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TexasTowelie

(112,070 posts) Wed Aug 24, 2016, 02:03 AM Aug 2016

Idaho radio host gets epic beatdown from Neil deGrasse Tyson

Say what you will about Neil deGrasse Tyson. That he’s a Christmas-loathing Scrooge. That he picks on “Star Wars.”

Or that the $85 tickets to his June performance at the Morrison Center in Boise were too spendy for the proletariat. (Steve Martin and Martin Short suddenly make Tyson’s tickets look like bargain-bin pricing.)

Just don’t call Tyson “a horse’s astrophysicist” and follow it up with flawed reasoning.

Idaho Falls conservative talk-show host Neal Larson discovered this the hard way.

In a piece published in the Magic Valley Times-News — in which he refers to the rock-star science spokesman as a “jackass” — Larson clumsily attempts to criticize the celebrity brainiac. Worse yet, he gets facts wrong.

Read more here: http://www.idahostatesman.com/entertainment/ent-columns-blogs/words-deeds/article97410952.html

Cross-posted in the Idaho Group.

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Idaho radio host gets epic beatdown from Neil deGrasse Tyson (Original Post) TexasTowelie Aug 2016 OP

I hate the way repukes just peddle shit they heard Skittles Aug 2016 #1

That was epic! wcast Aug 2016 #2

wow that was awesome krakfiend Aug 2016 #3

He is probably paid by the click. TexasTowelie Aug 2016 #4

Neal picked the wrong Neil to wrestle with. progressoid Aug 2016 #5

Note to Larson: Don't try to belittle someone a lot smarter than you are Warpy Aug 2016 #6

Skittles

(153,138 posts)

1. I hate the way repukes just peddle shit they heard

Reply to TexasTowelie (Original post)

Wed Aug 24, 2016, 02:45 AM

Aug 2016

when just a few seconds of research on the web would show them it is bullshit

wcast

(595 posts)

2. That was epic!

Reply to TexasTowelie (Original post)

Wed Aug 24, 2016, 03:45 AM

Aug 2016

Many times you read posts labeled epic beat down, but this is the hands down winner. Neil takes down Neal without breaking a sweat.

krakfiend

(202 posts)

3. wow that was awesome

Reply to TexasTowelie (Original post)

Wed Aug 24, 2016, 05:00 AM

Aug 2016

and all of those comments were just hilarious. i'm surprised neal larson just didn't take down the article and removed all the comment, i would be soooo embarrassed .

TexasTowelie

(112,070 posts)

4. He is probably paid by the click.

Reply to krakfiend (Reply #3)

Wed Aug 24, 2016, 05:04 AM

Aug 2016

I'm surprised that the site moderator didn't take down more of the comments though, but they were probably laughing their asses off at Larson so much that they turned NDT's comments into a separate article to click on.