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Enviro’s CPAC Ambush Backfires

By: Caleb Howe (Diary)  |  February 16th, 2011 at 05:30 PM  | 

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This is must-see TV:

The environmentalist in this video was heckling Ann McElhinney of Not Evil, Just Wrong while she was being interviewed by Ed Morrissey of Hot Air. The above confrontation took place directly after, briefly interrupting another Hot Air interview. As you can see, Kenny G. thought he was ambushing Ann. Unfortunately for him, Ann turned the tables quickly and the rest is just plain, organic awesome. Like the Hollywood Hypocrites Ann and Phelim McAleer routinely expose, Ron Slater here wants you to do as he says, not as he does.

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  • fpete13527

    RedState videos in the halls of CPAC have been excellent.

    This video had me ROTFLMAO.

  • Common_Cents

    It doesn’t come from the freakin tooth fairy but rather mostly coal. He would have run away crying, emailing Algore to give him talking points about phantom clean coal.

  • http://impudent.edublogs.org/ kyle8

    and lacking in knowledge, or common sense.

    Talk about a silly brainwashed stooge. Oh the eeeevil oil companies! He actually thinks they are subsidized by the government, when the reality is that they are taxed and regulated so much the domestic industry has nearly disappeared, while “alternatives”are heavily subsidized.

    • http://impudent.edublogs.org/ kyle8

      I also like how the young fool brought up High Speed Rail, That is another one of the left wings favorite fantasies.

      High speed, or light rail will solve all problems except for the problem that they can never ever pay for themselves, or even pay enough to break even on operating costs, and they are always under used.

      • Mike Ferguson
        • blooch

          “I’m in the process of trying to figure out what I am doing.”

          And now he’s got the additional process of trying to figure out what was just done to him…that’ll have him in a puffy shirt and leotard right about now, I reckon.

      • tankertodd

        Aren’t there dozens of companies who would jump on that?

        • jonweiss

          Of course High speed rail is economical and profitable, just look at AMTRAK…..Uhhhhh….. OOOps.

    • hairbaggs

      Speaking of convictions what about convicting the people in congress that are stealing our money and giving it to themselves.

  • JadedByPolitics

    ……

  • WY_Cowboy

    “I don’t have the capital” for an electric car. Really? If there is a high school out there that gave this guy a diploma, they need to demand it returned.

    • Locked and Loaded
  • freemanja1991

    1. Is she a citizen of the US yet?
    2. Where does she live?
    3. Has She been a citizen for 7 years?
    4. We need some conservative members of congress who are immigrants to tell about how bad somethings are where they grew up.

    I nominate her and Stu Varney on Fox.

  • izoneguy

    Your Coal-fired Electric Car

    http://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2010/11/your_coalfired_electric_car.html

    My son had some homework about power – how it’s made and what resources are used to make it. Of course they have a big push in there about “electric” cars and “green” technology. I told my son to tell his teacher that “electric” cars are really coal powered cars. He asked me what did that mean. I explained that the power the electric car gets to charge it’s batteries was probably generated from a coal powered power plant. I told him to tell his teacher that. I am one of his teachers favorite parents….he he he…

    • macbookben

      how many windmills would it take to charge up 100 million electric cars, he he he…

      • izoneguy
        • Brian Hibbert

          A friend of mine is involved in a company that is actually building something that looks a lot like that (with better supports). He says the shroud increases airflow at the blades and causes the turbine to generate more power.

          http://www.getsmartenergy.com/

          • acat

            but I can see “Wind Cubes” being very useful – hanging right around the 3rd-4th floor level in the “concrete canyons” of every major city.

            Mew

          • Brian Hibbert

            with a big cord running to the coal fired power plant in the background. It just reminded me of my friend’s product. They’re talking about putting them on roof tops rather than hanging out the side of buildings.

            Honestly, I think they’re looking to cash in on the “green” craze and sell a bunch of these things to building owners. In practice, I can’t see them being anything more than a supplement to the grid and a very pricey one at that.

          • myron_j_poltroonian

            Wind currents are unreliable to say the least. Unpredictable, beyond a two week window, at best. And unsteady, in strength and/or direction, always. So, what’s the big deal out of harnessing them? Just because “Farmer Fred” did it a hundred years ago and his great grandfather, “Farmer Caleb” did it a hundred years before that, “and his father before him”, etc., why pursue such a really old technology? Talk about putting “LIpstick on a pig”. Ask yourself how long the Dutch have been using it, and how much they rely on it now. Petroleum has been in use for what, a hundred and fifty years? Coal for maybe a hundred and twenty five more?
            Yes, everything has a trade off. No matter what form of energy you look at, it’s always a matter of supply, scale, reliability and affordability. Solar? Not in the Mohave Desert, gotta protect the Desert Tortoise for Di Fi. Nuclear? The “Enviro’s ‘ll have you pounding some of that desert sand. Tidal Turbines? Bone up on Neap (pr. “Nip”) and Spring Tides and realize that tides change direction (as well as strength) twice daily, with a “slack water” period of one to two or so hours duration in between.
            So, what then? I know of a source of energy that is not off-world that has been around since before there were primitive plants, let alone dinosaurs. And, in fact, being inexhaustible, will be around as long as Ol’ Gaea’s a’rotatin’ ’round Mr. Sun. Harnessing it. Now there’s the challange.

        • texasjohn

          mostly because it’s probably true. :D

    • http://impudent.edublogs.org/ kyle8

      poison mercury lightbulbs are gonna save the planet.

    • Locked and Loaded

      Stinkin’ laws of thermodynamics.

  • macbookben

    that the Nissan Leaf vehicle, being composed of mostly metal and synthetic materials, needs about a barrel or so of raw petroleum just to fabricate the plastic parts and assemblies? And the tires, lubricants, belts, hoses, etc. are also derived from petroleum products. This man challenged an opponent to a battle of wits, and he was obviously unarmed. He reminds me of a few of those interview subjects Reason TV videoed at the 9/12 rally last year. When some were asked “Do you believe Obama is a Keynesian?” one really ‘sharp’ respondent became indignant, replying “he was born in America;” another,”you can see his birth certificate online.” Their arrogance is inversely proportional to their intelligence; their greatest fear is being perceived as unhip or uncool so they stay close to the herd. Although I think “Kenny G’s” mind is made up on the subject of carbon-based energy for now, I think he will find himself in the same reality boat we’ll all be in if Obama’s plans for subsidized green energy take hold. His doubt will be force him to decide whether to leave the herd. If he still adopts the same position in his original argument, then it will be sadly confirmed that he and the rest of the herd had a serious cognitive disorder all along.

    • izoneguy

      Most libs think they are more intelligent than the average conservative….

      I think they equate ego for IQ…..

      • http://impudent.edublogs.org/ kyle8

        People think they are smarter than me and yet they beleive that an electric car causes no pollution, a trace gas with a weak greenhouse effect is going to destroy the earth, government agencies are more efficient than the private sector, and that you can actually tax, spend, and borrow your way to prosperity.

        they actually believe all of that!

  • Common_Cents

    Seeing that brainwashed kid makes me worry about the future. I bet he couldn’t tell you where electricity comes from, except from the outlet. Time to take a hard charge on education and bring our youth back into reality from fantasyland.

  • tankertodd

    I LOVE IT! I LOVE IT! I LOVE IT!

  • hoosierteacher

    I’m in love!

    • hotspur

      “why didn’t you come in a bus?”

  • runner12

    It was great! It is people like that guy that give my generation a bad rap. He was so woefully ignorant it was embarassing. It is like he saw an MSNBC special and drove his car to CPAC to spout their talking points.

    Think for yourself buddy! It is quite fun once you try it.

    • rbdwiggins

      Conformity is part of the indoctrination process employed by the progressive educators throughout our government schools.

      The link was broken at an early age, and they failed to develop critical thinking skills. They’ll believe anything, as long as it comes from an ‘approved’ source.

      For the most part, kids that were lucky enough to have parent involvement throughout the early formative years of formal education, attended certain private schools, or were home-schooled were also lucky enough to escape the asylum.

      • runner12

        and that is the only school I will be sending my kids to in the future. Even if I have to make sacrifices to do it.

  • libertyatstake

    And this is *the* counter-ambush instruction manual. Inhofe did well enough, but I like Ann’s style a lot better.

    d(^_^)b
    http://libertyatstake.blogspot.com/
    “Because the Only Good Progressive is a Failed Progressive”

  • 6eorge Jetson

    Or are we talking about

    • myron_j_poltroonian

      Ya’ Know? Every once in awhile, you’ve just gotta relax and go with the absurdity. Thank you.

  • gillis7

    the hippie could have walked or rode a bike

    • blooch

      He just blew into town like a bat out of he//, straight from mom’s basement, driving the hand-me-down ’92 Caprice wagon. It’ll take him some time before he can afford that carbon fiber bike he wants.

      • myron_j_poltroonian

        I’ll bet they don’t even give a second thought to where the “Carbon-Fiber” and “Spandex” come from.

  • Next93

    It’s not surprising to me how people like this don’t see a problem with telling the rest of the world to live simpler lives, and it’s not even surprising that they always seem to have a reason why it doesn’t apply to them (“I have to get my kids to school”, “I’m moving to DC to be a bigger agitator”, “My hours are crazy”, “I have to get to the environmental conference that just HAPPENS to be in an exotic locale”, etc).

    What DOES amaze me is how they can not understand that all of the people they want to impose thier views on have the SAME issues.

    I guess you can’t let something like intellectual honesty get in the way when you’re protecting Mommy Earth. As Dogbert said – “you can’t save the planet without making other people sacrifice”

  • Newton E. Mchuckney

    of Slaughter is doing at CPAC…?

  • Martin Knight

    … this could have been a hell of a lot more painful, and thus educational, for our friend the Lefty environmentalist.

    The problem with most young environmentalists like the guy “confronting” McElhinney here, the problem that really gets my goat, is their ignorance. Couple that with their self-righteousness and it’s all you can do not to smack ‘em to get their brains restarted.

    Electric cars? Where does he think the electricity is going to come from? If every American suddenly got an electric car, how many more power plants would need to be built to power these cars? How many of these plants would be fossil fuel burning plants?

    What state and its environment is he willing to pave over with solar panels to provide barely enough power to run New York? Does he know anything about the energy conversion efficiency of solar panels? What state and its environment is he willing to cover with wind turbines to do the same?

    Does he know anything about energy portability? How do you make sure the energy generated by those sun and wind farms get to where they’re needed when due? Does he know the infrastructure cost? Does he even know what energy portability means?

    Again, if every American got an electric car, where does he think the batteries are going to come from? What does he think batteries are made of? Is he aware of the environmental impact of lithium mining and does he really think it’s renewable?

    Once you let them know how little they know, they tend to pipe down quite a bit.

    • http://www.plumbbobblog.com Plumb_Bob

      Once they learn how destructive lithium mining is, they’ll be out lecturing us all regarding how we have to accept the cost of acquiring comet-based lithium instead of terrestrial lithium, or that we all drive horse-driven carts, as though they had never had any part in demanding that we all drive battery-powered cars. Somehow, the thought that they were actually part of the problem never slows them down. Self-righteousness is marvelously self-forgiving.

      Our President is one of these — a child stuck inside magical thinking.

  • popster

    What ever happened to common sense, if you are going to open your mouth try not to weaken the nation (and your credibility).

    • myron_j_poltroonian

      “If common sense were, there’d be more of it” – M.J.Poltroonian

  • redpenny

    I can hardly wait to see an 18 wheeler or a freigt train powered by a windmill.How many wmills will it take and how will they be attached?Seriously,we should be developing alternate energy sources which,by the way,require some form of fossil fuel generated energy for developement in the begining.The federal govt’s. failure to adopt a resonable energy policy has led us to the dependent state we are in,yet the tree huggers and other assorted morons continue to oppose drilling for known deposits,continue to tie up vast areas of lands,known to hold natural gas,etc.you ge the picture.We deserve everything that the future holds for us because we’ve asked for it and now the day of reckoning is at hand.

  • cam1

    guy from Ohio who has listened to socialist propaganda in the classroom, the comedy channel where he gets his political insight and the mindless confirmation of his nodding contemporaries thought he was going to make points by being rude and got his head handed to him. It was a beautiful thing to watch. Thanks.

  • dwscho

    why he didn’t ride his bike. Seriously, this kid is another half baked environmental wacko who hasn’t a clue about the real world. Ann should have asked this “know it all kid” what generates the electricity for the electric cars and trains.

    This kid says he doesn’t have the capital to afford an electric car. How does he envison the vast majority of middle class Americans are going to afford an overpriced electric car and still be able to pay the higher income taxes required to subsidize those vehicles? Like most liberals, they don’t practice what they preach.

    The classic point was when he walked away from the conversation when confronted with tough questions and logic. Typical environmental and liberal reaction. They don’t have the intellectually capacity to make an intelligent argument based on facts and logic so when confronted with intelligent questions, they walk away.

  • dnha14

    I would have asked the guy one more line of questions:

    Ann: Do you pay taxes?
    Him: Of course I do.
    Ann: Do you like the fact that your taxes give rich people a $7500 rebate so they can buy an electric car that you say you can’t afford?
    Him: Complete silence…..

  • Duke

    Sometimes when I watch video, or more distressing yet, live arguments like this, I feel like Kiran Chetry. She complained it was exhausting defending Oblahblah’s policies. I feel just downright exhausted when I argue common sense with the disciples of MSNBC. The constant rapid-fire talking points; the opinions without research, and the condescension of the liberal elietists is sometimes almost overwhelming.

    The more I argue with them, the more I have come to believe that all I’m doing is bringing myself down to the level of the village idiot! When the discussion is over they still believe they’re right – just like this numbskull did.

    • http://www.plumbbobblog.com Plumb_Bob

      …she admitted after the fact that she was just being deliberately mean, and not trying to make sense, arrive at truth, or find middle ground. It suddenly occurred to me: they KNOW they make no sense.

    • Common_Cents
    • rightwingmom52
  • mspector

    Correlating to my comment on Chris Christie, I think one of the big problems that elected representatives have is that the minute they get to DC they start looking, talking and acting like DC habitues instead of like the people they were before they were elected.

    The GOP made gains in 2010 yes because people were fed up with the direction of Obama’s administration, but also because the grass roots themselves spoke and organized. The job now is to keep those roots healthy and vibrant. If the representative would spend two days “on the ground” for every week they spend in DC, the people would be informed and empowered. We could not lose.

  • alvin

    They never have plausible, honesty arguments, so anything that comes out of their mouths is indefensible.

  • myron_j_poltroonian

    “Oil Shale Reserves?”
    Most interesting?.
    Pass this along to you’re Representatives and ask “Why?” I”ll bet that most of them will not know what you’re talking about… Sinful!
    About 6 months ago I was watching a news program on oil and one of the Forbes Bros. was the guest. This is out of context, but this is the actual question as asked. The host said to Forbes, “I am going to ask you a direct question and I would like a direct answer, how much oil does the U.S. have in the ground.” Forbes did not miss a beat, he said, “more than all the Middle East put together.” Please read below.
    The U. S. Geological Service issued a report in April (’08) that only scientists and oil men knew was coming, but man was it big. It was a revised report (hadn’t been updated since ’95) on how much oil was in this area of the western 2/3 of North Dakota ; western South Dakota ; and extreme eastern Montana …. check THIS out:
    The Bakken is the largest domestic oil discovery since Alaska ‘s Prudhoe Bay , and has the potential to eliminate all American dependence on foreign oil. The Energy Information Administration (EIA) estimates it at 503 billion barrels. Even if just 10% of the oil is recoverable… at $107 a barrel, we’re looking at a resource base worth more than $5.3 trillion.
    ‘When I first briefed legislators on this, you could practically see their jaws hit the floor. They had no idea..’ says Terry Johnson, the Montana Legislature’s financial analyst.
    ‘This sizable find is now the highest-producing onshore oil field found in the past 56 years’ reports, The Pittsburgh Post Gazette. It’s a formation known as the Williston Basin , but is more commonly referred to as the ‘Bakken.’ And it stretches from Northern Montana, through North Dakota and into Canada . For years, U. S. oil exploration has been considered a dead end. Even the ‘Big Oil’ companies gave up searching for major oil wells decades ago.. However, a recent technological breakthrough has opened up the Bakken’s massive reserves…. and we now have access of up to 500 billion barrels. And because this is light, sweet oil, those billions of barrels will cost Americans just $16 PER BARREL!
    That’s enough crude to fully fuel the American economy for 2041 years straight.
    2. And if THAT didn’t throw you on the floor, then this next one should – because it’s from TWO YEARS AGO!
    U. S. Oil Discovery- Largest Reserve in the World!
    Stansberry Report Online – 4/20/2006
    Hidden 1,000 feet beneath the surface of the Rocky Mountains lies the largest untapped oil reserve in the world. It is more than 2 TRILLION barrels. On August 8, 2005 President Bush mandated its extraction. In three and a half years of high oil prices none has been extracted. With this motherload of oil why are we still fighting over off-shore drilling?
    They reported this stunning news: We have more oil inside our borders, than all the other proven reserves on earth. Here are the official estimates:
    - 8-times as much oil as Saudi Arabia
    - 18-times as much oil as Iraq
    - 21-times as much oil as Kuwait
    - 22-times as much oil as Iran
    - 500-times as much oil as Yemen
    - and it’s all right here in the Western United States.
    HOW can this BE? HOW can we NOT BE extracting this? Because the environmentalists and others have blocked all efforts to help America become independent of foreign oil! Again, we are letting a small group of people dictate our lives and our economy…..WHY?
    James Bartis, lead researcher with the study says we’ve got more oil in this very compact area than the entire Middle East -more than 2 TRILLION barrels untapped. That’s more than all the proven oil reserves of crude oil in the world today, reports The Denver Post.
    Don’t think ‘OPEC’ will drop its price – even with this find? Think again! It’s all about the competitive marketplace, – it has to. Think OPEC just might be funding the environmentalists?
    Got your attention/ire up yet? Hope so! Now, while you’re thinking about it …. and hopefully P.O’d, do this:
    3. Pass this along. If you don’t take a little time to do this, then you should stifle yourself the next time you want to complain about gas prices— because by doing NOTHING, you’ve forfeited your right to complain.
    ——–
    Now I just wonder what would happen in this country if every one of you sent this to every one in your address book.
    By the way….this is all true. Check it out at the link below!!!
    GOOGLE it or follow this link. It will blow your mind.
    http://www.usgs.gov/newsroom/article.asp?ID=1911

    • evas

      I heard about the very thing you are describing on a program which had a guest on who is in the oil industry. I was blown away, and can’t understand why I never heard any more about it. Interestingly, he said that petroleum does NOT COME FROM FOSSILS. ( If you think about it, the idea really is absurd that petroleum would come from dinosaur bones). He said that it is continually being created under the earth, and we ARE NOT RUNNING OUT OF IT.