On PBS, Scribes Gush for Hillary's 'Even More Ambitious' Climate Plan

Tim Graham
September 8th, 2016 9:44 PM

On the surface, it might seem quite straightforward and objective to ask two reporters to assess the two candidates on their “climate change” policy approaches. But on Wednesday’s PBS NewsHour, the reporters were not at all objective. They were Chris Mooney of The Washington Post, who was hired after he wrote the transparently ideological books The Republican War on Science, and The Republican…

 

New WashPost Blogger Denounces GOP Denial of 'Science and Reality'

Tim Graham
October 3rd, 2014 8:31 PM
The Washington Post on Friday hired a new blogger for its Wonkblog: Chris Mooney, a bomb-thrower with two books attacking the idiocy/authoritarianism of Republicans. The Post somehow left out the titles in their joyous announcement. They are “The Republican War on Science” and “The Republican Brain: The Science of Why They Deny Science -- and Reality.” Hiring Mooney away from the leftist…
 

Mother Jones Writer Wonders What Happened in the ‘90s That Made Repu

Tom Johnson
August 14th, 2014 6:26 AM
Liberals like Chris Mooney of Mother Jones agree that today’s Republican party is “environmental[ly] retrograde,” but often acknowledge it wasn’t like that a few decades ago. For example, as Mooney noted in a Tuesday post, a GOP president, Richard Nixon, established the EPA. Mooney reports, however, that in the early 1990s the party as a whole grew distinctly more hostile towards…
 

Mother Jones Writer Touts Study That Says Conservatism May Have Made S

Tom Johnson
July 16th, 2014 7:15 AM
In a hit record from 1974, a girl repeatedly told a suitor, “I don’t like spiders and snakes.” Presumably no one back then thought the song had any political overtones, but forty years later a post on the Mother Jones website has suggested that the girl’s remark meant she probably was a right-winger. MoJo science writer Chris Mooney reported Tuesday on a recent paper that claims conservatives…
 

Mother Jones Writer: On the Left, Nuance, Toleration, and Math

Tom Johnson
June 22nd, 2014 9:36 PM
Many years ago, Stephen Colbert asserted that “reality has a well-known liberal bias.” Chris Mooney of Mother Jones wants to make sure you understand that mathematics (a well-known subset of reality) does, too. This past Friday, Mooney, author of books including “The Republican Brain: The Science of Why They Deny Science – and Reality,” posted a piece about a new book by mathematician…