Misleading NY Times article provides fodder for conservatives to attack Gore on global warming

[babsbunny]

Misleading NY Times article provides fodder for conservatives to attack Gore on global warming

http://mediamatters.org/items/200703260011

Numerous media figures and conservatives have seized on The New York Times' March 13 article on global warming -- which, as Media Matters for America and others have noted, includes misleading characterizations, a false comparison, and misrepresentations of Gore's position -- to attack Gore.

As Media Matters for America repeatedly noted, the Times article relied heavily on global warming skeptics with histories of promoting misinformation on the issue. While most skeptics cited in the article were identified as such, the Times identified geology professor Don J. Easterbrook as a "rank-and-file" scientist, when, in fact, Easterbrook is a global warming skeptic who has predicted global cooling between 2065 and 2100 and denies that human activity has contributed to global warming over the past century.

[Labors of Hercules]

1. stupid is as stupid reads...

Who cares?
Idiot Republicans have to argue with popular Democrats lest they be out of a job. So much the better if their source material is so much globally debunked bullshit. It won't take long before Gore becomes such a universally approved authority that nothing they say can touch him, if he hasn't already... :shrug:

[Big Pappa]

2. The

Times have had many misleading articles lately.

[El Supremo]

3. I actually agree with Johnny Hart on this