Sunday, April 19, 2009

The winner of the 2009 Golden Horseshoe Award*

John Boehner, Minority Leader in the US House of Representatives, on This Week
BOEHNER: George, the idea that carbon dioxide is a carcinogen that is harmful to our environment is almost comical. Every time we exhale, we exhale carbon dioxide. Every cow in the world, you know, when they do what they do, you've got more carbon dioxide. And so I think it's clear...
It's hard to get more ignorant.

* From Some are Boojums:

"In Dashiell Hammett’s story The Golden Horseshoe, much of the action takes place in a bar of that name in Tijuana. At one point the narrator, an operative for the Continental Detective Agency, kills a few strategic seconds by studying the decorations:

I was reading a sign high on the wall behind the bar:

ONLY GENUINE PRE-WAR AMERICAN AND BRITISH WHISKEYS SERVED HERE

I was trying to count how many lies could be found in those nine words, and had reached four, with promise of more …"

5 comments:

  1. See The Boehner in living color on Huffington.

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  2. "...the idea that carbon dioxide is a carcinogen..."

    I really don't know what to say about this...

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  3. Lars Karlsson:

    That's because it's a Wingnut Fractal, just like this.

    -- bi

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  4. "the idea that carbon dioxide is a carcinogen that is harmful to our environment is almost comical."

    Agreed.

    As is an attempt by one Straw-man to set up another.

    Let's all do the "strawman circle jerk".

    Perhaps the scariest part is that House Speaker Nancy Pelosi is not much smarter than Boehner on most things.

    Imagine the painting American Gothic ( of the Farmer and his wife) and you have Boehner and Pelosi (only pelosi has the pitchfork and loves to use it!)

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  5. Shorter anon 10:04am:

    The Alarmists Are Just As Bad... The Alarmists Are Just As Bad... The Alarmists Are Just As Bad... The Alarmists Are Just As Bad... The Alarmists Are Just As Bad... Om... Om... Om...

    -- bi

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