George Noory Sucks! - The Definitive Compendium

[MV/Liberace!]

What would be the demographic of the typical Noory groupie?  It boggles the mind.

cat ladies.

[Scully]

Haha, John B. Wells' main guest on tonight just now complained about cranks and wackos that tell him about the ridiculous 'abiotic oil' theory.
Thats Noory's pet theory and belief.
No wonder this guest hasn't been on c2c at all with Noory, last time he was on with Art Bell 7 years ago.
Noory won't have guests on that disagree totally on his core beliefs like oil.

Worth the price of admission right there, Morgus.  My best laugh of the day!  Crickets from Wells ...

[HorrorReporter]

There indeed were crickets from Wells.
He had a tough time countering almost everything that last night's guest said.

I wonder by the way if Wells' choosing all these old guests from the Art era AND MENTIONING IT over and over again means anything. It seems he is trying to be the distance from the Noory style.. but the Wells style just keeps getting worse to listen to. Perhaps this is better for the Wells thread, but there are times I just don't even want to enter that thread anymore given my past praise for him. I feel like someone who supported the Iraq war. And now I don't. You know what I mean..?

[NoMoreNoory]

or more likely will just result in another freebie CD to pass out to new streamlink (coast insider) subscribers, like they did in the past with an audio cd of Noory reading short stories like Edgar Allan Poe... 

Wow! This set my brain spinning in my skull: EAP being sacred ground. The thought of this marble-mouthed nooron strangling Poe's beautiful prose is almost too much. Sent me scurrying off round the Interweb. Yes indeed. The Tell-Tale Heart, Ambrose Bierce's Occurrence At Owl Creek Bridge, W W Jacobs' The Monkey's Paw and H G Wells' Inexperienced Ghost.

Jesus wept. The dolt can't even read his 'Here's what's happaneen' news snippets properly. Unable to find any postings of these on You Tube, I have found and bought what appears to be the last copy on Earth from Amazon. My conscience is clear to the extent that it's a used copy. It's car-crash syndrome: I just couldn't resist. I wait with baited breath.....

'True! - nervous - very, very dreadfully nervous I had been and am. There is no doubt about that. But why will you say that I am mad? It's not me. Haven't you noticed? People have been acting very weird lately. Hearken! and observe how healthily - thanks to my carnivora and turmeric supplements - how calmly - thanks to my restful nights in my Sleep Number bed (I keep it set to Number Nine: that seems to work for me) - I can tell you the whole story. After this break.........'

[BobGrau]

I don't know Poe very well, so I'm unsure what the Raven actually quothed.
However I can guarantee that noory's reply was 'exactly.'

[Sardondi]

Jesus wept. The dolt can't even read his 'Here's what's happaneen' news snippets properly....

Because he has no frame of reference for 90% of the news items - it's like every day for him is the discovery of the New World, and he's Columbus looking at that hazy bump on the horizon.

And it's because the man is ignorant. Deeply ignorant, right down to the bone and into the marrow. Noory is stunningly unaware of so many of the things most of us learned from life in grade school. Right now I can't think of a less aware, more totally ignorant public figure.

Most people who are so blatantly ignorant, and have that ignorance painfully and obviously demonstrated in a plethora of ways every week before millions hundreds tens of thousands of listeners, would be worried, at least concerned about their vacuousness. You might even expect a good many to take some action to try to learn a little about Our Amazing World, if only to not look quite so stupid and unaware time after time.

Not George. He's the Alfred E. Neuman of radio. He looks at his paycheck, and thinks, "Does a dummy make this kind of money? I think I'm a pretty smart cookie, yesirree Bob." He's quite satisfied with himself.

And so he waits to discover the world again tonight.

[michio]

Richard C. Hoaxland is on-the-air adding his commentary about the Curiosity rover and its successful landing on the red planet Mars. Yay! to NASA for getting it there in one piece. The cameras are already beaming back B&W pictures and everyone is pleased by what they're seeing.

http://www.nasa.gov/externalflash/mars/curiosity_news3.html

Evidently, a NASA dude was earlier asked by a youngster when she (I think) could drive the rover. Richard said the NASA dude told the girl there were about 400 scientists ahead of her before her turn would come up. Richard thought this was rude of the dude, saying "the typical arrogance of NASA." I agree that he could have been more pleasant to the lass in breaking the news. He's definitely not an eloquent Sagan. But Rich failed to mention his own convenient NASA praising and bashing arrogance when it suits him, with that of his "I'll never admit I was wrong" partner, Simple George.

Great submerging artists tonight.   

[stevesh]

He's the Alfred E. Neuman of radio.

Perfect. I should have thought of that. I hope one of the Photoshop wizards here will show us what a Noory/Neuman lovechild might look like.

[stevesh]

But Rich failed to mention his own convenient NASA praising and bashing arrogance when it suits him, with that of his "I'll never admit I was wrong" partner, Simple George.

Hoagie was his usual rude, pompous self this morning, interrupting and talking over the other guests and even blurting out something about how wonderful one of the NASA images was, right in the middle of a caller's question. Dick.

Great submerging artists tonight.   

Let's hope so. I have to think that C2C gets a lot of excellent music submitted for consideration. I suspect it's Danheiser who manages to select the lamest, most banal, boring crap for airplay.

[onan]

Evidently, a NASA dude was earlier asked by a youngster when she (I think) could drive the rover. Richard said the NASA dude told the girl there were about 400 scientists ahead of her before her turn would come up. Richard thought this was rude of the dude, saying "the typical arrogance of NASA." I agree that he could have been more pleasant to the lass in breaking the news. He's definitely not an eloquent Sagan. But Rich failed to mention his own convenient NASA praising and bashing arrogance when it suits him, with that of his "I'll never admit I was wrong" partner, Simple George.

I was watching nasa tv I saw the dialogue you mention. A correspondent was asking a question a little girl had asked earlier. The question was more along the line of would kids have a chance to maneuver Curiosity. The answer was not in any way arrogant and for hoagland to suggest that makes him even more of a shit bag.

[ziznak]

Perfect. I should have thought of that. I hope one of the Photoshop wizards here will show us what a Noory/Neuman lovechild might look like.

you asked for it...

[Zircon]

Ziz, that is great. Where do you get these things or do you photoshop them yourself?

[ziznak]

I have a few photoslopping skills laying around.  Sometimes I link to stuff I've found but normally I try to post stuff I've made myself since I know people haven't already seen it somewhere. 

[expat]

RCH: Yes, Curiosity has landed!
[FX: Loud cheers in JPL control room]
GN: We'll just take this quick break and we'll BE RIGHT BACK.

[ItsOver]

RCH: Yes, Curiosity has landed!
[FX: Loud cheers in JPL control room]
GN: We'll just take this quick break and we'll BE RIGHT BACK.

  That's the Snoory.  As with everything, Snoory would have no curiosity about Curiosity.

[HorrorReporter]

Hoaxland should have hosted last night.
Say what you will about him, at least he was excited.

Wonder what Hoaxland bumper music would be?

[The General]

Hoaxland should have hosted last night.
Say what you will about him, at least he was excited.

Wonder what Hoaxland bumper music would be?

Merrie Melodies & Looney Tunes - Opening themes.

[Lovely Bones]

As to ancestry.com, what a bore. I'm not sure why anyone would pay to know if aunt josie mcclain could read and write. it's like a poor man's way to feel important. face it, if you're not a Bush or Rockefeller, no one cares about your ancestry.

Off-topic side trip here, but I kind of get it. With a very elderly mother who values family, I started working on family history for her about ten years ago because she wanted to know more about the generations who came before her grandparents.  W/out spending a penny on ancestry, I got into researching and found plenty of fascinating stuff that helped flesh out lives of some of our relatives for her. I was able to track down some people she had vague memories of from early childhood and see how they fit into the family and able to figure out why we had a small piece of handmade linen with a note that it had traveled from the Atlantic to the Pacific and back again and belonged with our family.

Little stuff. But the work was worth it and made an old lady happy.  No one outside the family cares, but they weren't supposed to.  Well, except for the part where one of us was married to Wallis Simpson and cuckolded when she left him for King Edward VIII, who abdicated the throne for her.  That part was pretty interesting. 

But I digress. 

[HorrorReporter]

Merrie Melodies & Looney Tunes - Opening themes.

I was thinking this, myself:

Napoleon XIV: 'They're coming to take me away'

[Rico999]

Haha, John B. Wells' main guest on tonight just now complained about cranks and wackos that tell him about the ridiculous 'abiotic oil' theory.
Thats Noory's pet theory and belief.
No wonder this guest hasn't been on c2c at all with Noory, last time he was on with Art Bell 7 years ago.
Noory won't have guests on that disagree totally on his core beliefs like oil.

I remember him asking Capt. Kelly what's-his-name during the big oil spill in the gulf a few years ago if the spill would continue "forever," because there'd be an infinite amount of oil to gush from the hole in the sea floor -- coming to that conclusion based on his belief in abiotic oil.

Unfortunately for George, he isn't able to prevent many of his "regulars" from mentioning the situation re global warming.  The previous week LMH had an entire segment with a recorded interview of a well-known scientist at the University of Arizona discussing the situation re global warming and the options we have to deal with it.   George's only comment -- a classic Noory non sequitur -- at the end of the segment was "Yuh gotta wonder what the Mayans knew."   Others, such as Michio Kaku always mention it and so did Jesse Ventura, the day before LMH's appearance.

George never responds to these comments because he's an illiterate when it comes to science and he knows he'll get blown out of the water.  He depends on guys like Jerome Corsi (his abiotic oil and "Iran expert" buddy) and Mitch Battros ("earth changes expert") to feed him the details of the stuff he believes in.  I'm sure RCH -- the official "science advisor," is under strict orders to avoid speaking his mind on AGW at all times -- otherwise the plug'll get pulled on the "enterprise mission."

I think tonight he's brought one more sycophant to represent his views on global warming to present the "other side" in the (non)"debate."

The thing is, though, is that George isn't a real secure guy -- even though he thinks he's a prince -- and  has this obvious need to be the boss, to be always right and to be in control.    An oversized ego and a weak mind aren't a real great combination.   But then it's why this site exists....

[stevesh]

Twice on last night's show, Hoagland went to great lengths to describe the 2011 White House Christmas card, claiming that the blinds covering the window displayed the Mars Science Laboratory logo !!! (emphasis his, as always).



This guy isn't even funny anymore - he is seriously mentally ill.

[Sardondi]

...Well, except for the part where one of us was married to Wallis Simpson and cuckolded when she left him for King Edward VIII, who abdicated the throne for her.  That part was pretty interesting....

BWAAAAHAAHAAHAAAA!!! Great family story! Ernest Simpson? 

[ziznak]

BWAAAAHAAHAAHAAAA!!! Great family story! Ernest Simpson? 

Makes me wanna re-watch "the kings speech" for the hundreth time... was looking for a more direct film about it but then I noticed madonna directed it so... yeah not watching that one.  that IS a good family story though.

[HorrorRetro]

Twice on last night's show, Hoagland went to great lengths to describe the 2011 White House Christmas card, claiming that the blinds covering the window displayed the Mars Science Laboratory logo !!! (emphasis his, as always).


This guy isn't even funny anymore - he is seriously mentally ill.

I've said it before, but he's clearly delusional.  This is a classic delusion of reference.  He's the only one that can translate these "clues" that are put on the Christmas card, embedded in music and movies, etc.  Of course, there are delusions of grandeur in there too, but it's impossible not to see that he suffers from delusions of reference.

Gina

[Juan]

Something's going on with those blinds.

[coaster]

Twice on last night's show, Hoagland went to great lengths to describe the 2011 White House Christmas card, claiming that the blinds covering the window displayed the Mars Science Laboratory logo !!! (emphasis his, as always).



This guy isn't even funny anymore - he is seriously mentally ill.

Hoagland's actually getting to me. I watched the Mars rover Curiosity land live, and when the first picture from Mars popped up, the first thing that came to mind was I wonder what Hoagland's going to claim to see in this.

[Morgus]

Noory is doing it again, only having on guests who agree with his own beliefs on issues like global warming.
His guest tonight is of course on Noory's side, he never has one who believes in the opposite view like manmade climate change. Both him and his guest just get to team up bashing the other side, just cheerleading for him, no debate or information from the other side at all.

[michio]

I was watching nasa tv I saw the dialogue you mention. A correspondent was asking a question a little girl had asked earlier. The question was more along the line of would kids have a chance to maneuver Curiosity. The answer was not in any way arrogant and for hoagland to suggest that makes him even more of a shit bag.

I was watching the live NASA feed and a couple other feeds on the Internet, all while listening to a couple of douche bags on the radio. I need to work on my multitasking skills. Thanks for the clarification on how the question was asked.

[ItsOver]

you asked for it...

Looks like the love child of Adolf Hitler and Saddam Hussein.  Guess that would explain a lot.

[NoMoreNoory]

Oh my Lord! You couldn't make this up, could you? This exchange just happened between Noory and his climate-change guest, Dr Roy Spencer.

Spencer: '......if you even go back in Jim Hanson's data set - you know, Jim Hanson has this surface temperature data set - and you go back and look at the 1920s and 30s, well especially the 30s in the  Arctic, it was just as warm in the Arctic back then as it is now.'
Noory: 'And we're not tokkeen about the Muppets, are we? Ha, ha ha ha.'
Silence.
Noory: 'At all'
Silence.
Noory: 'Jim Hanson? The Muppets?'
Silence.
Spencer: 'Oh! Well, that's.....OK....you're thinking of Jim Henson...'
Noory: 'Henson. Henson.'
Spencer: 'OK. I got you now....Ha ha ha.'
Noory: 'A joke that nobody got......'

You know, as much as we lampoon Noory and expose his idiocy and incompetence, nobody does it like the man himself.