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posted by mrcoolbp on Tuesday April 28 2015, @08:09AM   Printer-friendly
from the very-cool-when-he's-hot-under-the-collar dept.

The Center for American Progress reports:

Obama is famously low key. That's why on the hit Comedy Central show "Key & Peele", Keegan-Michael Key plays "Luther, President Obama's anger translator". The [annual White House Correspondents' Association dinner], however, is a rare place where the President can cut loose--as long as he uses humor.

In a hilarious admission that he has been too low key to convey the moral outrage justified by humanity's myopic march toward self-destruction--and by the brazen denial of climate science by many conservatives--Obama brought out "Luther" to express that outrage. And then, in an ingenious twist, Obama became so outraged that he didn't need Luther and in fact Luther himself couldn't take the genuinely angry Obama, who says of denial, "What kind of stupid, shortsighted, irresponsible, bull-"

Here's a video of the event.

 
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  • (Score: 1) by khallow on Tuesday April 28 2015, @04:37PM

    by khallow (3766) Subscriber Badge on Tuesday April 28 2015, @04:37PM (#176139) Journal

    I expect you are old enough or well educated enough that with semantic arguing any phrase loses all meaning. The clues of meaning are in the intent, context and actual use given any instance.

    I believe I have accurately gauged the "intent, context and actual use" here with "climate denier". It's really a propaganda term meant to lump everyone who isn't wholly on board with strongly curtailing humanity's activities due to poorly understood climate dynamics and small observed changes in climate with the vanishingly few people who believe there is no actual climate change of any sort going on. A physics analogy would be to label MOND theory advocates as flat earthers. And then yucking it up about "context" and the other bullshit you mention when someone notes that they don't actually believe in a flat earth.

    In this case it is clear that the phrase is meant to put language to people that do not believe in the facts of the current science.

    If that were true, and it isn't, then you would have to include a lot of people on the climate change bandwagon as well. For example, hysterical catastrophic climate change advocate, Al Gore would be a climate denier too. But only only climate deniers, in your hypothetical definition of the term, on one side of the argument are actually labeled as climate deniers. That context seems to be missing from your argument.