Posted on 07/02/2007 2:21:54 AM PDT by djf
Early tonight on Coast to Coast, Art announced he is retiring. Presumably to spend more time with his wife and new daughter.
While there is the standard mundane crew who break out the tin foil hat jokes (they don't even break out the tin foil, just the jokes), I have been listening to Art for many years and feel that some kind of outlet for the type of material and people he interviews is needed. It only takes one of the tens of thousands of sighting of UFO's to be a REAL UFO to change the world. So to be fair we need to wish him well. His place in broadcasting history is secured. I hope he maintains some influence in C2C.
We know what we know. But we don't know what we don't know!
Whenever I have heard him—not often—he’s bashing Bush so much you’d think he was a FReeper. :D
"Show me just what Mohammed brought that was new, and there you will find things only evil and inhuman, such as his command to spread by the sword the faith he preached." - Manuel II Palelologus
Art who?
I don’t mind the UFO stuff, but Bell’s constant unending drumbeat for global climate change disaster is tiresome. I hope he stays retired this time.
I was gonna say that.... LOL
Well, once again, to be fair, he’s no dummy. I mean he has a high degree of technical knowledge about radio.
I know that doesn’t mean he knows a damn thing about weather or climate. But he’s way better at asking questions than the average J6P.
There are only two legitimate questions about climate.
Is there a (long term) climate change? and
Did humans cause it?
Art’s asked both these questions. His conclusions are as valid as anybody elses because we still don’t know.
“I have been listening to Art for many years and feel that some kind of outlet for the type of material and people he interviews is needed.”
How about sci-fi movies and comic books?
Yes, indeed. And, likewise, it only needs one moon to be made cheese for the saying to be true. So here's to that.
“Bell’s constant unending drumbeat for global climate change disaster is tiresome. I hope he stays retired this time.”
I will not miss him, but only in the last few years have I been listening to c2c as it comes on when I am waking up here.
He really jumped the shark on man made global warming and would never reply to my fast blast about the medieval warm period, or universal warming.
Sunday he said that the issue of UFO/ET was now settled and they are real because some dead guy from Area 51 left a sworn statement to be released only after his death...big deal.
I have nothing aginst Art, as he is my age, I am also a ham radio op from 1958, and I have an interest in young Filipino girls :), but I found his condescending tone a bit boring.
Bell goes way beyond Al Gore’s style of moonbattery, however. For Bell, climate change is just one facet of the impending inevitable doom that mankind faces.
He’s certainly made enough money from his gloom’n’doom scenario to retire.
Art Bell can retire and still make millions each year from his stake. George Noori is the genius but Art still rakes it in
I can only ask that he stay gone this time.
Well, I’m old enough to remember “The Limits to Growth” and that sort of gloom and doom.
Which didn’t take into account the 1000 percent fold or so increase in agriculture output.
And now we have “peak oil” and “global warming” and whatever the heck else.
Who knows? Be honest, most folks would rather stick their heads in the sand like an ostrich than even ask questions.
But Art at least asked the questions. That takes a certain kind of courage.
The C2C shows are a lot like a slot machine: long bouts of non-science with a too-infrequent appearance by a true scientist. Art is a "conservative" alien-chaser, and at least Art is anti-terror and implicitly the WOT. His weekday replacement, loony Noori, sounds like Terry McCauliffe.
I'd be concerned about staying in the Philippines. 'Too high a profile of an American to pass up a kidnapping by Jamaah Islamaya; even worse, his daughter for ransom.
LOL
I, too, would worry about being such a high-profile American staying there. I'd have figured he'd camp out in the desert waiting for the arrival...
Art has/had a genuine working time-machine, so he may pop up anytime in the past or the future.
I guess if he popped up in the past we already know/knew about it. Maybe not.
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