Rush Limbaugh pans evidence of water on Mars as part of 'leftist agenda'

[Adenoid_Hynkel]

Source: Politico

Flowing water on Mars? That’s just part of the liberal agenda, Rush Limbaugh says.

The conservative radio talk show host addressed NASA’s announcement on Monday that it had found evidence of flowing water on present-day Mars, and — spoiler alert — he doesn’t believe it.

“OK so there's flowing water on Mars. Yip yip yip yahoo. Hey, you know me, I'm science 101, big time guy, tech advance it, you know it, I'm all in. But, NASA has been corrupted by the current regime,” Limbaugh said on his show, according to [link:http://mediamatters.org/video/2015/09/28/after-nasa-announces-it-found-water-on-mars-rus/205820
|Media Matters]. “Don't know how long it's going to take, but this news that there is flowing water on Mars is somehow going to find its way into a technique to advance the leftist agenda.”

Limbaugh said that although he wasn’t entirely sure what the agenda was, he was going to “assume it would be something to do with global warming.”




Read more: http://www.politico.com/story/2015/09/rush-limbaugh-mars-leftist-plot-214179#ixzz3n5h2Omox

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(Picture: Rush Limbaugh/File photo)

And conservatives actually buy into this shit:

"Don't know how long it's going to take, but this news that there is flowing water on Mars is somehow going to find its way into a technique to advance the leftist agenda. I don't know what it is, I would assume it would be something to do with global warming and you can -- maybe there was once an advanced civilization. If they say they found flowing water, next they're going to find a graveyard."

http://mediamatters.org/video/2015/09/28/after-nasa-announces-it-found-water-on-mars-rus/205820

Fresh off his insane theory that Obama secretly controls the Pope and John Roberts, Rush continues to go full Alex Jones to try to stop his declining ratings and relevance.

Of course, Oxyboy has yet to figure out the real plot, in which Obama plans to enlist the Martians in his bid for global takeover and to establish a one-world UN gub'mint:

"For dark is the suede that mows like a harvest, comrades!"

[elehhhhna]

1. Finding life on mars (next up) means the literal bible is bullshit

Lots of explaining to do if you believe creationist crap.

[7962]

4. Nothing in the bible says God couldnt create life elsewhere

Remember it says "made the heavens & the earth"

[bananas]

7. That's not true.

http://www.livescience.com/48208-religion-extraterrestrial-life.html

Would Finding Alien Life Change Religious Philosophies?
By Megan Gannon, News Editor | October 09, 2014 07:21am ET

The discovery of extraterrestrial beings — be they slimy microbes or little green men — would dramatically change the way we humans view our place in the universe. But would it shatter religion? Well, that depends on what you believe.

In his new book "Religions and Extraterrestrial Life" (Springer 2014), David Weintraub, an astronomer at Vanderbilt University, takes a close look at how different faiths would handle the revelation that we're not alone. Some of his findings might surprise you.

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But some Christians who interpret the Bible quite literally might actually have an easier time incorporating the existence of aliens into their spiritual cosmology. Many Seventh-day Adventists, for example, are creationists who believe the Earth was literally created by God in six days some 6,000 years ago and that humans descended — and inherited original sin — from Adam and Eve. In that line of thinking, life could exist on other planets, but beings that didn't descend from Adam and Eve on Earth wouldn't be inherently sinful, and effectively, they wouldn't need Christianity to be saved, Weintraub told Live Science.

Seventh-day Adventism's flexibility with regard to aliens might be a product of the time in which the religion was founded (the 19th century). During the 1700s and 1800s, there was a strong popular belief in extraterrestrial life, Weintraub said. The telescope (a relatively recent invention) finally allowed astronomers to peek at other planets and moons in our solar system, but scientists didn't yet fully understand that these celestial bodies were barren. And perhaps it's no coincidence that the religions that began at that time — Mormonism, Seventh-day Adventism, Jehovah's Witnesses, the Baha'i Faith — all have a strong belief in extraterrestrial life, Weintraub said.

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[gvstn]

20. Informative and interesting post. Thanks.

[NonMetro]

22. Maybe Ben Carson Is A Martian?

The would certainly explain a lot if things!

[RoccoR5955]

29. Yep, I am sure that Donald tRump is Ferrengi myself.

Until I see his ORIGINAL birth certificate. Or are they hatched over there on Ferrengi, I forgot.

[NonMetro]

41. I Think You're Onto Something!

It would explain the hair!

[JackInGreen]

36. Not really

The old ones would have discorperated him as counter to even terrible beauty and discorperated him ages ago.

[fasttense]

30. An alien life form discovery would vindicate Scientology and the Spaghetti Monster err... God.

The whole damn religion of Scientology is based on alien life forms starting a war - hence our fear of loud noises.

So some religions it wouldn't fit and some it would fit like a glove.

[elehhhhna]

46. Xenu has not been spotted surfing on mars.

Yet. Single celled organisms prove nada.

[fasttense]

60. If you give them single celled organisms the bigger ones will come. n/t

[bananas]

15. Ironically, todays announcement overturns 40 years of dogmatic scientific bullshit.

In 1976, two Viking spacecraft landed on Mars with experiments specifically designed to test for the presence of life.

And they found it.

But the initial excitement quickly disappeared.

One experiment was negative - it was a false negative, we now know, but it was decided the other positive results must be wrong.

This was like a door slamming shut. It happened in just a few days. It suddenly became scientific dogma that there was no life on Mars surface.

And because of that scientific dogma bullshit, we never sent another experiment to test for life. Not even on the Curiosity rover.

I don't think the 2020 rover will have any experiments for detecting current life either - just ancient life.

That dogmatic misinterpretation of the data set us back 40 years.

Finally, today we hear:

"Mars is not the dry, arid planet we thought of in the past," said Jim Green, NASA's chief of planetary science.

"It suggests it would be possible for there to be life on Mars today," said John Grunsfeld, a former astronaut who now leads NASA's science division.

http://www.houstonchronicle.com/news/houston-texas/houston/article/Scientists-find-water-on-Mars-say-life-could-6535838.php

[mdbl]

16. Rush doesn't believe anything except that his show is losing listeners

and this is an attempt to shore up the amount of crazy people who listen to him. What a pig.

[Gore1FL]

19. The literal bible has always been bullshit. n/t

[MisterP]

40. Nicholas of Cusa does not approve of this man's talk of the heavenly spheres

[Journeyman]

2. He doesn't know how long it'll take, but eventually he'll pull that "leftist agenda" out of his ass…

It's one of the advantages of being so full of bull shit: Limbaugh will never run out.

[underpants]

32. He's just spewing talking points

Liberal agenda - after all these years he still hasn't figured that out? This self appointed expert? What's he been running his mouth about 3 hours a day?

Global warming - he could have said "feminism" or "destroying America", both would have made as much sense and both connect in his listeners ears.

[Submariner]

3. This astronomical enlightenment from a dummy who barely made it out of high school

give me a break.

[7962]

5. Idiot missed the perfect chance to talk about American Exceptionalism.

But then he misses a lot of things

[iandhr]

6. Surely you can't be serious

[MADem]

8. I'll bet if they found oxycodone on Mars he'd be volunteering for the first mission! nt

[NonMetro]

23. But If He Did That, Where Would He Get His Viagra?

[MADem]

24. He'd have to get high as a kite and walk to the Viagra Mountains in the northern part of the planet!

[TNNurse]

50. I think he should go on up there

and prove that the report is wrong.

[MADem]

52. As always, it's the nurse who comes up with the best solution!!!

[TNNurse]

55. Than you for your kind words.

[MADem]

56. I think nurses are great!

A little something to brighten your day:

http://www.people.com/article/baby-nurse-meet-reunite-burns-photos

For years, Amanda Scarpinati dreamed of meeting the woman who cared for her after she suffered severe burns as an infant. On Tuesday, that dream came true.

"I'm over the moon … I never thought this day would come," the 38-year-old told the Associated Press.

Scarpinati, of Athens, New York, was just 3 months old when she rolled onto a hot-steam vaporizer, leaving her with both terrible burns and years of ridicule due to her disfigurement. But it was photos of herself as a baby being cradled by a nurse that helped her get through her toughest times. ...

[center][/center]


Who doesn't have something in their eye after reading a story like that...?

[TNNurse]

58. Saw this story this am....how wonderful

I like nurses, too, in fact I married one. He and I retired in July, me after 37 years and he worked for 41.

[MADem]

59. Thanks to you and your husband for your decades of dedication! nt

[restorefreedom]

62. we almost never agree

but i am happy to give credit where credit is due

slam dunk on that one!

[MADem]

63. Lightning strikes!! Heh heh!!! nt

[restorefreedom]

65. :) nt

[davidpdx]

9. I'd say we should send him on a rocket that is on a crash course with Mars

but that would be offensive to planet.

[xocet]

12. Set the controls for the heart of the sun... n/t

[americannightmare]

10. I'm a leftist, and...

I could give a fuck about water on Mars. If anything, the filthy-wealthy right wing cocksuckers will say 'now we can move there - it's got water!'

[MADem]

25. Let them move--we can do something with this fixer-upper! nt

[rusty quoin]

11. He would be first on a ship to Mars if it meant saving his rich ass. nt

[Jack Rabbit]

13. Rush. shut up, go stand in the corner and then we'll see if you can talk sense later

I haven't figure out how this is going to fit into any "leftist agenda." In fact, I haven't the foggiest idea how the opposite would fit into a rightist agenda.

I think we should honor El Boca Grande, Mr. Limbaugh, by making him the first man on Mars. Why? Because Mars has no metallic core, like Earth, and therefor has no magnetic field, like Earth, to protect it from solar winds and other nasty things emitted by the Sun. Just put him him there, perhaps on a mountain climbing expedition on Olympus Mons and when a solar flare goes racing his way, then Rush turns into a toasted marshmallow in a matter of seconds.

Couldn't happen to anyone more deserving, unless it's Donald Trump.

[wnewso]

14. nice video

nice video thank u

[Javaman]

17. In other news...

rush limpballs finds fault with breathing air. "as long as we breath air, we are breathing in leftist thoughts! Stop breathing!"

we can only hope.

[Nitram]

18. Hittin' the Oxy again, Rush?

[oberliner]

21. I don't fully get why they want to pretend global warming isn't real

Is it anti-Bible or something?

[tclambert]

43. It's about oil company profits.

If global warming is real, we might want to conserve oil, or stop burning it altogether, and might even demand the oil companies pay for the damage they've done to the environment. So oil companies buy donate to Republicans who will deny climate change.

[matt819]

26. Of course he does

Now we can add this idiocy to any number of others.

Why?

Because, er, um . . . freedom.

Why?

Because, er, um . . . USA! USA!

Why?

Because, er, um . . . patriot.

Why?

Because, er, um . . . leftist agenda.

[packman]

27. OIL- now if it was OIL, we'd be there tomorrow

with BP, Exxon and Shell leading the way.

[elehhhhna]

47. Nestle already bought the water rights.

[gregcrawford]

28. El Rushbo...

... would be just another pitiful, drug-addled lunatic who spends his days arguing with lampposts if it weren't for the fact that millions of mental defectives - they call themselves "Dittoheads" - believe every asinine lie he spews.

I despair for the future of humanity.

[procon]

31. Science has ALWAYS been a "leftist agenda".

So obviously Republicans must oppose it. There too not many things that are safe for this bunch to support, just pollution, extraction, money, guns, gods and war. That's it. Seems like a hard sell from a marketing standpoint because the life expectancy of their customer base is severely impacted by their lethal agenda.

[underpants]

33. So after all these years talking about the liberal agenda he admits that he doesn't know what it is?

What was (insert side) 's goal in (insert war)? Pfft who knows? We've only had (insert number of years) to study but it beats the hell out of us.


Gee maybe there is no dogmatic agenda....like, well you know.

[wordpix]

34. science to the rushbots is a liberal plot

These people are so stupid. And BTW, DrugRush, no one said the evidence of water is flowing water. Of course you would not know that b/c you're a nutjob.

[Turbineguy]

35. If he wasn't an idiot

he'd have no audience.

[Spitfire of ATJ]

37. Good indicator that things are getting better....

Twenty years ago you would have had Dittoheads pockmarking the landscape willing to start a fight in public over the idea of water on Mars.

Now the Pigman is speaking to a void. His largest audience is critics monitoring him to see what he says next.

[Elmer S. E. Dump]

38. Mr. Oxycontin, viagra, dominican republic boy fucker - what else can be said?

[wordpix]

48. well, don't get me started on his ideology/politics

but your list is a good start

[shenmue]

39. Is he on crack?

[tclambert]

42. He's right! If life is found on Mars, it would stimulate the public's interest in science.

You know that can't be good for the right wing, what with science and reason and facts all being left-leaning hoaxes.

[awoke_in_2003]

44. Please do not compare Rush to Jabba...

Jabba is insulted

[skepticscott]

45. Yo, Rush..is this what being irrelevant

sounds like?

[Midnight Writer]

49. Obama's five dimensional chess strategy even baffles Rush? Genius, I tells ya.

[liberal N proud]

51. The air on earth is a leftist agenda also - so Rush should stop breathing it.

That is how we should tackle this nut job now. He still blows hard after everything and if we convince him that breathing air is a leftist agenda, maybe he will stop breathing.

[Vinca]

53. Uh oh. Caught red handed.

And it took so long to finally find a planet where we can ship Limpballs and his followers. Maybe they'll go if we land an Oxy-laden spaceship on Mars and use it as bait.

[drm604]

54. He truly is an assclown, isn't he?

[Kingofalldems]

57. Oh no! He has figured out Plan X

[daleo]

61. Stalin sent millions of Red Army troops to Mars

They have been lying in wait, patiently, like only Godless communists can. They have captured Mars' precious planetary fluids and are coming for Earth's next. Beware.

[SwissTony]

64. "I'm science 101" Nuff sed n/t