USA Today published this lede from White House reporter Gregory Korte without the slightest bit of irony about carbon footprints:
WASHINGTON — President Obama will log more than 14,000 miles on Air Force One over the next 11 days in a climate change tour that will take him from the desert West to the Gulf of Mexico to the Arctic Circle.
The headline on Tuesday was "Obama to speak 'frankly' on 11-day climate change tour."
Most of the Korte article merely describes the speeches the president is planning to make on this climate-change lecture tour in Las Vegas, New Orleans, and Alaska – making USA Today a stenographer to power, which they can’t abide when the president’s a Republican. Then he quotes from an official White House video from earlier this month, which is also the pull quote on page 2A:
"I'm going because Alaskans are on the front lines of one of the greatest challenges we face this century: Climate change," Obama said in a video released by the White House. "It's our wake up call. The alarm bells are ringing, and as long as I'm president, America will lead the world to meet this threat before it's too late."
The story only stops being a press release in the last two paragraphs, where Obama is criticized from the left for not being progressive enough by Franz Matzner, “director of the Beyond Oil Initiative of the Natural Resources Defense Council. the Natural Resources Defense Council.”
Obama is yet to be Beyond Jet Fuel.
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