The Washington Post‘s Howard Kurtz spends his Sunday mornings as the host of Reliable Sources, the media criticism show on CNN. Yesterday (12/13/09), one segment concerned the Washington Post‘s decision to print an op-ed (12/9/09) on “Climategate” by Sarah Palin.
It prompted this exchange with guest John Aravosis of Americablog:
ARAVOSIS: What newspapers aren’t supposed to do is present an issue that’s already decided as being a he said/she said of, hey, half the people say yes, half the people say no.
KURTZ: So you say it’s already decided.
ARAVOSIS: Ninety percent of scientists believe global warming is manmade.
KURTZ: And Sarah Palin has said that manmade activity contributes to global warming.
I’m not sure where Palin said that, but in her Post op-ed she wrote this:
But while we recognize the occurrence of these natural, cyclical environmental trends, we can’t say with assurance that man’s activities cause weather changes.
Odd how the right is still so paranoid about the “left”, I understood from all the neos that we “had defeated” all those commies.
It is comical how these left over commie fighters still can’t see past their right wing ids.
Puiblishing anything by (Annie Oakley) Palin is equivalent to picking up her fairy tales from the Inquirer or the N.Y. Post; or maybe some TV Bollywood script not to mention the Conservative Demogogues who want to crown her…
I agree with the guy that said “that you don’t put scientific knowledge up for debate. Palin has obtained millions of dollars for Alaska (and maybe for her campaigns) from the oil industry. She has a vested finanical interest in maintaining the status quo, regardless how is harms the environment or future generations. I can’t believe anyone is listening to her.