Neal Boortz Still a Moron

You already know that Neal Boortz is a fat piece of shit. But as it turns out, he also is a lazy piece of smelly shit who can’t be bothered to check his sources. The porcine radio host recently posted this message on his website:

“What about this, Al Gore? Over 500 scientists have published evidence refuting man-made global warming. Surprisingly, these scientists and their findings have gotten very little media attention. Could it possibly be that the media has an agenda?”

As proof, the post links not to a published study but to a press release about Unstoppable Global Warming: Every 1,500 Years, a book by Dennis Avery and S. Fred Singer that’s essentially a step-by-step guide to shoving your head up your own ass.

At the risk of pissing Mr. Boortz off and being eaten alive – literally – by him, I’d like to point out a few trouble spots.

First, the book is funded by Hudson Institute, a right wing think tank that receives funding from sources such as Exxon Mobil and Eli Lilly and Company and which has employed a startling number of Bush’s staff (Office of Management and Budget Director Mitchell E. Daniels; Undersecretary of State for Global Affairs Paula Dobriansky; Commission on Presidential Scholars Chairman Brunno V. Manno; Department of Housing and Urban Development Assistant Secretary Commission, Federal Housing Authority John Weicher – and lots more, but I don’t want to bore you). The authors of the book, unsurprisingly, are also Hudson Institute players. Dennis Avery, the director of the Center for Global Food Issues at the Institute, has dedicated much of his work to proving that organic food kills and pesticides make vegetable crops healthier for you. His alleged sources for his information, Dr. Robert Tauxe and Dr. Paul Meade of the Center for Disease Control's Foodborne and Diarrheal Diseases Branch, have both denied providing Avery with supporting evidence – even going so far as to issue a press release essentially calling Avery a liar and denying any connection with his “study.” Coauthor Dr. S. Fred Singer has received direct funding from ExxonMobil for tens of thousands of dollars and has openly admitted to doing consulting for oil companies.

Okay, so, these two shills have written a book filled with compelling scientific data, such the fact that “thousands of museum paintings…portrayed sunnier skies during the Medieval Warming and more cloudiness during the Little Ice Age." Oddly, they also stop tracking climate changes after 1985 – the year of the discovery of the hole in the ozone layer over the Antarctic, and since which climate change has aggressively accelerated. I’m no scientist, but people smarter than me who wear glasses accuse the pair of knowingly using outdated theories. I was unable to find a listing of the 500 scientists whose findings purportedly support the authors’ thesis so I could check out their affiliations – and I’m sure as hell not going to spend money on this crap-filled-diaper of a book – but I’d bet more than a few are employed within companies that benefit from fewer environmental protection laws. It’s also worth noting that the 500 scientists figure is small (small like Boortz’ penis) – especially when compared with the esteemed 2,000 scientists who make up the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Control, the United Nations group whose latest report found global warming to be a reality.

I honestly believe Boortz is a great spokesman for the right, mainly because his intentional ignorance seems to be a point of pride for many conservatives. Maybe if Neal Boortz spent as much time checking the validity of the wacko theories and theoreticians he promotes as he does eating anything and everything that comes within his airspace, he'd be less of a douchebag.

But probably not.