When it comes to news, much as comedy, timing is everything -- and it's clear the good folks at the New York Times don't have it.
On Saturday, the Times published an op-ed by graphics director Charles M. Blow carping and whining about the now infamous Democrat presidential debate broadcast on ABC Wednesday, and, in particular, that no time was spent talking about climate change.
Well, Charles, maybe that's because in an ABC poll that was embargoed until 11:35 PM Thursday, exactly ZERO respondents felt global warming was the single most important issue in their choice for president.
Zero!
Alas, that didn't prevent Blow from blowing his top concerning the matter (emphasis added, h/t Chris Horner):
The League of Conservation Voters, an environmental watchdog group, reports that in the debates in which five Sunday-morning television anchors — George Stephanopoulos, Tim Russert, Wolf Blitzer, Chris Wallace and Bob Schieffer — have participated (17 in total) and in their major interviews with the candidates (176 in total) only eight of the 2,372 questions asked have mentioned global warming or climate change.
That omission is baffling because the environment has become a big issue for Americans. Nearly 6 in 10 people responding to a Pew Research Center poll in January said that protecting the environment and dealing with energy problems should be top priorities.
Well, but as the Competitive Enterprise Institute's Myron Ebell wrote me concerning this matter (with permission):
The 6 in 10 Pew poll result cited as evidence is nearly all based on worries over high gas prices. Count me as among the 6.
Me, too. But I digress:
Apparently, the moderators didn’t get the message. Instead they revived a more trivial issue, allowing a question that called Mr. Obama’s patriotism into question for not wearing a flag pin on his lapel. Better to have tied patriotism to the environment and ask whose global warming plan will best ensure that no one will ever have to go to Lower Manhattan and point to the spot in the water where ground zero used to be.
Ummm, maybe they DID get the message, Charles -- from their OWN POLLING!!!
Instead, it is clearly YOU that didn't get the message publishing this piece on Saturday DESPITE what ABC revealed Thursday evening.
As CEI's Chris Horner wrote me:
I wonder if this guy is able to feel silly. If so, now's a good time.
Hehehe.
—Noel Sheppard is the Associate Editor of NewsBusters. Follow him at Facebook and Twitter.
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I need to hibernate like this
April 19, 2008 - 11:09 ET by dboHmmm. Artic polar bears listening to tunes, having a few "pops" and barbecuing Antarctic penguins. Standby for a letter from PETA.
These Global Warming
April 19, 2008 - 11:14 ET by SvenAlarmists have Jumped the shark on this issue. I believe people have had this tripe shoved down their throats for so long, we've stopped listening to these folks.
I'll just bet you a "new study" will be reported by the NYT indicating that our demise from Global WArming is now "even closer than expected!!" Honestly, these alarmists are like children. When they think they're not being listened to (and they're not!), they scream even louder!
What a bunch of losers!
Actually, I've heard the
April 19, 2008 - 11:14 ET by ThisnThatActually, I've heard the NYT is working on how to word a poll that shows the NYT is increasing in popularity and readership!
As for this poll, all it does is give the MSM its talking points until November -- slam the economy; link the economy to Bush; link Bush to McCain; and suppress any and all positive stories coming out of Iraq.
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here's a legitimate increase
April 19, 2008 - 11:31 ET by mom_roxThere has been a increase of unsolicited New York Times subscriptions in my mailbox. (gasp, they're resorting to subscriptions in 'flyover country'!)
A government that robs Peter to pay Paul can always depend on the support of Paul.
- George Bernard Shaw, 1944
Global Warming
April 19, 2008 - 16:16 ET by merlin61Ya think maybe cuz we had a really, really cold
winter and spring, that's why people don't want
to hear about global warming? Australia had a
cold summer, Canada set records for snowfall,
Alaska set records for snowfall, etc..etc.etc.
<Alaska set records for
April 20, 2008 - 08:03 ET by Seabeach4348<Alaska set records for snowfall, etc....>
But the enviro-weenies are still reporting that the polar caps are melting at an "unprecedented rate".
Go figure.
Mmmmm.....
April 19, 2008 - 11:21 ET by heldmywCrispy, imported penguin! All the way from Antarctica!
The polar bear economy must be doing well...
Seriously, the holes punched in the Globull Warming Scam are big enough to pitch a barbecued polar bear through. Even the liberal CBC, Canada's PBS, is reporting it.
http://www.cbc.ca/te...
So that thing that hit Al on the head was NOT the sky falling.
Pelosi/Gingrich--Sharpton/Robertson
April 19, 2008 - 11:40 ET by iveseenitallHave you seen the "commercials" on the couch at the beach? Now Pelosi and Gingrich have joined the other two making fools of themselves about "Global Warming". Looks like anyone will do anything to get face time. But what's new? On the serious side, hold on to your wallets. The "elites" are not giving up on this canard. They seem to know instinctively that there's a sucker born every minute and that there's plenty of bucks to be made fooling many of the people much of the time.
NEVER,NEVER trust a "liberal"
is that a bear market??? (groan)
April 19, 2008 - 11:47 ET by mom_roxnoel - where did you get the picture?
A government that robs Peter to pay Paul can always depend on the support of Paul.
- George Bernard Shaw, 1944
AGW garbage
April 19, 2008 - 12:06 ET by dboObviously those bears didn't read this nonsense:
http://www.biologicaldiversity.org/news/press_releases/2008/penguins-02-27-2008.html
Bedfellows
April 19, 2008 - 12:02 ET by okiehawk44Newt and Nancy should tell us the level of their respective investment in the new global warming histeria. These are two of the "elites" that look down on the rest of us because they are worth millions and believe the rest of us are suckers. Newt and Nancy are not on opposite sides when money is to be made. They buy into the old saying "...you can never be rich enough..." I'll wager that N&N are in up to their necks with Algore et al in the business side of "climate change" (aka global warming or global cooling in the '70s or holes in the ozones layers in the '80s) and don't really believe the crap they are slinging.
"Better to have tied
April 19, 2008 - 12:21 ET by ckc1227"Better to have tied patriotism to the environment and ask whose global
warming plan will best ensure that no one will ever have to go to Lower
Manhattan and point to the spot in the water where ground zero used to
be."
My cat has a plan that will solve this problem. It's called having no plan, because no plan is necessary to solve this made-up catastrophe.
Arctic sea ice back to its previous level, no film at 11
April 19, 2008 - 12:54 ET by Army Brathttp://wattsupwithth...
Some great stuff there about Gore lifting pics without permission. How do you know when Gore is lying? yeah .... we know...his lips move.
Happy Trails...
nice link AB “i am
April 19, 2008 - 12:59 ET bynice link AB
“i am the quixotic botg and i approved this message”
The Arctic Ice always comes back in Winter
April 19, 2008 - 17:56 ET by PopularTechArctic - Arctic Winter Ice 1979-2006 (Animation) (NASA)
The Anti 'Man-Made' Global Warming Resource
Thar he Blows
April 19, 2008 - 13:12 ET by Jack BauerBut according to Blow and his ilk the debate is over. So what's HIS problem?
What I find most astounding
April 19, 2008 - 13:23 ET by NL207What I find most astounding is that vast numbers of liberal nincompoops like Blow actually believe that Mankind can exert some kind of control over the climate of this planet. The magnitude of hubris and ignorance demonstrated by this belief never ceases to amaze me. Our ability to affect the climate has been so slight as to nearly defy the power of modern metrology to measure it. All that man has done on this planet to date cannot have exceeded 0.9 degree K, and when known natural causes are accounted, certainly does not exceed 0.45 K.
Have faith, us heretics (Skeptics) are making progress.
April 19, 2008 - 15:46 ET by CrashI knew the the average person was smarter than the average politician ... just not smarter than a 5th grader!
I couldn't believe it when 20/20 featured a story on gloom & doom Hollywood exaggerations - they actually pointed out the glacier shot in Gores earth snuff film was fake (CGI). If only they would take it a step further and critique the rest of his "scientific" leaps & lies.
Great pic, Noel.
April 20, 2008 - 12:10 ET by R D HelmBet the PETA crowd has its panties in a bunch over that one. :-)
Theme for Election '08: Who cares?