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  four great links from the not so great

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  2 days ago in that veiled gazelle... · Authority: 6

  drudge report. hate to love it, but really, love to hate it. the photo below sums up the tone quite well. tons of misinformation on there, but undoubtedly the most influential political news aggregate. quite conservative, but oddly... oddly. anyway, below the picture are four great links from drudge report today. michael moore is making a sequel to farenheit 9/11! why is this great? because the first film was awesome and there is so much more evidence these days to support both the original premise and further impeachables... the vatican says it's o.k. to believe in aliens! why is this great? the money quote. "ruling out the existence of aliens would be like "putting limits" on God's creative freedom". ah, so are they saying that the nephilim are aliens, then? oliver stone bush film highly critical of bush! why is this great? while stone has come under fire by our resident conspiracy buff for royally misleading folks in the j.f.k. movie, he was poised to make a "respecting" portrait of bush. not the case, apparently. libertarian candidate bob barr in it to win it! why is this great? well, among other things, he is a lot more likely to take votes away from mccain than from obama. that's because libertarian is "anarchism" for yuppie scum AND because barr is pro drug war and anti gay and DEFENDS white supremacists.
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  http://www.alternet.org/module/email/?storyID=85081&type=blo...
  1 day ago in Environment | AlterNet · Authority: 94

  Share and save this post: Got a tip for a post?: Email us | Anonymous form Get Environment in your mailbox! Conservatives Doctor Gore Audio Clip Posted by Steve Benen, The Carpetbagger Report on May 11, 2008 at 4:00 PM. It sure would make political attacks easier if we could take interviews from people we don't like, rearrange their words to make them say what we want to hear, and then attack them for it. Sure, it would be deceptive and unethical, but just think how much more efficient smear campaigns could be. Why wait for a rival to say something controversial when we can make them say something controversial? This week, for example, Al Gore appeared on NPR, and talked a bit about global warming and natural disasters. Business & Media Institute (BMI), a far-right outfit backed by activist Brent Bozell, thought it best to splice the interview together, to make Gore say something he didn't say. Wonk Room's Brad Johnson has the story. One week ago, Tropical Cyclone Nargis struck Burma, tracing an unprecedented path of devastation across this poor nation of 55 million, called Myanmar by its military dictatorship. On May 6, Jeff Poor wrote for the Business & Media Institute (BMI) a story entitled, "Al Gore Calls Myanmar Cyclone a "Consequence" of Global Warming," which was subsequently linked on the Drudge Report. Read the rest of the post on the flip side » AlterNet Home » Post Tools:
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  MRC Caught Pushing Distorted Attack on Gore

  http://conwebwatch.tripod.com/blog/index.blog?entry_id=18134...
  1 day ago in ConWebBlog: The Weblog of ConWebWatch · Authority: 44

  The Wonk Room details how a May 6 item by Jeff Poor at the MRC's Business & Media Institute misleadingly asserted that Al Gore claimed on NPR's "Fresh Air" that the cyclone in Myanmar/Burma was a "consequence" of global warming: The audio clip included with the online story includes two segments that have been spliced together, out of order, to mislead the listener as to Gore’s actual meaning. The actual transcript (see below) makes it clear Gore was saying that the “consequences” of global warming we’re seeing was the melting of the polar ice cap, which is unequivocally due to anthropogenic climate change. In fact, Gore said in the "Fresh Air" interview that "any individual storm can’t be linked singularly to global warming – we’ve always had hurricanes." Poor notes it in his BMI article but doesn't see it as contradicting his assertion that Gore is "[u]sing tragedy to advance an agenda." Poor's BMI article now notes a "clarification" that "The original audio for this story included two accurate audio clips but placed in the incorrect order. They are now included on this story as separate clips." Poor posted a version of his article at NewsBusters, but it doesn't mention that Gore said that "any individual storm can’t be linked singularly to global warming," it contains the original misleading out-of-order audio clip, and it contains no "clarification."
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  Fox News: ‘Blame Al Gore For Your Rising Food Prices’

  http://politics.nuovoportale.com/fox-news-%e2%80%98blame-al-...
  2 days ago in News portal: politics best aggregator of the net · Authority: 8

  Yesterday on Fox News’s Hannity’s America, host Sean Hannity attempted to blame Al Gore for skyrocketing global food prices: But how did the food shortage become so acute so fast? The growing consensus is that the crop deficit is directly related to the increased demand for production of, quote, “earth friendly” bio fuels, an effort pushed by none other than the vanquished vice president Al Gore and all in the name of quote, “saving the planet.” Fox News also promoted the segment on its website with the headline, “Gore’s Grocery: Blame Al Gore for your rising food prices.” Watch it: var flvgorehannfood32024023132 = new SWFObject('/wp-content/plugins/flvplayer.swf?file=http://video.thinkprogress.org/2008/05/gorehannfood.320.240.flv&autoStart=false', 'em-flvgorehannfood32024023132', '320', '260', '6', '#ffffff'); flvgorehannfood32024023132.addParam('quality', 'high'); flvgorehannfood32024023132.addParam('wmode', 'transparent'); flvgorehannfood32024023132.write('flvgorehannfood32024023132'); Hannity pins ethanol production — and hence, the entire food crisis — on Gore by pointing to a 1998 statement in which the then-vice president said he was “proud to stand up for the ethanol tax exemption when it was under attack in Congress.” But as Ellen at News Hounds points out, Hannity failed to mention that more recently, Gore has endorsed cellulosic ethanol over corn-based ethanol. Additionally, there is no one cause for the food shortage. Biofuel production has been a factor but is not solely responsible. The real culprits are: changing diets, global warming and drought, high energy costs, and investors fleeing the dollar and going into commodities. Later in the segment, Hannity once again attempted to smear Gore by falsely stating that he said Tropical Cyclone Nargis was a consequence of “global warming.” As The Wonk Room’s Brad Johnson pointed out, this allegation is based on a doctored clip of an NPR interview with Gore. Digg It! Transcript: (more…)
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  Before the truth has a chance to get its boots on [Deltoid]

  http://scienceblogs.com/deltoid/2008/05/before_the_truth_has...
  2 days ago in ScienceBlogs · Authority: 15

  Jeff Poor of Business & Media Institute spliced the audio of al Al Gore interview to turn a statement that Arctic melting was a consequence of global warming: And we're seeing consequences that scientists have long predicted might be associated with continued global warming. The entire north polar ice cap, normally the size the lower 48 states, give or take an Arizona, is melting before our eyes. 40 percent melted in the last twenty years. And in the summer months, it could be completely gone, in one scientific estimate, in as little as five years. into a claim that Gore never made, that the cyclone that hit Burma was a consequence of global warming. the death count in Myanmar from the cyclone that hit there yesterday has been rising from 15,000 to way on up there to much higher numbers now being speculated. And last year a catastrophic storm from last fall hit Bangladesh. The year before, the strongest cyclone in more than 50 years hit China - and we're seeing consequences that scientists have long predicted might be associated with continued global warming. It's also important to note that the emerging consensus among the climate scientists is although any individual storm can't be linked singularly to global warming - we've always had hurricanes. Nevertheless, the trend toward more Category 5 storms - the larger ones and trend toward stronger and more destructive storms appears to be linked to global warming and specifically to the impact of global warming on higher ocean temperatures in the top couple of hundred feet of the ocean, which drives convection energy and moisture into these storms and makes them more powerful. After Poor's fraudulent story was linked by Drudge lots of Gore haters blogged about it. So how many of them have posted corrections? Read the rest of this post... | Read the comments on this post...
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  Asking the right questions

  http://www.postnormaltimes.net/blog/archives/2008/05/asking_...
  2 days ago in The Post-Normal Times · Authority: 2

  So, are cyclones that strike densely populated coastal areas that are losing their wetlands sent by God as punishment for sin? Or are they the consequences of human induced global warming? And did Al Gore really say that? (no) Can the media, get anyone to pay attention to them, or to anything important, without a smoking gun? and will they always find one even if it has to be fabricated? Which, of course, provides a smoking gun for the blogs, this one included. Or perhaps this all just nonsense, intentionally generated to distract the public from the incapacity and even in some cases unwillingness of some governments to respond to extreme events? Which is the very definition of a disaster and, supposedly, the reason we form governments. And I'm not just talking about Nargis. (For more on Nargis see this NYT article- thankfully, aid does slowly seem to be trickling in, and there are organizations that have somehow managed to have a presence. And this one by Andrew Revkin about the dangers of living in a Delta and why people do it anyway, and lack of preparation.) The real stories about the so called "climate skeptics, or Katrina or Nargis, are much more complex than a "who dunnit" tale, with many shades, not necessarily all grey. Ben Wisner has written some reflections on attention to disasters, in context of the response to Nargis and other kinds of calamities that are all around us, in which he makes a case for the need to better understand such nuances, if we are to respond more effectively. We can talk about restoring mangroves later.
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  Before the truth has a chance to get its boots on

  http://scienceblogs.com/deltoid/2008/05/before_the_truth_has...
  2 days ago in Deltoid · Authority: 28

  Before the truth has a chance to get its boots on Category: Global Warming Jeff Poor of Business & Media Institute spliced the audio of an Al Gore interview to turn a statement that Arctic melting was a consequence of global warming: And we're seeing consequences that scientists have long predicted might be associated with continued global warming. The entire north polar ice cap, normally the size the lower 48 states, give or take an Arizona, is melting before our eyes. 40 percent melted in the last twenty years. And in the summer months, it could be completely gone, in one scientific estimate, in as little as five years. into a claim that Gore never made, that the cyclone that hit Burma was a consequence of global warming. the death count in Myanmar from the cyclone that hit there yesterday has been rising from 15,000 to way on up there to much higher numbers now being speculated. And last year a catastrophic storm from last fall hit Bangladesh. The year before, the strongest cyclone in more than 50 years hit China - and we're seeing consequences that scientists have long predicted might be associated with continued global warming. It's also important to note that the emerging consensus among the climate scientists is although any individual storm can't be linked singularly to global warming - we've always had hurricanes. Nevertheless, the trend toward more Category 5 storms - the larger ones and trend toward stronger and more destructive storms appears to be linked to global warming and specifically to the impact of global warming on higher ocean temperatures in the top couple of hundred feet of the ocean, which drives convection energy and moisture into these storms and makes them more powerful. After Poor's fraudulent story was linked by Drudge lots of Gore haters blogged about it. So how many of them have posted corrections?

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