UNLIKE MUCH OF THE MAJOR MEDIA, LIMBAUGH AND HANNITY HAVE TURNED AGAINST WIND

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THE TWO TOP RADIO TALK SHOW HOSTS IN THE U.S. DENOUNCE WIND POWER

THE TWO TOP RADIO TALK SHOW HOSTS IN THE U.S. SPENT MUCH OF TODAY DENOUNCING WIND POWER

Both Rush Limbaugh and Sean Hannity are going on the offensive against industrial wind power.  For the past two years, and increasingly over the past few weeks. Rush Limbaugh has been making critical comments about wind power.  After finishing reading a newspaper article regarding the problems of wind power, Limbaugh stated: "Clean, green energy, yet another aspect of the hoax!"   (Limbaugh was referring to was global warming when he used the word hoax.) 
On January 27, Rush Limbaugh said this about wind

Turbines.  I love this.  You know, all these people, all of you gullible, you big-hearted, lovable but gullible people who, because you think you really care and you really have caused a problem with your life so you buy into this green technology garbage, you buy into all of this climate change stuff, alternative energy sources, like windmills.  Have you ever wondered why the liberals do not want windmills where they live?  Ted Kennedy didn't want them anywhere near his compound out there in Hyannis Port.  I have a story here from the Portland Press Herald in Maine: "Turbines Turn into Headache for Vinalhaven -- Noise complaints energize opponents of wind power and complicate Maine's renewable energy efforts."  You won't find a bigger collection of well-intentioned, big-hearted liberals than in Maine. 

"Cheryl Lindgren was excited when the three wind turbines down the road began turning in November, but within days her excitement turned to disbelief. The sound at her house, a half-mile or so away, wasn't what she had expected. As she sat reading in her quiet living room, she could detect a repetitive 'whump, whump' coming from outside. 'I can feel this sound,' she recalled thinking. 'It's going right through me. I thought, "Is this what's it's going to be like for the rest of my life?' 

Hey, Cheryl, makes that coal power sound pretty good now, right? 

'Dedicated two months ago with great fanfare, the Fox Islands Wind Project is producing plenty of power, but also, a sense of shock among some neighbors." I really question how much power these things produce.  'They say the noise, which varies with wind speed and direction, ranges from mildly annoying to so intrusive that it disturbs their sleep. And they say they lament losing the subtle silence they cherish living in the middle of Penobscot Bay -- the muffled crash of surf on the ledges and the whisper of falling snow.'  Poor people.  It's what happens with alternative energy.  Such a scam.  It's all such a scam." 

In 2008, Limbaugh said "basically we will find out in a few years after we struggle through this process and after we watch what has been going on in Europe that wind power is the next ethanol. In other words, it doesn't really work. It was a nice try. We wasted billions on it."

On today's (Monday February 15, 2010) Sean Hannity show, Hannity said:
"2 billion dollars has been spent on wind power.  Now the goal supposedly was to further energy-independence while creating American jobs, and as Investors Business Daily points out, it has done neither.  "Of the money spent, according to the report, nearly 80% has gone to foreign manufacturers of wind turbines" (Investors Business Daily).