SATURDAY: AOC has been flashing white power signs...

SATURDAY, JULY 20, 2024

...and climate change is a hoax: This past Tuesday, USA Today filed a report about a relatively minor apparent effect of ongoing climate change.

For the record, the report assumes the truth of a fairly obvious fact. It assumes the fact that climate change is actually occurring. 

As recent events may seem to suggest, climate change is actually happening! (Unless you're paid by Fox.) At any rate, here's what USA Today's news report said, headline included:

Climate change is making days (a little) longer, study says

Two new scientific studies suggest that global warming is changing the rotation of the Earth and is also increasing the length of day "at an unprecedented rate."

Here's what's happening: As the planet heats up, ice sheets in Greenland and Antarctica are melting, and this water from the polar regions is flowing into the world’s oceans–and especially into the equatorial region. This is changing the Earth's shape and thus slowing its speed of rotation.

“This means that a shift in mass is taking place, and this is affecting the Earth’s rotation,” explained co-author Benedikt Soja of the Swiss University ETH Zurich, in a statement.

Thus, as the Earth is turning more slowly, the days are getting longer, albeit only minimally, on the order of a few milliseconds a day. But it's potentially enough to affect GPS, communications and even space travel.

And so on from there. For the transcript of an NPR discussion of this same topic, you can just click here.

So it went as major news orgs reported these new studies. Below, we're going to show you the way the circus clowns on the Gutfeld! program reacted to USA Today's report.

Welcome to the American Babel! More specifically, welcome to the American Babel in our failing nation's destructive era of journalistic "segregation by viewpoint." 

For the reactions from the Gutfeld! program's boatload of fools, we invite you to keep reading. First, though, we want to report what AOC has "shockingly" done.

"Shockingly," AOC has been caught flashing a white power sign! For that, we'll visit the gang on Fox & Friends Weekend, this very morning:

Fox & Friends Weekend, this morning:

This very morning—credit where due!—Will Cain came fighting back.

Within the past week, it had been said that Cain is the mildest of the three friends who co-host Fox & Friends Weekend. 

As perhaps with Steve Doocy something like a month ago, so too possibly here! When Fox News employees get tagged as soft, they have to come fighting back.

So it may have happened today, early in the 7 o'clock hour:

The friends were discussing a recent TikTok video posted by AOC. In the video, AOC criticizes fellow Democrats for failing to go on the record when they say that President Biden should abandon his White House campaign. 

(For ourselves, we'd criticize AOC for doing what so many do. We'd criticize her for acting like there's only one way—hers!—to assess this complex situation.)

Back to this morning's show! After Rachel and Pete had spent kicked AOC around a bit, Will jumped into the fray with this peculiar statement:

CAIN (7/20/24): She shockingly flashed a white power symbol throughout that video. I don't know what she was trying to get—we had a national reckoning about that years ago. Many people were fired. Many people were kicked out of Wrigley Field.

Say what? Rep. Ocasio-Cortez had been flashing a white power sign?

To us, that sounded unlikely. But "knowing how way leads on to way," we assumed we'd find the source of Cain's claim in a quick search online. 

Sure enough! There it was, the latest dispatch from Our Modern American Babel. Some nutcases at some of the nuttier outposts have been pimping this claim online. 

This morning, Cain took the claim and he ran. He was now the nuttiest friend—the one who was driving the clowncar!

Was AOC flashing white power signs in her TikTok post? Cain didn't attempt to explain what he meant. He made no attempt to offer evidence in support of his puzzling claim. 

He simply floated the puzzling claim—took the bullroar and ran. Inevitably, the other two stooges were eager to help. Rachel Campos-Duffy, who's enormously genial but truly believes, quickly jumped in with this:

CAIN: She shockingly flashed a white power symbol throughout that video. I don't know what she was trying to get—we had a national reckoning about that years ago. Many people were fired. Many people were kicked out of Wrigley Field.

CAMPOS-DUFFY: You can be sure she won't be.

AOC won't be kicked out of Wrigley Field! With that standard bow to tribal resentment, the trio of friends moved on. 

Welcome to the American Babel, where every claim of this type is true, and no inanity gets left behind

The Gutfeld! program, last night:

With that, we return to last night's Gutfeld! program. 

As usual, The Savage Chimp opened with his standard array of ugly jokes about those with whom he disagrees. Nancy Pelosi doesn't look right in a bikini these days, this sick little nutcase instantly said. 

Eventually, he started pretending to conduct discussions of actual issues. Midway through the program, he introduced that article from USA Today as the starting point for a segment.

You may recall what the headline said. The headline in question said this:

Climate change is making days (a little) longer, study says

That news report was the basis for the pseudo-discussion which ensued. After describing the finding of the study, he threw to Charly Arnholt to start the pseudo-discussion.

Arnholt is conventionally attractive, and she's still young enough. Like other guests on this prime time "news program," she's also a genuine flyweight.

Beyond that, she's paid to behave in the ways she behaves. With USA Today's headline shown on the screen, here's how the "discussion" started:

GUTFELD (7/19/24): Charly, new research indicates the earth's rotation is slowing down because melting polar ice is shifting the earth's mass around the equator. Days are now a few milliseconds longer. 

Can you explain the science to me?

ARNHOLT: I don't know who's mad about this! I'm happy about this, if this is true. I love climate change if this is true, because I'm always complaining about how the days are too short. 

I wish I had more time. I mean, I'll be honest, it's only by a few milliseconds per day—

GUTFELD: But it adds up!

ARNHOLT: OK, but I would like to take this time to say thank you to the made-up hoax called climate change if this is in fact true. And to discuss it further, I'd like to offer myself for a trip to the Mediterranean on Mark Zuckerberg's new mega-yacht—$300 million, 278 feet. I feel like that's the perfect place, perfect locale, to have a discussion about climate change.

[APPLAUSE] 

For the record, the audiences for this show aren't super-impressive either.

As noted, Arnholt is a genuine flyweight, like almost all Gutfeld! guests. That said, she understands her casting within the journalistic hoax known as the Fox News Channel.

As we've noted, Gutfeld himself routinely describes climate change as a hoax. A few weeks ago, he listed it among what he called "the major hoaxes."

Arnholt had nothing to say about the topic at hand, but she knew she could float that vibe. And so, just like that, she did.

As the pseudo-discussion proceeded, Gutfeld worked in one of his nightly jokes about Joy Behar being too fat. (The younger Arnholt isn't.) Soon, though, he shared his own scientific greatness concerning the "idiotic" claims of the world's major climate scientists.

He spoke to the flyweight Rob Long:

GUTFELD: You know, Rob, this is just another hoax that's going to implode...We already know that the climate models are completely idiotic—

LONG: Right.

GUTFELD: —and the idea that you can measure the temperature of the earth? No one's ever questioned that, but you can't do it. So all of this is bull[BLEEP]. We're just getting around to finding that out.

LONG: They're running out of things to declare the emergency. Well obviously, the oceans are all going to rise. We'll all be living underwater. We'll have to grow gills.

Long is an undisguised flyweight, but he knows what he's paid to say. Meanwhile, just to be clear:

When Gutfeld said the whole thing is "bullshit," the suits at Fox bleeped the second part of that very bad word. The bosses at Fox are very careful about what they allow on the air!

This sort of thing goes on, night after night, as the clowncar brings these tools to the set of this propaganda program. Also this:

As this clown show helps produce our present-day American Babel, major news orgs in Blue America know to avert their eyes. This garbage transpires night after night. The Times agrees not to notice.

For the record, the host of this pathetic show is sometimes right on the merits concerning the topics he mentions. Given the way our own Blue America has functioned in recent years, it's very hard to be totally wrong if you're working for Fox.

It's hard to be totally wrong on Fox! We expect to explore that embarrassing but highly salient fact at the start of the coming week.