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Politics : I Will Continue to Continue, to Pretend....
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To: Sully- who wrote (11008)6/9/2005 8:28:19 PM
From: Sully-   of 35834
 
Press Patterns

Sigh of the Times

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Stephen Spruiell Reporting

There’s an excellent round-up over at Timeswatch.org on the New York Times’ non-coverage of Howard Dean’s “white Christian party” remarks. You’ll just have to imagine what the front page of the Times would look like if any Republican used similar language to describe all Democrats.

The Media Research Center, which puts Timeswatch together, also picked up on the fact that NBC, MSNBC and CNN all picked up the Times front page article, “Bush Aide Edited Climate Reports: Ex-Oil Lobbyist Softened Greenhouse Gas Links,” and regurgitated it uncritically. I asked Pat Michaels, Cato Institute senior fellow and contributing author and reviewer to the United Nations’ Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, why this was such big news? Michaels, whose work has demonstrated the weakness of models used to simulate climate change, had the following reaction:

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To act like there is this big horror show that the Bush Administration wanted to point out the uncertainties in global climate models is baffling. Is there gambling going on in Las Vegas too? I’m shocked, shocked that an administration would try to impose its synthesis of a complicated issue on that issue, rather than merely letting all the conflicting interests synthesize it for them.
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I think he was kidding.

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