Two items elsewhere on NRO today are worth mentioning in the context of Red Hot Lies.

First is the Rich Lowry piece, “Green is the New Red,” which Ed excerpted early this morning. The article walks through the Soviet-style behavior of the New York Times and similar media regarding certain uncomfortable realities for the Obama administration, specifically Van Jones. As it happens, “Green is the New Red” is the title of one of the chapters in my Politically Incorrect Guide to Global Warming (and Environmentalism), which spent half of 2007 on the bestseller list of same said newspaper, to my glee and surely their chagrin.

But I also wrote in detail about this phenomenon in RHL, and in response scribbled to Rich, “just as the media report the death without having noted the illness, I’ve chronicled a long and similar pattern of the media ignoring scandal after scandal exposed about the global warming industry and especially the science-government complex. And none of them make the news except, if at all, when the global warming industry organizes a response. Then somehow the response to the unnewsworthy is newsworthy. There’s a thread there deeper than the obvious conclusion that the media and the Left are one, across the board. But that works.”

One such instance is here, and another here.

Second is Mark Steyn’s post on the Corner, drawing attention to Thomas Freidman’s pining for a good old totalitarian system . . . just to get the tough Left-wing priorities through that the obviously failed democratic process keeps rejecting, mind you. RHL Chapter 6 is all about that, quoting the global warmers’ increasing tendency to wistfully note that China has no such worries, and that that’s what it’s going to take to bring their green nirvana about.

Soviet Russia and the Chi-Comms as models. Folks, are we paying attention to these people yet?