Scholar Finds The Fact That Mitt Romney Somehow Got To Be A Presidential Candidate Totally Amazing
"It is not true that my book Guns, Germs and Steel, as Mr. Romney described it in a speech in Jerusalem, 'basically says the physical characteristics of the land account for the differences in the success of the people that live there. There is iron ore on the land and so forth.' That is so different from what my book actually says that I have to doubt whether Mr. Romney read it. My focus was mostly on biological features, like plant and animal species, and among physical characteristics, the ones I mentioned were continents’ sizes and shapes and relative isolation. I said nothing about iron ore, which is so widespread that its distribution has had little effect on the different successes of different peoples."
—University of California's professor Jared Diamond gives Mitt Romney The McLuhan Treatment.
It's McLuhan, not McCluhan.
"You know nothing of how to spell my name…"
(Thanks, fixed. I checked that TWICE and still blew it.)
@Dave Bry Every time I see that part I keep thinking the joke is going to be that they're both saying his name wrong.
No, man, Sid Meier's Civilization taught me that iron distribution changes everything. Otherwise how would the Aztecs have been the first to discover spaceflight?
@wallsdonotfall Ugh, no no no! It's all about the luxury goods. Iron was great for equipping swordsmen in Gandhi's crusade against the Spanish, but it was the Babylonians' monopoly on silk and silver that gave them the economic strength to beat everybody to the steam engine.
@DoctorDisaster I am extraordinarily happy–far too happy for anyone who could be considered "well-adjusted"–that multiple people made the Civilization jokes before I arrived on scene.
Thank you.
"He who controls magnesium controls the world."
I am amazed that anyone could still be amazed by the fact that Mitt Romney is full of shit.
Romney thought the title was "Guns, Jews, and Steal!"
Other countries have inferior potassium.
Mr. Romney then referenced 'War of The Worlds' to point out the inferiority of Martian healthcare.
But Professor Diamond, what about your gaffes?
"Battlefield Earth has absolutely nothing to do with what Mitt Romney thinks it does." – L. Ron Hubbard