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Sen. Inhofe Wants To Ease 'Desperation' Of Pilots Faced With FAA 'Overreach'

Jillian Rayfield | July 6, 2011, 1:19PM

Sen. James Inhofe, R-Ok., speaks at the FRC's Values Voter Summit in Washington on Friday, Sept. 17, 2010

Sen. James Inhofe (R-OK) is pushing a bill that would protect pilots from "agency overreach" by the Federal Aviation Administration, in response to his own experience at the mercy of the FAA after he "scared the crap out of" airport workers last year when he landed his Cessna on a closed runway.

"I was never fully appreciative of the feeling of desperation until it happened to me," he said.

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Topics: Federal Aviation Administration, James Inhofe

Sen. Inhofe 'Scared The Crap Out Of' Airport Workers

Eric Lach | April 13, 2011, 11:16AM

Sen. Jim Inhofe (R-OK)

According to Federal Aviation Administration documents and audiotapes obtained by The Smoking Gun, Sen. James Inhofe (R-OK) "scared the crap out of" airport workers at Cameron County Airport in South Texas last October, when he landed his Cessna on a closed runway.

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Topics: James Inhofe

James Inhofe

Inhofe Defends Ivory Coast Strongman With 'Happy Face' (VIDEO)

Ryan J. Reilly | April 12, 2011, 6:30PM

Sen. Jim Inhofe (R-OK) and Laurent Gbagbo, former President of Côte d'Ivoire.

President Barack Obama called Alassane Ouattara, the democratically elected president of the west African nation Ivory Coast, on Tuesday to congratulate him on assuming his duties. According to a White House readout, Obama told Ouattara that the United States would be a strong partner as Ouattara "forms an inclusive government, promotes reunification and reconciliation, and responds to the current humanitarian situation."

At about the same time, Sen. James Inhofe (R-OK) was on the floor of the Senate backing Laurent Gbagbo, the incumbent president who refused to step down from his office after losing an internationally certified election in November.

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Topics: James Inhofe, Laurent Gbagbo

Andy Schlafly

Rachel Maddow: 'The War On Brains Is Still Being Waged Every Day' (VIDEO)

Megan Carpentier | August 11, 2010, 9:39AM

Last night, Rachel Maddow picked up on TPMmuckraker's reporting that Conservapedia founder Andy Schlafly considers Einstein's Theory of Relativity -- which encompasses the famous equation E=mc² -- part of a liberal conspiracy. As she noted, Schlafly is in good company.

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Topics: Andy Schlafly, Conservapedia, James Inhofe, Joe Barton, Mike Pence, Rachel Maddow, Sharron Angle

Barbara Boxer

Chamber: We Want To Help On Climate Change -- Really!

Zachary Roth | November 4, 2009, 10:00AM

It looks like the Chamber of Commerce is concerned that it be seen as willing to play a constructive role in the coming Senate debate over climate change legislation -- whatever the reality.

That's the message to be drawn from a letter that the business lobby sent -- and posted on its website -- to Senators Barbara Boxer (D-CA) and James Inhofe (R-OK) yesterday.

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Topics: Barbara Boxer, Chamber of Commerce, Global Warming, James Inhofe

Barack Obama

Rep. Barton: Obama Should Be Worried About "Carbongate"

Pete Martin | July 2, 2009, 12:25PM

Yesterday we wrote about Environmental Protection Agency economist Al Carlin, the author of a report that casts doubt on climate change. Carlin's study wasn't taken as seriously by the agency as he'd been hoping -- perhaps because he's not a scientist, and because his bosses never asked him to produce it.

But his cause has become a favorite of right-wingers, who suddenly believe science to be sacred, and are charging that the Obama administration is "suppressing" a report whose conclusions it dislikes. The anti-regulatory Competitive Enterprise Institute first publicized Carlin's report last week. Since then, Carlin has discussed his "findings" with Glenn Beck on Fox News, and on Monday, Sen. James Inhofe (R-OK) called for a criminal investigation into the issue.

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Topics: Barack Obama, Global Warming, James Inhofe, Right-wing extremism

James Inhofe

Inhofe Aide To Launch New Global Warming Denialist Website

Zachary Roth | April 10, 2009, 5:35PM

Remember Marc Morano?

He's the staffer for Sen. James Inhofe (R-OK) who's turned himself into the go-to guy for climate change denialism, sending out an email barrage to activists, journalists, Hill aides and others, in which he aggregates every misleading and flat-out false piece of "evidence" he can find to support the notion that, despite what scientists say, global warming really isn't something to worry about.

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Topics: Global Warming, James Inhofe

Fred Barnes

Barnes' Source For Global Warming Denialism?

Zachary Roth | February 10, 2009, 1:31PM

Yesterday, we told you about how Fred Barnes has learned that global warming isn't man made -- but won't tell us where he got this startling information.

But luckily, it looks like Dave Roberts of the environmental news site Grist knows the answer. Roberts writes:

Barnes gets his information on climate change the same place everyone in the right-wing media world gets it: from Marc Morano, the in-house blogger/agitator for Sen. James Inhofe (R-Okla.).

Apparently, Morano is the point man for the fringe movement of global warming deniers.

Morano's entire job is to aggregate every misleading factoid, every attack on climate science or scientists, every crank skeptical statement from anyone in the world and send it all out periodically in email blasts that get echoed throughout the right-wing blog world and eventually find their way into places like Fox News and the Weekly Standard. From there they go, via columnists like George Will and Charles Krauthammer, into mainstream outlets like Newsweek and the Washington Post.

That's where Barnes gets it. That's where Glenn Beck gets it, and Lou Dobbs, and Will, and Krauthammer, and all the rest of them.

We've written about Morano -- a former producer for the Rush Limbaugh show -- before. In November 2006, he attended a UN conference on global warming on Inhofe's behalf, prompting the senator to label the confab a "brain-washing session."

Thank God we've found Barnes' source! With any luck, Morano will be able to pass his findings on to policy-makers in time to make sure they don't do anything to address global warming, since it turns out to be all a big mistake. That was close though!