
Mark Levin outs himself as a troll:
I would also encourage you to look at the petition Manzi disparages, having, I’m sure, carefully reviewed the qualifications of each and every expert listed, as he dismisses the entire lot of them. He mentions that 20,000 of the signatories don’t have doctorates. But more than 9,000 do.
PENIS.
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Page Not Found! They’re onto you!
As a trust-the-shorter-stay-in-the-boat kind of guy, I still have to wonder what kind of petition that might be.
Conservative experts who agree that:
— The world is 6000 years old?
— Obama ain’t really American?
— Black is Black? I want my baby back?
— Gray is Gray? Since she went away?
— Ooh, ooh? What can I do?
Elections have consequences!
Levin’s post is a motherlode of shitheadedness which warrants careful and thorough examination, but I stumbled across this exquisite turd right away:
‘Anyone who disagrees with me loves homos and hates sweet baby Trig!’
Mr. Levin, what exactly, are those 9,000 PhD’s in? Do you have a breakdown and analysis for our perusal? As a matter fact, we DO have all day! Don’t you?
Petition:
http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Oregon_Institute_of_Science_and_Medicine
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Fixed … thanks!
“Ok, so we lied about 20,000 people. But we’re telling the truth* about the rest!”
*”until you prove we lied again.”
(Manzi’s) style of argument here reminds me of that of Andrew Sullivan, for whom Manzi has the highest regard. Which makes me wonder: Since Manzi has appointed himself the umpire around here, will he call out Sullivan for his continuing obsession with Trig Palin in equally harsh terms?
Rowr, kitty shows some claw! Now lecture Manzi about how classless he is again!
DA: Linky fail.
That was fixed last Thursday.
I love this guy!
Levin:
…and then he immediately makes a reference to a conspiracy.
Look, the point is not that over 70% of the witnesses we brought to testify weren’t there and saw nothing — the point is that nearly 30% say that although they weren’t there either, they’re qualified to testify!
What’s this encyclopedia dramatica site??…ooh noo..!
http://encyclopediadramatica.com/Cheeseburger_Josh
Picked the wrong week to stop snorting glue.
So is this a sign that the rats are attempting to flee the sinking ship?
Or are they worried that they are the teabaggers next target?
Levin (in sarcastic mode):
Whooo-eee! Lookie there, boys, some of them global-warming loonies are darkies!
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Seriously though, I’d heard of Levin but I never paid much attention to him before now. In a way, I’m impressed – he’s attaining a Joe McCarthy level of brazen sliminess.
…there are 32 academies that conclude man-made global warming is a threat that requires international action, among them the academies of Zimbabwe, Sudan, and Uganda…
So wait, his best answer to “the 30K scientist list you cite in your appeal to authority actually has fewer than 9k PhDs, and God only KNOWS what in, so it fails even as a decent example of the fallacy” is “well, some institutes of higher education who agree with you are in POOR AFRICAN COUNTRIES!!”? Is that a reverse double-fake appeal to authority with a twist?
Fixed.
As for the OISM, yet another offshoot of the Discovery Institute, with poor website-makin’ and background-hidin’ skills. Well done, Cartman Levin.
Stephanie Miller frequently mentions that radio stations which wish to air Sean Vannitard must also take his lackluster lickspittle, Mark Levin, otherwise they can’t air Caveman Jesus.
Fixxed for great truthfulness.
[quote]Stephanie Miller frequently mentions that radio stations which wish to air Sean Vannitard must also take his lackluster lickspittle, Mark Levin, otherwise they can’t air Caveman Jesus.[/quote]
That’s correct. And it’s obvious why- Levin’s show is just awful. Face for radio with a voice for print.
9000! It’s like the Friedman unit! The interweb has allowed us to explore a new kind of science: the field of MAXIMUM ASSPULL.
I am not so sure about a troll, but certainly a drooling idiot. really much more of a /r/tard.
Linkee still no workee. I just get an ad for apartments.
You people are just jealous because Levin’s book sold ONE MILLION† copies.
(A dagger (†) indicates that some bookstores report receiving bulk orders.)
ELL OH ELL.
NRO COMMENTS SECTION CLOSED DUE TO AIDS
Given the well-known deviant erotic predilections of Republicans – & the track-record of /b/tards pulling their griefer routine on pedophiles – I think your post-title is a slander on the basement-dwellers of /b/, not to mention highly improbable.
Gosh, now I really take what he has to say seriously – he makes use of the devastating “They Were All* Predicting Another Ice-Age In The 1970’s” headshot!
Epic Wingnut Win!
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* For values of “all” that = circa 0.1%. CA & NY residents add 10% sales-tax.
I wouldn’t be surprised if a /b/tard infiltrated the discussion and gave Levin the idea that any of those guys had PhDs.
Linkee still no workee. I just get an ad for apartments.
Trust me, you’re probably better off not going to Encyclopedia Dramatica.
Trust me, you’re probably better off not going to Encyclopedia Dramatica.
Yeah. There’s some funny stuff there, but I always follow a few links and end up feeling like I’m having a psychic bumwine hangover or something.
WHAT? NINE THOUSAND? THAT’S IMPOSSIBLE!
I like that the petition’s site gives a breakdown of the signers’ qualifications. Less than 4000 of them actually have degrees in earth and environmental sciences, with no indication how many of those degrees are Ph.D.’s. But assuming constant proportions, we can estimate that, oh, only about 1100 of the signers have doctorates in any truly relevant field. Compare that to how many thousands of climatologists, etc. have accepted the AGW hypothesis? (No, really. How many? I’m too lazy to look it up right now. I know /sn/ isn’t my personal army, but come on.)
How many? I’m too lazy to look it up right now.
So am I – but here’s the thing.
About seven years ago, with very little coverage in the mainstream media (gee, I wonder why), the Pentagon put out a paper (.pdf file) explicitly categorizing climate-change as by far the greatest security threat America will face in the 21st Century. Period. Not North Korea, not Iran, not Bin Laden, not Russia or China or Pakistan … climate-change.
The tone of that paper is not exactly comforting, to put it very mildly – these are people who get shot at for a living, & they sure sounded to me like they were in deadly earnest – & scared shitless.
They just reiterated that theme again in February of this year – & hey, looky there … the media totally ignored it AGAIN! The mystery deepens!
When hash-brownie-baking lesbian vegans & four-star generals agree on something, one might want to consider that as rather dramatic evidence that the subject of agreement is no longer a topic for legitimate controversy.
Also, Levin is a big fat poopyhead who smells like POOP.
I? W? N?
Sei nicht so zynisch.
encyclopediadramatica taught me everything i ever needed to know about 4chan, which is…stay away.
RSS promises extreme anal dildo destruction and I’m just too delicate for that.
Manzi strikes back!
First they came for the disenchanters, and I did not speak out because I was not a disenchanter;
Then they came for the depraved shamans, and I did not speak out because I was not a depraved shaman;
Then they came for the wild elf warsingers, and I did not speak out because I was not a wild elf warsinger;
Then they came for the ectoplasmic adults, and I did not speak out because I was not an ectoplasmic adult;
Then they came for me – and there was no one left to speak out for me.
I’m kind of suprised they did that, since it shows that the overwhelming majority of signatories are from fields that don’t have shit to do with climate change. Metallurgy? Electrical engineering?
But that’s not a problem!
Scientists often pursue specialized fields of endeavor that are different from their formal education, but their underlying training can be applied to any scientific field in which they become interested.
Once you have a degree in science or engineering you develop a super-mega ability to totally understand stuff that you have absolutely no knowledge of.
How many engineers have won the lottery? OVER 9,000.
At least 100 years ago is the precise point in space-time in which the temporal continuum will, is, and has collapsed into a singularity. In layman’s terms, all of history, the present, and future occur simultaneously in a single location. Those who will/are/have witnessed it liken it to the final boss of Final Fantasy VI, or the mutated Tetsuo of Akira. World War II is fought by knights and samurai. Lincoln Continental chops down the WTC. Intelligent beings descended from roaches build the Egyptian pyramids, then kill themselves en masse to catch a ride on the Hale-Bopp Comet.
It is not known why the universe dies at least 100 years ago. Efforts to understand the reason have been hindered by some unknown weirdo called Bill Nye the science guy who apparently gets his jollies from informing researchers of how primitive and stupid they are. It is believed that Albert Einstein may have been able to answer why it is possible for the universe to end in the past, but unfortunately he died at least 100 years ago.
This event is, was, or will be the result of Final Fantasy VIII’s retard final boss Ultimecia, a Commie who also compulsively replaces the letter “C” with “K”. She failed to notice that her own name contains the letter “C” because she was fucking stupid. See also:dumb kunt.
So, if GW supporters are wrong, what’s the downside? Lower carbon emissions, a cleaner environment, impetus to promote a post peak-oil economy?
What if the anti-GW supporters are wrong? Delay in responding to the crisis could cost trillions, kill more people, destroy societies?
I know which side I’d prefer to err on.
Sad though, if Ron Reagan had written Al Gore’s book, there’d be no question that it would be our #1 environmental priority….with full bi-partisan support.
This photo of Jedadabadooya Bila just screams “I are serius jurnlist!” Behold the flickr stream, ye mighty, and despair.
FYWP what eated my link
http://www.flickr.com/photos/jedediahbila/page1/
I had never come across this levin asshole before, but his spittal fueled rant on NRO is so full of FAIL. However, the following little nugget stood out:
Among them is Prof. Phil Jones (who, Manzi will be glad to know, has a doctorate), who had to step down as director of the University of East Anglia’s Climatic Research Unit. Jones now claims that there has been no global warming since 1995.
No he fucken didn’t, you evil lying sack of shit.
You would have thought these guys would be a little more circumspect, but I think they have started to believe there own bs now. The only thing separating them from the nutter in the street wibbling on about mobile phones and a Nokia/masonic/Jewish banker conspiracy* to control our minds is a nice suit and dollops of wingnut welfare.
[this is my local nutter, they may be different flavours elsewhere].
Markus, ED even mentions us….
furries
although there is some odd stuff happens when you click there, including young women in their underwear inviting you watch some pussy video, I think…!!
Hey, I wonder what Mark Levin thinks of this…
Bush administration accused of doctoring scientists’ reports on climate change· Inconvenient conclusions censored, hearing told · Researchers warned not to talk about global warming
Suzanne Goldenberg in Washington The Guardian, Wednesday 31 January 2007 Article history
The Bush administration was yesterday accused of systemic tampering with the work of government climate scientists to eliminate politically inconvenient material about global warming.
At a hearing of Congress, scientists and advocacy groups described a campaign by the White House to remove references to global warming from scientific reports and limit public mention of the topic to avoid pressure on an administration opposed to mandatory controls on greenhouse gas emissions.
Such pressure extended even to the use of the words “global warming” or “climate change”, said a report released yesterday by the Union of Concerned Scientists and the Government Accountability Project. The report said nearly half of climate scientists at government agencies had been advised against using those terms.
Yesterday’s hearings, overseen by the new Democratic chair of the House committee on oversight and government reform, Congressman Henry Waxman, follow years of complaints by scientists that the Bush administration was seeking to put its own spin on scientific research at government agencies. They also complain of a reduction in funding for climate research since the 1990s.
The committee was warned that the campaign by the Bush administration discouraged free academic inquiry. “If you know what you are writing has to go through a White House clearance before it is to be published, people start writing for the class,” said Rick Piltz, a former senior associate at the US Climate Change Science Programme. “An anticipatory kind of self-censorship sets in.”
The balance appears to have shifted somewhat since the Democrats took control of Congress this month. At least five bills proposing mandatory caps on greenhouse gas emissions – an idea that is anathema to the White House – have been introduced in the House and Senate.
However, Mr Piltz told Congress even he was taken aback by the extent of the political interference, in technical reports, public meetings as well as exchanges with the media, in which scientists were assigned minders from the administration.
In the survey of 1,600 government scientists by the Union of Concerned Scientists, 46% had been warned against using terms like global warming in speech or in their reports. The scientists interviewed were working at seven government agencies, from Nasa to the Environmental Protection Agency.
Forty-three percent of respondents said their published work had been revised in ways that altered the meaning of scientific findings. Some 38% said they had direct knowledge of cases where scientific information on climate was stripped from websites and printed reports.
Can the Hadley CRU leak be mentioned in even the same breath? No, of course it can’t. But denialists being the kind of people they are, they won’t even have read this far!
So, if GW supporters are wrong, what’s the downside? Lower carbon emissions, a cleaner environment, impetus to promote a post peak-oil economy?
Because its part of the pan global, UN sponsored, marxist, facsist, Obama led assault on our freedoms…. silly….
According to my handy thesaurus, “supporter” is not among the known antonyms for “denier”.
if Ron Reagan had written Al Gore’s book…
…it would have a 72pt Garamond typeface and pop-up forests?
You know who else tried to clean up the environment? Hitler. And Stalin.
Websense tells me that encyclopdiadramatica is a hate site.
That’s good enough for me. Those 9,000 legit signatures are obviously from fascist dictators of banana republicans.
Websense tells me that encyclopdiadramatica is a hate site.
Well, they are pretty free and loose with the n-word. So they may be as hateful as Jonah Goldberg, but on the plus side, they’re at least honest about it.
So, if GW supporters are wrong, what’s the downside? Lower carbon emissions, a cleaner environment, impetus to promote a post peak-oil economy?
We’ll all be forced to use little girl toilets that can’t handle massive man-poops and swirly light bulbs that don’t put out enough heat to roast your kill over.
Markus, ED even mentions us….
Hey, I do not live in the basement!
This photo of Jedadabadooya Bila just screams “I are serius jurnlist!” Behold the flickr stream, ye mighty, and despair.
Every time I see a photo of her I think, Hey, not bad. Then I read her writing and all I want to respond with is, “Show us yer tits.”
Is that so very wrong?
Websense tells me that encyclopdiadramatica is a hate site.
Yeah D., you may wanna put a NSFW warning on ED links, for people who aren’t familiar with it’s NSFW-iness.
Populated by basement-dwelling lunatics, the comments are an ongoing circle-jerk not unlike what you’d find on Gawker – increasingly sad attempts at biting and incisive humor made in vain hope of being invited into the upper Valhalla of main page posters.
The hell he says?
I wouldn’t take a job writing a column at S,N! for all the iced tea in motherfucking Sylvia’s, you douchebags! It’s TOO. FUCKING. HARD. being that funny for more than forty syllables!
Actually, there were only 1,006 PhDs on the list. Oh, wait – I was holding the scouter upside-down. Sorry, Napa.
Is there any truth to the rumor that the only reason Levin is in as many markets as he is is because he’s pals with Sean Hannity?
Dan,
Levin held something like half a dozen posts in the Reagan administration, and is president of the Landmark Legal Foundation, a Scaife money laundering front.
He might have broken into radio because of Hannity but his name was out there a long time.
Stephanie miller is a dumb liberal whore
Mark Levin is an American hero.
Carl Levin is a shithead liberal Senator from Michigan as seen in this video