March 12, 2007
Interesting....
The New York Times takes on the emerging controversy among scientists of a certain documentary made by the fat guy who, while not actually being a scientist, plays one in the movies.
Remember, there's nothing to see here, and when Al Gore notes that, "He said that after 30 years of trying to communicate the dangers of global warming, “I think that I’m finally getting a little better at it" you better pretend to believe every last word.
Because Al Gore was down with global warming a decade and a half before global warming was, umm, cool.
Posted by Steve-O at March 12, 2007 08:19 PM | TrackBackHow come the article doesn't list the 2500 scientists that think he did a good job? The bias of even-handedness...
Posted by: LB Buddy at March 13, 2007 08:32 AMAh yes, the New York Times--part of the Right Wing Noise Machine.
I think the point was that "Consensus" is not as universal as portrayed post-Oscar, and that "some" of the claims were perhaps a wee bit hyperbolic---like the movie poster itself.
Posted by: Steve the LLamabutcher at March 13, 2007 08:41 AMYes, the pro-war, pro-corporate NYT...
Posted by: LB Buddy at March 13, 2007 01:48 PMOn an absolute linear scale, those somewhere to the left of Trotsky would certainly see the NYT as being to the right.
But then they tended to see Stalin as being right wing, and Lenin as a centrist sell-out.
(Which says far more about those who see it that way than it does about the NYT...)
Posted by: Steve the LLamabutcher at March 13, 2007 02:11 PMWe have now set the "acceptable" political dialog from center-right to far right.
To paraphrase a quote I can no longer source, the NYT has never seen a war it didn't like, or a strike it did.
Posted by: LB Buddy at March 14, 2007 09:30 AM
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