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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Gore isn’t Orson Welles - he’s Bernie Madoff.
Gore isn’t Orson Welles - he’s Bernie Madoff.
At least Welles knew he was purporting a hoax...oh, wait...
“Mankind will change no clime before its time!”
hmm..what to believe: that we will be invaded my Martians OR we will all die because we exhale..
Also as America’s Greatest Fat @ss.
Great article, but to be believed as a serious writer, this guy had better get his history straight. And yes, I know that Austria and Czechoslovakia were occupied by the Nazis in 1938, but WWII did not start until September 1, 1939.
Now that's clever. Younger FReepers will never get it.
Ernest and Julio Gallo, right?
“Also as America’s Greatest Fat @ss.”
It took 7 posts, but I knew it would be here.
No, Paul Masson...
Was that the same year the Germans bombed Pearl Harbor?
Orson was svelte compared to “jowl-gore”.
Gore made way more money!
Al POS Gore is just another spin-off cretin from Bill and Hillary Criminal.
Algore is Ken Lay Redux.
He’s the P.T. Barnum of Bullshit !.......
P.T. Barnum selling carbon credits instead of side show tickets.
That's what they taught me at Faber College in 1962 ;-)
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