Ted Cruz Never Gets Tired of This “Joke:” “Al Gore Told Us This Wouldn’t Happen”
Credit: Gage SkidmoreAh yes, conservative “humor” time again. Today in Iowa, Ted Cruz recycled one of those right wing “jokes” that isn’t really a joke (because these people actually believe this nonsense): that cold weather proves climate change is a hoax perpetrated by scheming evil scientists and Al Gore. Always Al Gore.
BREAKING Ted Cruz in IA: “I have to admit, I was really confused, Al Gore told us this wasn’t going to happen, but it was cold there”
— Benjy Sarlin (@BenjySarlin) January 25, 2016
Cruz has been using this dumb line for years, and he never fails to get a laugh from the wingnut audience because this is what passes for cleverness in those circles. For example, Cruz pulled out this hoary old chestnut back in January 2014, and again in February 2014, just to name two instances of idiocy.
They may laugh, but this isn’t funny; you’re seeing a Harvard-educated Republican running for president on a platform of hard core anti-science denialism — and ultra-stupid denialism at that.
To demonstrate that Cruz isn’t joking at all when he yanks out this “joke,” here’s his opening statement at his recent Senate hearing titled, “Data or Dogma: Promoting Open Inquiry in the Debate Over the Magnitude of Human Impact on Earth’s Climate.”
Yes, he brings up Al Gore.
