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Ichingcarpenter

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Fri Oct 26, 2012, 11:03 AM Oct 2012

GOP Candidate's video: He's too educated and believes in Global Warming

GOP candidate: ‘My opponent believes in global warming and has been to other countries, he is basically a monster’



Seriously, you have to watch this ad to believe the depth of anti-intellectualism and anti-environmentalism at work here. The voiceover literally just reads off Varilek’s impressive resume — got two postgraduate degrees, studied at Cambridge, spoke at a U.N. global warming summit — but in a tone of voice that suggests Varilek achieved all this while smearing his face with the blood of aborted puppies.


Varilek is untrustworthy. They are as follows:

Earned TWO master’s degrees — who needs that much education?
Studied something called “the environment,” clearly code for “communism.”
Lived in or visited several places that are not South Dakota.
Believes in global warming.
Corn dogs.






Meanwhile, Noem’s achievements include receiving an award from the South Dakota Soybean Association, but at least she doesn’t know anything about how soybeans work! I’m actually surprised the ad missed an opportunity to note that while Noem did attend college for a while, she only went because it was a requirement of her title as South Dakota Snow Queen. Surely, with a constituency that thinks “attending U.N. summits” and “leaving the state occasionally” are liabilities in a politician, that tidbit ought to make her a shoo-in.







http://grist.org/list/gop-candidate-my-opponent-believes-in-global-warming-and-has-been-to-other-countries-he-is-basically-a-monster/#.UIqZ55d0GRA.reddit


I think I just threw up in my mouth a little
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GOP Candidate's video: He's too educated and believes in Global Warming (Original Post) Ichingcarpenter Oct 2012 OP
I watched that and got a little stupidierest! Dem2TheCore Oct 2012 #1
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