Fear Mongering Senator, Pres'l Candidate Tells Impressionable Young Child That World Will Soon End

PJ Media ^ | March 16, 2015 | Ed Driscoll

[2ndDivisionVet]

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Ted Cruz today? No, try Bobby Kennedy in 1968.

That’s how old the left’s doomsday rhetoric is; the actual causes come and go — pollution, acid rain, global cooling, global warming, generic climate change, whatever. The end result is that the world will soon come to end — unless we elect socialist politicians who pretend to be a cross between scientists, mystical clerics and slide rule technocrats. Or as I wrote a couple of years ago, linking to Bobby’s speech in ’68, Carter’s malaise speech a decade later, and Obama’s Dr. Strangelove-esque “science” “czar” John Holdren, “Welcome Back My Friends to the Malaise that Never Ends.”

Regarding Cruz, as Allahpundit writes at Hot Air, “Today’s top story: Three-year-old hears Ted Cruz say that the world is on fire:”

To cleanse the palate, I’m not joking with that headline. Thanks to lefty boredom on a slow news day, the fake outrage over this has propelled it to the toppermost of the poppermost on Memeorandum. (Sample hed via Dave Weigel: “Ted Cruz Shouts Insane Rhetoric At Terrified Little Girl In New Hampshire.”) Which is funny, because the only thing distinguishing Cruz’s line from something you or your three-year-old might hear in a stock Democratic speech about climate change is the hopeful note Cruz sounds at the end. Hopenchange will come and go but melting glaciers are forever. Put away the jumprope and start thinking about boat designs, Janie.

Someday the left will realize that it scaremongers as much as the right does, frequently about much sillier things, but today is not that day.

When does that reckoning ever arrive? With Al Gore muttering lunatics pronouncements such his goal to “Punish Climate-Change Deniers,” while pocketing $100 mil from Big Oil, a little reflection is long overdue.

[mc5cents]

The more things change, the more they stay the same.

[nascarnation]

You have to admit we’re all shocked sh!tless that People Magazine wrote a piece debunking this. That is amazing in my view.

[mc5cents]

Ecclesiastes 1:9

What has been will be again,
what has been done will be done again;
there is nothing new under the sun.

[cotton1706]

I live in Boston and the mother of the child was on the local radio show this morning. The child was not terrified or upset and was in fact having a fun time, even referring to Ted Cruz as “Uncle Cruz.”

This story is going nowhere...because it’s a falsehood.

[Interesting Times]

Leftists never engage in scaremongering that frightens impressionable children.

[MrB]

mumma! daddeee! Ya can’t vote republican because all the polar bears gonna die!

[ExCTCitizen]

You are Correct...

[logic101.net]

Approx every 20 yrs there have been alternating accounts of either “global warming” or global cooling”; always catastrophic and these go back to the late 1800’s. The thing is that the sun is on about a 20 yr cycle for heating and cooling and the alarmists notice this at the end of each cycle. When I was in the 7th & 8th grade it was the coming ice age.

The difference now is that the left needs the issue so they will do whatever is necessary to make it fit; even change the terms and definitions. This is why it isn't “Gore-Bull” Warming anymore but “Climate Change”. Anything fits that.

I had a customer (who turned out to be a whack job) tell me several years ago that “Global Warming” means that it will get colder in the midwest. People in the east and west have probably been fed the same like of bs.

[Steve_Seattle]

"This story is going nowhere...because it’s a falsehood."

Ah, the eternal optimist!. The Valerie-Plame-was-outed-as-revenge story was a falsehood, but the media ran with it for two years, it was made into a movie, and Scooter Libby's life was ruined because he couldn't remember a months-old conversation.