What’s the politics of a hurricane?
If you were worrying about Hurricane Florence, about to dump 20 inches of rain on South and North Carolina, don’t: Rush Limbaugh says it’s all a ploy to big up climate change.
The right-wing radio host said during his show that hurricane forecasting has been amplified in order to convince people that climate change is causing greater natural disasters, noting how previous hurricanes are downgraded before they make landfall.
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“These things have become very politicized as you know, folks. Hurricanes and hurricane forecasting is much like much else that the left has gotten its hands on, and they politicize these things. For those of you asking, ‘What’s the politics of a hurricane?’ Climate change is the politics of hurricanes. The forecast and the destruction potential doom and gloom is all to heighten the belief in climate change.”
That pesky left. How did it get its hands on hurricanes? They’re so wiggly.
He said it last year, too.
“There is a desire to advance this climate change agenda, and hurricanes are one of the fastest and best ways to do it,” he said during a September 5, 2017 broadcast of The Rush Limbaugh Show.
“You can accomplish a lot just by creating fear and panic. You don’t need a hurricane to hit anywhere. All you need is to create the fear and panic accompanied by talk that climate change is causing hurricanes to become more frequent and bigger and more dangerous, and you create the panic, and it’s mission accomplished, agenda advanced.”
And when the hurricane does happen and it does leave devastation in its path…erm…it’s probably the left seeding the clouds with its big leftwing airplanes.
No Rush. You got it wrong.
God done it. And God’s a communist. Or somethin’.
Also, he don’t have much time or patience for sinners. Specially not sinners like you who refuse to recognise his power. Which can come forth in hurricanes.
I recently bought a classic car that only has AM radio, and locally I can only get three stations – ESPN radio and two different conservative talk radios. Last night they were making nearly this same argument, right down to ‘the storms get downgraded before they hit land’. I shouldn’t be surprised anymore but it’s still weird how intellectually barren the conservative talk radio sphere is – they just recycle and rehash each other’s ideas, with no skepticism towards their own and hyperskepticism towards the other.
I’m not really interested in sports but I mostly end up listening to ESPN radio.
Wouldn’t a big left-wing aeroplane simply fly around in circles?
Oh, hang on. Flying in circles. Moving in circles. Like a gyre.
I get it now.
Hurricanes are caused by left-wing aeroplanes. Wake up, sheeple!
But only in the Northern Hemisphere. Down here in Australia they go the other way: both the hurricanes and the planes that cause ’em.
;-)
I mean, he’s not wrong that the media drum up fear somewhat out of proportion to danger — about everything, not just hurricanes. But it mostly has nothing to do with right or left politics as such, and everything to do with money. News media wants to appeal to your emotions — fear especially, but also anger and occasionally sympathy — because that draws and keeps viewers, and viewers = dollars. What’s explicitly and transparently political is when right-wing propaganda media (e.g. Faux News, Rush Limbaugh, etc.) works so hard to drum up fear out of little or nothing, instead of exaggerating fears about things which are actually dangerous, like hurricanes. They constantly focus on violent crime (“urban” crime, committed by certain kinds of people called “thugs”) even though violent crime statistics show objective declines for decades. And they try to create panic about Muslim terrorists and refuse to even use the word “terrorist” for white American terrorists, even though the latter pose a statistically and realistically much greater and more immediate threat. And so on endlessly.