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North Pole fables
Voice of the Times ^ | 4 May 08 | The Editors

Posted on 05/04/2008 8:10:37 PM PDT by GATOR NAVY

ON THE NBC nightly news there was a heart-throb report of an attractive British teen-ager who had skied across the North Pole with her father to demonstrate how the Arctic ice pack is receding in the face of global warming. Oh, horror. Oh, how terrible.

The pictures were beautiful: Her pretty face, her gentle smile, her soft voice, her snow-crusted parka, the blue skies, the brilliant white ice, the cascading chunks of ice calving from glaciers, the two penguins standing on an ice flow.

Wait a minute. Penguins? At the North Pole?

Not that we ever heard of.

So much for science, as reported by NBC News.


TOPICS: Editorial; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: globalwarming; msmagenda; nbcnews; northpole
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The video is here here in the "Our Planet" section. The penguins are at about 00:50. I guess at NBC when you have a story about the North Pole any footage with some ice will do.
1 posted on 05/04/2008 8:10:38 PM PDT by GATOR NAVY
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To: Tolerance Sucks Rocks

For your ping list.


2 posted on 05/04/2008 8:13:01 PM PDT by GATOR NAVY (Your parents will all receive phone calls instructing them to love you less now.)
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To: Alamo-Girl
Penguins at the North Pole
Ping
3 posted on 05/04/2008 8:15:17 PM PDT by Fiddlstix (Warning! This Is A Subliminal Tagline! Read it at your own risk!(Presented by TagLines R US))
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To: GATOR NAVY
Wait a minute. Penguins? At the North Pole?

This is yet another example of climate change: penguins are now migrating from the south pole to the north pole.

4 posted on 05/04/2008 8:15:52 PM PDT by Fox_Mulder77 (McCain's FR tag: McLlort)
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To: GATOR NAVY
I checked to see if there were any penguins in the northern hemisphere and found this:


5 posted on 05/04/2008 8:18:53 PM PDT by Richard Kimball (We're all criminals. They just haven't figured out what some of us have done yet.)
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To: GATOR NAVY

NBC & GoreGoones on skis wouldn’t lie... nah,...


6 posted on 05/04/2008 8:19:13 PM PDT by SandRat (Duty, Honor, Country! What else needs to said?)
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To: GATOR NAVY

Those aren’t penguins, they’re poor climate scientists who got badly burned thanks to the ozone hole.


7 posted on 05/04/2008 8:20:08 PM PDT by TheWasteLand
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To: Fox_Mulder77

Yeah... that’s the ticket!


8 posted on 05/04/2008 8:21:52 PM PDT by GATOR NAVY (Your parents will all receive phone calls instructing them to love you less now.)
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To: Richard Kimball

Eastern Conference Finals bound!


9 posted on 05/04/2008 8:22:18 PM PDT by PA Engineer (Liberate America from the occupation media.)
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To: GATOR NAVY

And, at the lead-in, it appears to be a penguin in the foreground, human in the background!


10 posted on 05/04/2008 8:24:03 PM PDT by aShepard
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To: GATOR NAVY

They show penguins twice.


11 posted on 05/04/2008 8:25:36 PM PDT by nuconvert (There are bad people in the pistachio business.)
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To: GATOR NAVY

Either the editors at NBC are ignorant or they think their viewers are and just wouldn’t notice.


12 posted on 05/04/2008 8:26:29 PM PDT by eggman (Democrat party - The black hole of liberalism from which no rational thought can escape.)
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To: aShepard; nuconvert

You’re right. I missed the penguins in the lead-in too.


13 posted on 05/04/2008 8:29:19 PM PDT by GATOR NAVY (Your parents will all receive phone calls instructing them to love you less now.)
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To: GATOR NAVY; Allegra; big'ol_freeper; Lil'freeper; TrueKnightGalahad; blackie; Larry Lucido; ...
Simple explanation, campers. When NBC stick their heads... up their arses, they see penguins!
14 posted on 05/04/2008 8:30:48 PM PDT by Bender2 ("I've got a twisted sense of humor, and everything amuses me." RAH Beyond this Horizon)
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To: GATOR NAVY

That is just too much.


15 posted on 05/04/2008 8:31:05 PM PDT by Eagles6 ( Typical White Guy: Christian, Constitutionalist, Heterosexual, Redneck)
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To: GATOR NAVY

We’re back to “fake but true” being OK — somebody let Dan Rather know.


16 posted on 05/04/2008 8:31:21 PM PDT by pyrless
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To: eggman

“Either the editors at NBC are ignorant or they think their viewers are and just wouldn’t notice.”

Yes on both counts


17 posted on 05/04/2008 8:34:06 PM PDT by nuconvert (There are bad people in the pistachio business.)
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To: GATOR NAVY

Further in the sappy video, it says she had to learn to shoot a gun in case of a polar bear attach. How could they even consider shooting a poor polar bear when they are endangered? They should simply sacrifice themselves — for the sake of the bears.


18 posted on 05/04/2008 8:41:18 PM PDT by ProtectOurFreedom
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To: Richard Kimball

=o

Wow


19 posted on 05/04/2008 8:41:52 PM PDT by wastedyears (The US Military is what goes Bump in the night.)
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To: GATOR NAVY

I love it in the commercials when the polar bears and the penguins share a coke. It gives me a warm feeling all over. Hey, maybe THAT’S the Global Warming everybody is talking about.


20 posted on 05/04/2008 8:42:33 PM PDT by irishtenor (Check out my blog at http://boompa53.blogspot.com/)
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