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Hello Platt and Risky,
The introduction of Betsy was "Betsy Hart in 350 newspapers for the
Scripps-Howard News Service."
I edited the transcript to make is a shorter read (go the PI homepage if you
want to read it) but if Bill Maher is a hypocrite it is much less then most of
Hollywood.
Bills point "When the country with 5% of the world's population sucks up 30%
of the resources and only gives 0.5% of our worth in humanitarian aid to the
people who live above our oil and our diamonds and pick our food and make our
sneakers, you can see why there's a little resentment."
Here were some points that were edited out:
Bill: The second they hit the World Trade Center, I gave away my week's
salary.
ERIN: Betsy didn't comment on how much she gave, maybe a card with "stop the
whining"?
Also I noticed Risky didn't editorialize about half of Bill's point about
America's consumption. Was it too risky for Risky?
You are welcome to call Bill Maher a hypocrite but to point out the parts I
cut out of the transcript showed he did give a week salary to WTC relief and
drives a car with a hybrid engine? So the point he argues and his behavior
seem less hypocritical then what you are trying to make it out to be.
If you want to try to editorialize this I would be interested.
Bill: All right.
I did not want to let this week go by without talking a little about global
warming, because this was the warmest winter in over 100 years by 4.3 degrees.
The last warmest winter before that was last year.
A trend? Who's to say?
Our president was on the White House lawn the other day with a hybrid car.
He said --
with a little girl.
He said, "One of these days, this little lady right here is going to be
driving an automobile with a hybrid engine, and it's gonna work, and I hope
I'm there to see it, too." Hello? I'm driving one now.
I'm soaking in it.
Betsy: Yeah, but Bill, almost nobody else is because right now, there's
something like 20 cars in the market that get more than 40 miles per gallon.
Only 2% of the American people buy them because we want to drive safer, larger
cars here in the United States.
You talk about global warming --
But when you talk about global warming, you do have to look at trends, and
you're looking at a surface temperature over a couple of months.
I've got news for you.
The atmosphere is exactly the same temperature today as it was 70 years ago in
the United States.
Bill: No, it's not.
Ian: I've got news for you.
When the old government decided not to sign up to the Kyoto Agreement, which
was the world's trying to deal with the world's problem of pollution, 170
other countries signed up, and your country didn't.
Well, guess what? You'll have to think about who's right and who may be wrong
on that particular issue.
Betsy: You're talking about costing hundreds of billions of dollars for no
improvement.
Bill: You know, what is this idea that, "You know what? We can't save our
lives because it'll threaten jobs."
Betsy: What happens is the fellow who came up with the global warming theory
at NASA, came out in December, he was behind this whole thing.
Bill: It's not a theory.
Betsy: Yes, it is.
It's after the ice age theory of the late '70s, and he himself said, "Guess
what?"
Betsy: There has been a little bit of warming.
You know where it is? In Siberia in January, Bill.
Guess what? I don't think they're complaining.
I don't think they want to go back to the Stalin era of temperatures.
Bill: You're right.
It's a good thing.
I don't know what I was thinking.
Once again.
Risky:
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>Loved your analysis of the Politically Incorrect program. Bill Mahr joins
>Alec Baldwin and Barbara Streisand in attaining the heights of
>Hollywood hypocrisy. If any quantum scientists out there are looking for
>emptiness to experiment on, they need look no further than these three
>intellects.
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>I really like that Betsy, too. Who do you suppose she is?
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>Thanks for making this Sunday even more enjoyable than usual!
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>Platt
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