Newsweek Admits 74 Percent of Gore Letters Are Critical, But Fails to Publish Any

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Newsweek has done it again: a few weeks after acknowledging half its letters were critical of Joe Biden (but publishing none of them), they proclaimed their Al Gore cover was unpopular. Forty-six percent of their letter writers wrote on the subject of Gore, and 74 percent of them were critical. Still, Newsweek ran only positive letters. The first, most prominent one (in larger red type) read: "Until each nation makes responsibility for this earth a priority, we will continue to devastate it – and ourselves."

The next letter praises Gore's courage and conscience, but still presses him from the left to crush the problem of human overpopulation:

As a six-continent bicycle traveler for the past 35 years, I admire Al Gore addressing climate change. However, he fails to highlight the basic factor accelerating it: human overpopulation. Either we address it, or Mother Nature will do it for us. – Frosty Wooldridge, Golden, Colo.

Then the reading gets really hair-curling. Lee Bidgood Jr of Gainesville, Florida compared global-warming deniers to people who denied the Holocaust:

Propaganda by global-warming skeptics and deniers reminds me of 1944, when as an Army officer I saw living skeletons in striped pajamas. Horror stories about Nazi concentration camps suddenly rang true. I wondered how intelligent people could commit such atrocities. History records the effectiveness of Joseph Goebbels's propaganda. I hope Al Gore and others can prevail over today's anti--science propaganda.

Newsweek even included a letter from a professional liberal complaining that all the goo for Gore was ruined by including an essay by Karl Rove. It was (as usual) an "unworthy" counterpoint: "Rove's essay repeats debunked claims about cap-and-trade systems and fails to offer an alternative method for significantly reducing carbon emissions to the levels scientists say are necessary. Rove's opinion piece was an unworthy counterpoint to Gore's serious call to action."

It was signed Aaron Huertas, Press Secretary, Union of Concerned Scientists, Washington, D.C.

—Tim Graham is Director of Media Analysis at the Media Research Center.


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Al "Goon" Gore

Of course 74% where negitive. Despite Gores harsh criticism about going ‘green’ and
conserving energy, his humble abode (20 room mansion with 8
bathrooms) right outside of Nashville, TN uses more energy in one month
than an average American home uses in an entire year. Gore is a total hypocrite and people know it. To read more on Gore click here http://thedailyzing.com/356/an-inconvenient-zing/

Newsweeks title is all wrong!!!

It should say "The lying man's lying man"!!!   the maggot!!

Mind-blowing ignorance

As a six-continent bicycle traveler for the past 35 years, I admire Al Gore addressing climate change. However, he fails to highlight the basic factor accelerating it: human overpopulation. Either we address it, or Mother Nature will do it for us. – Frosty Wooldridge, Golden, Colo.  How one travels on bicycle on six continents for 35 years, AND can still be virtually completely ignorant of the world around him, is beyond me.

"Global overpopulation problem"?  Tell that to Russia, Japan, several EU countries (I think only the UK is projected to grow in population by 2050), and others.  Indeed, Russia is going to go from 150 million to 100 million people by 2050. 

If I were to read this magazine, my hope for humanity would be destroyed instantly. 

"CONSUMED DEMOCRACY RETURNS A SOCIALIST REGIME" - Slayer, "Fictional Reality", from Divine Intervention (1994)

Holocaust deniers---

Bidgood from Florida says that as an Army officer he saw skeletons in pajamas in 1944---

Not likely, unless he was interned alongside them.

Concentration camps were liberated by U.S. forces in 1945.

Coulda been a typo, I guess.

MD

"There is no distinctly American criminal class - except Congress."

Mark Twain (1835-1910) 

As much as I hate replying to Unsane...

This is an exercise in mathematics.  It is designed to give you a perspective in proportions.  I did not consider habital land areas, the logistics or politics necessary to bring the world's population to Delaware.  Thank you.

Overpopulation?

The world's population (2008):  6,692,030,277

Square yards per square mile = 3,097,600

Square miles required to give each person in the world one square yard = 2,160.4

Square miles in Delaware = 2,026

Ergo, if you gave every human in the world one square yard to stand in, they would fit in an area a little larger than Delaware.

Think of that perspective.  The area of Delaware compared to the entire surface of the earth.

Think of this the next time someone says the world is overpopulated, that we have no room for our garbage, or that our activities (or solutions) will have a global impact on temperatures.

The problems we face on this earth are political, not physical.

Beauxdog

"Listening to you, I get the music. Gazing at you, I get the heat. Following you, I climb the mountains. I get excitement at your feet." Tommy - The Who (or is it the MSM?)

But think of this perspective.

But think of this perspective:  The area of Delaware isn't even large enough to house Unsane's ego.  Why do you think he resides in Texas?

Jer

Egos

If that is the case, why haven't I gone back to AK? 

"CONSUMED DEMOCRACY RETURNS A SOCIALIST REGIME" - Slayer, "Fictional Reality", from Divine Intervention (1994)

Because, Unsane...

the warmer TX climate expands your ego.  Those freezing Alaskan temps contract it--and er..um..other things.  :-)

Jer

Hmmm...

Seems you know a great deal about the physical characteristics of the ego.  From personal experience, perchance? 

"CONSUMED DEMOCRACY RETURNS A SOCIALIST REGIME" - Slayer, "Fictional Reality", from Divine Intervention (1994)

Fine and dandy...

This is just fine, as I once did a back of the envelope calculation and determined that the United States would have to have a population of 2 billion (I forget the exact number) to achieve the population density of Bangladesh.  The fact remains though that populations are in decline in many places, and that someone who has rode his bicycle on all six continents over the span of 35 years should know that...IF he allowed his travels to inform him.  Hell, I remember that in the 1980s the West German government was frightened to death of its shrinking population THEN because, at the very least, it meant fewer troops in the Bundeswehr.  (Then East Germany went away and the concern remained for different reasons, mainly for a shrinking tax base.) 

"CONSUMED DEMOCRACY RETURNS A SOCIALIST REGIME" - Slayer, "Fictional Reality", from Divine Intervention (1994)

I was supporting you...

not contradicting you.

Beauxdog 

"Listening to you, I get the music. Gazing at you, I get the heat. Following you, I climb the mountains. I get excitement at your feet." Tommy - The Who (or is it the MSM?)

Look how Walter Williams breaks down the numbers

Planet Earth is loaded with room. We could put the world's entire population into the United States. Doing so would make our population density 1,531 people per square mile. That's a far lower population density than what now exists in New York (11,440), Los Angeles (9,126) and Houston (7,512). The entire U.S. population could move to Texas and each family of four would enjoy 2.9 acres of land. If the entire world's population moved to Texas, California, Colorado and Alaska, each family of four would enjoy nine-tenths of an acre of land.

Stop right there

 The entire U.S. population could move to Texas and each family of four would enjoy 2.9 acres of land.  Hey, don't give the rest of America ideas!!!  :-)

"CONSUMED DEMOCRACY RETURNS A SOCIALIST REGIME" - Slayer, "Fictional Reality", from Divine Intervention (1994)

Frosty Wooldridge

Frosty Wooldridge...MMMMMM
November 16, 2009 - 05:08 ET by Paarl

now, I do not buy NEWSPEAK magazine nor do I open it in doctor's
offices nor do I sit down with it as a freebie at my local Borders....I
simply look at the cover and I calculate this weeks reduction in the
cumulative IQ at Newspeak Magazine.

But I do read Newsbusters and noticed that a Frosty Wooldridge was
one of the letter writers in response to the Al Gore cover story.  I
had heard that name before and wonder if he was identified in the
magazine...below is his Wikipedia Bio

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Frosty Wooldridge
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Jump to: navigation, search

Frosty Wooldridge (born 1947) is a US journalist, writer, environmentalist, traveler, and figure in the anti-illegal immigration movement in the United States.

Wooldridge attended Dougherty High School in Albany, Georgia and graduated with a BA in Journalism from Michigan State University in 1970, moving on to Grand Valley State University from which he graduated in English with a teaching certificate in 1973.

Wooldridge has had an active career in journalism, writing for
seventeen national and two international magazines. He has had
editorials published in national newspapers including the Rocky Mountain News, Denver Post, Albany Herald and Christian Science Monitor.
He wrote a column, "Crystal Desert Continent," for a newspaper in
Colorado while he lived in Antarctica. He has been featured as a guest
on The Political Cesspool, and also writes for News with Views, The Washington Dispatch and websites belonging to Jeff Rense and David Duke.[1]

Wooldridge has argued in favour of population control policies and has denounced the role of the Roman Catholic Church in opposing contraception and abortion. He has also criticized the Church's views on immigration policy.[2][3]
He has claimed that "overpopulation in the United States will become
the single greatest issue facing Americans in the 21st century."

//////////////////////

He is a bit of an eclectic thinker/writer...hard to identify as
right or left.  I beleive I first heard him on the Bob Grant radio show
in NY about 5/6 years ago.

Was he identified in the Newspeak Magazine letters section as an active environmentalist.???

 

Paarl of Rhodesia

As a six-continent bicycle

As a six-continent bicycle traveler for the past 35 years 

How much fuel has this bicyclist used getting to these 6 continents? Not only for him, but his equipment?

Having used all this fuel -- unnecessarily -- why is he complaining about "global warming"? Is he trying to tell me I should die so he can jaunt to another continent this year? My life in inconvenient for him? That I'm not quite as important as he is because I haven't biked on 6 continents? Just another typical loud-mouthed small-brained liberal who has no ability to see beyond his own nose.

__________
"mmm, mmm, mm. Barrack-Hussain-Øbama↓." - The liberals coolaid drinking song

Just as his most worshipful global warming alarmist uses MORE

electricity in his home - and flies around the world - a whole hell of a lot more than my husband and I do!!! 

And delights in preaching to us, you know, the knuckle-dragging great unwashed masses, to do without or send him $$$ if we want to take a shower for more than 3 minutes!

He is a most obnoxious man and I was happy to see all the protestors out in force in Palm Beach County letting him know just how much we appreciate his lying ways!

This comment comes from a proud Tea Party attendee, otherwise designated by Homeland Security as a Domestic Right Wing Terrorist!  And now by our president as a 'swiftboater' - both titles I'll wear proudly!    

It is no dishonor to be in a minority in the cause of liberty and virtue ~ Sam Adams

202.224.3121   LET CONGRESS HEAR THE ROAR OF THE SILENT MAJORITY!   

202.456.1111   WHITE HOUSE COMMENT LINE

 

Of course they didn't

Of course they didn't publish anything critical.  That 74% is just the product of the right-wing hate machine and ignorant climate-change deniers!  It was all probably astro-turf anyway.

Or so says the State-run media.

Excelsior!

Huertas Must Be 'Concerned' About His Investment In Alternative

...Energy And Grants From The Comrade In Chief;

"Warming fears are the “worst scientific scandal in history . . .When people come to know what the truth is, they will feel deceived by science and scientists.” – UN IPCC Japanese Scientist Dr. Kiminori Itoh, and award-winning PhD environmental physical chemist.

“The IPCC has actually become a closed circuit; it doesn’t listen to others. It doesn’t have open minds. . . I am really amazed that the Nobel Peace Prize has been given on scientifically incorrect conclusions by people who are not geologists.” – Indian Geologist Dr. Arun D. Ahluwalia at Punjab University and a board member of the UN-supported International Year of the Planet.

“It is a blatant lie put forth in the media that makes it seem there is only a fringe of scientists who don’t buy into anthropogenic global warming.” – U.S. Government Atmospheric Scientist Stanley B. Goldenberg of the Hurricane Research Division of NOAA.  

 

“Even doubling or tripling the amount of carbon dioxide will virtually have little impact, as water vapour and water condensed on particles as clouds dominate the worldwide scene and always will.” – . Geoffrey G. Duffy

“Creating an ideology pegged to carbon dioxide is a dangerous nonsense…The present alarm on climate change is an instrument of social control, a pretext for major businesses and political battle. It became an ideology, which is concerning.” - Environmental Scientist Professor Delgado Domingos of Portugal 

“Since I am no longer affiliated with any organization nor receiving any funding, I can speak quite frankly….As a scientist I remain skeptical.” -  Atmospheric Scientist Dr. Joanne Simpson, the first woman in the world to receive a PhD in meteorology  and formerly of NASA who has authored more than 190 studies and has been called “among the most preeminent scientists of the last 100 years.”    

“Gore prompted me to start delving into the science again and I quickly found myself solidly in the skeptic camp…Climate models can at best be useful for explaining climate changes after the fact.” - Meteorologist Hajo Smit of Holland 

“I have yet to see credible proof of carbon dioxide driving climate change, yet alone man-made CO2 driving it. The atmospheric hot-spot is missing and the ice core data refute this. When will we collectively awake from this deceptive delusion?” - Dr. Gn LeBlanc Smith, a retired Principal Research Scientist with Australia’s CSIRO.

“I am a skeptic. . . Global Warming has become a new religion.” – Nobel Prize Winner for Physics, Ivar Giaever.

“Since I am no longer affiliated with any organization nor receiving any funding, I can speak quite frankly. . . As a scientist I remain skeptical. . . The main basis of the claim that man’s release of greenhouse gases is the cause of the warming is based almost entirely upon climate models. We all know the frailty of models concerning the air-surface system.” (Emphasis added.) Meltdown--The Predictable Distortion of Global Warming by Scientists, Politicians, and the Media by Patrck J. Michaels

“After reading [UN IPCC chairman] Pachauri’s asinine comment [comparing skeptics to] Flat Earthers, it’s hard to remain quiet.” – Climate statistician Dr. William M. Briggs, who specializes in the statistics of forecast evaluation, serves on the American Meteorological Society’s Probability and Statistics Committee and is an Associate Editor of Monthly Weather Review.

“The Kyoto theorists have put the cart before the horse. It is global warming that triggers higher levels of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere, not the other way around. . . A large number of critical documents at the 1995 U.N. conference in Madrid vanished without a trace. As a result, the discussion was one-sided and heavily biased, and the U.N. declared global warming to be a scientific fact.” Andrei Kapista, a Russian geographer and Antarctic ice core researcher.

“I am convinced that current alarm over carbon dioxide is mistaken . . . Fears about man-made global warming are unwarranted and are not based on good science.” – Award Winning Physicist Dr. Will Happer, Professor at the Department of Physics at Princeton University and former Director of Energy Research at the Department of Energy, who has published over 200 scientific papers, and is a fellow of the American Physical Society, The American Association for the Advancement of Science, and the National Academy of Sciences.

“Nature’s regulatory instrument is water vapor: more carbon dioxide leads to less moisture in the air, keeping the overall GHG content in accord with the necessary balance conditions.” – Prominent Hungarian Physicist and environment researcher Dr. Miklós Zágoni reversed his view of man-made warming and is now a skeptic. Zágoni was once Hungary’s most outspoken supporter of the Kyoto Protocol.

“For how many years must the planet cool before we begin to understand that the planet is not warming? For how many years must cooling go on?” – Geologist Dr. David Gee the chairman of the science committee of the 2008 International Geological Congress who has authored 130 plus peer-reviewed papers, and is currently at Uppsala University in Sweden.

Maybe they could spare

A few journalist to investigate Al Gore and his scam of lies? After wasting all that time on Palin, you would think ...

But I guess for America to live free, the lamestream media must die.

What has 8 letters and means irrelevant

“74 Percent of Gore Letters Are Critical”

Imagine that!  And this is coming from Newsweek’s Readership representing a wee corner of the far left twilight zone.  Newsweek is even having trouble managing information for the few stoned readers they have left.

- Relying upon the State Run Media for your information is like relying upon an embezzler for your portfolio management.

- I didn't leave the Republican Party; the Republican Party left me.

NewsNOT!

"The bureaucracy is growing to meet the needs of the growing bureaucracy"

 

Its a leftist magazine for

Its a leftist magazine only leftists read anymore.  Leftists don't want to read anything that challenges their carefully crafted world view and Newsweek knows that.

I owned a bike shop in the 70's

And I grew up in the same county that Golden is in.

My pedaling years on a bike, has taught me this: Your life can be snuffed out in 1/10 of a second..

If you gotta ride, ride off road.

Is newsweek implying, an apple falling on algore head?

First and formost Newton was a Christian!

Newton was the #1 most wonderful scientist ever on this planet.

algore is a great used carbon salesman.

State controlled health care ! music video.

Frosty Wooldridge...MMMMMM

now, I do not buy NEWSPEAK magazine nor do I open it in doctor's offices nor do I sit down with it as a freebie at my local Borders....I simply look at the cover and I calculate this weeks reduction in the cumulative IQ at Newspeak Magazine.

But I do read Newsbusters and noticed that a Frosty Wooldridge was one of the letter writers in response to the Al Gore cover story.  I had heard that name before and wonder if he was identified in the magazine...below is his Wikipedia Bio

/////////////////////////////////////////

Frosty Wooldridge
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Jump to: navigation, search

Frosty Wooldridge (born 1947) is a US journalist, writer, environmentalist, traveler, and figure in the anti-illegal immigration movement in the United States.

Wooldridge attended Dougherty High School in Albany, Georgia and graduated with a BA in Journalism from Michigan State University in 1970, moving on to Grand Valley State University from which he graduated in English with a teaching certificate in 1973.

Wooldridge has had an active career in journalism, writing for
seventeen national and two international magazines. He has had
editorials published in national newspapers including the Rocky Mountain News, Denver Post, Albany Herald and Christian Science Monitor.
He wrote a column, "Crystal Desert Continent," for a newspaper in
Colorado while he lived in Antarctica. He has been featured as a guest
on The Political Cesspool, and also writes for News with Views, The Washington Dispatch and websites belonging to Jeff Rense and David Duke.[1]

Wooldridge has argued in favour of population control policies and has denounced the role of the Roman Catholic Church in opposing contraception and abortion. He has also criticized the Church's views on immigration policy.[2][3]
He has claimed that "overpopulation in the United States will become
the single greatest issue facing Americans in the 21st century."

//////////////////////

He is a bit of an eclectic thinker/writer...hard to identify as right or left.  I beleive I first heard him on the Bob Grant radio show in NY about 5/6 years ago.

Was he identified in the Newspeak Magazine letters section as an active environmentalist.???

 

Paarl of Rhodesia

Good find Paarl

Good find Paarl

When asked if he went to war with Iraq  to derail the impeachment vote:  “I don’t think any serious person would believe that any President would do such a thing." - President Clinton (Dec 1998).

Al Gore will be appearing

Al Gore will be appearing next as the Scarecrow in a dinner theater production of "The Wizard of Oz"-- ".....if I only had a brain....."

only had a brain...

And a heart.

And a soul.

Ah, I'm being cruel. Time for more prayer for this dude.

 

“It is almost impossible to distinguish a politician from a gangster.” (Will Durant, 1931)

I predicted tea parties would return. Now I'm predicting dueling will return.

If you broke it down by groups...

Holeinthehull

The 75/25 split between letters against and for Al Gore probably breaks down nationally.  75% think that Gore is an idiot and the other 25% are idiots, sounds right to me.

"human overpopulation"

Yes, human overpopulation. It seems we don't have enough room for the right kind of people. What was another term for that? Oh, yes: lebensraum. Unfortunately, about 11 million people had to be slaughtered for that concept. And now look at Germany: too-low birth rates and a Muslim invasion.

 

“It is almost impossible to distinguish a politician from a gangster.” (Will Durant, 1931)

I predicted tea parties would return. Now I'm predicting dueling will return.

forgot that one

good one nolotrippen, I forgot about the "lebensraum" policy of the Nazis, that was the basis for their invasion of the surrounding countries-- and ultimately, Poland, France, and everywhere west of (and for a time including) Russia-- which also was of course, necessary for their "reinrassig" (pure race) to proliferate-- this is a great example on your part for studying history, to keep from repeating it, and maintaining vigilance against those who attempt to masquerade it in another form of the same damned thing, such as the eco-nazism of ALGORE's-- he also preaches the overpopulation nonsense if I'm not mistaken--

and...the STRONG beliefs of one of 'the one's' czars...is it

Holdren???  or Sunstein?  Can't remember just which one.  Advocated putting something in the public water systems to sterilize the population!!!  YIKES!

Follow the money...

"According to the George C. Marshall Institute, the UCS (Union of
Concerned Scientists) was the fourth-largest recipient of foundation
grants for climate studies in the period 2000-2002, a fourth of its
$24M grant income being for that purpose."

Like Gore, he's just defending his pocketbook.

 

Just one more reason I am thankful we canceled Newsweek!

Cashing that refund check was SWEET!

This comment comes from a proud Tea Party attendee, otherwise designated by Homeland Security as a Domestic Right Wing Terrorist!  And now by our president as a 'swiftboater' - both titles I'll wear proudly!    

It is no dishonor to be in a minority in the cause of liberty and virtue ~ Sam Adams

202.224.3121   LET CONGRESS HEAR THE ROAR OF THE SILENT MAJORITY!   

202.456.1111   WHITE HOUSE COMMENT LINE

 

THE MYTH OF AL GORES OSCAR

AL GORE NEVER WON AN OSCAR, THE PRODUCERS AND DIRECTOR WON THE AWARDS.

 THE MEDIA CONTINUED FOR YEARS SPREADING THIS MYTH EVEN WHEN THEY KNEW IT WASNT TRUE.

THE MEDIA IS SINGLE HANDEDLY DESTROYING THIS COUNTRY.

THE MEDIA IS NOTHING MORE THAN A POLITICAL PAWN FOR THE DEMOCRAT PARTY.

WHEN DEMOCRATS ARE  IN POWER THEIR JOB IS TO COVER UP AS MUCH CORRUPTION AS POSSIBLE.

WHEN REPUBLICANS ARE IN POWER THEIR JOB IS TO EXPOSE THE CORRUPTION.

ABSOLUTELY PATHETIC AND THE AMERICAN PEOPLE SHOULD CONTINUE TO BOYCOTT EVERY MAGAZINE AND NEWS ORGANIZATION OUT THERE THAT PLAYS THIS GAME.