Posted on 12/05/2009 7:30:47 PM PST by InterceptPoint
The words “We interrupt this broadcast,” was repeatedly followed by dramatic accounts of Martians invading America, were heard by 6 million radio listeners one infamous Halloween night in 1938. Millions of panic-stricken Americans, first relieved then furious, found out they’d been hoaxed. They had just heard the radio adaptation of The War of the Worlds, by H.G. Wells, produced and narrated by Orson Welles.
Accounts of the hoax’s impact and motivation vary widely, but all agree the broadcast launched Orson Welles into infamy as America’s Greatest Hoaxer – a title that is now in jeopardy from a much bigger hoaxer: Al Gore, the front-man for the global warming hoax.
The Welles hoax lasted 60 minutes, and if “Climate-Gate“ charges are true, Al Gore’s hoax will have lasted 17 years and panicked billions more Americans and people from every nation in the world. The similarities between these hoaxes are many; some coincidental, and some frightening. Thankfully, for the purposes of this article, all are entertaining. Let’s look at just a couple.
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That's right. I was about 11 or 12 when those commercials ran.
No Joke...this POS must go to prison!
Ooh! I know this one! Shakespeare! :)
(There is a tide in the affairs of men, which, taken at the flood, leads on to fortune...)
All that proves is that I’m getting old...
I wonder if we can give Algore to France.
I wonder if we can give Algore to the Martians!
It is actually 15 steps due to "value added" tweaking of the actual data.
Algore can wait. The Frenchies need to take back Fort Detroit first.
Algore can wait. The Frenchies need to take back Fort Detroit first.
Welles was an entertainer and a storyteller. He never meant harm with his Halloween story. algore is a liar and a thief. He is callously pocketing the proceeds of his fraud while irreparably damaging the credibility of a vital part of the scientific community.
Want to know why Nobel Laureate Al Gore likely doesn't want to debate any of the myriad of scientists and politicians that have challenged him to such a tête-à-tête regarding his manmade global warming theories?
Could it possibly be because Gore was a terrible science student, and clearly never excelled at anything relating to what folks in Norway and in the media consider him to be so expert at?
The following was reported by the Washington Post on March 18, 2000 -- and conveniently ignored by media ever since Gore began lecturing the world about subjects he practically flunked as a student! -- in an article marvelously titled "Gore's Grades Belie Image of Studiousness"
Those fake martians didn’t (won’t) fleece the U.S. out of trillions of GDP. Fifteen years ago, I called algore the most dangerous man in America. I still feel that way.
Qvick!! He's fleeing the scene of the crime!!
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