by Greg Mayer
On Tuesday’s Nightly Show, Larry Wilmore and his guest panelists were discussing Ted Cruz’s presidential aspirations, when one of the guests stated that we must have “more respect in politics… for people who believe in creationism”. Larry was having none of it:
Someone who’s making the most important decisions in the world should not believe the Earth is 6000 years old. I’m sorry. I don’t have respect for that. I don’t.
Amen, brother!
You know what’s worse? Public figures who know better but promote the lie because it’s what the little people want to hear. And, sadly, because they know “mainstream,” “middle-of-the-road” voters tune it out, since they mostly feel people are “entitled to their beliefs.”
My fear is that by the time sensible voters realize what’s going on – diminishing America’s competitiveness in research and innovation, screwing a generation of children out of a proper education, standing idle while the earth gets hotter – it will be too late to repair the damage.
I like this page, BTW: http://morethanscientists.org
More like that, please, Internet.
Good for Larry. But why does he have that african american woman republican on his show so much. Trying to find someone stranger than Ted Cruz?
Larry Wilmore is a great replacement for Stephen Colbert. As with Jon Stewart, my wife and I never miss a show.
Maybe Wilmore can’t find a white republican willing to attend his show.
I think his show is meh. He is definitely getting better at his running commentary (its getting both more funny and more incisive), but the format really needs to be reworked and his choice of guests has to improve.
thankfully the role of American president is much less powerful now than Americans have us believe…
Wilmore is right, but it doesn’t seem to stop them from trying …
On the other hand, did you see how Jon Stewart, on 3/23, kept trying to pull Hirsi Ali to his apparent position that Islam is no worse than Christianity? She wasn’t buying it but he kept pounding on it, ruining the interview, IMO.
I will post on this with links shortly.
Indeed – that was a frustrating interview (not sure if interview is the right word) to watch. Let it go and move on, Jon.
3/23? There is no 23rd month.
The wisdom of Strunk&White vindicated again!
Martian calendar.
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She handled herself really well in that interview.
I saw that! I wanted to cheer!
Who was it arguing that we should have more respect for creationist?
Amy Holmes
Sigh.
I don’t believe that Ted Cruz is seriously running for President.
He just likes being in the news. He is also highly intelligent, and comes up with the crazy sh*t to appeal to his base.
A few weeks before he praised Texas’ policy of executing innocent people, he actually went before SCOTUS to argue that it was wrong to execute a man if critical evidence had been withheld from the trial by malicious prosecutors.
Of course, the conservative justices disagreed with Cruz’ assessment, and stuck with the status quo.
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Wasn’t Cruz born in Calgary? How could he ever run for president? The Republicans were obsessed by president Obama’s birth certificate even though he WAS born on American soil.
Naturally, it wouldn’t be the first time they showed a complete lack of coherence.
AIUI “natural born” includes people who have at least one citizen parent who has resided in the US for at least two consecutive years. Not just people born on US soil.
Basically at this point the only people excluded from ‘natural born’ are people who get their citizenship through naturalization. Which is fine by me: while the founders may have been justifiably concerned about some type of British ‘Manchurian candidate,’ IMO a foreign-agent-in-disguise winning the presidency hasn’t been a realistic worry for at least a century, probably longer.
Hmmm, that may have come out wrong. It is fine by me that we are relaxing the definition of ‘natural born’ as much as we can. I was not trying to say that I approve of naturalized citizens being excluded; I would be fine with a constitutional amendment that got rid of the requirement altogether.
It’s very simple. Natural born for me but not for thee. Easy!
Yes, but Ted Cruz didn’t get born on foreign soil while black. Makes all the difference.
Waaaaah respect my creationism and my opinion everyone should burn in hell waaaaah.
Has Ted Cruz publicly stated his position on age-of-earth? Did Wilmore give a reference? I know Cruz announced his candidacy at a college that promotes the young-earth view.