The Assault on Planetary Values
Posted on | August 26, 2006
Watch as Bill Maher uses the reclassification of Pluto in a series of hilarious metaphors for the neoconservative cult of ignorance:
- “An international panel of ’scientists’ has decided to cut and run on the planet Pluto.”
- “As long as George Bush is president, the science is still out on science.”
- “Many of my Republican friends got very excited when all this talk started recently about adding three new planets to the solar system, because what could be better in all of life than having three new things to name after Reagan?”
- “Activist scientists were trying to get away with a little election-year redistricting of the universe, adding new planets when we should be enforcing the planets we already have.”
- Why doesn’t somebody introduce the Defense of Planets act to protect the sanctity of planethood? You let planets swing both ways like that, next thing you know people are marrying their pets.”
Former senator Max Cleland appears nearly helpless with laughter. Another soft-on-astronomy Democrat!
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