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ADAMS IS A CONSERVATIVE?

Phillip Adams interviews P.J. O’Rourke, whom he describes as an exception to the rule that conservatives are “pompous, dull, pretentious, or all three”.

UPDATE. A recent print contribution from hurricane expert Adams:

It’s widely accepted that Katrina was conjured in the cauldron of climate change ...

It is?

Posted by Tim B. on 03/17/2007 at 08:50 AM
  1. Caught that one in the car the other day.
    Have to agree with the commenter re Adams’ very audible licking of lips and breathing into the mic ... it seems to occur at the point of discussions when he’s salivating over a juicy issue ... ewww!

    Posted by egg_ on 2007 03 17 at 09:02 AM • permalink

  2. Jean Shephard commenting on a NYT commercial by C.L.Sulzberger, March 9 1966

    via http://www.flicklives.com Mass Backwards page.

    Posted by rhhardin on 2007 03 17 at 09:06 AM • permalink

  3. I’ve a lefty mate who’s found global warmering religion who complained to me that some recent enviro event he went to had a formal dress code to which all except fat Phil complied. That’ll learn him.

    Posted by Nic on 2007 03 17 at 09:13 AM • permalink

  4. It’s widely accepted that Katrina was conjured in the cauldron of climate change

    Well, sorry about that.  It seems I put a few too many bat wings in the potion.  But no harm done, eh?  I mean I’m not an expert on potions yet and besides, the cat startled me, it was an accident, I only meant to put a couple wings in, not the whole barrel.

    Posted by rbj1 on 2007 03 17 at 09:23 AM • permalink

  5. O’Rourke isn’t a conservative. He’s a libertarian.

    Adams is an undiscerning buffoon.

    Posted by James Waterton on 2007 03 17 at 09:26 AM • permalink

  6. rbj1 - When DumbleGore finds out it was you that messed up our climate and made the Polar bears cry we’ll be in for an arse kicking for sure…

    Posted by bondo on 2007 03 17 at 10:09 AM • permalink

  7. I’ve been saying all along that it’s widely accepted that climate change destroyed New Orleans.  Not the Japanese weather machine hooked up on the orbital space station.  The one with both buttons and an operators manual written in Japanese script.  (By the way, does anyone know the Japanese word for OFF?)

    I think some apologies are in order.  Starting with paco, Richard McEnroe, RebeccaH, and Michael Lonie.  Reparations would be appropriate also.

    Posted by wronwright on 2007 03 17 at 10:45 AM • permalink

  8. It certainly is “widely accepted” - no doubt about that.

    Unfortunately, it also happens to be utter bulls**t. Rather like our friend the plastic turkey. Just another widely accepted myth held by our learned lefty brethren.

    Posted by ceccarelli on 2007 03 17 at 01:17 PM • permalink

  9. Yes, he left out two critical words that change the whole meaning of the sentence.

    “It’s widely accepted by morons that Katrina was conjured in the cauldron of climate change ... ”

    Posted by kcom on 2007 03 17 at 02:59 PM • permalink

  10. “It’s widely accepted that Katrina was conjured in the cauldron of climate change ...”

    But of course.  As we all know, no category 3 hurricane had ever hit the state of Louisiana before.  Jeez, what a dumb-ass.

    Posted by David Crawford on 2007 03 17 at 03:44 PM • permalink

  11. Sure, Phil, sure. Just like rabbits invented Hugh Hefner to improve their public image.

    Posted by SwinishCapitalist on 2007 03 17 at 04:22 PM • permalink

  12. #7

    Hurry curry

    Posted by regional on 2007 03 17 at 04:28 PM • permalink

  13. I tried to watch the Cyclone Larry* 12-months-on program on 9 last night. I hate that format, a talking head (Sandra Sully speaking from the diaphragm -that’s gotta hurt her!), a studio audience - at least it didn’t have Ray Martin. I’m thankful for small mercies.

    *another sign of global warming climate change.

    Posted by kae on 2007 03 17 at 04:54 PM • permalink

  14. Many years ago Adams interviewed Roger Scruton on his ABC program. He described Professor Scruton in similar glowing terms: “A conservative I could actually like”. Roger Scruton politely and eruditely punctured all of Adams’ assertions, leaving him floundering. Adams had no idea he’d been made a fool of.

    Adams’ trouble is that he doesn’t get out in the real world enough.

    Posted by walterplinge on 2007 03 17 at 05:04 PM • permalink

  15. Don’t lie, David.  Hurricane Katrina was the very first devastating storm in US history.  We had no storms to speak of until global warming began creating them in 1998, right after the Kyoto treaty was voted down 95-0 by the US Senate (back when the Senate had 95 Republicans, of course).  You can see from this list that there were no other storms earlier than that.  Just hold your hand over the page and scroll down until you get to 1998.  Don’t let your eyes be corrupted by reports of earlier storms in the preceding entries.  They were planted there by meteorologists in the pay of Big Oil.

    Posted by kcom on 2007 03 17 at 05:13 PM • permalink

  16. 7, wronwright

    The suspicously shaped tenticle beasts in the locked room speac fluent Japanese. They may need some “encouragement” to spill the beans though.

    Posted by thefrollickingmole on 2007 03 17 at 06:15 PM • permalink

  17. Pompous, dull, and pretentious?  I didn’t realise so many of the left shared conservative characteristics….

    Posted by anthony_r on 2007 03 17 at 06:28 PM • permalink

  18. #5 Good observation James. True; this is why I like PJ.

    Posted by Wimpy Canadian on 2007 03 17 at 06:57 PM • permalink

  19. “pompous, dull, pretentious, or all three”.


    Sounds like the first line from Phillup’s CV

    Posted by Contrail on 2007 03 17 at 07:22 PM • permalink

  20. So Adams conducts an informative interview with a conservative/libertarian.
    That’s what I pay the old gas-bag to do.

    Posted by chrisgo on 2007 03 17 at 07:47 PM • permalink

  21. Great headline, Tim.

    Posted by Kyda Sylvester on 2007 03 17 at 08:21 PM • permalink

  22. with Tim Flannery warning that as our waters warm, similarly turbo-charged cyclones will hit our eastern coast

    Timeframe?

    Posted by egg_ on 2007 03 17 at 09:04 PM • permalink

  23. Cow-Pat Adams’ Coalition of Climate Change Crackpots quotes Richard Neville, there goes the last shred of cred ...

    Posted by egg_ on 2007 03 17 at 09:17 PM • permalink

  24. #22—that’s why John Howard set up that huge cold water eddie offshore.

    Posted by richard mcenroe on 2007 03 17 at 11:55 PM • permalink

  25. It’s widely accepted that Katrina was conjured in the cauldron of climate change

    The Left, including Adams, widely accepted :
    That the Gulf War and the overthrow of Saddam both would be long, bloody disasters for the US,
    That there would be many years of ecological disaster in Kuwait.
    That Chernobyl would kill 100,000s by radiation
    That the Coalition in Iraq has killed 650,000+ Iraqis in 4 years.

    Adams equates ‘widely-accepted’ with ‘true’ -the fool simply reveals whom he talks to constantly…

    Posted by Barrie on 2007 03 18 at 06:07 PM • permalink

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