Australian Radio Host Ordered to Take ‘Factual Accuracy’ Training Over Global Warming Remarks

Sydney broadcaster Alan Jones speaks during a rally in Sydney on July 1, 2011 against Australian Prime Minister Julia Gillard’s plans to introduce a carbon tax. (Photo: AFP/Getty Images)
Australian radio commentator Alan Jones has been ordered to undergo “factual accuracy” training over his remarks denigrating man-made global warming, local media relates.
Jones apparently said Australians produce just “1 per cent of .001 per cent of carbon dioxide in the air,” and that “nature produces nearly all the carbon dioxide.”
But, the Sydney Morning Herald continues:
University of Melbourne climate change scientist David Karoly said Australians were in fact responsible for .45 per cent of total carbon dioxide in the atmosphere. ”Obviously, we would much rather prefer that the comments of people like Alan Jones and Andrew Bolt were, in fact, correct, so it is pleasing to get this ruling from [the Australian Communications and Media Authority],” Dr Karoly said.
The radio station told ACMA Jones’ claims should have been taken as commentary…But the authority said any ”ordinary, reasonable listener” would have taken his claims to be fact. [Emphasis added]
The radio’s news and current affairs staff will also be participating in the training, and while Jones has apologized for his remarks, he still seems pretty defiant.
Questioning whether this is ”another chapter in the campaign of punishment for anyone who dares challenge the prevailing Government ideology of global warming,” Jones says his program is “fastidious” about getting their facts right, and certainly apologizes for misquoting the reported amount of carbon dioxide emitted by Australians.
However, while many of the man’s detractors are celebrating the news, others are calling it “scary.”
Nigel Milan, a former chief executive with the radio station, explained:
“Are we to assume Alan Jones’s listeners (and there are a lot of them) have but one source of information?…With the power of social media campaigns and the strongest libel laws in the country, do we really need the Australian Communications and Media Authority and the federal government to protect us? I think not. Indeed, whatever you think of Jones’s views, surely the thought of a government-controlled media is more scary.” [Emphasis added]
(H/T: Newsbusters)
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Comments (118)
deltaecho
Posted on October 21, 2012 at 8:22pmWhen does he have to report to the reeducation camp?
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rickroland
Posted on October 21, 2012 at 8:38pmMy thoughts exactly.
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yougottabekidding
Posted on October 21, 2012 at 10:14pmIf we had something like that msnbc,nbc,cbs,abc, and cnn wouldn’t have anybody on air
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yougottabekidding
Posted on October 21, 2012 at 10:32pmCrowley would be in for twenty years.
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Fatheroftwo
Posted on October 21, 2012 at 10:58pm“Factual Accuracy”……..Now that’s an oxymoron!!!! A Fact is a Fact, it is neither accurate nor inaccurate! You either have it right or wrong! I would like to see Mr. David Karoly’s proof of .45 per cent of atmospheric carbon.
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BLACKDIAMONDSKIER
Posted on October 22, 2012 at 12:05amTRANSLATION: We hope you come to see things “our way” in this training session or maybe next time you could use a beating or possibly a gun to the side of the head instead of……..what was it?……..ohhh yes, “factual accuracy” training. I really feel for this guy. His training involves getting just one question right.
Question 1: Are you going to regurgitate the stats we give you on global warming on your radio station? Yes or No (insert knife to throat here). If yes….student passes “factual accuracy” training with flying colors.
If answer to the above question is no. REPEAT Question 1. If student responds negatively, try using a gun to side of head and REPEAT Question 1 only one more time. If answer remains no, it could get ugly.
This is a simple way of rounding up people who disagree with you on any topic. Statistics can be manipulated either way to support any opinion. “Factual Accuracy” training is simply the term the group in charge uses to force others to “see it their way.”
Only an ignorant people would allow this to happen to their countrymen.
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The Giver
Posted on October 22, 2012 at 2:24amThis is confusing. He said they produce 1% of the .001 % of CO2 in the air. But it’s actually .45 of the CO2 in the atmosphere? The .45 is less than 1%. We must be talking apples and oranges. He should come and work for Glenn.
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Female
Posted on October 22, 2012 at 2:43am“RE-education camp” Perhaps after the election, we can send a delegate of Washingtonians Of DC. Based on their resent inability to produce a budget, fuzzy unemployment numbers, false Obamacare costs, and several other mathematical issues, it might do them some good. Btw you can keep Joe and O, they will both be needing a new country.
A possible explanation: Perhaps, the gentleman subtracted the oxygen produced by Australian plant life from the amount of co2, or some other type of scientific formula vs global warming fantasy truthers.
This is a terrible question but I got to ask:
What does a suicidal global warming terrorist do to make their point?
Lock themselves in their garage and turn on the ignition.
Now seriously, Iran, Russia, Korea, Syria, Libya, China, Pakistan, etc.. and defensively, Israel talking nukes, dirty bombs, chemical bombs, etc….and you are going to stay stuck and prosecute a radio guy? Somebody is going to blow the planet up in a hizzy fit way before the cars, coal, fossil fuels, forest fires or whatever else is gonna ruin the air!
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seniorveteran
Posted on October 22, 2012 at 3:59amI wonder what Australians will call their “Gulag”? It seems like all socialist governments need to have “re-education” programs. The real question is can they spell Fascism and define it.
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seniorveteran
Posted on October 22, 2012 at 4:13amMaybe their government doesn’t read the latest updates on “global warming”. http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-2217286/Global-warming-stopped-16-years-ago-reveals-Met-Office-report-quietly-released–chart-prove-it.html
If there is no “global warming” then maybe CO2 is not a “greenhouse gas”. If CO2 is going up so rapidly and there is no warming maybe scientists ought to re-evaluate the entire theory. And that is what it is: “THEORY”!
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___
Posted on October 22, 2012 at 7:25amThe truth is the new hate speach. Here’s more truth while I can still say it, the tribulation is very near.
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Bum thrower
Posted on October 22, 2012 at 8:16amWhen are people going o have enuf of this leftist BS to tax everybody to death to ‘redistribute’ wealth to dictators and no goods?? the Australian people have been disarmed with BS gun control; their crime is out of control and the ‘lib-tards’ can smell total domination;
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johnjamison
Posted on October 22, 2012 at 9:03ampolitical re-education……What the governments don’t realize that even if they all unite they still can’t brainwash the world.
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ChiefGeorge
Posted on October 22, 2012 at 11:44amBut its perfectly alright to teach that there are no differences between men and women.
Its alright to teach that homosexuality is normal, healthy and good.
Its alright to teach that immorality of all kinds is good, normal and healthy.
Seems to me some folks are going into the most epic re-education of all time, its called judgment day.
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The-Monk
Posted on October 21, 2012 at 8:21pmI’m really confused. The window in my living room faces East. 6 months ago the Sun was rising in one corner of the window and now it’s rising in the other corner of the window. It’s really scary!
And just 3 weeks ago we were running the air-conditioner and the last 2 weeks it stopped running! It got so much colder. I tried to turn the air-conditioner off but it just kept getting colder. What the hell is happening? I had to find a blanket last night to stay warm.
Can some of you liberal, progressive, climate people please reassure me that I’m not going out of my mind?
Please help,
Just another stupid person
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Oneirishman
Posted on October 21, 2012 at 9:40pmOk. First try to remain calm. What you are experiencing is a little known phenomenon called global warming. It can be confusing to stupid folks that think its getting colder when it’s actually getting warmer. I have just broken the seal on my emergency copy of Al Gores new book. Here are the five things Al advises.
1) Build a wind turbine. It may be extremely expensive and impractical, but at the same time it will really piss off those annoying conservative neighbors.
2) eat fewer proceeded foods, like road kill & for gods sake, only use candles made from bee’s wax.
3) eat organic crap or some such nonsense
4) switch light bulbs and get new windows, or better yet become Amish and grow a beard.
5) kill all climate change skeptics and have a goregasim while watching An Inconvenient Truth on a loop.
Remember winter is the new summer, cold is hot. And everything once considered a heathy debate is blasphemy to the new religion. Stay thirsty, my friend!
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GJPinks
Posted on October 21, 2012 at 9:53pmI’m more concerned that daylight is disappearing at an incredible rate! If this keeps up, by this time next year we will be living in complete darkness.
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Oneirishman
Posted on October 21, 2012 at 10:21pm@GJPINKS
I’ve lived in Florida 9 months now. And was talking to my wife about that very thing this morning. We also noticed how hot it has been lately, 86* today. That’s much hotter than this time last year in Ohio.
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Fatheroftwo
Posted on October 21, 2012 at 11:01pmDon’t worry! The Government will shortly change the time and all will be well!!!!
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FEMALL
Posted on October 21, 2012 at 8:12pmIncredible. Talk about the Dark Ages 2.0. Now we have global warming ‘blasphemers’ akin to Copernicus.
Although that factual accuracy training sounds like a good thing–to the people who are deciding what the facts are—-
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I SPY
Posted on October 21, 2012 at 8:10pmWow, that’s a shame. I feel sorry for you, Australians. Better man up now before the socialist democratic party begins forcing you to house muslims like exchange students and begin rubbing out your history books to favor the minorities.
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dfissell
Posted on October 21, 2012 at 8:19pmto late my aussy friends post stuff thought it was about the USA till i seen it was about aussy
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chips1
Posted on October 21, 2012 at 8:28pmAustrailia has millions and millions of acres of Outback, millions of aligators and still have a muslim problem? I don’t quite understand!!!
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mrspeedwagon
Posted on October 21, 2012 at 8:34pmWhat happened? I used to look up to the Aussies. Then they allowed the govt to conficate all of their guns….and it’s been all downhill from there
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cobbercampbell
Posted on October 22, 2012 at 9:06amWe are already doing that in OZ Allan Jones is already in hot water for saying our lady PMs dad died recently of shame of her ways .Socialist (labor) is taking over in Australia too,like USA. I watched a DVD 3 years ago called,” The Great Global Warming Swindle,” by many scientists .I would say Jones has hit the nail on the head, OUCH!
India and other nations would have much more carbon gases with billions of cow farts 24/7 same here in OZ. You can get the DVD online I think.
We are being multiculturalised by the NWO like all other nations we cannot do a thing to stop it .Antichrist soon.
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strewth_cobber
Posted on October 22, 2012 at 9:56amThe problem began with the Whitlam socialist government back in the 70s, just prior to introduction of politic correctness indoctrination at school science class with “greenhouse effect” and “fossil fuels” limits. According to my school notes (I still have some of my written notebooks from 1983 – don’t ask, I don’t know why?) earth should have run out of fossil (gasoline/oil/etc) fuels as of early 2000s. Then they called it ‘Global Warming’, but there was cold spell which did not comply with the original ‘idea’. With that, like the weather, they changed it to ‘Climate Change’ – less definitive. Trivia: In the north of Australia particularly on east coast side, in “tropics” of far north Queensland, it is still called the… tropics.
Then later the PC indoctrination became law, post 911 New York WTC/ Bali October 22 2002 Islamic TERRORIST attacks, with Racial and Religious Vilification Bill, as media/government had reported lie of hatred/violence had been incited upon muslim ‘migrants’, who were becoming a more noticeable and louder ‘minority’. R&R VB are broad terms, which now include anything unwise that people may wisely disagree with (be it islam/jihad; gays; greenie (new religion) etc. “Offenders” are subject to fines and/or imprisonment, public/private ridicule/humiliation, or in Mr Jones’ case “factual accuracy” education. A term I had not heard before (except in history class re nazis/communists). Shocking but not surprising.
Perilous time
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capitalismrocks
Posted on October 21, 2012 at 8:10pmSo its the difference between a pinhead and a smaller pinhead size of contribution to global pollution, big whoop…
Anybody want to remind the braintrust that as of the latest readings, temperatures have not changed in the last 16 years and it appears they go through the same 16 year cycle over and over and in the last 150 years the temperature apparently has changed a… now you’re ready right? 3/4 of a degree — celcius no less… oh my God, the earth is going to burst into flames!!!
Big ta do about NOTHING !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Curb pollution, absolutely, lets keep working on that, thats always good, but this global warming crap has to stop, its pure and utter non-sense and its insulting to everyone’s intelligence to continue to have to listen to these snake-oil salesman and their Al Gore money-grubbing global agenda.
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chips1
Posted on October 21, 2012 at 8:35pmSince when does reading Al Gores rectal themometer indicate global warming?
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Oneirishman
Posted on October 21, 2012 at 10:53pm@CHIPS1
Since you have to stick your head up there to get an accurate reading, needless to say, it’s pretty steamy.
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John655
Posted on October 22, 2012 at 1:39am@ Capital
curb the population? are you serious? The world population will continue to climb till 2050 or so and then will drop like a rock. People are not having enough babies. And if you don’t want to live under sharia law then you better get busy having kids because the only large group having children are the muslims and they will defeat Europe by having babies. while the traditioanl Eurpoeans are going the way of the Dodo.
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Anonymous T. Irrelevant
Posted on October 21, 2012 at 8:07pm“Jones apparently said Australians produce just “1 per cent of .001 per cent of carbon dioxide in the air,” and that “nature produces nearly all the carbon dioxide.”
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Mr. Jones has hit the nail squarely on the head. It’s what I have been arguing for years. We are nothing, but specks on planet Earth.
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Smokey_Bojangles
Posted on October 21, 2012 at 8:06pmComing to America. Al Gore’s religion is the the only religion Actively promoted and established by the government.The government pumps millions into it.
Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press…..
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drs1969
Posted on October 21, 2012 at 11:58pmRight!
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The-Monk
Posted on October 21, 2012 at 8:04pmWithout Carbon Dioxide there are no plants… without plants there is no Oxygen…. without Oxygen there are no Humans, without Humans there can never be a Communist, Marxist, socialist, progressive revolution to take over the World.
I’m cheering for the plants…. they’ve always been nice to me. : )
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AnnNonimous
Posted on October 21, 2012 at 9:01pmMonk, thanks for the laugh and making my day.
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The-Monk
Posted on October 21, 2012 at 9:04pm@AnnNonimous,
You’re welcome… : )
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Irememberamerica
Posted on October 21, 2012 at 10:12pmThe plants we have around here are not nice.
We have to beat them back once a week
or they would take over.
Libs are a lot like plants, you have to beat them back on a daily basis.
You cannot rest on your “ask” for one stinking minute.
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SPOT_OF_TEA
Posted on October 21, 2012 at 8:03pmNo one is allowed to say a bad word about global warming or Islam.I have a theory….I think its a way for government to acquire total control of the people of the world.The middle east will be controlled by Sharia law,the western world will be controlled by regulation such as global climate change and the rest of the world will be controlled by a few communist dictators.That way the whole world will be controlled by a few people who will answer to the world dictator…and that guy will be _______________.
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Smokey_Bojangles
Posted on October 21, 2012 at 8:14pmGlobal warming is going to be the only religion allowed to be recognized by the anti-Christ. Right now, in the name of not offending Muslims,Judaism and Christianity are being subverted.The Religion of Man Made Global Warming(AKA GorebAl Warming) is being promoted and its deniers punished.
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possom
Posted on October 21, 2012 at 8:02pmCome winter global warming will disappear then we can listen to it over and over again next spring. Oh boy.
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Stoic one
Posted on October 21, 2012 at 8:14pmyea, i noticed it gets cooler when my part of the world is facing away from the sun…………..
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progressiveslayer
Posted on October 21, 2012 at 7:59pmTo any attorneys out there,what’s the chances of prevailing in a class action suit against Al Gore or anyone perpetrating the fraud of man made global warming on the American people? The people of the United States VS. Al Gore. I want to bankrupt Gore and anyone else perpetrating this fraud.
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Anonymous T. Irrelevant
Posted on October 21, 2012 at 8:05pmYou and me both, brother. I have asked this question over and over for the last 4years.
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Gregb
Posted on October 21, 2012 at 8:07pmvery good aspiration. global warming is one of the biggest lies perpetuated on mankind… everything about obama is the other.
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DOra Glasberg
Posted on October 21, 2012 at 7:53pmSounds like a Republican in the pockets of the energy industry.
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rochrealtor
Posted on October 21, 2012 at 7:51pmVote that liberal bastard out of office, like we are kicking our communist bastard out. We now the Australians are a wise people!
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doncorleone
Posted on October 21, 2012 at 9:57pmShe’s a socialist/communist, that the aussies’ voted in, shame on ‘em. She’s no different than the “watermelonists” in this country, green on the outside, red on the inside. The “liberal” p.m. that they had in there previously, instituted gun control, now she’s considering knife control. If you lib. trolls that occupy this site, would utilize r.i.f. “reading is fundamental”, instead of “reading isn’t fundamental”, and go out and get horowitz’s new book, “new leviathan”. He lays out all of the numbers, our “govt.” doles out hundreds of millions to radical enviornmental groups and mere pitances to the moderate ones. The huge foundations, the vast majority of them “liberal”, they were started by conservatives, and then taken over by “liberals”, just like how viruses operate. These foundations contribute upwards of a billion dollars to these radical groups, whilst the state-runs and the “liberals”in congress, our “president”, the dolts out of hollywood and the n.east spew out whoppers about how much money’s donated from the right or in the pockets of “big” oil.
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marine249
Posted on October 21, 2012 at 7:43pmwhat ww will have if obummer get four more years
government control
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Gregb
Posted on October 21, 2012 at 7:43pmUniversity of Melbourne climate change scientist David Karoly said Australians were in fact responsible for .45 per cent of total carbon dioxide in the atmosphere.
How in the world can someone get the title of “scientist” when he is pulling facts out of thin air?
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AnnNonimous
Posted on October 21, 2012 at 9:05pmThat’s not where he’s pulling them from.
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usafaux102
Posted on October 21, 2012 at 9:10pmyeah, I was told by a friend of a friend who’s uncle is a climatologist a little known fact that the way they determine which carbon molecules in the atmosphere come from which country is that when you look at them under a microscope they actually sport image of the flag of the offending nation right there on their surface. No lie….he said “it’s true,trust me, I’m a scientist and we have special scientific equipment that only science people can understnad how to use”
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brasasman
Posted on October 21, 2012 at 10:45pmAsk him if he can give you an exact amount when he farts in the air.
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Oneirishman
Posted on October 21, 2012 at 10:47pm@USAF
Really? Thx I always wondered how they figured that out.
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forthepeople
Posted on October 21, 2012 at 7:42pmI think Global Warming is Natural , a God or Mother Nature thing or wouldn’t we be living in the ‘ Ice Age ‘ still ?
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Oneirishman
Posted on October 21, 2012 at 10:49pmDrive down the street and turn yourself over to the authorities now!
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Twobyfour
Posted on October 22, 2012 at 6:40amAlmost every interglacial had a slight peak just before the temps nosedive. An average interglacial lasts about 11,000 years, and is 2-3 degrees celsius warmer than ours. Our interglacial (holocene) is about 12,500 years already. Even if we spewed CO2 into air thrice as much, it won’t help any–the next glacial (cca 90,000 years) is coming, the only question is when exactly.
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Eastinfection
Posted on October 21, 2012 at 7:42pm“A Clockwork Orange2- Electric Bugaloo”……
…… coming soon to a former penal colony near you.
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The-Monk
Posted on October 21, 2012 at 7:56pmHi East,
Are you actually old enough to remember the first showings of that movie in theaters?
I am and it was really sick….
BTW… that was funny. : )
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Eastinfection
Posted on October 21, 2012 at 8:06pmHey Monk
not quite but my best friend’s older sister was a NYU film major so i spent three summers on their sofa being “educated” with all the classics…
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The-Monk
Posted on October 21, 2012 at 8:27pmHi East,
“my best friend’s older sister was a NYU film major so i spent three summers on their sofa being “educated”…..
No wonder you go by…. “East”….”Infected”.
Have you tried Penicillin……? LOL
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RJJinGadsden
Posted on October 21, 2012 at 8:34pmHi MONK, I saw that movie when it first came out way back when I was living in Tampa. Read the book before the movie came out. That was something in itself.
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AnnNonimous
Posted on October 21, 2012 at 9:07pmAwesome!
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The-Monk
Posted on October 21, 2012 at 9:11pmHi RJJ,
Just looked up your last posts….
Clockwork Orange made me sick and Tommy Lee Jones in a Chicken suit made me laugh so hard I busted my gut. : )
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NOFX
Posted on October 21, 2012 at 7:39pmRemain defiant, Alan Jones, and I am glad that you are not apologizing to these environmentalists that are trying to silence and bully you. If, however, you are related to Alex Jones, then please be quiet.
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blanco5
Posted on October 21, 2012 at 7:38pmAnd to think I used to consider Australia as a cool place……no pun intended.
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CatB
Posted on October 21, 2012 at 7:50pmSeems they have gone the way of political correctness … at least their government and universities have …. sound familiar? .. They don’t have a first ammendment .. like we do for now.
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progressiveslayer
Posted on October 21, 2012 at 7:37pmDamn talk about big brother making this man ‘get his mind right’,this is the Marxist mulatto’s wet dream to be able to make his opponents ‘get their mind right’. Of course Barry won’t be working in DC after Jan 20th so we won’t have to worry about it. It’s worth repeating,man made global warming is a fraud just like our so called president and no matter how much the warmer cultist try to push their BS it won’t change that fact.It’s all designed to transfer wealth from developed nations to the third world and bring America to her knees.
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subic
Posted on October 21, 2012 at 7:56pmNot to mention, line the pockets of Al Whore, Maurice Strong & the rest of the green facists..
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progressiveslayer
Posted on October 21, 2012 at 8:01pmStrong is as vile as they come and he should have taken a dirt nap years ago and saved us a lot of problems.
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PIGSWILLNEVERFLY
Posted on October 21, 2012 at 8:02pmAnd to establish a new world currency that the World Bank has set up for us to live on called Carbon Credits.
Nice of them….no one gets a vote on this it’s a done deal…..bureaucrats and bankers and the UN.
Australia has gone off the deep end…quite some time ago, in fact.
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TunaBlue
Posted on October 21, 2012 at 7:37pm“Australian Communications and Media Authority” Obama wins, this will be coming to a US radio station near you. That’s some scary stuff!
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Oneirishman
Posted on October 21, 2012 at 11:03pmIt’s been written, The Fairness Act, look it up.
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Mr.Fitnah
Posted on October 21, 2012 at 7:37pmAh Global Warming reeducation camps , Sounds cozy.
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13th Imam
Posted on October 21, 2012 at 7:34pm.45%?,,, Point four five percent? Prove it. Prove It.
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progressiveslayer
Posted on October 21, 2012 at 7:48pmWe both know they can’t but the warmer cultists will continue their fraud no matter how much their so called science is proven to be agenda driven junk science,a fraud perpetrated on a global scale.
I say everyone involved in this fraud should be sued for trillions,bankrupt the bastards and close them down once and for all because they’re a direct threat to the national security of the United States.
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Gregb
Posted on October 21, 2012 at 7:34pmso, I guess that Alan Jones is going to teach factual acuracy to the lame brain idiots that are preaching the false theories of global warming?
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snyggys
Posted on October 21, 2012 at 7:34pmThis is EXACTLY why America is NOT like other countries and must continue to stand freedom and the principles of the constitution. Time to vote and get to work.
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Gregb
Posted on October 21, 2012 at 7:40pma major big AMEN to that one!!!
sure wish that the Blaze had a “like” button!
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