Football hero Joe Namath spent more than four minutes playing a hurricane expert on Fox News this morning where he was asked to advise those who may be reluctant to heed mandatory evacuation orders.
Namath’s only credential, apparently, is his three decades of Florida residence. Even though he said he lives far enough inland that he has never had to evacuate.
However, that did not stop host Neil Cavuto from soliciting Namath’s advice on the subject. Noting that some Floridians have been ordered to evacuate, Cavuto asked, “What do you say to those, though, who are reluctant to leave even when they are ordered to?”
NAMATH: I can only empathize with them. You know, leaving your home, leaving maybe some of your family, animal life even. It’s tough. You worry about your home. So to each his own, depending on how close they are to the hurricane eye.
Look, I know this is not an easy, cut-and-dried decision. I empathize with those who decide not to evacuate, too. My great aunt broke her hip and required emergency surgery during a hurricane because a mandatory evacuation sent her to unfamiliar surroundings and she lost her bearings and fell. At the age of approximately 90, she told me she would rather die than go through another evacuation. But I also know that people die when they don’t evacuate.
The point is, no matter how well intentioned, Namath is in no position to be making public pronouncements on such a critical issue.
Watch Fox’s newly-minted hurricane expert below, from the August 31, 2019 Cavuto Live. Namath’s evacuation remarks come at about 1:41.
Jim Cantore may be a stylishly bald and buff fellow but he regurgitates meteorological science from a network that runs stories on global warming, which, as everyone knows, is a Chinese hoax.
If viewers listened to him and his co-workers and stayed put because of The Weather Channel’s fake news/science, Fox viewers might blow away or float out to sea in a storm surge rip current. And there go the ratings.
Off topic: Y’all have yet another mass killing in Texas and I predict with 100% confidence that the President will repeat the NRA credo: “Persons (sic) pull the trigger, not the gun”. The sufferers from incipient senile dementia need to be reminded – gently but firmly – that there’s no way a person can pull a trigger if s/he HAS NO GUN!
Apologies for the caps but I’m appalled at how stupid some supposedly prodigiously talented individuals (mostly self-defined as such) can be so stupid. The only explanation in my book is lots of moola and lavish slatherings of ego-stroking praise.
End of off-topic rant.
