{"id":518223,"date":"2010-04-06T17:11:27","date_gmt":"2010-04-06T21:11:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/climateprogress.org\/?p=22609"},"modified":"2010-04-06T17:11:27","modified_gmt":"2010-04-06T21:11:27","slug":"irony-gate-2-modern-day-tea-partiers-outsource-denial-to-lord-monckton-%e2%80%94-a-british-peer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/518223","title":{"rendered":"Irony-gate 2:  Modern day Tea Partiers outsource denial to Lord Monckton \u2014 a British peer!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>No, really you can&#8217;t make this stuff up &#8212; unless you are an anti-science disinformer like Monckton.\u00a0 Straight from &#8220;FreedomWorks&#8221; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.freedomworks.org\/blog\/thale\/lefty-freak-out-over-the-tax-day-tea-parties\">Tabitha Hale<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>As you have probably surmised, there will be a large round of Tea  Parties coming up on April 15th. There will be <strong>large names<\/strong>, even larger  crowds &#8212; and honestly, organizers would be unable to stop people from  coming if they wanted to at this point. I will be speaking in Atlanta,  and the\u00a0FreedomWorks  event in DC has a fantastic line-up including <strong>Lord Monckton<\/strong>, Andrew  Breitbart, and Ron Paul.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><a title=\"twit3.gif\" href=\"http:\/\/climateprogress.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/07\/twit3.gif\"><img decoding=\"async\" title=\"twit3.gif\" src=\"http:\/\/climateprogress.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/07\/twit3.gif\" alt=\"twit3.gif\" align=\"right\" \/><\/a>That&#8217;s right.\u00a0 The original Tea Party was aimed at freeing us from the rule and influence of the British monarachy.\u00a0 But the Tea Partiers &#8212; who are unburdened by both irony and historical knowledge &#8212; have asked a British peer, The Viscount Monckton of Brenchley (TVMOB), to speak at two Tax Day Tea Parties!<\/p>\n<p><em>[Please note that the picture on the right is not TVMOB nor do I  think he would ever participate in <a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=TSqkdcT25ss\">this<\/a>.]<\/em><\/p>\n<p>For the record, of all the disinformers in the world, TVMOB is one of the most grotesque liars.\u00a0 Rather than being given a platform, he should be widely condemned for his extremist hate speech:<\/p>\n<p><span id=\"more-22609\"><\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a title=\"Permanent Link to Lord Monckton meltdown: \u201cI\u2019m  not going to shake the hands of Hitler youth.\u201d\" rel=\"bookmark\" href=\"http:\/\/climateprogress.org\/2009\/12\/17\/lord-monckton-meltdown-im-not-going-to-shake-the-hands-of-hitler-youth\/\">Lord Monckton meltdown:  \u201cI\u2019m not going to shake the hands of Hitler youth.\u201d<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a title=\"Permanent Link to TVMOB hate speech shocker:   Lord Monckton repeats and expands on his charge that those who embrace  climate science are \u201cHitler youth\u201d and fascists.\" rel=\"bookmark\" href=\"http:\/\/climateprogress.org\/2009\/12\/12\/tvmob-hate-speech-lord-monckton-hitler-youth-fascist-climate-activists\/\">TVMOB hate speech  shocker:  Lord Monckton repeats and expands on his charge that those who  embrace climate science are \u201cHitler youth\u201d and fascists.<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a title=\"Permanent Link to TVMOB shocker:  Activists  decried as \u201cHitler Youth\u201d for crashing Americans For Prosperity\u2019s global  warming event in Copenhagen\" rel=\"bookmark\" href=\"http:\/\/climateprogress.org\/2009\/12\/10\/lord-monckton-hitler-youth-for-crashing-americans-for-prosperity%e2%80%99s-global-warming-event-in-copenhagen\/\">TVMOB shocker:  Activists decried as  \u201cHitler Youth\u201d for crashing Americans For Prosperity\u2019s global warming  event in Copenhagen<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a title=\"Permanent Link to Irony-gate:  Viscount Monckton,  a British peer, says his paper was peer-reviewed by a scientist.\" rel=\"bookmark\" href=\"http:\/\/climateprogress.org\/2008\/07\/20\/irony-gate-viscount-monckton-a-british-peer-says-his-paper-was-peer-reviewed-by-a-scientist-how-droll\/\">Irony-gate:   Viscount Monckton, a British peer, says his paper was peer-reviewed by  a scientist.<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a title=\"Permanent Link to How to diss-a-peer: Real  Climate Scientists take on TVMOB\" rel=\"bookmark\" href=\"http:\/\/climateprogress.org\/2008\/07\/24\/how-to-diss-a-peer-real-climate-scientists-take-on-tvmob\/\">How to diss-a-peer: Real Climate  Scientists take on TVMOB<\/a><\/li>\n<li>Deltoid at ScienceBlogs: <a id=\"a082182\" href=\"http:\/\/scienceblogs.com\/deltoid\/2008\/07\/moncktons_triple_counting.php\">Monckton\u2019s  triple counting<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/duoquartuncia.blogspot.com\/2008\/07\/aps-and-global-warming-what-were-they.html\">here<\/a>.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<div>\n<p>TVMOB&#8217;s hate speech is, of course, supported by the <a href=\"http:\/\/climateprogress.org\/2010\/04\/05\/koch-industries-thinks-calling-people-%e2%80%98hitler-youth%e2%80%99-is-an-%e2%80%98honest-debate%e2%80%99\/\">AFP aka the Koch Brothers<\/a>!<\/p>\n<p>Since Tea Partiers don&#8217;t want to be taken seriously, how about coming up with some humor:<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>The Tea  Party movement has outsourced the job of denying  climate science to a foreigner!<\/li>\n<li>No disinformation without  representation!<\/li>\n<li>Your joke here!<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>No, really you can&#8217;t make this stuff up &#8212; unless you are an anti-science disinformer like Monckton.\u00a0 Straight from &#8220;FreedomWorks&#8221; Tabitha Hale: As you have probably surmised, there will be a large round of Tea Parties coming up on April 15th. There will be large names, even larger crowds &#8212; and honestly, organizers would be [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":687,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-518223","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/518223","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/687"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=518223"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/518223\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=518223"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=518223"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=518223"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}