As opposed to the “longer-term problem of climate change,” of course. Over at FrontPage:
Obama’s timing couldn’t be worse. Just as a new report has demonstrated yet again that global warming is a hoax, he has backed it in a new interview as a “longer-term” problem than jihad terror.
During a lengthy conversation published over two days by the far-Left publication Vox, interviewer Matthew Yglesias asked Obama: “Do you think the media sometimes overstates the level of alarm people should have about terrorism and this kind of chaos, as opposed to a longer-term problem of climate change and epidemic disease?”
Obama readily agreed – and his full answer was revealing in several ways:
Absolutely. And I don’t blame the media for that. What’s the famous saying about local newscasts, right? If it bleeds, it leads, right? You show crime stories and you show fires, because that’s what folks watch, and it’s all about ratings.…And climate change is one that is happening at such a broad scale and at such a complex system, it’s a hard story for the media to tell on a day-to-day basis.
Unfortunately for Obama, it isn’t really even happening at all. Christopher Booker wrote in the Telegraph on Saturday that “official temperature records – on which the entire panic ultimately rested – were systematically ‘adjusted’ to show the Earth as having warmed much more than the actual data justified.” He noted that a researcher had “checked the published temperature graphs for three weather stations in Paraguay against the temperatures that had originally been recorded. In each instance, the actual trend of 60 years of data had been dramatically reversed, so that a cooling trend was changed to one that showed a marked warming.”
But Obama is entirely oblivious – and worse. He refers to “violent, vicious zealots who behead people or randomly shoot a bunch of folks in a deli in Paris.” No one was randomly shot in that “deli in Paris.” It was a kosher supermarket, and the people who were murdered there were murdered because they were Jews. They were murdered by people who were animated by the Qur’an’s relentless Jew-hatred and labeling of the Jews as the worst enemies of the Muslims (5:82). But that, too, is a threat that Obama dares not name.
Throughout the interview, Obama maintains his carefully cultivated and sustained obliviousness about the jihad threat – an obliviousness that is now, thanks to Obama, official U.S. policy. It was not at all surprising that in the section of the Vox interview that was devoted to foreign policy, Obama never once mentions Islam, or even “Islamist.” He does refer to “violent extremism,” which seems to be his euphemism of choice these days, as it is also the name of his Countering Violent Extremism summit, which should be renamed Countering the Threat We Dare Not Name.
It’s also significant that he gave this massive, detailed, extensive interview to Vox, a hard-Left publication that just last Saturday was claiming that those who took issue with Obama’s reprehensible moral equivalence regarding the Crusades were just looking for an excuse to hate Muslims. That is the milieu from which Obama comes, and in which he is most comfortable. Vox’s perspective is, almost certainly, his world view as well: that those who believe that Islam uniquely teaches and justifies violence in a way that Christianity and other religions do not are motivated solely by hatred of Muslims. This is the line that Hamas-linked CAIR and its henchmen have promoted for years. In the White House today, they have their most powerful champion ever.
Neither Vox nor Obama appear prepared to acknowledge that resistance to jihad terror is not “hate,” or that the Crusaders did not justify violence by invoking Christian texts and teachings, because there were no such texts and teachings justifying those terrible deeds – a sharp contrast to the Islamic jihadists who regularly invoke the Qur’an to justify their actions.
Nor do Vox or Obama appear aware or interested in the fact that the Crusaders’ atrocities are entirely irrelevant to any jihad conflict today. Even if the Crusaders were the twelfth-century equivalent of the Islamic State, with equivalent atrocities (although they weren’t, really), that would not free Obama and his Administration from the responsibility to identify the true nature and magnitude of the jihad threat, and deal with it realistically.
But that is about as likely as his naming Michele Bachmann the next Secretary of Defense.
Edgar Davidson says
And now – following up on his VOX interview Obama – is claiming in a new interview that all of today’s problems were caused by Winston Churchill. After all, just because a bunch of countries in Europe were randomly overrun by groups of vicious zealots during 1935 to 1939 was no reason at all for Churchill to allow Britain to go to war with the peaceful nation of Germany….
http://edgar1981.blogspot.co.uk/2015/02/obama-slams-winston-churchill-as-root.html
Mirren10 says
Very good, Edgar ! 🙂
Actually, I think if obama thought he could get away with it, he *would* say something very similar.
mortimer says
Michele Bachmann for next Secretary of Defense…now you’re talking!
Sam says
I have never imagined that we could have a more stupid president than Jimmy Carter. I was way wrong. This OBAMA is totally out of it. He has no idea about anything really. Unbelievable for such a person to be president of the USA. WOW!!!
biff says
Stupid or Muslim sleeper agent?
Obama is your very own Forrest Gump!
He feels the big lies are necessary to keep the population in line.
Neil Jennison says
What is it going to take for people to wake up to Islam? Does some Islamic country like Iran have to get a nuclear weapon and detonate it in Israel for people to wake up?
No of course, Obama says Iran doesn’t want a nuclear weapon…it is un-Islamic. Like beheading, slavery, sex slavery, immolation, and subjugation of killing of kafir. What a complete arse that excuse for a President is!
Cameron may be a useless wet lettuce who believes in nothing but keeping his job, but at least he is NOT a Muslim. A useless dhimmie maybe, but not an actual Muslim.
duh_swami says
Rasool Obama is a stealth ABDullah who’s stealth is wearing thin…
he may be an Abdullah, but he is also an abeed and raisin head to Allah and Mahound. If Mahound was alive today he would be a top adviser to Rasool. But since he’s not available, Allah has appointed Valarie Jarrett/..
Angemon says
They’re not ones to let facts get in the way of their narrative…
William Johnson says
The raw data from weather station records is not adjusted to give a preferred result. It is adjusted because it needs to be adjusted in order to obtain the most accurate results. Weather stations have moved, they’ve changed the time of day where the temperature-of-record is taken, and they’ve replaced old thermometers with more modern equipment. All of these events create discontinuities in the record of each location, and the processing is used to get things into alignment, creating a single, unified record. In fact, however, when the raw data was analyzed WITHOUT applying the adjustments, the end results were hardly affected.
Here is an excellent and very authoritative 84-page explanation of climate change and how we know it is not a “hoax:”
http://www.ipcc.ch/pdf/assessment-report/ar4/wg1/ar4-wg1-chapter9.pdf
Joseph says
OOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH
BOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Follow the money. This is the biggest money maker since sliced bread.
Who pays the scientists?
Ever heard of a “employment black list”?
Who do you think goes on the black list if the “WANTED” results are not given?
Your Al gore, defender of the Earth, inventor of the internet, is the biggest waster of energy around.
IT IS A SCAM.
Joseph says
Tell me there Mr.William Johnson? Do you open the refrigerator door to cool your house down too?
OH here is one, do you want to conserve?? You do know toilet paper has two sides right? Tell me how that one works out for ya. HAPPY TO HELP YOU.
M S case says
No he don’t even open his refrigerator door. He’s afraid that the little guy inside that turns the light on and off will bop him on the head for letting the cool out.
Joseph says
Here is another one. According to NOAA 80% of the fatal lightning strikes here in the U.S. involve men.
Gee with a little twist and ignoring other facts we should ASSume one or both of the following
A– Lightning has a real preference for the male sex.
B– Women are much stronger than men and can survive such strikes.
Well William am I correct to not look at ALL the facts. Ignore some elements to the equation and you WILL get a bad answer, or you get the answer you really want but still you know it is FALSE.
thomas pellow says
“We Shouldn’t Be Relying on Hackers to Stop Terrorism Financing”
http://www.americanbanker.com/bankthink/we-shouldnt-be-relying-on-hackers-to-stop-terrorism-financing-1072297-1.html