Shooting the Messenger

  • Posted by smijer
  • August 14, 2006

Update: It appars the accusations against Gore in the Schweizer article mentioned in this post were mainly false.

Is it Tuesday morning yet? Has Neal Boortz updated his Nuze page yet? If not, then hold on a while longer. I’m posting this Monday, but having read this hit-piece from Sunday’s USAToday, courtesy of the Hoover Institution (Institution, indeed!)… I have no question about what will be appearing on Tuesday’s Nuze page.

All I ask is that the reader note the simple fact that there is not one substantive argument against the scientific consensus view on global warming given in Peter Schweizer’s article. I submit that this is because neither he, nor anyone else in the anti-conservation movement, has a susbstantive argument to make against the scientific view. Because they wish for Americans to disbelieve the science, and because they are unable to make a compelling case for why Americans should disbelieve the science, they are hoping to silence the story by shooting the messenger. Americans don’t know the names or views of climate scientists. If they can destroy (rightly or wrongly) Al Gore’s credibility in the minds of an audience that is just beginning to pay attention, they can keep the facts obscured for a while longer. I don’t think they should be allowed to succeed.

I wrote another dkos diary.

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Written by:
smijer
Posted on:
August 15, 2006 at 6:29 pm

P.S. I guess Boortz made a liar of me. No mention of Al Gore on today’s Nuze.

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Written by:
RW
Posted on:
August 16, 2006 at 8:39 am

To wrongly predict something isn’t a lie. Besides, the week isn’t over yet & there’s too much other material for him thus far.

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Buck
Posted on:
August 17, 2006 at 11:51 am

Didn’t Osama Obama or whatever his name is in Illinois get caught ranting about global warming and then driving away in a Hummer or something like that?

Seems like I read somebody somewhere was on his ass about it.

If we don’t hurry up and get a hurricane this season global warming is going to be set back 100 years in the minds of the general public.

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Written by:
smijer
Posted on:
August 17, 2006 at 12:47 pm

Buck, maybe we need to send some tourists to China.

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Buck
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August 17, 2006 at 5:01 pm

You’ll never convince the Chinese of global warming. Capitalism is just now starting to rock and roll over there. Melting ice ain’t gonna convince them of anything. They’re busy wheelin’ and dealin’

But Americans are ripe for the picking man. All we need is a couple of CAT 5’s to come right up the gut and we will be sold on the concept.

It is that close.

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Tête-à-Tête-Tête » Blog Archive » Good Gore News
Posted on:
August 17, 2006 at 9:28 pm

[...] It appears that I will have to add an update to this post. But none of that tirade is true. And many kossacks, instead of asking where from the hell Schweitzer got those “facts” jumped to conclusion and called Gore a hypocrite themselves. [...]