George Will Is A Lying Idiot

[lame54]

http://videocafe.crooksandliars.com/scarce/george-will-wind-farms-oil-spills (click for video)

GEORGE WILL: Right. And -- and, by the way, wind farms kill a lot more birds daily than are probably going to be killed in this oil spill.

[saltpoint]

1. Yes by god, run for your lives, you damn birds -- those whirlygig things

are the Edward Scissorhands of clean energy technology.

You are doomed, you airborne angels! Doomed!

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Will is smart enough not to spew the distortions he spews, but he does it anyway.

[Enrique]

2. George Will, protector of birds

:eyes:

[zipplewrath]

3. And yet all we heard about was Brazil

Will jumped right on Bill Maher about his inaccurate Brazil comment, but no one challenged Will's dead bird claim.

[truedelphi]

4. Our household's favorite "re-cycled" George Will column

Right before Three Mile Island, maybe three days before, He came out with a column explaining how safe the nuclear power industry was.

[JBoy]

5. Bill Kristol in a bow tie.

[rurallib]

6. So when does ABC start that truth checking thing.

I figure Will will quit in protest since he will no longer have anything to say.

[Demoiselle]

7. I've seen video of those wind farms at work.

It looked to me like the blades were spinning very very slowly. How can such a slo mo spin kill a bird? (A bird with a brain and eyes, that is.) Or do they spin at varying rates of speed?
And if they do spin very fast at times...wouldn't any bird worth its survival salt give such a contraption a wide berth? Don't they (the contraptions) make a whirring noise?

[Subdivisions]

9. I think the bird issue relavant to those whirlygig contraptions was/is mostly a NIMBY thing. n/t

[saltpoint]

11. Well, it might kill some of the Republican birds. They're much slower

than Democratic birds, and far less evolved.

[FSogol]

12. They don't spin faster. The have components to regulate the slow speed

and shut it down in really high winds. They do kill birds at first but, unlike Repubs, they learn and avoid the danger. Same thing happened with the first skyscrapers.

[Demoiselle]

13. I just did a little research for myself.

www.awea.org/faq/sagrillo/swbirds.html

www.treehugger.com/files/2006/04/common_misconce.php

These are the first two things that came up in a google search.

They both maintain that wind farm damage to the bird population is infinitesimal compared to other dangers to birds, like flying themselves, unaided, into buildings and windows, etc.

[Berry Cool]

16. They DO spin slowly.

People who call wind turbines "bird blenders" have never seen how slowly they actually spin, even in a high wind (and in TOO high a wind, they're shut down). They're not like box fans!

[kentuck]

8. Some folks caught it.

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=389&topic_id=8258172&mesg_id=8258365

[Gidney N Cloyd]

10. Most of what Will does on This Week is prepared remarks.

This past Sunday he was out numbered and challenged. He's not used to arguing a point, he's used to a moderator setting him up or steering the discussion and cuing him at convenient moments. I'm not surprised under last Sunday's circumstances he got flustered and came up with that wind farm nonsense.

[lib2DaBone]

14. Just amazing how we get a seady diet of George Will on TV...

.. the guy is a blowhard that has neve been right about anything.. yet he is on every newspanel on TV...

[indepat]

15. All RW-spewing pundits are lying idiots by default for all they spew holistically are idiotic

lies, distortions, misinformation, dis-ingenuity, duplicity and the like: to wit, their entire core mantra is but a big malicious dastardly lie. :P

[lame54]

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