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{{pundits}} Steven Crowder is a Detroit-born, Quebec-raised[1] conservative comedian, but unlike the other Steve C., it isn't an act. In addition to appearing regularly on Fox News, Crowder contributes blog posts to Andrew Breitbart's site, Big Hollywood,[2] and posts comedy pyrite on his YouTube account.[3]
As a child, Crowder voiced the character The Brain
on the PBS animated series Arthur.
"Comedy"[edit]
His comedy is largely similar to most comedy, making fun of the fact that secular humanism and liberals are evil, putting emphasis on how he can't be racist and sexist because he isn't, and warning how gay people are totally fine. He also enjoys cross-dressing in several of his comedy skits (such as parodying Rachel Maddow or Lena Dunham)—which leads to some [[Log Cabin Republican|humorous speculations]
His comedy, like most comedy, is also detached from fact. In the 2013 Conservative Political Action Conference, he stated, "...Ashley Judd just tweeted that buying Apple products, again, is akin to rape. From her iPhone." That is a misrepresentation of a 2010 essay (not Twitter posts) by Judd in which she expressed grief at learning that electronic products are manufactured in countries in conflict. In such countries, women are often sexually assaulted by militia members.[4]
Generation Progress described his 2009 video "The Real Guantanamo Bay" as "glaringly trite" and "homophobic", because that's a great example to use.[5]
Climate change Skepticism[edit]
Crowder has stated on numerous occasions that while climate change is real and man-made, the implications have been largely blown out of proportion. In 2017 Steven Crowder entered an online discussion with British science journalist Peter Hadfield over a Louder with Crowder episode titled "Top 5 "Climate Change" Myths". Crowder's general argument in the video is that that scientists are trying to encourage support for Big Government by lying about AGW to guilt liberals, further insisting that all climate scientists believe "gender to be a figment of the imagination". During the video, Crowder argued that NASA confirmed a global net gain of ice of 82bn tons and therefore evidence of cooling, though ignored this was only for Antarctica and that Greenland had lost 269bn tons in the same period. Another went away from climate science altogether and portrayed an increase of polar bear numbers following a ban on hunting as proof that polar bears are not being harmed at all by climate change. In another section, Crowder insisted that climate change models are worthless due to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration not being able to predict an exact number of hurricanes per year. Rather than using scientific journals to show the models are inaccurate, Crowder instead cited Christopher Monckton's and Tim Ball's (though not by name) insistence on NOAA being fraudulent as evidence climate change is itself bogus. He then went into a tangent by portraying Al Gore and green earth activists as representing climate science in order to debunk it, also known as comedy.[6]
Following this, Crowder challenged Hadfield to a debate, which Hadfield rejected on the grounds that no topic or time of day was proposed, and therefore a formal debate could not be prepared. Updates as to the debate discussions were brought up in subsequent Hadfield videos.[7][8]
Also in 2017, Crowder invited Dr. Patrick Moore, an ecologist, on to his show to discuss climate science. Interestingly enough, the two found much common ground, with Dr. Moore even going as far as to say that climate alarmism is very much a funding grab, with each scientist making even more outlandish claims to secure a larger grant [9]
Other antics[edit]
“”In December 2012, Fox News aired a video that would briefly obsess the conservative blogosphere. At a Right to Work rally in Michigan, one of Fox’s young contributors was punched in the face by a union member. It was evidence, a parade of Fox pundits stressed, of “union thuggery.” On Fox and Friends, anchor Steve Doocy wondered what his colleague had done “that so provoked the left.” But an extended version of the video, aired ironically on Fox News’ Hannity, revealed that the original clip had been edited, removing footage of the puncher being pushed to the ground prior to throwing a punch in return.[10]
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In response to this, Cenk Uygur of the Young Turks asserted that it was in fact Steven that threw the first punch. Unedited footage was later played at a legal hearing, but no further actions were taken.
Alt-right smear campaign[edit]
On 30 September 2016, Andrew Anglin of The Daily Stormer started a meme where he falsely labelled Crowder the leader of the alt-right and falsely claimed Crowder advocates for the extermination of the Jewish people.[11][12] Anglin used fake tweets as evidence, in the hopes of ruining Crowder's reputation similarly to what was done to Ben Garrison.[13][14][15] Subsequently, he was trolled by David Duke[16] and on pol,[14][17] and The Right Stuff released a fake podcast titled "White Power with Crowder".[15] On Twitter, the hashtag #CrowderFacts was used to defame him.[18] Richard Spencer, explaining the meme, said "most of the stuff [Crowder] says is just off-the-shelf conservatism that isn’t remotely dangerous or new."[13]
In reality, Crowder is passionately pro-Israel and opposes antisemitism.[19][20][21][22] He even believes Barack Obama is antisemitic.[23] Crowder mocked the alt-right when Donald Trump appeared to be on good terms with Benjamin Netanyahu.[24]
References[edit]
- ↑ Doesn't miss the healthcare actually
- ↑ Big Hollywood: Steven Crowder
- ↑ YouTube: Steven Crowder
- ↑ Tim Murphy, "CPAC: Where Ashley Judd Rape Jokes Happen." Mother Jones: March 18, 2013.
- ↑ Delaney Rohan, "Comedian Steven Crowder." Generation Progress: Dec. 17, 2009.
- ↑ Response to "DEBUNKED: Top 5 "Climate Change" Myths" by Louder with Crowder
- ↑ The latest climate error from Steve Crowder.
- ↑ Steve Crowder gets it wrong again… and again... (and yet again!).
- ↑ Steven Crowder Talks Climate Change with Dr. Patrick Moore.
- ↑ Caitlin Dickson, "The Unmaking of a Conservative Pundit." Daily Beast: November 13, 2013.
- ↑ http://www.dailystormer.com/steven-crowder-seizes-leadership-of-the-alt-right-calls-for-total-extermination-of-ratfaced-kike-vermin/
- ↑ http://www.dailystormer.com/has-alt-right-leader-steven-crowder-gone-too-far/
- ↑ 13.0 13.1 http://takimag.com/article/love_your_fellow_hater_gavin_mcinnes/print#axzz4i44j6Fph
- ↑ 14.0 14.1 https://archive.4plebs.org/pol/thread/91196389/
- ↑ 15.0 15.1 https://radio.therightstuff.biz/2016/10/03/white-power-with-crowder-episode-14-88-rahowa-begins-november-9th/
- ↑ https://twitter.com/DrDavidDuke/status/783156384422506497
- ↑ https://yuki.la/pol/92203873
- ↑ https://twitter.com/hashtag/CrowderFacts?src=hash
- ↑ https://twitter.com/scrowder/status/834402298101104640
- ↑ https://twitter.com/scrowder/status/129920081156251648
- ↑ https://twitter.com/scrowder/status/570572945548038144
- ↑ https://twitter.com/scrowder/status/765882646727655425
- ↑ https://twitter.com/scrowder/status/814600838954057729
- ↑ https://twitter.com/scrowder/status/831918745622716416
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