Obama, as Jester Before the Queen, Simpers for Genocidalist Attenborough

In an unprecedented debasing of the Presidency, Barack Obama lowered himself to the level of TV presenter for the British Empire, interviewing Sir David Attenborough in the White House for BBC’s June 28 hour-long program on “BBC America.” His lavish praises of the genocidalist (“I grew up on your films,” “We’re honored to have you here,” etc.) were exceeded during the program only by the BBC narrator’s own exaltation of the “great man,” Attenborough.

Embellished by the most expensive, “feel-good” videos of exotic animals, fish and corals, Obama unveiled a new, right-side-floor teleprompter for his questions. He offered insightful comment, such as, “We’re not doing a very good job of dealing with climate change,” and “Climate is changing faster than our efforts to address it.” He said his two teenaged daughters “don’t have any doubts about the science of climate change”—that presumably was supposed to settle the matter. Attenborough enthused that, “young people understand that our species has no right to destroy and despoil the Earth,” and cited Kenya (pop. density: 26/sq. km compared to U.K.: 116/sq. km) as exemplary that “population growth is one of our huge problems.”

Here is the man whom the debased imposter president was interviewing so gushingly. Attenborough gave the keynote speech at the Royal Society for Music and Art conference, in March 2011, presided over personally by Prince Philip, for whom Attenborough is a senior advisor:

“It remains an obvious and brutal fact that on a finite planet, human population will quite definitely stop at some point. And that can only happen in one of two ways. It can happen sooner, by fewer human births — in a word, by contraception…. The alternative is an increased death rate, the way which all other creatures must suffer, through famine or disease or predation. That translated into human terms means famine or disease or war over oil or water or food or minerals or grazing rights or just living space. There is, alas, no third alternative of indefinite growth….

“We now realize that the disasters that continue increasingly to afflict the natural world have one element that connects them all — the unprecedented increase in the number of human beings on this planet, as Malthus warned. But no one proposes the necessary measures to curb human population, which makes every problem worse….

“There are over 100 countries whose combinations of numbers and affluence have already pushed them past the sustainable level…. It is tragic that the only current population policies in developed countries are, perversely, attempting to increase their birth rate, in order to look after the growing number of old people. The notion of ever more old people needing ever more young people, who will in turn grow old and need even more young people, and so on, ad infinitum, is an obvious ecological Ponzi scheme….”

What then, when the “BBC America” narrator purred, “He and President Obama agree that population growth is one of the major issues in today’s world.”