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George Will Bamboozling Again On Global Warming
Zachary Roth | October 1, 2009, 5:01PM
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With efforts to stop climate change back in the news, the Washington Post's George Will has re-started his efforts to bamboozle on the topic.
In a new column, Will denounces the "alarmists" on the issue, and, as if this were 1987, calls for "a national commission appointed to assess the evidence about climate change." Seriously.
There's nothing that appears to be narrowly factually incorrect in the column -- which will no doubt make Fred Hiatt, the Post's op-ed page editor, feel fine about running it. It's more just that the entire thing exhibits a willful refusal to accept a scientific consensus that -- despite the desperate protestations of the right -- in fact formed some time ago.
And after TPMmuckraker and numerous others called Will out earlier this year for misleading Post readers on the issue, it's worth noting every time he wades back into the subject.
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sunnysteve
October 1, 2009 6:03 PM
And I bet he'd be pleased as punch to have the same national commission appointed to assess whether we want to do anything about healthcare.
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SPQR
October 1, 2009 6:06 PM
WP should have revoked Will's license to speak on the subject after he was called out. It hurts WP's credibility to continue letting this this idiot talk about a scientific phenomenon that he's already bumbled once.
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Xantar
October 1, 2009 8:31 PM in reply to SPQR
You speak as if the WaPo has credibility that can be hurt by having George Will on its payroll...
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fafner1
October 1, 2009 6:31 PM
It's sad, but Will appears to be arguing against the utility of a liberal arts education. He should have taken a few science courses while he was at Princeton and Oxford.
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haball3
October 1, 2009 7:16 PM
Just because George Will does not understand the science behind the consensus on global climate change does it mean that global climate change is not occurring? GW does not have any expertise to be commenting on this topic.
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clearthinker
October 1, 2009 8:22 PM
George Will doesn't mislead; George Will out and out lies. Look at this well-researched video:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EU_AtHkB4Ms
and please forward to everyone you know. Especially at the Washington Post.
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FlownOver
October 1, 2009 10:12 PM
A commission! Sure! That'll delay any imposition on Will's fellow plutocrats for years! Genius!
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Tomg802
October 1, 2009 11:38 PM
Has Will got anything right in the last 30 years?
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Armageddon T. Thunderbird
October 2, 2009 7:26 AM
I found this by author Kimberly Blaker....
Sociologists and psychologists have long studied the social and psychological needs, personality styles, and ramifications of conservatives and fundamentalists. Numerous empirical studies link conservatism and fundamentalism to an authoritarian personality style, and in turn, to many other unfavorable characteristics. This is visible not only in Islamic fundamentalist societies where Muslim states wield oft unreasonable and oppressive authority over human thought, behavior, and being, but in conservative or fundamentalist Catholic and Christian homes and churches in America.
I think this sums up George.
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Clavis
October 2, 2009 9:57 AM in reply to Armageddon T. Thunderbird
The pervasiveness of Right-Wing Authoritarianism amongst the conservative and Republican leadership circles today is impossible to ignore, and it is tremendously informative.
What other explanation for the sociopathic dishonesty, hypocrisy, self-pitying, demagoguery and hypertribalism exhibited by such loons as Sarah Palin and Michelle Bachmann? How else to explain the readiness people have to start from "Well, I don't know why, but I just don't trust that Barack Obama" straight to "I believe the radio voices that tell me Obama wants to take away all our freedoms and DESTROY AMERICA!!"?
Right-wing authoritarianism underlies many of the extremist mass movements of the past 10,000 years. The willingness Republican voters have to embrace a double-standard wherein their own tribe's members can always be forgiven and should always be given the benefit of a doubt while liberals are accused of every sin and assumed to be guilty is nothing more or less than right-wing authoritarianism in a 20th century form.
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DonDavis
October 2, 2009 9:30 AM
'Global Warming Denier' George Will Appears on 'This Week' with NO PANTS
http://satiricalpolitical.com/?p=1176
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fitsol
October 2, 2009 1:29 PM
George Will believes in global warming. He just has no integrity. He is like a politician who panders to his audience. He's a media whore.
http://hubpages.com/hub/Thats-Entertainment
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