Man, I wish I could get away with that for a living.

Me: Our profit margins will exceed 60% over the next 3 years.

My boss: Do you have any numbers to support that?

Me: Hey, I won't do your research for you!

And that's not even the dumbest thing he says in that article. The dumbest thing he says is this:

And you can imagine the Democratic attacks on Republicans for opposing aid for college students, emergency help for strapped homeowners, funds for medical research, and all the other non-stimulative stuff in the bill. Politics can be unfair.

Yeah Fred, it is SO unfair for Democrats to attack Republicans for opposing aid for college students, emergency help for strapped homeowners, and funds for medical research merely because Republicans are opposing aid for college students, emergency help for strapped homeowners, and funds for medical research. How dare the Democrats state the Republican position on the biggest issue of the day.

I'd like for Fred to tell us where he got the information, but first I want John McCain to tell us how to "get Bin Ladin." He said he knew how so many times during the campaign. I thought we'd all know by now. Oh, and he also knew how to "fix" the economy. So far all I hear from him is, "This won't work and that won't work." Nothing like, "OK boys and girls, just do this...."

When you are in the right wing, what you say doesn't have to make sense, it doesn't have to be true. After all the earth is only 4,000 years old and your readers (those that can read) and listeners are uneducated and willing to believe anything you say as long as your conservative bona-fides are correct.

Don't you remember in high school when these types would stand up and make the most ridiculous arguments and get smacked down by the teachers? This is why they hate liberals.

Oh my. Flashback time:

"I have here in my vest pocket the names of scientists who have been perpetrating this global warming hoax....."

Well maybe we should see what Fred is willing to bet that he is right.

I say if he has proof that he is right within 10 years Al Gore has to enter a monastery. If the opposite is true, he has to take his own life.

Here you go, Gore-bots:
http://www.americanthinker.com/2008/10/an_open_letter_from_the_viscou_1.html

The way to rebut Republicans is the way they understand : mock them; hoot them down; heap scorn on them.

In this case, they are too stupid to understand science.

Barnes should go back to undergraduate school for some Chemistry and Physics. His refutations are based on disingenuous crackpots, fake results and paid-off shills.

Bought-and-paid-for liars like Barnes deserve no serious response. Who is his paymaster, Exxon ?

I cannot spread this enough. Please send to every idiot who believes global warming is not man made. You know what? - they don't even have to believe it to understand that we must do what we can to prevent the worst.

How It All Ends :)

My favorite line:

Who is going to care if someone is burning the flag on the courthouse lawn if the whole city is flooded.

Ah, the scientific literary stylings of Viscount Lord Monckton. I trust you'll pardon me whilst I ensconce myself upon the couch with a fermented beverage in hand to ponder the wit I find on the television set.
(translation - I think I'll have a beer and watch My name is Earl instead.)

Why can't the right deliver us some non-blithering-idiots for opponents? Also, can't his family have a talk with him? We've got a neo-con in our family, and over the years he's become quite chastened.

The reason we've had a couple of cold winters is the polar icecap melted, changing the jetstream. this is *not* a good thing.

All kidding aside, Barnes' willful stupidity is tantamount to mass murder.

It's more of the short-term mentality that has wrecked our economy. According to "conservatives" like Barnes, it doesn't matter if the average global temperature is rising every year. We're having a cold winter this year, so the planet isn't warming up.

Extra Bonus Observation : Exxon has a lot of excellent scientists and engineers.

The discovery of sea level variability was developed at that company years ago - it is a crucial idea in the search for oil and gas.

So why does that company also fund fake science - for example the kind Dunderpate Barnes would shout about ? Because they want to gull the rubes !! They know there is a low enough level of understanding in the public to get away with their promotion of false science.

SOPHISTRY is the word for this ... they KNOW they are lying deliberately.

In the UK, the head of the Royal Society wrote Exxon a public letter about this and embarrassed them hugely.

In the USA, every man is free to choose his own facts.

{Feigning Republican outrage} Fred Barnes has a right to be stupid. He has freedom of speech, and if there are publicantions who feel his opinion should be shouted form the rooftops, that is their right too! It does not matter that he has no epxertise whatsoever in climate science or even meteorolgy, he would make a great weatherman on TV. He aleady has the suit and tie.

You liberals, all hippied out, are all part of a vast conspiracy with those nerds in the science community to tear down big business which is why are country is great. Yeah, I said it, big business made our country great. It's wasn't some rag tag bunch of guys camping out in Valley Forge ... oh wait a minute .. yeah it was. I mean, it wasn't a bunch of sthnic cross-dressers dumping the product of the British American Company into a bay that made ... this ... ummm. Well, it's not like they were from Boston ... oh shit ... flaming out here ... this is BS and Fred Barnes is full of it!!!

I am by no means defending Mr. Barnes, he is an idiot.

But, judging by some of the comments here, the topic of "Global Warming" seems to be approaching the same plateau as abortion. There is no longer any legitimate discussion occuring. You are either a believer, or a non-believer. Anyone in the middle is shunned by both sides.

My own opinion has changed as more evidence has come in, I was skeptical, but now agree that it is happening. Global Warming is occuring, and man may be causing it to be occuring at a much more rapid rate than nature. However, the earth is coming out of an Ice Age, so warming is going to happen whether we burn gasoline or not. I think there is a global hysteria occuring which is paralyzing the action which is needed; which is moving coastal communities inland over the next 50 years or so.

We can't stop global warming, we just have to adapt and live with it. Change is inevitable.

Here is a graph Al Gore forgot to put in his movie: http://www.scotese.com/images/globaltemp.jpg

"I'm not going to do your research for you,..."

Dumb-code for "I just made that up, sucker!"

Mr. Barnes most scientist agree you're a an asshole.

Don't believe me? Look it up.

I suspect that Mr. Barnes is actually just getting lazy and making things up b/c he know as exec. ed. of the Weekly Standard, he's not going to be rigorously fact-checked. His comment about calling state treasurers rings pretty false: at least two of those states are imposing unilateral spending cuts b/c of budget shortfalls. Seems unlikely those treasurers would say they didn't need the money, but who is going to call and check up on Mr. Barnes' claim that they did? TPM Muckraker, perhaps?

Look it's not only Barnes,David Schuster of MSNBC had some nutcase from Hoover institute on his show last week claiming that liberals are beginning to question global warming,climate change & Al Gore is being exposed as a fraud.No follow up questions just some right wing hack saying what he feels like & the liberal voices he mentions are not Americans, they are all folks in France & elsewhere in Europe.Funny how the Repukes berate France & then embrace France when it's something that seems to bolster their point.I just don't remember the name of the guy Schuster had on but he is an African American working for Hoover & it was not Sowell.

This guy is a friggin' muppet!
He's whining about Obama fear-mongering? What a hypocrite! The repukes are the KINGS of fear-mongering. Hell, they've won elections based on fear-mongering.
What a complete fuckwit!

"At first, he cited the fact that it's been cold lately."
Yeah, just like it's really cold in Australia right now, 'cause it's still winter there too!

The unending spew that comes out of Barnes is completely predictable. He is a Rove-Robot.

What you'll never see when he comes on Fixed Noise is that there is a HUGE socket in the middle of his back where the wind-up key goes.... General rule of Barnes: Feed him some KoolAide from Turdblossom, wind him up for a 30 minute segment and place in the chair with restraints..Pof !! Instant NeoCon...

Barnes is a hack from way back..he should stay 'way back'...reality hurts sometimes...teehee...

this man is going to continue the politically correct (as far as Republicans are concerned) stand using the words global warming. he and all the rest, including Mr. Gore, need to correct themselves and use the proper term - climate change.

i believe that the term global warming was invented to cover up the larger problem that the warming involving the ozone layer was going to cause climate changes. hence, Parker's citing that there has been cold weather proves the argument against what he is saying. weather patterns have become unpredictable compared to previous records; the winters in some places have become milder; and winter in other places have, well, had winter when they never did before.

instead of looking for the heat, he and others need to be looking at the overall picture.