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Like anyone is the slightest bit shocked.
Like anyone is the slightest bit appalled anymore by the breathtaking
litany of utter BS oozing forth from the White House these days, this
time about how one of BushCo's top oil-lovin' henchmen has been hacking
away at countless scientific reports for over two years, editing them
at will, all to downplay the effects of emissions on global warming.

His name is Philip Cooney, and he has zero scientific training
whatsoever and was formerly the "climate-team leader" (read: top flying
monkey) and a lobbyist at the American Petroleum Institute, the largest
trade group representing the oil industry. He is now chief of staff for
the White House Council on Environmental Quality, the group that helps
devise and set the nation's environmental agenda; Cooney's cuts and
edits of scientific emissions and global warming reports often made it
into final White House policy.

Isn't that just the cutest thing? Aren't you just, like, yawning with
ennui at the bitter repetition of it all? At how savagely and biliously
common these stories have become?

Or how about that other story about how Bush's decision not to sign the
Kyoto Treaty, the landmark environmental policy signed by 122 other
nations to reduce greenhouse emissions, was influenced not at all by
sound science or serious concern for the planet, but by pressure put on
him by his pals at ExxonMobil and other major oil corporations? Did you
read that one?

Thus proving what everyone already knows: Bush cares about as much for
the health of the planet and for air quality and for the future of your
miserable stupid emphysemic kids as a snake cares for lip balm.

Or rather, in more plain terms, it means this: The environmental
policies of the most powerful and gluttonous nation on the planet are
being written by the world's most powerful oil company. Which is, of
course, a bit like our national dietary guidelines being written by
Burger King, or our national health care guidelines being written by
Merck, or our national school curricula being written by lost
born-again Neanderthal creationists. Oh wait.

This, as we all now know, is the BushCo way. They lie about
environmental devastation, going so far as to hire known skeptics of
global warming to testify in court against piles of data compiled by
thousands of world-class scientists the world over that prove the
obvious direness of the threat.

They lie about abortion and breast cancer. They lie about unemployment
data and corporate layoffs. They lie about prison-inmate torture, about
intentionally desecrating the Koran and smearing menstrual blood on
prisoners and violating the Geneva Convention the way a lonely farmer
violates a sheep.

They lie about why a gay male model and former prostitute who ran gay
porn Web sites was allowed to pose as a partisan hack reporter in White
House press briefings for over two years, allowed to ask softball
questions of the president and the press secretary and allowed to sleep
overnight in the White House and shall we venture a guess who might've
been waiting down in the dungeon all those nights, all sweaty and
adipose, waiting for hunky Jeff Gannon to come and spank him but good?

And of course, most impressively, BushCo lied about WMDs, about why
we're at war, about why we're dumping $5 billion along with dozens of
dead U.S. soldiers and thousands of wounded per month into the Iraq
quagmire (total cost: over $175 billion, and counting -- fast) when our
own economy is gutted and the dollar is at a desperate low and the
deficit is at an all-time high and our education and health care
systems are crumbling and we are, as a nation, essentially running on
fumes.

Yes, I know. This isn't even news anymore. Doesn't even raise an
eyebrow. And how sad is that?

So these latest salvos, these latest disgusting proofs of misprision
and environmental abuse, they're just par for the BushCo course,
standard operating procedure for a callous and domineering
administration that, if it can't find the data it needs to support its
agenda, simply creates it, edits it, forces it into existence and crams
it down your throat and calls it sound government policy.

There are, however, glimmers of hope. There are forces of change at
work, despite BushCo's laziness and resistance and despite his
administration's whorelike devotion to Big Oil and Big Coal and despite
his outright ignorance of all things environmental and desperate and
imminent.

Look over here. There stand 132 U.S. mayors from all over the nation,
including many Republicans and including some from Texas and including
Bloomberg from New York, who have bucked the general vicious BushCo
idiocy regarding global warming and have agreed to carry out the Kyoto
Protocol rules in their own cities, on their own. Seattle, for one, is
poised to become, by the end of this year, the only city in the nation
whose municipal energy utility produces zero net emissions of
greenhouse gases.

And over here are the national scientific academies of all G8 nations,
plus those of the three developing countries that consume the most oil
on the planet -- China, India and Brazil -- making an unprecedented
political gesture by signing a common letter declaring that a plan to
address global warming must be put into action immediately, if not
sooner.

And they've aimed the letter straight at the mumbling, bumbling BushCo,
whose only decision on greenhouse emissions to date has been to let the
major polluters of the nation self-regulate until 2012, when he's a
faint, painful, cancerous memory and the global warming problem is far
worse and even more dire and is shoved onto the plate of the next guy.
Aww, thanks Dubya.

Even some of BushCo's more rabid followers, even some hardcore
evangelical Christians, those intelligent few not wrapped up in the
nutball Rapture Index and who therefore don't believe it's our
God-given duty to ravage the planet and burn through all the resources
as fast as possible so as to hasten the arrival of a really ****ed-off,
homophobic Christ, even some powerful evangelicals are urging Bush to
get on the global warming issue ASAP, as, according to the Bible, we
are supposed to be good stewards of the Earth, not its destroyers.

And you know the global warming issue has become dire when even
staunch, lifelong environmental activists like Stewart Brand are
beginning to look anew at the old demon of nuclear power to help ease
the energy strain on the nation. It's not because nuclear reactors have
become so beautiful and safe and desirable. It's because the global
warming threat has become just that ominous. Going back to nuclear is
simply the lesser of two evils. We have little choice.

So there you go. For the next 3.5 years, these alternatives appear to
be the only path, the only means toward change. Via grassroots
movements, regional lawmaking, commonsense ideas, collectives of
like-minded people banding together despite their differences to thwart
the idiocy and abuse and general autocracy of one of the most heartless
and corporatized and least accountable administrations in American
history. Think it'll work? Think we'll make it? Stock up on water, keep
your fingers crossed and keep handy plenty of SPF 1000.

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'Nuff said. ;-)

And that makes him automatically wrong in your eyes, Jim? Even the
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What *facts* are those Kevin?

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Why do you think he is Kevin's favorite source?



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" Mark Morford is a columnist and editor for sfgate.com. He is also a
yoga
teacher and fiction writer..."

'Nuff said. ;-)

And that makes him automatically wrong in your eyes, Jim? Even the
facts that he re-wrote?


What *facts* are those Kevin?

I'm not Kevin, BUT if you would read the article, it's FULL of FACTS...
Now, I still want to know, what part of Morford's life makes you think
that he's automatically not credible? Because he writes fiction, does
that mean that he also can't be a credible reporter? Because he works
for sfgate means he can't be a credible reporter? Because he's a yoga
teacher? Are you running a contest with NOYB to see who can be the most
narrow minded?

Fact: Bush's decision not to sign the Kyoto Treaty, the landmark
environmental policy signed by 122 other
nations to reduce greenhouse emissions, was influenced not at all by
sound science or serious concern for the planet, but by pressure put on

him by his pals at ExxonMobil and other major oil corporations.

Fact: The man who butchered documents pertaining to global warming was
Philip Cooney, and he has zero scientific training
whatsoever and was formerly the "climate-team leader" (read: top flying

monkey) and a lobbyist at the American Petroleum Institute, the largest

trade group representing the oil industry. He is now chief of staff for

the White House Council on Environmental Quality, the group that helps
devise and set the nation's environmental agenda; Cooney's cuts and
edits of scientific emissions and global warming reports often made it
into final White House policy.

Fact: They lie about why a gay male model and former prostitute who ran
gay
porn Web sites was allowed to pose as a partisan hack reporter in White

House press briefings for over two years, allowed to ask softball
questions of the president and the press secretary and allowed to sleep

overnight in the White House.

Fact: And of course, most impressively, BushCo lied about WMDs, about
why
we're at war, about why we're dumping $5 billion along with dozens of
dead U.S. soldiers and thousands of wounded per month into the Iraq
quagmire (total cost: over $175 billion, and counting -- fast) when our

own economy is gutted and the dollar is at a desperate low and the
deficit is at an all-time high and our education and health care
systems are crumbling and we are, as a nation, essentially running on
fumes

Fact: There stand 132 U.S. mayors from all over the nation,
including many Republicans and including some from Texas and including
Bloomberg from New York, who have bucked the general vicious BushCo
idiocy regarding global warming and have agreed to carry out the Kyoto
Protocol rules in their own cities, on their own. Seattle, for one, is
poised to become, by the end of this year, the only city in the nation
whose municipal energy utility produces zero net emissions of
greenhouse gases.

Fact: The national scientific academies of all G8 nations,
plus those of the three developing countries that consume the most oil
on the planet -- China, India and Brazil -- making an unprecedented
political gesture by signing a common letter declaring that a plan to
address global warming must be put into action immediately, if not
sooner.

Fact: Even some of BushCo's more rabid followers, even some hardcore
evangelical Christians, those intelligent few not wrapped up in the
nutball Rapture Index and who therefore don't believe it's our
God-given duty to ravage the planet and burn through all the resources
as fast as possible so as to hasten the arrival of a really ****ed-off,

homophobic Christ, even some powerful evangelicals are urging Bush to
get on the global warming issue ASAP, as, according to the Bible, we
are supposed to be good stewards of the Earth, not its destroyers.

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" Mark Morford is a columnist and editor for sfgate.com. He is also a
yoga
teacher and fiction writer..."

'Nuff said. ;-)

And that makes him automatically wrong in your eyes, Jim? Even the
facts that he re-wrote?


What *facts* are those Kevin?

I'm not Kevin, BUT if you would read the article, it's FULL of FACTS...
Now, I still want to know, what part of Morford's life makes you think
that he's automatically not credible?

Answer my questions first, including those out to you over the past 2 days.


Because he writes fiction, does
that mean that he also can't be a credible reporter?

Perhaps

Because he works
for sfgate means he can't be a credible reporter?

Perhaps

Because he's a yoga
teacher? Are you running a contest with NOYB to see who can be the most
narrow minded?



You have won that prize already, fair and square.


Fact: Bush's decision not to sign the Kyoto Treaty, the landmark
environmental policy signed by 122 other
nations to reduce greenhouse emissions, was influenced not at all by
sound science or serious concern for the planet, but by pressure put on

him by his pals at ExxonMobil and other major oil corporations.


Do you know why Kevin or are you relying on the crap you just cut and pasted
as your *proof*?



Fact: The man who butchered documents pertaining to global warming was
Philip Cooney, and he has zero scientific training
whatsoever and was formerly the "climate-team leader" (read: top flying

monkey) and a lobbyist at the American Petroleum Institute, the largest

trade group representing the oil industry. He is now chief of staff for

the White House Council on Environmental Quality, the group that helps
devise and set the nation's environmental agenda; Cooney's cuts and
edits of scientific emissions and global warming reports often made it
into final White House policy.


Cite



Fact: They lie about why a gay male model and former prostitute who ran
gay
porn Web sites was allowed to pose as a partisan hack reporter in White

House press briefings for over two years, allowed to ask softball
questions of the president and the press secretary and allowed to sleep

overnight in the White House.

Cite

I cut the rest of your babble because that is all it was....babble.

Do you ever have any thoughts of your own Kevin?

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" Mark Morford is a columnist and editor for sfgate.com. He is also a
yoga
teacher and fiction writer..."

'Nuff said. ;-)

And that makes him automatically wrong in your eyes, Jim? Even the
facts that he re-wrote?


What *facts* are those Kevin?

I'm not Kevin, BUT if you would read the article, it's FULL of FACTS...
Now, I still want to know, what part of Morford's life makes you think
that he's automatically not credible?

Answer my questions first, including those out to you over the past 2
days.


Because he writes fiction, does
that mean that he also can't be a credible reporter?

Perhaps

Because he works
for sfgate means he can't be a credible reporter?

Perhaps

Because he's a yoga
teacher? Are you running a contest with NOYB to see who can be the most
narrow minded?



You have won that prize already, fair and square.


Fact: Bush's decision not to sign the Kyoto Treaty, the landmark
environmental policy signed by 122 other
nations to reduce greenhouse emissions, was influenced not at all by
sound science or serious concern for the planet, but by pressure put on

him by his pals at ExxonMobil and other major oil corporations.


Do you know why Kevin or are you relying on the crap you just cut and
pasted as your *proof*?



Fact: The man who butchered documents pertaining to global warming was
Philip Cooney, and he has zero scientific training
whatsoever and was formerly the "climate-team leader" (read: top flying

monkey) and a lobbyist at the American Petroleum Institute, the largest

trade group representing the oil industry. He is now chief of staff for

the White House Council on Environmental Quality, the group that helps
devise and set the nation's environmental agenda; Cooney's cuts and
edits of scientific emissions and global warming reports often made it
into final White House policy.


Cite



Fact: They lie about why a gay male model and former prostitute who ran
gay
porn Web sites was allowed to pose as a partisan hack reporter in White

House press briefings for over two years, allowed to ask softball
questions of the president and the press secretary and allowed to sleep

overnight in the White House.

Cite

I cut the rest of your babble because that is all it was....babble.

Do you ever have any thoughts of your own Kevin?


Global Warming

Myth: The science behind the theory that human beings are causing dramatic
global warming is sound. CNN, for example, reported that a 2001 National
Academy of Sciences report represented "a unanimous decision that global
warming is real, is getting worse and is due to man. There is no wiggle
room."

Fact: Richard Lindzen, Ph.D., a professor at the Massachusetts Institute of
Technology and one of the 11 scientists who prepared the NAS report (and who
also contributed to the UN's International Panel on Climate Change), has
said so - repeatedly. He has said there were a wide variety of scientific
views presented in the report and "that the full report did, [express a wide
variety of views] making clear that there is no consensus, unanimous or
otherwise, about long-term climate trends and what causes them."1 The same
is true of the all of the U.N.'s IPCC studies to which many reporters refer.

Claims that scientific opinion is nearly unanimous on the subject of global
warming are wrong. The Oregon Institute of Science and Medicine received
signatures from over 17,100 basic and applied American scientists -
two-thirds with advanced degrees - to a document saying, "There is no
convincing scientific evidence that human release of carbon dioxide, methane
or other greenhouse gasses is causing or will, in the foreseeable future,
cause catastrophic heating of the Earth's atmosphere and disruption of the
Earth's climate."2

Myth: We saw global warming in the 20th century that was the result of
man-made emissions.

Fact: We do not know if there is any man-made global warming. The computer
models used in U.N. studies say the first area to heat under the "greenhouse
gas effect" should be the lower atmosphere - known as the troposphere.3
Highly accurate, carefully-checked satellite data has shown absolutely no
such tropospheric warming. There has been surface warming of about half a
degree Celsius, but this is far below the customary natural swings in
surface temperatures.4

A June 2001 National Academy of Sciences report on global warming notes that
increased radiation from the sun could be responsible for a significant part
of climate change during part of the industrial era.5 Additionally, our
understanding of the carbon cycle is so poor that we cannot be certain that
a rise in atmospheric carbon dioxide is even due to human activity.6

Myth: Carbon dioxide emissions from burning fossil fuels are the primary
cause of global warming, and the Earth's temperature can be expected to rise
between 2.5 and 10.4 degrees Fahrenheit in this century.

Fact: There are many indications that carbon dioxide does not play a
significant role in global warming. Dr. Lindzen estimates that a doubling of
carbon dioxide in the atmosphere would produce a temperature increase of
only one degree Celsius.7 In fact, clouds and water vapor appear to be far
more important factors related to global temperature. According to Dr.
Lindzen and NASA scientists, clouds and water vapor may play a significant
role in regulating the Earth's temperature to keep it more constant.8

Myth: Even if the science on global warming isn't certain, we should abide
by the requirements of the Kyoto Protocol (an international global warming
treaty) as a precaution that man-made global warming might be real.

Fact: According to projections by the U.S. Energy Information Administration
(EIA), the Kyoto Protocol would have a devastating effect on the U.S.
economy. If Kyoto had been ratified and implemented by the U.S., the EIA
estimates gasoline prices would rise 14 to 66 cents per gallon by the year
2010, electricity prices would go up 20 to 86 percent9 and compliance with
the treaty would cost the United States economy $400 billion per year.10

The Kyoto Treaty, if ratified and ahdered to, would certainly increase the
level of poverty in this country. As economist Walter Williams of George
Mason University points out, "As you look around the world, it is poverty,
as opposed to dirty air, that has implications for health."11

Myth: The burdens of meeting the demands of the Kyoto Protocol are
distributed fairly.

Fact: The burdens of meeting the demands of the Kyoto Protocol would fall
most heavily on minorities. A study commissioned by six African-American and
Hispanic organizations found that the increased costs forced by the treaty
would cut minority income in the United States by ten percent (in contrast,
white incomes would go down only 4.5 percent) and 864,000 black Americans
and 511,000 Hispanics would lose their jobs.12

Undeveloped countries such as China, India and Brazil are exempted from the
Kyoto Protocol. However, these three countries alone are projected to
produce 16 percent more carbon dioxide by the year 2020 than the U.S., even
if the protocol is not in place.13


http://www.nationalcenter.org/EarthDay04Myths.html#A

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" Mark Morford is a columnist and editor for sfgate.com. He is also=
a
yoga
teacher and fiction writer..."

'Nuff said. ;-)

And that makes him automatically wrong in your eyes, Jim? Even the
facts that he re-wrote?


What *facts* are those Kevin?

I'm not Kevin, BUT if you would read the article, it's FULL of FACTS...
Now, I still want to know, what part of Morford's life makes you think
that he's automatically not credible?

Answer my questions first, including those out to you over the past 2 day=
s=2E
Sorry, not playing that game, Jim. You need to look back, I was the
first to ask you a question, with which you replied with another
question. Anyhow, it's business as usual with you, won't answer a
question that is a direct inquiry about something YOU have said. When
does the lying start?




Because he writes fiction, does
that mean that he also can't be a credible reporter?

Perhaps
And perhaps not.

Because he works
for sfgate means he can't be a credible reporter?

Perhaps
And perhaps not.

Because he's a yoga
teacher? Are you running a contest with NOYB to see who can be the most
narrow minded?



You have won that prize already, fair and square.

Really? I'm not the one who thinks Morford should be discredited by any
or all of the reasons you've cited. I would discredit someone who has
been proven to not be credible. You discredit someone just because he's
either a yoga teacher, a fiction writer, and or works for sfgate.


Fact: Bush's decision not to sign the Kyoto Treaty, the landmark
environmental policy signed by 122 other
nations to reduce greenhouse emissions, was influenced not at all by
sound science or serious concern for the planet, but by pressure put on

him by his pals at ExxonMobil and other major oil corporations.


Do you know why Kevin or are you relying on the crap you just cut and pas=
ted
as your *proof*?

Yes, I do know why, and no, I'm not relying on what was pasted. But, it
still remains a fact.



Fact: The man who butchered documents pertaining to global warming was
Philip Cooney, and he has zero scientific training
whatsoever and was formerly the "climate-team leader" (read: top flying

monkey) and a lobbyist at the American Petroleum Institute, the largest

trade group representing the oil industry. He is now chief of staff for

the White House Council on Environmental Quality, the group that helps
devise and set the nation's environmental agenda; Cooney's cuts and
edits of scientific emissions and global warming reports often made it
into final White House policy.


Cite

Do you even READ the news, Jim?? It's been plastered all over, even
Fox!!!!!



Fact: They lie about why a gay male model and former prostitute who ran
gay
porn Web sites was allowed to pose as a partisan hack reporter in White

House press briefings for over two years, allowed to ask softball
questions of the president and the press secretary and allowed to sleep

overnight in the White House.

Cite

From just one newspaper (do a google search):
LOBBING softball questions at White House press conferences is hardly a
new phenomenon, but having them thrown by a pseudo-journalist with a
sleazy background who mysteriously cleared security checks is. Add in
the fact that reporter Jeff Gannon used a false name and his employer
was a Web site called Talon News staffed almost exclusively by
Republican activists and you have the whiff of a scandal.

Whether Gannon, whose real name is James D. Guckert, was a White House
"plant'' may never be known because officials in the Bush
administration have taken great pains to distance themselves from the
controversy. But passive denials only increase the lack of credibility
to explanations of how the White House credentialed Guckert, even
though he was representing a pseudo-news operation, using an alias and
was linked to X-rated Web sites.

Gannon was given enviable access to the White House press room nearly
every day for two years and often was called upon by officials,
including President Bush himself. If the White House decided to look
away because it could count on Guckert to cozy up to the commander in
chief with hard-hitting questions like, "How are you going to work with
(Democrats) who seem to have divorced themselves from reality?" then
the administration should respond to demands by some members of
Congress to explain how a fringe "reporter" with a dubious past could
so easily breach security.

Any news reporter who has ever covered the White House, presidential
campaign events or Capitol Hill knows the gauntlet of security checks.
Even reporters with familiar bylines from prominent news organizations
must go through the process.

The idea that the White House might try to infiltrate the press corps
with a shill is a chilling thought in this democracy, but this is the
administration that has been caught paying "journalists" and generating
its own prefabricated "news reports" to distribute to TV stations too
na=EFve to recognize the attempt at propaganda.

As Sen. Joe Biden, D-Del., pointed out during a meeting with The
Chronicle editorial board Wednesday, the Guckert case, at a minimum,
suggests "sheer, friggin' incompetence,'' in terms of White House
security. Biden said Congress should investigate this potential breach
of security, but he acknowledged such a probe would never occur with
Republicans in control of the House and Senate.

It's hard to say which is worse: That the White House had no idea who
it was allowing to be within shouting distance of the president -- or
that it knew exactly who Jeff Gannon was and why he was there.

Now......try a google to his website.


I cut the rest of your babble because that is all it was....babble.

Yeah, sure.

Do you ever have any thoughts of your own Kevin?

Yes, I think you are being incredibly narrow minded.

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Global Warmin' Is Fer Idjuts
Exxon writes America's energy policy, BushCo chops up emissions
reports. Is there any hope at all?
By Mark Morford, SF Gate Columnist

Friday, June 10, 2005


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Who is this guy?


From http://united-states-of-earth.com/ar...sp?MenuID=1559

" Mark Morford is a columnist and editor for sfgate.com. He is also
a
yoga
teacher and fiction writer..."

'Nuff said. ;-)

And that makes him automatically wrong in your eyes, Jim? Even the
facts that he re-wrote?


What *facts* are those Kevin?

I'm not Kevin, BUT if you would read the article, it's FULL of FACTS...
Now, I still want to know, what part of Morford's life makes you think
that he's automatically not credible?

Answer my questions first, including those out to you over the past 2
days.
Sorry, not playing that game, Jim. You need to look back, I was the
first to ask you a question, with which you replied with another
question. Anyhow, it's business as usual with you, won't answer a
question that is a direct inquiry about something YOU have said. When
does the lying start?




Because he writes fiction, does
that mean that he also can't be a credible reporter?

Perhaps
And perhaps not.

Because he works
for sfgate means he can't be a credible reporter?

Perhaps
And perhaps not.

Because he's a yoga
teacher? Are you running a contest with NOYB to see who can be the most
narrow minded?



You have won that prize already, fair and square.

Really? I'm not the one who thinks Morford should be discredited by any
or all of the reasons you've cited. I would discredit someone who has
been proven to not be credible. You discredit someone just because he's
either a yoga teacher, a fiction writer, and or works for sfgate.


Fact: Bush's decision not to sign the Kyoto Treaty, the landmark
environmental policy signed by 122 other
nations to reduce greenhouse emissions, was influenced not at all by
sound science or serious concern for the planet, but by pressure put on

him by his pals at ExxonMobil and other major oil corporations.


Do you know why Kevin or are you relying on the crap you just cut and
pasted
as your *proof*?

Yes, I do know why, and no, I'm not relying on what was pasted. But, it
still remains a fact.



Fact: The man who butchered documents pertaining to global warming was
Philip Cooney, and he has zero scientific training
whatsoever and was formerly the "climate-team leader" (read: top flying

monkey) and a lobbyist at the American Petroleum Institute, the largest

trade group representing the oil industry. He is now chief of staff for

the White House Council on Environmental Quality, the group that helps
devise and set the nation's environmental agenda; Cooney's cuts and
edits of scientific emissions and global warming reports often made it
into final White House policy.


Cite

Do you even READ the news, Jim?? It's been plastered all over, even
Fox!!!!!



Fact: They lie about why a gay male model and former prostitute who ran
gay
porn Web sites was allowed to pose as a partisan hack reporter in White

House press briefings for over two years, allowed to ask softball
questions of the president and the press secretary and allowed to sleep

overnight in the White House.

Cite

From just one newspaper (do a google search):
LOBBING softball questions at White House press conferences is hardly a
new phenomenon, but having them thrown by a pseudo-journalist with a
sleazy background who mysteriously cleared security checks is. Add in
the fact that reporter Jeff Gannon used a false name and his employer
was a Web site called Talon News staffed almost exclusively by
Republican activists and you have the whiff of a scandal.

Whether Gannon, whose real name is James D. Guckert, was a White House
"plant'' may never be known because officials in the Bush
administration have taken great pains to distance themselves from the
controversy. But passive denials only increase the lack of credibility
to explanations of how the White House credentialed Guckert, even
though he was representing a pseudo-news operation, using an alias and
was linked to X-rated Web sites.

Gannon was given enviable access to the White House press room nearly
every day for two years and often was called upon by officials,
including President Bush himself. If the White House decided to look
away because it could count on Guckert to cozy up to the commander in
chief with hard-hitting questions like, "How are you going to work with
(Democrats) who seem to have divorced themselves from reality?" then
the administration should respond to demands by some members of
Congress to explain how a fringe "reporter" with a dubious past could
so easily breach security.

Any news reporter who has ever covered the White House, presidential
campaign events or Capitol Hill knows the gauntlet of security checks.
Even reporters with familiar bylines from prominent news organizations
must go through the process.

The idea that the White House might try to infiltrate the press corps
with a shill is a chilling thought in this democracy, but this is the
administration that has been caught paying "journalists" and generating
its own prefabricated "news reports" to distribute to TV stations too
naïve to recognize the attempt at propaganda.

As Sen. Joe Biden, D-Del., pointed out during a meeting with The
Chronicle editorial board Wednesday, the Guckert case, at a minimum,
suggests "sheer, friggin' incompetence,'' in terms of White House
security. Biden said Congress should investigate this potential breach
of security, but he acknowledged such a probe would never occur with
Republicans in control of the House and Senate.

It's hard to say which is worse: That the White House had no idea who
it was allowing to be within shouting distance of the president -- or
that it knew exactly who Jeff Gannon was and why he was there.

Now......try a google to his website.


I cut the rest of your babble because that is all it was....babble.

Yeah, sure.

Do you ever have any thoughts of your own Kevin?

Yes, I think you are being incredibly narrow minded.