Donald Trump Attacks Gore, Makes Mika Uncomfortable On Morning Joe
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Taking a refreshing vacation from the serious issues facing Washington today (tickle fights), the Morning Joe team indulged in some network cross-promotion as Donald Trump crash-landed onto the show to promote the new season of Celebrity Apprentice premiering this Sunday. And what an interview it was: he praised Rod Blagojevich, he called for the retraction of Al Gore’s Nobel Peace Prize (“I’m not supposed to use hair spray!”), he hit on Mika Brzezinski. It was the best ten minutes in the show’s history since a drunken Terry McAuliffe took Bacardi shots on air to drown the pain of Hillary Clinton’s primary defeat in 2008.
“21st Century’s Abraham Lincoln,” as Joe Scarborough nicknamed him during the cut to commercial, made a grand entrance giving Brzezinski an awkward, slightly-too-long hug and admitted that he only watches the show because of her beauty. Then he launched into a passionate defense of his comrade-in-hair, former Illinois governor Rod Blagojevich. “He’s got a lot of courage, when you think of it,” he said. “When people get indicted, they crawl into a corner. They put their thumb in their mouth, they say ‘Mommy, take me home;’ this guy is on every show.”
He also defended his inclusion of disgraced baseball star Daryl Strawberry and Dennis Rodman’s appearance on a previous season, prompting Scarborough to describe Trump’s mission on the show as “you take people that nobody else wants, you bring them together and you put them on a championship team.”
Not all was fun and games for The Donald, however. He also took some time to rip into the two foreign policy issues he sees as the most important and most ignored problems facing America today: OPEC’s monopoly on the oil industry and the US’s trade policies with China. In a pot-meet-kettle moment, Trump complained that OPEC is “making so much money it’s obscene,” and argued that without clamping down on OPEC, American trade will be hindered indefinitely. His attack on China was even bolder, claiming that “they think we’re the dumbest sons of bitches in the world” and calling for a “50% tax right off the bat” on any product imported from there. And of Gore: “Take away his Nobel Prize.”
Then he had Mika “inspect” his hair for a toupee, and with her investigation concluding the hair was, indeed, real, Trump left the show a happy man.
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Someone needs to tell the Donald that MSNBC wants guests to be cheerleaders for the left, even if it means ignoring the huge embarrassment known as Al Gore.
Trump disdains Rosie O’Donnell, now Al Gore. I feel a ‘worst persons’ award coming up.
the huge embarrassment known as Al Gore.
The only embarrassment is people who deny science just because it snowed during the winter.
If I know Trump is going to be on a program, I won’t watch it.
The Left’s support for the first affirmative action president is cute. The mongrel cur can’t tie his own shoes but orders Air Force 1 to buzz NY and climbs into it at the slightest excuse for a field trip. He never had a job that let him do anything interesting so now he spends his time flying to golf and any meeting he can get out of the country. Once there, he confirms he is an uneducated buffoon by bowing to every dictator he meets but snubs elected presidents and ministers. He’s a worse clown than Mussolini.
If the worst criticism that Gore has to endure comes from the likes of The Donald and the mouth frothers here here, he has nothing to worry about.
Hey James, if you want to take your scientific advice from a politician whose work is riddled with lies and errors, go right ahead. But excuse the rest of us if we prefer science that isn’t run to justify a political agenda.
If anyone is in the business of taking away undeserved Nobel Peace Prizes, I know another one that should be considered, but the repo company would have to break into the White House to get it.
Hey James, if you want to take your scientific advice from a politician whose work is riddled with lies and errors, go right ahead. But excuse the rest of us if we prefer science that isn’t run to justify a political agenda.
No I take it from National Geographic & Scientific American and leave the politics out of it: http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2004/12/1206_041206_global_warming.html
http://www.scientificamerican.com/topic.cfm?id=global-warming-and-climate-change
Hey felixw, I’ve been taking my climate change advice for the past 25 years from Science, Nature, Geophysical Research Letters, i.e. the top peer-reviewed science publications in the world. There’s not a ray of daylight between Gore’s position on climate change and these journals. I can tell you get your info from somewhere other than science publications
What is Is Mediate, just a slightly less moronic version of Resistnet? More Republicans manipulating and cashing in on their rapidly expanding insane wing? Who cares what a weirdo like Trump has to say, unless it relates to his twisted relationship with troubled beauty queens.
MindLite, you don’t need to be a climatologist to know that science has nothing to do with (1) destroying raw data, (2) hiding the email trail, (3) manipulating the peer review process, (4) preventing others from testing you hypotheses, (5) siphoning money from politicians in exchange for supporting their agendas, (6) deliberately putting falsehoods in your reports in order to get headlines for your conclusions, (7) telling people in private that the temperature is cooling, while announcing in public that it is warming, (8) using “tricks” to distort your findings, and (9) fighting those who are looking for openness, transparency and dialogue in the testing of theories.
So get off your holier-than-thou pedestal. The people you are supporting are playing a political game, and sold science down the river in the process. This is now becoming evident, as scandal after scandal erupts. So your protestations of your “scientific method” are laughable.
felixw, another rightwinger defaming an entire scientific discipline as corrupt, thinking it supports his faith in tobacc… I mean, fossil fuel company scientists, preaching that the earth is just so big, and people just so small, that its so obviously silly to believe climate change theory. How could anyone believe an Exxon scientist would be anything less than credible and objective?
No, its those so-called “independent” tenured university types, who are part of an international communist cabal involving every major academic climate physics department in the world and all their faculty. They don’t really believe this global warming bunk;, their true purpose is the destruction of capitalism and the imposition of socialism, by way of a frontal assault on the internal combustion engine. Given we’re this well organized and so completely dominant in academia, I’m sure you must be grateful for having open-minded, scrupulous researchers like Rush Limbaugh, Glen Beck, and/or FOX News news-bunnies, to expose the truth those “holier-than-thou” so-called “scientists” are trying to suppress.
MindLite, go ahead and spin. Meanwhile I will send those who want to learn to this guide to the forty or so climate-related scandals — and this is just the latest batch:
http://www.ocregister.com/articles/-234092–.html
As anyone can see, this kind of behavior is not science. In fact it is the exact opposite of science.
The very fact that this “science” is championed by political hacks like MindLite, in the midst of some rant about “Limbaugh, Beck, Fox News” tells you that this campaign is driven by ideologues for policy reasons — so no surprise that all the data is manipulated and full of out-and-out lies and deceptions.
LOL! felix thinks an anonymous guy criticizing his naivety in an obscure forum, “…tells you that this [global warming] campaign is driven by ideologues for policy reasons”. Does this mean that if I comment on Obama, he’d think I was a member of the Cabinet? Too funny for words. (disclaimer: I am a scientist, but not a climatologist).
What happened to the days when know-nothings knew they knew nothing, but at least had enough common sense to find out who did? Nowadays, there’s an inverse relationship between one’s knowledge and one’s certainty about that knowledge. Every grade school dropout with a keyboard thinks he’s qualified to comment meaningfully on things he knows zilch about. The humility and self-examination of one’s own ideas that form the core of any science education, are concepts utterly lost on them. Their exactly like religious fundamentalists — once they believe something is wrong or someone’s corrupt, they take as given that anyone who questions theie conclusion is wrong and corrupt as well. In what is the exact opposite of scientific inquiry, he’s made up his mind and any evidence that supports his predetermined conclusion he will highlight while any evidence or any person that disagrees with his conclusion is a liar or worse. He’ll libel thousands of researchers without the slightest concern for them as individuals or for his own ethical vacuousness. Not laughable this, but disturbing.
Of course we all know there’s no convincing felix of anything unless its said through Limbaugh or FOX’s news-bunnies. For me, seeing felix’s type is a perverse treat, since I don’t know anyone personally so full of hate for science and scientists.
MindLite, keep on spinning. The very fact that you mix up science with rants on Limbaugh, Fox, etc. destroys your credibility. When science is subservient to political agendas, it ceases to be science. The fact that you can’t see that shows how corrupted your value system has become.
But the rest of us can tell science from political activism. Which is why the public has grown skeptical of the global warming scaremongering. And you won’t regain the public’s trust with these political rants, which only serve to proclaim your bias all the more clearly. .
Mind Lite: Google something called the Scientiic Method.
Unverifiable data and results are a bad thing.
Especially when you consider how many jobs have been lost and fees have been charged to people over policies set as a result of research that has now been glaringly called into question.
Go find some fired auto workers and tell them it isn’t a big deal.
Hey James, if you want to take your scientific advice from a politician whose work is riddled with lies and errors, go right ahead. But excuse the rest of us if we prefer science that isn’t run to justify a political agenda.
No I take it from National Geographic and leave the politics out of it: http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2004/12/1206_041206_global_warming.html
And don’t forget the Scientific American:
http://www.scientificamerican.com/topic.cfm?id=global-warming-and-climate-change
Its hilarious that so many people out there are feverishly trying to defend the global warming alarmist agenda by quoting a source like National Geographic saying they are not biased. LMFAO! All you have to do to gauge a bull story in National Geographic or any other source out there is give it the If, Could, Should, Would Test. When they are using these words they are playing you.
Some food for thought for you people out there that see Scientists as basic human nature. Scientist primarily depend on government funding through grants and etc as well as support from Universities or Colleges. Hmmmmmmm…..I wonder who the biggest advocates for Global Warming are? Governments and Universities!!!!!! So if you are a scientist and the popular thing is Global Warming, are you going to deny the potential funding by going against the grain? Hell No! You are going to put on your dunce cap and try like hell science or no science to keep that money flowing. This is common sense people.
Mindlite,
You are supporting the very people you ate so much without even realizing it. You are supporting the big corporate fat cats by supporting global warming. Look at all the banks that are poised to make a KILLING from carbon credits. I mean my god are you that ignorant because of your brainwashing that you dont see that Al Gore started a company with the Rothchilds? Al had a net worth of about 2.5 million when he left office. Now he is in the 100 million dollar range because of his advocacy for faulty science. If Cap and Trade passed, he will be a billionaire. Plus, he eats red meat, and has a damn castle using enough energy for just his family to power New York City!
But wait, you get worse. Then, in defense of your ignorance, you start name calling and dropping the typical Fox and Limbaugh insults. Pathetic! Please dude, I research all the same publications as you do, as well as sources you don’t, then I formulate my opinion based on facts and common sense. Like for example, did you even know there are scientists at MIT and Harvard that think our issues have nothing to do with MAN MADE ANYTHING, and that the Sun is randomly getting hotter? Of course you didn’t because MSNBC never mentioned that, among a million other things.
I love Donald Trump…but airsprays don’t destroy the ozone anymore. You know why? Because we actually stepped up and globally banned the chemicals which did so in the early 90s. HMMMMMMMM!
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