The Left Doesn't 'Believe the Wright Brothers Invented Flying'

[and-justice-for-all]

What a delusional lying fuck.

"The Left has believed for at least forty years now in a concept called Peak Oil that says 'gee, we're about to run out." Well, it turns out that our reserves in the US, because of new technology, which is something that the Left rejects - they don't believe the Wright Brothers invented flying, they don't believe Edison invented electric light, and they don't believe we're about to invent the next generation of interesting things."

http://www.rightwingwatch.org/content/gingrich-left-doesnt-believe-wright-brothers-invented-flying

[lastlib]

1. If a Georgia pig oinks up his own ass, and nobody pays any attention to it,

is he still full of shit?


In this case, YE-E-E-SSSSS......!

[Booby]

30. Lol

[vaberella]

2. Well the Wright brothers didn't invent flying. They just succeeded at it.

Leonardo Da Vinci actually invented flying. Who'd a thunk it huh?

[nebenaube]

4. There was a immigrant in NJ

That beat them at powered flight as wall... can't remember who he was because they got the patent.

[vaberella]

15. I need to find his name. I'll do some researching. Thanks for the mention. n/t

[Rincewind]

11. Actually,

insects invented flying hundreds of millions of years ago. The Wright brothers developed the first practical heavier than air flying machine, and Edison invented the first commercially practical light bulb.

[vaberella]

12. True enough. But LDV was the one to do the first real studies of flight.

http://www.angelfire.com/electronic/awakening101/leonardo.html

I don't see why you don't give him the credit in your list.

[TalkingDog]

3. ummm... the Wright brothers didn't invent flying... they invented a heavier than air flying machine

And they weren't even the first to do that. They just improved the ability to control, and hence fly, the aircraft safely.

Edison didn't invent the first light-bulb. In 1806 Humphrey Davy, an Englishman, demonstrated his electric lamp to the Royal Society. It worked by creating an electric spark between two charcoal rods. It was known as an "arc lamp".

Edison had a team of scientist and technicians who collectively developed the light bulb.

So, no, knowledgeable, educated people don't believe these things. Because these things are wrong.

[alcibiades_mystery]

20. Absolutely correct

What's so massively embarrassing about the position they're espousing is that it prefers children's stories and the ideology of the individual "genius" over historical accuracy - while chiding other people for historical inaccuracy! Projection at its finest: it accuses the Left of preferring ideology to facts while at the same time preferring ideology to facts.

[GoCubsGo]

21. And, Newt is supposed to be a "historian".

LOL!!! What a lying schmuck.

[Tx4obama]

5. And don't forget about John Montgomery

John Joseph Montgomery (February 15, 1858 – October 31, 1911) was an American aviation pioneer, inventor, and professor at Santa Clara College in Santa Clara, California.

In 1884 he made the first manned, controlled, heavier-than-air flights in the United States, in the Otay Mesa area of San Diego, California

SNIP

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Joseph_Montgomery

p.s. I watched a movie about his life on TV the other day - Gallant Journey starring Glenn Ford and Janet Blair

[mackattack]

6. Wright Brothers were not from North Carolina

Orville was born in Dayton, Ohio. Wilbur was born in Indiana.

They developed the Flyer in Dayton and continued to fly and perfect their machine in Dayton. North Carolina was just the location for their first recorded successful flight. Saying they are from Carolina is like saying Eli Manning plays for the Colts because he won a super bowl in Indy.


I know that has nothing to do with the OP, but Ohio people will use any chance they can get to rectify the fallacy that the WB were from North Carolina.

[fishwax]

7. how does one "invent" flying?

Rather odd phrase.

[LiberalFighter]

8. If they believe in witches like most of them do...

then flying was in existence for thousands of years.

I wonder if they consider levitation as flying or if they don't believe that god, Jesus, or his angels can levitate or fly?

[fishwax]

9. lol -- good questions/points

Maybe we'll get lucky and Santorum will offer a "The Wright Brothers didn't invent flying -- Jesus did!" response.

[Kalidurga]

10. Gingrich should stfu...

his base doesn't like all those scientifical things.

[vaberella]

16. Great post. n/t

[Jennicut]

28. Everyone forgets about Joseph Swan and Montgolfier brothers.

Repubs need a history lesson.

[sarge43]

14. And Edison didn't invent electric light.

Incandescent light bulbs had been around since the 1840's. The Englishman Joseph Swan developed the first commercially useful bulb, patented 1880. Edison came up with the most efficient bulb. Like the Wrights he refined and built upon processes and materials that were already in place.

Psst Newt, if one of your history students had said anything that ignorant, you would have given them a F, right?

[davidthegnome]

17. Er, uhm

Well, no, y'see, it was them witches that invented flying and all they needed was some broom sticks...

Seriously... lol. Gingrich must be trying to outcrazy Santorum right now.

[DFW]

18. Details, details

So insects invented flying 2 billion years ago.

Except that Republicans don't believe in 2 billion years ago.

[mahatmakanejeeves]

22. The Wright brothers are a favorite theme of his.

I listened (on C-Span) to his speech in Florida where he talked about building a moonport. He went off on this tangent about the Wright brothers. His main point was that the gummint had backed Langley, who, of course failed, since he was backed by the gummint. The brave entrepreneurial capitalists the Wright brothers, succeeded, of course, because they were brave entrepreneurial capitalists.

Expect more of this.

[yellowcanine]

23. One of the main proponents of Peak Oil is Roscoe Bartlett, conservative Republican from Maryland.

[ShadowLiberal]

24. They're right, I believe birds invented flying first

The Wright brothers stole all the credit, the birds are the ones who really invented flying. The birds should have gotten rich from selling airplanes, not those evil Wright Brothers who just copied off the birds.

[Ikonoklast]

25. Well, Newt didn't invent being a Bloviating Jackass, he just perfected being one.

But he can take credit for it, I won't argue the point.

[Major Nikon]

26. Gingrich's own words prove he doesn't know his thumb from his dick

The concept of Peak Oil is in regards to production. This "new technology" that he refers to are only feaseable when the price of crude oil and/or refined products reaches very high levels. So the very fact that this "new technology" (which really isn't new at all) is being developed is because the production capacity of oil that is cheap to extract and refine has peaked and will only become more and more expensive and less and less energy efficient.

And Gingrich is supposed to be the 'smart' one of the bunch???

[tsuki]

27. I am glad you wrote that. I am always defending peak oil to the half listeners. nt

[jmowreader]

31. The left also doesn't believe...

1) Newt Gingrich isn't full of shit
2) Newt Gingrich doesn't trade in wives faster than most men trade in cars
3) Newt Gingrich didn't get his history degree out of a cereal box

[JHB]

32. Gingrich will say ANYTHING to get his audience in a lather...

...and send them stampeding in a direction that serves whatever agenda he's pushing at the moment.

He spent his entire congressional career saving Atlanta suburbanites from the People's Republic of Escape From New York, by his campaign speeches.