James Delingpole on The Little Green Book of Eco-Fascism
"I'm not a scientist and actually given what I've seen of scientists in my experiences following the global warming scam, I'm glad I'm not a scientist because a lot of these guys are basically shysters and crooks. They're not some kind of white-coated elite with a special hotline to the truth. In fact, they're just ordinary guys and girls trying to earn a living like the rest of us but slightly more dodgily than the rest of us in the one or two egregious cases," James Delingpole of Ricochet.com, the UK Spectator and the executive editor the newly launched Breitbart London tells me in our latest interview. And that's one of the kinder things that the author of The Little Green Book of Eco-Fascism: The Left's Plan to Frighten Your Kids, Drive Up Energy Costs, and Hike Your Taxes has to say on the subject. He'll also discuss:
- If Mark Steyn loses his lawsuit to Michael Mann, who gets the top bunk in their cell at the Global Warming Stalag, James or Mark?
- Prying open "The Drawbridge Effect" to see what's inside Al Gore's and Thomas Friedman's mansions.
- How can the media alternately tell us the world is coming to an end in five years if we don't radically change our lifestyles, then cheerfully promote high-carbon footprint pro sports, such as the NFL and NASCAR?
- How James both discovered American politics while living in England and joined the Vast Right Wing Conspiracy.
And much more...
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Boston Globe technology journalist and author Hiawatha Bray talks about his new book You Are Here. Bray thinks that GPS is changing our lives very quickly and dramatically. While GPS makes it very difficult to get lost, a Malaysia Airlines jet still managed to disappear off the planet. Still, will GPS eliminate jobs like truck drivers, taxi drivers, and pilots? Even worse, will GPS eliminate privacy, and make it easier for governments to put the population under surveillance? Find out.
Greg welcomes guests Mike Baker, KT McFarland and Howard Kurtz.
'Nerd Prom': D.C. Permanent Political Class Repelling A-List Stars with Boorish Antics
A-list celebrities are tired of crazed Washington, D.C. denizens treating them like animals at a petting zoo or acting like star-struck children at the Kids' Choice Awards at the annual White House Correspondents Dinner, which is known as "Nerd Prom."
Washington, D.C., known as "Hollywood for ugly people," has become more of a "Boomtown" since President Barack Obama's election. The same celebrities, who, along with the mainstream press, gawked and fawned at Obama during his campaign and first term in office are now tired of the press and other D.C. barnacles making the event "amateur hour" in an age with an increasing social media presence.
The Hollywood Reporter observed that Washingtonians "may govern the free world's leading nation and regulate the globe's biggest economy, but when it comes to celebrities, Washingtonians are as starstruck as folks from Des Moines."
If Donald Sterling is such a Racist why was he getting his Second Lifetime Achievement Award from the NAACP? Leo Terrell, Tammy Bruce and Scott Ott discuss the fiasco with host John Phillips. Plus this week's Underwood Award!
The Shrinking Private Sphere
"All human beings," the late Gabriel GarcÃa Márquez once wrote, "have three lives: public, private, and secret." Alas, the lines of demarcation are fading, the abundance of cheap recording technology and the relentless voyeurism of the Internet conspiring to abolish our penetralia. The latest victim of the tiny microphone is Donald Sterling, the owner of the Los Angeles Clippers, who has been revealed beyond reasonable doubt to be a racist.
It is difficult to work up much sympathy for the man - a billionaire with a history of rank intolerance and questionable business ethics. And that his remarks came from a conversation with a woman who is not his wife does little to help his cause. Nevertheless, one should be a little reluctant to applaud the recording and dissemination of a private telephone conversation simply because it has skewered someone unpleasant. At yesterday's press conference, one especially earnest member of the audience asked whether the powers-that-be at the NBA intended to conduct an investigation to find out if anyone else involved with basketball had ugly views - an instinct that, when coupled with the performance-art outrage and glancing-at-the-cameras indignation that are the hallmarks of our age, carried with it a whiff of inquisition.
This feeling, that everyone involved with the sport had been put on notice not to deviate from the zeitgeist, was not assuaged by a statement from Sacramento mayor Kevin Johnson, a former NBA All-Star who was given the task of representing the NBA players' union. "I hope," Johnson announced, "that every bigot in this country sees what happened to Mr. Sterling, and recognizes that if he can fall, so can you." This rather set my teeth on edge. "Bigot" is a broad term nowadays, and its meaning changes by the day. Is anyone safe?
Also read: NAACP: We Ignored Sterling's Racism Because of 'Large Donations'
Greg welcomes guests Andrew W.K. and Joe DeVito.
From Jail, Raymond "Shrimp Boy" Chow Joins UC Berkeley Forum on Journalism
On Apr. 25, sitting in his jail cell facing new racketeering charges, San Francisco's Chinatown gang boss, Raymond "Shrimp Boy" Chow participated in a symposium on investigative journalism sponsored by UC Berkeley. Chow was arrested on federal charges of money laundering and firearms trafficking along with indicted state senator Leland Yee in March late.
According to the San Francisco Chronicle's web site sfgate.com, PBS's Frontline, with producer Lowell Bergman - who also happens to be a professor of journalism at Berkeley - interviewed Chow about his childhood induction into a Macau crime organization.
The Frontline episode tells the story of how the erstwhile Portuguese colony transformed itself into the gambling capital of China and how Chinese triads were employed as vicious collection agencies targeting individuals who failed to pay gambling debts.
Bergman says that he didn't discuss Shrimp Boy's recent indictment, but stayed on the subject at hand. The producer justified using Chow as part of the exposé despite his long list of felonies, including pleading guilty to racketeering charges involving murder for hire, conspiracy to distribute heroin, and arson: "We try to do more than just have reporters talking."
Jim and Greg discuss the media's sudden interest in Benghazi and sudden skepticism of White House spin, where 800,000 workers went last month, and Tommy Vietor's "Dude" moment.
The Only People Not Taking Benghazi Emails Seriously Are Obama Advisers
It seems that former and current members of President Barack Obama's administration are not particularly comfortable with the amount of serious press coverage newly released emails relating to the crafting of the Benghazi talking points are receiving.
The White House has long-maintained that the notion video-inspired protests led to a coordinated assault on American diplomatic and CIA facilities originated with the intelligence community. A year's worth of reports, investigations, expert testimony, and countless hours of congressional committee hearings later, the evidence suggests that this was not the case.
So from where did the claim come that a video was to blame for the nonexistent protests that supposedly led to the death of four Americans? A newly revealed email from deputy national security adviser Ben Rhodes appears to confirm that, if this idea did not originate with the White House, it certainly became their preferred narrative quickly.
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Jim and Greg discuss Scott Walker's likely Democrat opponent, Syria's cache of chemical weapons, and Krystal Ball's book report on "Animal Farm."
No, George Orwell's "Animal Farm" Was Not An Endorsement Of Socialism
Poor George Orwell. It's been 64 years since his death, and it still seems like not a month goes by without some fresh new abuse heaped on his work.
In January, I declared actress Kristen Stewart's comments on 1984 ("a love story of epic, epic, epic proportion") to be the silliest misreading of Orwell to date. Unfortunately, I had not reckoned with the great minds at MSNBC, who make Stewart look positively erudite.
MNSBC host and "Democratic political strategist" Krystal Ball was discussing Thomas Piketty's blockbuster book on income inequality Tuesday when she began riffing on one of Orwell's classic works.
"Even the august and ostensibly economically literate Wall Street Journal tells [Piketty] to read Animal Farm," Ball said. "Animal Farm, hmm. Isn't that Orwell's political parable of farm animals where a bunch of pigs hog up all the economic resources, tell the animals they need the food because they're the makers and then scare up a prospect of a phony boogie man every time their greed is challenged?"
This is such a willfully stupid misreading that it doesn't warrant much comment. However...
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Greg welcomes guests Lauren Sivan, Terry Schappert and Jenny Johnson.
English Woman Marries Dog in Croatia: 'I am totally her bitch'
A woman from South London has married her dog in a bizarre ceremony in Croatia, following a failed marriage to a human man.
Amanda Rodgers married her dog Sheba in front of 200 people in March, and subsequently appeared on ITV's "This Morning" to discuss the matter, the Daily Mirror reported.
Rodger's, 47, explained: "Sheba had been in my life for years, making me laugh and comforting me when I was feeling low," she said. "I couldn’t think of anything more I’d need from a life partner."
"She was two weeks old and she was new to the world - but I fell in love with her," Amanda said, when asked if they fell in love at first sight.
"I knew that we were meant to be." The ceremony ended with a kiss between the pair. Rodgers said it was the perfect way to mark what Sheba means to her.
"There are different kinds of love - my love for Sheba is very deep. We have a deep connection."
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