WATCH: Jon Stewart Hilariously Ridicules Rick Scott for Banning the Words 'Climate Change'
March 26, 2015Video
If there is a bigger display of foolishness than Florida Gov. Rick Scott's ban on the use of the phrases “global warming” or “climate change,” then we don't know about it. (Unless, of course, you include Ted Cruz' run for president.) Daily Show host Jon Stewart jumped aboard the ridicule train Wednesday night in a news story where the jokes practically write themselves.
Stewart showed video of the meeting last week during which Florida's director of emergency management Bryan Koon went into verbal contortions to avoid using the banned term. Even he could barely suppress a laugh. The Democrats questioning him nearly died of laughter.
Of course, Gov. Scott has denied taking his climate change denial to this absurd, censorious height, but some former state officials have spoken out about the euphemisms they were asked to use for, say, sea level rise. "Nuisance flooding” was the preferred term. Stewart had a few other suggestions taken straight from Roget’s Denial Thesaurus: Moisture inconvenience and statewide jacuzzification might also work.
Then Stewart turned his attention to that other penis-shaped state, California, which is having the opposite problem from Florida: a deeply concerning a rapidly-declining water supply.
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