Guardian eco-blogger Damian Carrington uses the tragedy in Tucson to complain about some of the language used in the global-warming controversy. In doing so, he adds to the “climate of hate” meme, although he is careful to note that “some commentators argue [Loughner's] act was his alone.” Be that as it may, the e-mails and threats that Carrington describes as being delivered to pro–
climate change (to use my clumsy shorthand) scientists and writers sound deeply unpleasant — and worse.
However, Carrington doesn’t choose to mention incidents like this:
At the Live Earth Concert at Giants Stadium, one of the non musical acts, Robert Kennedy Jr., shouted himself hoarse. He called those people who doubt either that global warming exists or that it is man-made or that it matters traitors and that they should be dealt with as such. “Get rid of all these rotten politicians that we have in Washington, who are nothing more than corporate toadies for companies like Exxon and Southern Company,” shouted Robert F. Kennedy Jr. “These villainous companies that consistently put their private financial interest ahead of American interest and ahead of the interest of all of humanity. This is treason. And we need to start treating them as traitors.”
This, of course, is the same Robert F Kennedy Jr. who is now joining in the calls for civility with a piece for the Huffington Post that, in its implications, is far from civil itself. What a shame.
In Kennedy's piece, the first line of his second paragraph reads...
"Neither Beck, Hannity nor Savage nor the hate merchants at Fox News and talk radio can claim to have invented their genre."
I didn't get an opportunity to attend Sidwell Friends, my less privileged upbringing only provided for a parochial education. But, if I correctly remember the admonishments of nuns responsible for my education, I'm pretty sure calling someone a "hate merchant", isn't all that civil. Crazy Catholics, what do we know?
Reply to this commentLinkReport AbuseDon't forget the Richard Curtis-directed video that centered around non-greens dramatically exploding.
Reply to this commentLinkReport AbuseRE: "Don't forget the Richard Curtis-directed video that centered around non-greens dramatically exploding."
Yep, they blowed up real good!
(SCTV FTW!)
Reply to this commentLinkReport AbuseE.L.F. and the Green who attacked ed the Discovery Channel ring a bell? More of the same from the Guilt-by-affiliation For Thee But Not For Me crowd...
Reply to this commentLinkReport AbuseRFK JR's article was not only far from civil it was also far from honest.. I remember reading that the school children story was debunked External Link
What did Reagan say - a lie goes halfway around the world before truth gets it's pants on.
Reply to this commentLinkReport AbuseIt must be very, very hard to be a conservative in America. I'll keep you in my prayers.
Reply to this commentLinkReport AbuseAndrew,
Actually it's pretty easy. All it takes is some thinking.
Appreciate the prayers, though and will return the favor!
Reply to this commentLinkReport Abuseincendiary hate language like "holocaust" err "climate-change deniers" and "Earth in the Balance"?
Reply to this commentLinkReport AbuseOrder66 - Nice SCTV Farm Film Celebrity Blow-up reference!
Civility means we on the right have to shut up, period end of discussion.
Reply to this commentLinkReport AbuseHere's the "Fire Paul Krugman Petition";
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Your help is needed.
Please distribute to all who understand the issue of insinuation libel.
Thanks
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Reply to this commentLinkReport AbuseI kept wondering if anyone would mention the global warming snuff film. The SCTV reference made my day.
Reply to this commentLinkReport AbuseHmm.
What do the commies have to say about all this?
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and on a lighter note.
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Reply to this commentLinkReport AbuseExcellent point, Scott. Obviously the idiot seed of the Clan Kennedy are not expected to catch such non-nuances, but what little remains of the Intellectual Left has not been much better than this joker.
Reply to this commentLinkReport Abusehokkoda...exactly. We can draw a one-to-one correlation between ELF, James Lee, and the Unabomber and Al Gore's writings. We know that they were influenced by Gore because they said so. And hey, if you tell people that they WILL die, and probably pretty soon unless they do what you say, then you just may motivate some nuts.
I challenge the left to come up with a single example of a consumer of right wing tv or radio, or a follower of Sarah Palin committing a single act of violence on par with those mentioned above.
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