(Before I get started, let me remind everyone that “Exposed: the Climate of Fear” will be shown on the Glenn Beck Show tonight [May 2, 2007] at 6:00, 8:00 and 11:00 p.m. Central. I plan on taping it and showing it to my stepdaughter, who was forced to watch “An Inconvenient Truth” in her art class at Cal State Fresno.)
Back last July, I wrote a post entitled “Global Warming and Faith in Science” in which I used the religion metaphor to describe the uncompromising faith some people have in the dogma of anthropogenic Global Warming:
http://www.ivorydome.us/2006/07/25/global-warming-and-faith-in-science/
In recent weeks, I’ve read criticisms of this point of view. Global Warming, they argue, is scientific fact and nothing more – no religious fervor here!
Tell that to the proprietors of the Gaia Napa Valley Hotel and Spa in American Canyon, California. They’ve actually replaced the Gideon bibles in the guest rooms with copies of Al Gore’s “An Inconvenient Truth”:
http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601093&refer=home&sid=afIESX3LdgnQ
Being a strong advocate for freedom of religion, I’m not complaining. Any hotel proprietor is free to place any sacred scripture in their rooms they choose (or no sacred scripture, if that’s their preference). I once stayed in a motel in Monterey, California where I found a copy “Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures” by Mary Baker Eddy (the founder of the Church of Christian Science). If a Muslim proprietor wants to place the Koran in each room, that’s fine with me, too.
But please don’t try to tell me that Global Warming, as espoused by Al Gore et al., isn’t a religion.
I got rid of Dish as I was tired of paying 100.00 a month for endless mindless advertising and 100 channels i have no interest in. I’m just on a antenna now, and just get local channels.
I’ve learned that for the same money, I can buy the things I like on Discovery and the learning channel etc. and watch at my leisure. But then Glen Beck got his show going and that is one thing I have regretted.
He is a funny Michael Savage. Sometimes when the plane is in the air I’m just sitting in the truck waiting for is to return I get to listen. Generally though we don’t get out till to late.
It makes me want to get Dish again just so I can watch his shows. I had often thought we needed someone like him, a conservative with a sense of humor, to get past the so many shows like this that are liberal. It seems the best way to communicate with people these days. So I wish I Could see it but won’t be able to.
Interestingly enough, Rush used to be funny.
I applaud anyone that realizes that they are just entertainers rather then Popes in the pulpit that so many seem to think they are. They need to lighten up; life isn’t supposed to be that joyless.
Are you referring to the Daily Show and the Cobert Report?
Interestingly enough, Rush used to be funny.
I remember those early days in 1988 when his show went national. A big part of his appeal was that what he was doing was entirely new, and there was a huge untapped market for it.
It was during that early period that the much misunderstood term “Ditto” came from. Everyone was calling in saying “Your show is great,” “Don’t ever leave,” etc. Finally one caller just said “Ditto to what the last caller just said,” and a tradition was born. Ditto became dittos, which became mega dittos, etc. etc.
Although I only listen occasionally now, it seems that Rush has become a little stale. But to be fair, if I’d lost my hearing and struggled with substance abuse and the legal battles that followed, I probably wouldn’t be that funny either.
Most of the show’s humor is no longer Rush’s; Paul Shanklin does most, if not all of the parodies. But he’s still the granddaddy of them all.