Kimmel to Palin: ‘Scientists Are Not F*cking With You’ (Video)


It’s becoming increasingly easy to make fun of Sarah Palin. Every time she opens her mouth and her incoherent ramblings spill out, my first thought is to get her some quick psychiatric help.

But when she turns her blathering idiocy to an issue as desperately important as global warming, my sympathy for her mental health disappears.

Late night TV host Jimmy Kimmel seems to agree with me.

According to an article in RawStory, Kimmel took aim at the former Alaska Governor for her role is promoting a movie called “Climate Hustle.” The film promises to uncover the “political propaganda” that is the global warming theory.

Kimmel went after Palin for her incredibly inept attempts to question the science behind the theory. He hit her argument so hard that there doesn’t seem to be any possible logical response.

He started off with a couple of clips of Palin that are hilarious in their stupidity. She actually says:

“Its perpetuated, its its repeated so often, that, um, too many people believe that, ‘oh, well, I guess if 97 percent of all scientists believe that man’s activities are creating changes in the weather, ah, who am I to question that?’”

Kimmel counters with “Exactly!” He says that its reprehensible for Palin to consider herself more knowledgeable about global warming than 97 percent of the world’s scientists. He says that the issue is pure fact, not a political debate. Questioning climate change, he says, is like questioning gravity.

“There’s no debate about the greenhouse effect, just like there’s no debate about gravity. It someone throws a piano off the roof, I don’t care what Sarah Palin tells you — get out of the way. It’s coming down on your head.”

The rest of Kimmel’s response to the climate deniers is truly epic. After criticizing Palin and other Republicans for pretending to know more than 97 percent of scientists, the comedian turned to a group of actual climate scientists. These real live PhD-carrying experts explain that climate change is real, that humans are causing it and that it will be catastrophic.

Then one by one, they look right into the camera and promise:

“We are not f*cking with you!”

How can there be any rebuttal to this?

 

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Karen is a retired elementary school teacher with many years of progressive activism behind her. She is the proud mother of three young adults who were all arrested with Occupy Wall Street. To see what she writes about in her spare time, check out her blog at "Empty Nest, Full Life"