CNN’s Rick Sanchez asks scientist, “Nine Meters In English Is?”
Meanwhile, “Did MSNBC Actually Say There’s ‘a Large American Population in Hawaii?’”
I may be going out on a limb here, but something tells me that there’s a large American population not just in Hawaii, but the rest of America’s 57 states as well…
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Nine meters is how many jobs have been created or saved since the oceans stopped rising and the planet began to heal. It’s expressed in scientific notation so you can’t expect a TV personality to understand, even Rick Sanchez who’s IQ is several ft/lbs/sec higher than most of his regular viewers.
We must forgive Rick – he’s been too busy learning to speak “Teabag” to get the language known as “Metric” down. If he had simply used the age-old formula of Coptic x cubit + William Hurt in “Broadcast News” he would have come to the same conclusion all thirteen people viewing CNN at the time did: “How does this guy even have a job?”
Another fun part:
“Well, hold on a minute. Wouldn’t it follow that if all of a sudden a part of the ocean just dropped 27 feet, the reaction to, you know, the yang of that yin is that it will also go up at some point?”
If someone used the term “stone weight” or weight in stones, Sanchez would wonder whay they were talking about a box of rocks.
I hate to end up in the position of defending Sanchez, but feet and inches is referred to as the “English system.” He probably was just being a moron, but what he said is defensible.
While you are busy attacking people for stuff like referring to the English system of weights and measures ( http://www.thefreedictionary.com/English+system ) as “English” maybe you could pause and see if you can get the “57 states” thing right.
The Won did NOT say he thought there were 57 states in the US.
Go look at any video of that event.
Does he not say that he had been to 57 states and had one more to go? Did he not say that he wasn’t allowed (interesting question in there, by the way–unexplored so far as I know) to go to Alaska or Hawaii.
57 + 1 + 1 + 1 = ?
And why not Alaska (personal safety concern?) and Hawaii (birther field day?)?
So these are the same newspeople, hyperventilating about the buoy data their visitor was conveying, that might be explaining AGW or H1N1 to “we the peeps” ?
Also irritating yesterday, watching those slow, low waves roll into Hilo, waiting…waiting…was that some news guy kept saying “tsunami waves”, redundantly enough.
Larry:
Obama meant to say 47 with “one to go” minus Alaska and Hawaii. This was probably either because he was tired or because the precursor to TOTUS and TOTUS-elect was malfunctioning (tragically, the Veep-TOTUS was killed in the crossfire between a gust of wind and Biden’s own breezy bloviation – has it really been nine months? It seems like only yesterday). Still, he said it. Maybe not in Austrian, but….