Posted on 11/06/2007 6:38:26 PM PST by Eric Blair 2084
I have a story here from the Anchorage Daily News. "'Talk Radio's Limbaugh Bashes St. Michael Teen's Testimony -- Radio host criticized for saying Yup'ik youth was exploited.' Charlee Lockwood has never heard of Rush Limbaugh or listened to his radio program, and perhaps it's just as well. Monday, the talk radio king told listeners that Democrats were exploiting the 18-year-old Yup'ik Eskimo, and that her emotional testimony earlier in the day in front of a U.S. House committee on global warming made him 'really want to puke. I just want to throw up.'" I did say this. "'It's the Democrats exploiting a young child, ladies and gentlemen,'" they quote me accurately saying, "'for the advancement of a political issue that will grow the size of government and increase their control over everyone.' Lockwood didn't let Limbaugh's comments faze her. Her upbringing in the community of St. Michael included learning 'about respect and treating people the way you want to be treated,' Lockwood said, during a brief interview," just before she flew home. "'For Rush Limbaugh to make fun of young people coming in and trying to be a part of the political process, it really shows a disdain for political discourse and for the role of young people in that political discourse,' said Eben Burnham-Snyder, a spokesman for the chairman of the committee, U.S. Rep. Ed Markey, D-Mass."
Do you think we could be so fortunate as to get another letter? (laughing) First off, typically, the left-wing blogs are all over it again, "Limbaugh making fun of defenseless child." "Limbaugh mocking child's crying voice," and so forth. Ladies and gentlemen, before we get to some facts here, let me explain something to all of you liberals and all of you Democrats. The days where you get to bring aboard to your committee hearings or in your television commercials so-called innocent little victims -- either of diseases, or of age, or of gender -- and expect them not to be criticized when they enter the political arena, those days are over, Democrats. I don't care what you say about me, and I don't care how you mischaracterize what I do. You people have gotten away with misleading the American people and exploiting sick people, and exploiting children, and exploiting the elderly for way too long. If you're going to bring average citizens into the political process, which you have just admitted to here, and expect them to be immune from criticism, you've got another thing coming, at least on this program.
I am not going to sit here and stand aside. When I started talking about this yesterday Snerdley was waving at me, "Don't do it! Don't do it!" Dawn was echoing the sentiments, "Don't do it." I did it, and I am going to keep doing it. I am not going to sit here and let a bunch of liberals mislead and lie to the American people about a hoax issue that they are advancing for political purposes. Now, if you're just joining us and you didn't hear yesterday's program, let's go back to the audio sound bites. I am serious about this. They can trot out whoever they want. If they're going to put them in the political process and expect that they are not going to get criticized, that they are immune from criticism, that we're just going to have to sit back and believe what they say, unh-uh. It's not happening here, folks. Here is Cheryl "Charlee" Lockwood testifying before Ed Markey's committee yesterday morning. This is the House Select Committee for Energy Independence and Global Warming hearing.
LOCKWOOD: (crying) Just in my lifetime I've seen so many... changes in our community that it just hurts to (sniffle) not be able to have our... (voice trembling) It's really scary to lose our tradition, our culture, and we've been living here for thousands of years (sob) and it's not just that we're losing our food, it's losing our homes, and -- because we are spiritually connected, and emotionally, and (sniffle) physically connected to our homes, and (sob) there are so many -- so many -- communities that are in trouble.
RUSH: All right, so I did a little research. That's the 18-year-old Cheryl "Charlee" Lockwood testifying before Ed Markey's committee yesterday in the House with all the Democrats expecting she's going to get a pass and therefore they are going to get a pass. Now, she's from the West Coast of Alaska. It's a little town called St. Michael. Before she testified, I wonder if anybody bothered to tell her that it has not warmed up in Alaska in her lifetime. She's 18. It has warmed in Alaska, but, in fact, it has not warmed in the last 30 years. I have a great chart here from climate.gi.Alaska.edu. Let me show this chart on the Dittocam. The blue is cooling. The red is warming. It averages itself out. But there is a reason for when it has warmed in Alaska, why it is warming up, and I'm going to tell you about that. I wonder if anybody told Ms. Lockwood that the warming that has occurred in Alaska is a natural event. It's called the Pacific Decadal Oscillation. That's the PDO, and it changed phase in the late 1970s, which has caused Alaska and the arctic region to be warm ever since.
If you note from the chart on this website, it is also the likely reason why it was so warm in the arctic in the 1930s, which is what Bob from Sedona was calling about yesterday. The chart goes from 1949 through 2005, and what it is is the mean annual temperature departure for Alaska. It has not warmed. Overall, Alaska is not warming up. The mean temperature is pretty much compensating. It goes down, it goes up, it goes down, and the reason for the fluctuation, once again, is called the Pacific Decadal Oscillation. It is a natural event. It's like a sine curve wave on an oscillation machine. That's exactly what it is. So to say that what's happening up there is global warming is simply not true. That's why I say the 18-year-old little girl is being misled and thus exploited. Look how it's affecting her. She shows up and starts crying over this. There is nothing we can do about the Pacific Decadal Oscillation, nothing we can do. It changes phases naturally.
Now, as I said, I was not "making fun of young people coming in and trying to be part of the political process," as the spokesman for Ed Markey said. The obvious intent of having Ms. Lockwood testify was not just to have her "participate in the political process." Instead, it was a blatant exploitation of this girl's emotions over an issue that Congress can't do anything about. Nobody in Congress can change the temperature in Alaska. Nobody can make it colder and nobody can make it warmer. They can't do that anywhere. We're talking about one degree Celsius in the next 50 years and that's because of our carbon emissions. So to put the fear of whatever in this little girl and bring her up there and testify like this is pure and simple exploitation. The Pacific Decadal Oscillation is going to do what it's going to do no matter whether we reduce greenhouse emissions by X percent or not. To brainwash this young girl into believing that we can fix the problem is what is outrageous and grotesque. What is outrageous and grotesque is Congressman Markey and the rest of the Democrats on his committee -- and the rest of the Democrats in the Senate who are buying into all this -- scaring little kids all over the world with lies and distortions about melting ice caps stranding polar bears.
The fact of the matter is the polar bear population is expanding in a bunch of parts in the world. "Outrageous and grotesque" is what they called my reaction to this, in this newspaper story, "an Anchorage environmentalist" is her name, about my criticism of Ms. Lockwood's testimony. See, the game here is: You bring up a little girl. She's already been filled with a bunch of distortions and lies about what's happening to her village and her part of Alaska, and she's emotionally distraught. You can hear this. Here you've got the adults responsible for it sitting there using her, and she is simply a pawn in all this to advance their political issue. Their actions are outrageous and grotesque. But I'm not going to sit here and let them get away with this any longer. I don't care if it's Michael J. Fox. I don't care who they trot out to make distorted cases and lies out of various issues for the liberal slant, the Democrat Party's point of view. When they do that, they're fair game. The Democrats had better know that from this day forward. We have to stop this, folks. We have to stop the exploitation of sick people and young people and the infirm for the advancement of liberalism on the basis of they can't be criticized. Not here. We'll criticize anybody once they enter the political arena. I don't care what their age. I don't care whether they're an animal. They could be Tony the Tiger. If they use a Tony the Tiger cartoon, I'm going to rip Kellogg's.
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RUSH: Now, not to pile on here, folks, but let's pile on anyway. Dean up at the website -- Koko is out today getting a root canal, so Koko, Jr. is operating things at the website, and he did a little autobiographical research here on Charlee Lockwood. She's a member of the Alaska Youth for Environmental Action. Now, I just have a short relevant paragraph here of her biography and it clearly shows that she's been indoctrinated, that she hasn't seen anything that she's describing in her testimony. She's 18. Keep that in mind.
"She grew up on the coastal community of St. Michael in northwest Alaska. She attends Mount Edgecumbe School, a statewide boarding school with a student population representing over ninety villages and cities in Alaska. Charlee became involved with AYEA during her sophomore year of high school," so that's two years ago, "and at first admitted to not really knowing much about global warming's impacts on communities. After hearing from her peers about flooding villages, receding glaciers, and altered hunting seasons, however, she decided to take a stand. In 2006 she quickly became a leader on AYEA's global warming campaign, being personally responsible for the signatures collected from fifty villages."
So she's not old enough to have seen any of this, and she didn't notice anything about this until she met members of the group. She didn't notice anything was wrong until she was told. It is obvious that the young girl has been brainwashed and propagandized, and so it is outrageous and grotesque but very typical for our friends -- the Democrats in Congress, and the Ed Markey committee -- to sit there and exploit this young girl, who doesn't know anything. She's not an expert. She has seen diddly-squat. They don't know that and they don't care. It's the tears; it's the pain; it's the suffering that they are content to have her continue to feel. Somebody could grab her by the shoulders and say, "Charlee, it ain't that bad." But no! They want her to suffer because they can use her, just like all of their victims: the poor and the miserable and the hungry and the thirsty. Keep them that way so we can point to them and say, "See what evil Republicans and capitalism does to them?"
They don't help anybody. They don't solve anything.
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Ann Coulter figured this out long ago Rush.
I have to give Ann credit for that one. When I first heard her “attack” on the Democratic activist 9/11 widows, I cringed.
I just didn’t get it. Now she has opened it up for everyone to feel free to question the “unassailable victim” that the left typically trots out to emote a liberal talking point.
I am SOOOOOOO tired of the globull warming cr@p, these children are being brainwashed by their own parents...talk about child abuse, OK, I signed on to be a cheerleader here at FR...I will repeat... God’s creation will not be destroyed by MAN..be of stout heart, GOD IS IN CHARGE!!!
That article is in Rush’s background material at the bottom.
Political battles should won on the basis on reason and principles. If the Dems want to continue to play the victim game, they better be prepared for rough times. That old trick ain’t gonna work the way it used to.
Same with her edwards faggot quip. It was a slam against sissy edwards, but even a better slam at political correctness. Ann does not say these things randomly.
libhole demonicrats find their strength in victimhood.
Rush Limbaugh and Ann Coulter are teaching us how to attack these libs at their strongest point. If we can break the dems’s victimhood strategy, they are toast.
Ditto!
Apparently not. She is an “evil” genius. There is a method to the madness. Plus getting free publicity to sell books doesn’t hurt either.
This parade of victimhoodlums is a mere precursor to what the dems are going to offer us in 2008: Hillary the Victimhoodlum
Generation-X'ers and down know when someone is jumping the shark. Have faith in them. It'll pan out in time.
That’s what happened when FReeper icwhatudo exposed the Frost family.
I like Rush, he can provide an answer that is factually based, totally gets his point across. After reading this, it all makes sense to me.
Me, on the other hand, would have gotten red in the face, and blurted out “F’n idiots”!
I like it :0)
From poverty, energy, the environment, public schools, private and public transportation, health care, immigration, markets and taxation, the Democrat party hasn't solved anything.
Did you listen to Rush yesterday? He was pretty down in the dumps over the whole thing. I’d never seen him like that.
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