re: #178 oneisnotprime

Charles, your interpretation doesn’t work. The quote is ambiguous and Tim Blair’s interpretation may be wrong, but ‘this’ in ‘this is the response’ clearly refers to the earthquake and not the international relief.

If we substitute “the international relief” into Danny Glover’s sentence, it reads: “when we did what we did at the climate summit, in Copenhagen, the international relief is the response, this is what happens, you know what I’m sayin’? That[’s why] we have to act now.”

Doesn’t make sense—why do we have to act now. On the other hand, substituting “the earthquake” makes perfect sense in context:

“when we did what we did at the climate summit, in Copenhagen, the earthquake is the response, this is what happens, you know what I’m sayin’? That[’s why] we have to act now.”

Actually this seems like solid logic. I’ve said numerous times today to give the guy the benefit of the doubt, and I still believe you give him a chance to explain before condemnation, but this explanation at least seems more plausible than the Charles explanation at the moment. It’s such a shitty audio quality that it’s hard to speculate, but at least if you follow this reasoning, it’s not an outrageous outrage. Just like those who are automatically saying it’s clear he said something outrageous are jumping the shark, so is defending what he said as “clear.” One of those rare times when both sides are jumping the shark, but no one ever learns.

However, anyone trying to say he was claiming AGW caused the earthquake, either hasn’t seen the video or is just doing the out-outrage like Charles said.