The Sky's The Limit

It’s official! The 2010 election season is here.

How do I know? Well, it’s not because of the campaigning going on. It’s not because of the smattering of political yard signs beginning to appear. Nope, I know it’s election season because the mud (or the threat of mud) slinging has begun in earnest.

There was a news article on Drudge today that described something that I though might be coming. In case you’re in suspense and wondering, the title is: “Globalist Soros Launches Frontal Assault Against Tea Party“.

I had seen rumblings of this earlier in August…with snippets here and there that videos, news stories, pictures, etc. were wanted so that they could be posted online to reveal bad and racist behavior. The funding wasn’t mentioned — it was rumored that either Huffington or MediaMatters would be the sponsor.

But in the loony left-o-verse of thought and politics, all dough in one way or another leads back to Soros. And it is fitting that Soros is funding this smear effort: He is purported to HATE the Tea Party and it gets under his skin like nothing else.

I predict that this smear site, Teapartytracker.org, is going to do more harm to the left than good. The crazed left is convinced that there are bigots and racists and hate-mongers under every rock. Particularly rocks on the property of Tea Party members. But just like the political nonsense that oozes from the left…the “stuff” found on the .org site will be primarily manufactured by the left, for consumption by the left.

Those on the left who despise the Tea Party (pretty much everyone with a pulse) have tried for months to tar and feather rally attendees or folks at town meetings. The crown jewel of proof of Tea Party racism was the alleged hurling of racial pejoratives at members of the Congressional Black Caucus on the day of the passage of Obamacare by members of the Tea Party who assembled to protest this action. Contrary to the claims by the individuals who were alleged to have been the “victims” of this verbal assualt, no evidence of any kind has emerged — even in the face of a $50,000 reward by Andrew Breitbart.

So now every Tea party event from now until Nov.2 will be documented every which way to Sunday. And like I said, if the deportment of the Tea Party members is stellar, I’m convinced that questionable “bad” behavior will appear on the .org reporting site and exploited for all it’s worth.

The sad part of this is that rather than being skeptical, the MSM will run with the garbage hurled by the anti-Tea Party .org site. They won’t give the Tea Party folks the assumption of innocence until proven guilty. No, no, no. I predict they will pig pile on the alleged “bad” behavior. And they will ignore any evidence that would prove otherwise.

See, as much as Soros hates the Tea Party, the combined MSM hates them worse.  The thought of freeborn citizens exercising their constitutional rights in a public forum drives all these leftist/socialist/statists CRAZY! So they will need the mud and the garbage assembled by the .org site to create controversial headlines and leading news stories.

At least we all know what’s coming. But let’s not fool ourselves, regardless of how exemplary we act from here on in, don’t be surprised if any of us see ourselves portrayed as racists or some other label with negative connotation attached to it.

My advice — smile and say “Have a nice day.” What we will experience on Nov. 3rd will more than compensate us for having Smearbots hurl the mud, garbage and dreck at us.

• Ship Ahoy! SOS!! If there wasn’t so much hubris and duplicity involved, I’d probably have a little more empathy for the Obama administration. Because the wheels are coming off that wagon in a big way, or nautically speaking, the good ship Obama has run aground. Between his sinking in opinion polls, the mutiny in the Democrat ranks and the once lock-step, fawning, liberal media starting to turn on him, Obama and his minions are in serious political trouble. Although the future of our country is affected by all this, it is definitely a well-deserved comeuppance for this man who believes — truly believes — he is a demigod. I’m finally on the HOPE and CHANGE bandwagon: I hope that the Republicans can take both the House and the Senate and bring Obama’s contrarian agenda to a grinding halt. There has been no president in history so deserving of the term “lame duck” as our, hopefully, Commander-In-Brief.
• Useful Idiots. Yesterday’s declaration by the NAACP that the Tea Parties are racist (or at least have significant racist elements) is the opening shot in the official 2010 election season. The resorting to ad hominem attacks and making unsubstantiated, specious accusations are the hallmark and chief tool in the Democrat toolkit. It’s apparent that the Democrat powers-that-be see a potential advantage by scatter-casting the racist tag on their Republican opponents, and that the NAACP is just a group of useful idiots in achieving this end. However, I think that the average American voter is seething angry, and furthermore they see clean through the desperation tactics of the Democrats. The Democrats are going to have to live with the consequences of their past legislative actions (like the Porkulis, Obamacare, etc.) and resorting to distractions just ain’t gonna work.
• A Stranger In These Parts. I’ve finally figured out why Obama has such a tough time relating to the average American citizen. He’s not one of us! To put it kindly, his upbringing was way outside the mainstream. He might have been born and partially raised in Hawaii, but he spent his formative years as a Muslim — in a predominantly Muslim country. while the rest of use were being imbued and inculcated in everything American, young Barry Soetoro was subjected to a culture that is tens of thousands of miles and hundreds of years separated from that of a “mainstream” American. As a result, he’s having a tough time relating to his country, even though he went to college and graduate school here. He is essentially a stranger in a strange country. By the way, a country that he somehow became the leader of. I take little comfort in the fact that I understand him as little as he understands me and my cohort.  Hopefully, this accidental president won’t be allowed to do much harm during his tenure, and hopefully we’ll pick our presidents more carefully in the future. (More on this topic to come!)
• Whither Europe and the Euro?? Things have become awfully quiet on the financial front in Europe. The problems with the PIIGS and the Euro have suddenly become back-burner news over the span of four short weeks. Could it be a case of the calm before the storm? Or could it be an example of a tree falling in the woods with nobody to hear it? Whatever the case, if Europe does fall, it will take us with it. Because with all the spending like a drunken sailor (the Congress’ spending gives drunken sailors a bad name!) and the intergalactic-sized deficits here, our economy and our government’s finances are tottering at the edge of the abyss. I wish I could blame hyperbole on my feelings, but I’m too grounded in reality to become hyperbolic at such a grave and serious time in our history.
• Clueless In California. Rep. Brad Sherman (D-CA) recently became the poster boy for cluelessness. In a recent town hall meeting with his constituents, he claimed that he had not heard about the recent brouhaha regarding voter intimidation by the New Black Panthers in Philadelphia during the 2008 elections. Please, Mr. Sherman — do us all a favor. You are obviously not very engaged in the goings on in our country, so call it a day — retire — ride off into the sunset with whatever scrap of credibility or dignity that you can.  Otherwise, I beg the voters of the California 27th to retire Mr. Sherman for your and his own good.
• The Revenge of Obamacare, Part CCXVII! It seems like a week doesn’t go by when some new, and deleterious provision of Obamacare comes to light. And the newest affront to our sensibilities doesn’t even have to do with healthcare! No, it seems that a hidden and formerly obscure (until it’s passage) provision of Obamacare is the requirement for businesses to provide 1099 to vendors with whom they do more than $600 of business. My immediate question is: What the hell does this have to do with healthcare? It doesn’t, and it was one of the manifold ways that the desperate Democrats were trying to squeeze every penny that they could out of us citizens in order to pay for this monstrosity, and give them a favorable CBO report on “savings.” well, we now know those claims of savings to be a sham, but here we are left to deal with the collateral damage. As a small business owner, this new requirement is not only a nuisance, but it is a damper on my business. I will make damn sure that I just don’t procure more than $600 of anything with a single supplier. It will force me to keep track of my purchases and to spread my purchasing around. Because I will not be doing make work tasks, that prevent me from conducting real business, if I don’t have to.

Sen. Robert Byrd (D-KKK) died early this morning at 92. Good riddance. I hate to speak ill of the dead, but he was a loathsome man with a loathsome past. It’s now between him and God as to what happens to him next.

But here’s the thing. Byrd was a former “Kleagle” and “Grand Cyclops” in the KKK. In his past, he was a hand’s on guy when it came to racism…regardless of the revisionist history that will be attached to him (just read the softening of his past in the odious Times story that follows.) So, how will he be remembered?

For the NY Times, his death is marked by this headline and this story:

Robert Byrd, Respected Voice of the Senate, Dies at 92

Seems like they’ve forgotten to mention something, eh? Ahhhh, but he was a good Democrat…and perennial goody-giver to the proletariat. In fact, he was known the “King of Pork,” and there wasn’t a stretch of road or public building in West Virginia that doesn’t remind us so.

Now, let’s contrast the treatment of Byrd in the Times to another less odious character…but still a man with a racist background, Strom Thurmond of North Carolina. See, he wasn’t a member of the KKK, but he was memorialized by the NY Times as follows:

Strom Thurmond, Foe Of Integration, Dies At  100

Notice that the Times forgot to mention something? Like that the man was a former senator…and a decorated WWII veteran…but they didn’t forget to mention something else even though Mr. Thurmond had no affiliation with any hand’s on, racist organization. The NYT chose to tarnish this man’s memory in his public “obituary.”

But why the different treatment of these two men? Why the differentiation between two men from the South — both with racist pasts (but not uncommon for white men of their generation and their times) and both long time serving senators?? Because Byrd died a Democrat and Thurman a Republican. See, other than that little racism thing, that was the difference in the history of these men. See,both Byrd and Thurmond were ‘foes’ of integration, with both conducting lengthy filibusters in opposition to civil rights-related legislation when they served in the Senate. I also suspect that both were respected voices in the Senate. But again, because of the ‘R’ versus ‘D’ thing, Thurmond gets the highly disrespectful tag line and Byrd gets a pass.

We don’t need to wonder if there is a liberal bias in the media, it’s there in full view for all to see. But for this example, it took waiting from 2003 until Byrd’s passing for us to see in full view the liberal bias of the media in general and the hypocrisy of the NY Times in particular. And to cap things off, both these stories were written by the same person, Adam Clymer, with the only exception being the seven year time difference in the stories. But regardless of the author, these stories obviously bear the editorial imprimatur of the NYT editorial board. Nothing gets printed without their tacit approval; at least nothing as important as the death of a sitting or former senator.

Byrd dies an important statesman, given encomiums and respect way beyond what he deserves. He is a Democrat.

Thurmond dies a flawed individual, and shown disrespect not commensurate with his past sins (at least when compared to Mr. Byrd)…and the headline in his memorial in the Times reflects their bias and their hypocrisy. They detested Thurmond not because of his convenient “racist” past, but rather because he was a Republican. That was his greatest sin. But they embrace a truly flawed and odious man, Byrd, and slough off serious character flaws and past actions — and they do this because of his ideology — he was a Democrat.

So, forget about a dictionary…you’ve just seen the perfect definition of hypocrisy thanks to the NYT. All the news fit to distort…

Where does the mainstream broadcast media get the vapid, insipid and incurious “talent” who infest the national media outlets?

[I only very occasionally watch network news or news-oriented programming. I went "off" these programs years ago, when I spotted the then subtle media bias that was infecting these programs and the stories that they purveyed. So for me, any present day crossing of paths with the news as presented by ABC, NBC or CBS (and to a large extent on CNN and an utterly ubiquitous extent on MSNBC) is an eye-opening experience. I'm not going to name names, but you can be almost 100% guaranteed that the news reader or news presenter or news reporter is marginal at their craft...and ideologically rather than skill driven in their craft.]

There are two problems with these folks and the jobs that they do in their chosen careers. First and foremost is that they are not journalists in any conventional sense. A journalist is defined by their intellectual curiosity and their willingness to tackle any story in a vigorous, tenacious manner — even if the story meshes with their personal and political sensibilities. Journalism is a relentless search and revelation of the TRUTH. It is a no-holds-barred teasing out of FACT from sometimes elusive and disparate sources, and it can chafe against their preconceived notions. It can be thankless, dirty work. But what job worth doing isn’t?

The faux journalists that we encounter on the broadcast networks can be safely described as news readers. They regurgitate news stories that have been homogenized and processed by the safe consumption of the news hungry public. Part fluff and part propaganda, the information provided by the network newsies is an affront to those who claim the title journalist. And when you add in the not so hidden political leaning and agenda, these news programs become wholly unwatchable to discerning consumers of hard news.

The second pervasive problem with these newsfolk is that they are seemingly insensate to true meaning of the facts that they are presenting. They say one thing…bolster their facts with seemingly contradictory information…yet their story elicits another contradictory conclusion from the viewer. I call this the 2+2=5 syndrome. What I mean by this is that these ersatz journalists will use any method to support their deep-seated and long-standing political or personal beliefs, even if their method(s) are unmistakably wrong. They use flawed logic or partial recitation of facts or downright omission to get across or bolster their viewpoint.

But no, the de rigeur method of reporting the news is to strongly color it with the reader’s political bias or sensibilities. They resort to a hybrid of fact and opinion to get their preconceived point across. Two perfect examples are the mostly favorable coverage of the Obama administration and the (lack of) coverage of the unraveling global warming debate including the “Climategate” controversy. In these two examples and many others as well, the news “coverage” is merely a recitation of self-serving facts and glaring omissions.

So, what we’re left with is a conundrum. Do we accept the status quo and allow our first amendment gatekeepers to provide us with flawed and duplicitous information packaged as “the news?” Do we allow ourselves to swallow what is presented to us as fact without questioning the stories or teasing out motives? Will we automatically assign credibility to anyone who sits in a broadcast studio in front of a video green screen and uses their Constitutional rights to free speech to co-opt our God-given right to hear the truth? I pray the answers are “no”, “no” and “no!” But in fact, many millions of Americans receive 100% of their daily news from the broadcast media. Unfortunately this means that many if not most of these folks get a skewed view of reality, a view crafted by the news organization that they choose to watch. The news they are provided is defective, yet out of ignorance (in a lack of knowledge sense rather than a pejorative slur) these news consumers don’t know what they don’t know.

The old axiom “ignorance is bliss” is appropriate when applied to the consumers of broadcast news and their views of reality. There are many erstwhile intelligent individuals who lead blissful existences while bathed in their carefully provided world views. We can only hope that one or both of two possible things occur. The first is that people start to become consumers of the wider array of news available to them in print, on cable or on the internet. Certainly some of the conclusions from the varied sources will be contradictory, and threaten the consumer’s world view. But that will leave it to the consumer of news to ferret out the TRUTH — rather than remaining comfortably numb in a situation where they receive only propagandized news and information.

The second occurrence may take longer, but will ultimately be the most satisfying in the end. Since it is assumed that people may only be treated as suckers for a finite amount of time, it may be possible that the broadcast news might get its ultimate comeuppance because of its willful duplicity. With so much truth out there for them to see, read and hear, consumers of the news will eventually catch on and modify their news-gathering habits or abandon broadcast news all together. In fact, over the past ten years or so consumption of the broadcast news has steadily decreased to the point where there have been reductions and cut backs in these organizations. And their stature as trusted sources of information/news is decreasing with time. Could it be that an increasingly savvy population of news consumers just doesn’t find value in the information being presented to them by the broadcast MSM?

Perhaps.

But most likely it is a change in lifestyle and news gathering habits that is occurring. The internet has provided folks with the capability of obtaining their news 24/7 and at their leisure. They don’t have to be anchored to a schedule (for example 6 and 11pm) to watch the news. Hopefully, the rise of the internet means things are changing and a new day is coming where news consumers are more discerning and more questioning of their sources of information.

If this is the case, the broadcast MSM will be forced to change with the times (and report unvarnished news again as they once did) or vanish in favor of a more “democratic” alternative. It is an exciting possibility for the future of news and it cannot happen fast enough!

I heard a pretty funny call in to yesterday’s Dennis Miller Radio Show. The female caller said she had attended a Tea party rally on April 15th (tax day) and saw a sign that she thought that Dennis would think was funny:

I Can See November From My Front Porch.

Funny stuff. There are a lot of simultaneously angry and humorous protesters out there in America. These aren’t right-wing nut jobs or neo-Nazi supporters who are one synapse away from shooting up their fellow man. Nor are they the socially-defective, racist swine as they are portrayed to be by the mainstream media.

No, contrary to what Obama and his über-Democrat/liberal/socialist minions think, I think that they are patriots in the most sincere sense. They represent the best in us, and they are willing to do the heavy lifting required to put our country back on the right track.

I just hope that that rally attendee’s sign is more prescient than they could ever hope for.

The political scene has taken another turn for the worse as a result of the über-partisanship revolving around passage of the health care “reform” legislation. Claims and counter claims are flying about from the left and the right regarding threats and violence from the “other side” in the hours before and the days after passage of this bill. However, no entity can make hay out of their claims like the Democrats and their party. Let’s just look at the spectacle for a moment and take account of the alleged carnage to date: the alleged use of bitter invective including the so-called “n-word” by protesters at the Capitol; an alleged incident where a black legislator was spat upon; a coffin left on the lawn of a Democrat rep.; windows were broken in the local office of another Democrat rep.; death threats were made to by phone to several reps. of both parties; a Republican rep.’s discovered a bullet hole in the window of his local office; and other incidents of less than acceptable deportment and decorum vis-a-vis elected officials.

I think all of these incidents reside at the intersection of reality and hyperbole. I also think that the Democrats, using their strongest politically ally in the mainstream media, have performed a bit of political alchemy on the events of earlier this week — changing the controversy of the unpopular partisan healthcare vote to ersatz-sympathy for the alleged “attacks.” See, there is quite a bit of political apprehension and guilt on the left-leaning side of the aisle. The Democrats folks knew that they, proverbially-speaking, tweaked an angry dragon’s tail with their passage of Obamacare. But they did so in order to bolster their Ideologue-In-Chief and his socialist “transformative change” agenda. So they desperately needed political cover (and since not a single Republican voted for the monstrosity they can’t take cover behind them because of that), and fast! How better to obtain this cover, and fire up their base (because we all have poor short-term political memories in the face of righteous indignations affecting “our guy” or gal) than by playing presto-chango with their vote and the alleged “violent” repercussions? How can you despise someone and their actions if they’re the hapless “victim?”

Couple theses specious and increasingly debunked claims with the fact that the alleged perpetrators of these affronts are the Tea Party protesters, then you have the basic ingredients of a spittle laden rage and tirade by the likes of Comrade Keith Olbermann et. al. that even a heaping dose of mother’s little helper can’t curtail. And so the entire width and breadth of the government controlled media are now actively involved in the debasement and derision, if not outright ridicule, of the Tea Partiers (almost as though they received specific instructions by FAX as to what to say and how to say it!) This action by the MSM would be laughable except for the fact that the Tea party folks are from all political stripes — certainly the lion’s share are right-leaning ideologically– and I know several moderate Democrats who have joined the movement out of buyer’s remorse for their 2008 vote folly. So the swiftness with which the MSM painted the alleged “violence” as right wing and associated with the TP protesters is shameful and deceptive.

But really, isn’t that their job? Aren’t the entire MSM, probably with the exceptions of FOX News, the WSJ and the indies on the internet, in the bag for the current Democrat powers-that-be and their liberal base? So why would it be unexpected or raise a single eyebrow that the MSM is off trying to do everything they can to discredit the TP crowd in the eyes of the perhaps dozens of readers and viewers that they have?

The plain truth is it isn’t unexpected. In fact, it’s entirely expected! The fact of the matter is is that if you’re persistent enough and can tolerate enough liberal dreck and pablum, you will see a pattern emerge where all the newsreaders (no, they’re not journalists!) seem to have an eerily similar story to tell. So eerily similar, in fact, that one has to wonder if it wasn’t drafted in a windowless communications office in a certain Washington landmark and FAXed to the corpus of useful media idiots for them to recite.

This is NOTHING new…it’s just the new order of American politics. American politics Democrat style. Part of the de-evolution of our society into a modern day orgy of blood sport, ad hominem attacks and ridicule. And if you add in the new administration’s Chicago political roots, you’re left with a bare-knuckled, winner-take-all implementation of the previous.

So, fasten your seatbelts for the political ride we’re about to have between now and November. By the time that the Democrat spin machine is done, we won’t know right from left or up from down. But you can bet your grandma that we WILL know one thing — that the Republicans are the problem, they are the party of NO, they are egging-on violence, they don’t have any answers, they are the party of George W. Bush and Dick Cheney, and they are closely aligned with the Tea Partiers. You can also be darned sure that their claims are righteous and true.

The FAXes say so…

The New York  Times and various other organs of the US mainstream media have, in the eyes of many of their critics including yours truly, refused to give adequate reportage and coverage to the ever-expanding, so-called Climategate story. The Times has used several print “journalists” to pooh-pooh the brewing scandal involving scientific corruption at the University of Norwich’s Climate Research Unit (CRU) in East Anglia, UK. But the silence at the NYT regarding this important scandal is deafening, particularly so in light of the now-convened Copenhagen conference.

I won’t bore anyone with the the gory details of the Climategate brouhaha except for this brief chronological summary:

• Approximately 8-10 weeks ago hackers stole 60+MB of e-mails, programs and data from the CRU. The after several attempts elsewhere in the world, the e-mails were posted on a public-access web server in Russia. within days, the e-mails were being reviewed and analyzed by countless global warming skeptics and others in the worldwide scientific and journalistic community.
• Multiple, credible sources have evaluate the e-mails and found them to be damning of the scientific methods and practices in regards to evaluating climatological data collected/warehoused by the CRU. This includes data manipulation to force trends and cherry-picking data to suit preconceived notions. It also revealed that the group of in vogue, esteemed climate scientists are practicing a new, seemingly politically-motivated, brand of the scientific method. In their own words they exclude contrary scientific opinions from the debate and ostracize those they deem dangerous to their orthodoxy.
• Multiple, credible analyses have been performed on the snippets of computer programs pilfered from the CRU. Many contain “fixes, ” “cheats” and “tricks” to cherry-pick data and then plot the results in a biased manner…and always towards global heating owing to the numerical offset coefficients purposely included in the programs.
• The e-mails were authenticated by members of the CRU staff and purportedly have not been altered or edited.
• The Climategate story catches fire on the internet and becomes one of the more popular news stories worldwide in spite of the dearth of coverage in the US mainstream media.

An excellent summary of the entire Climategate affair is available from the SPPI by Lord Christopher Moncton, a notable and articulate skeptic of the global warming movement. You can find it in PDF form HERE. You should notice that not a single mainstream news organization, with the exception of FOX News, has covered Lord Moncton’s scathing recap of Climategate and its implications to the present negotiations in Copenhagen. The New York Times, it seems, is AWOL on this issue. See, they have journalistic principles that won’t allow them to publish the purloined e-mails — it just wouldn’t be fair. This coming from the same “news” organization that had no compunction in printing leaked or stolen memoranda and documents during the years of the Bush administration that would tarnish reputations or otherwise place egg on that administration’s face.

But the global warming alarmists and “scientists” enjoy protected status among the so-called journalists in our mainstream media because they share the same ideological bent as does the editorial and rank-and-file staffs of these so-called news organizations. If you’re a neo-socialist or progressive thinker, you’re embraced with open arms and feted with glowing ‘Page 1, above the fold’ reportage. (Which also might happen if you’re a contrarian thinker or ideological foe who has an embarrassing issue!) How many dire stories have we had to endure about suffering Polar bears and melting glaciers, even when the underlying stories and causations are patently untrue? But I digress…

So, with Climategate, the Times et. al have been provided a red meat news story to cover. It might not fit their established ideological bent, or represent a precious totem of their world-view. But so what, news is news…right? So what do they do? They outright ignore it as though in the internet age that it will just “go away!” The media may well feel smug in the self-absorbed knowledge that if they ignore the story, then it isn’t really a story at all. Or so they think.

It hasn’t gone away…and in fact many news organizations outside of the US, particularly in the UK (just Google Climategate and UK Telegraph, for example!!) have embraced the story as the world-wide scandal that it is. even the über politically correct BBC has picked up on this story and is giving it fair, if meager, coverage. The extra-US media recognize that the potential hoax being perpetrated on the world by the “credible” climate scientists pushing their “established” science that is “settled” and “beyond dispute” renders the conclusions of the UN’s IPCC and the and the US’s EPA regarding global warming and CO2 toxicity utter rubbish (or at least calls them into serious question as they relied heavily on the data provided by the CRU)  now in light of the CRU e-mail revelations.

However, the world media, it seems, recognizes real news when it sees it. And furthermore reports the news as it occurs. News is news, regardless if it chafes against your principles or contradicts your beliefs. By not reporting this important story, which by the way portends to impact the life of every man, woman and child on the planet, the US mainstream media gives it’s consuming public short-shrift and in essence treat us as though we, given all the information available, can’t come to our own conclusions. Perhaps some can’t think for themselves and they prefer that the NYT or some broadcast media outfit does their thinking for them…but fortunately the vast majority of us can — and do think for ourselves and rightly use the news as part of our thinking and decision process.

By ignoring Climategate and eschewing news for political ideology, the US mainstream media has relegated itself into further irrelevance as the place to go to get the real story — the or the unvarnished truth. It’s no wonder that many of the US’s major newspapers are in financial trouble and that the news organizations of the three major broadcast networks suffer viewership and credibility problems. By ignoring the REAL news and substituting their alternative view of what is or isn’t news, these alleged news sources tarnish their credibility with an increasingly news savvy public.

Until these conventional sources of news stop editorializing both in the news stories that they do chose to and by which stories they select to report, they will insure that conventional journalism suffers the same fate as the contemptible pseudo-scientists at the CRU. Because in essence both sets of so-called professionals, scientists and journalists, have done or are doing the same thing — crafting their own versions of reality out of thin air.

And once the people know the truth, we’re just not buying it…

I read this brief, but to-the-point, essay on the whole Climategate matter by Australian scientist and businessman Ian Pilmer, who is also an outspoken critic of global warming and climate change science. It appeared on the Pajamas Media web site.

Unfortunately, it is a view that I doubt will ever see the light of day in the US mainstream media:

Climategate: Alarmism Is Underpinned by Fraud (PJM Exclusive)

I cannot understand why major US media outlets (besides FOX News) don’t see this revelation as a major scientific scandal and a major news story. Sadly, they are content in perpetuating a lie that fits their ideological world-view. And they are willing to compromise their “integrity” (if the US MSM can be attributed to having any integrity left after the sloppy political media coverage of the past year and a half) to prop up their sagging ideological totems.

My advice to the average citizen…turn off their channels and eschew buying their newspapers and magazines. If they’re going to lie to us and support politicians who would do us all damage with their decisions based on faulty conclusions, then we need to punish them in the manner they most assuredly deserve!

These bastards understand money, and so we must remove the nutrients (think of it as withholding water and oxygen from a stubborn weed!) that help them to flourish even thought they stubbornly seem to be comfortable with either altering or simply ignoring the truth and reality.

If they are comfortable in abandoning their constitutional advocacy of the people, then we must take up the cause ourselves and get the word out in spite of their recalcitrance.

Pig-headed world leaders are set to make our existence much harder and much different with their upcoming agreements and treaties in Copenhagen — all of which is based on data that has been rigged — gleefully mutated by craven, venal pseudo-scientists in the UK and the USA.

Now is not the time to bury our heads in the sand and retreat from this issue because we don’t have any expertise skin in the game. We all have common sense and can make decisions based on available data (if that data is correct and honest) and we all have a vested interest in the remedies that are planned and implemented.

So, PLEASE, use you wallets and voices to make sure that the media, and more importantly, your elected representatives hear and understand your concerns regarding this scandal. And make them understand that given the recent scandal, and its potential implications, that making climatological deals in Copenhagen in two weeks is simply the wrong thing to do.

In the statement released today that President Obama will be traveling to Copenhagen to negotiate America’s portion of greenhouse gas emissions reductions, he is obviously and most probably intentionally ignoring the obvious 900 pound gorilla in the room. And that 900 pound is the increasing-in-momentum unraveling of the climate change/global warming data, and the discrediting of the scientific underpinnings of global warming theory.

In light of the recent and developing news that much of the climate change data has been manipulated and fraudulent, our Commander-In-Chief still plans to attend the Copenhagen summit to make what would seem to be idiotic concessions to solve non-existent issues — resulting in actions and restrictions that will negatively affect the well-being of all Americans. And for what? Well, nothing it seems.

I would think that rather than increasing his already inter-galactic-sized carbon footprint by going to Copenhagen he would, rather, angrily demand an investigation into what now appears to be the biggest political-scientific conspiracy and scandal in the history of the world. A real leader would want to get to the bottom of this and pronto!!

However, Obama’s intended actions don’t seem like sound leadership to me. They seem like the pursuit of a conclusion to a preconceived notion regarding the perceived harm being done by anthropogenic global warming…a notion that will not be changed even if the theory is completely and utterly debunked.

It makes me think that the whole to-do surrounding global warming/climate change was never ever about reducing temperatures or saving polar bears…it was ALWAYS about increasing control on the average citizen by an ever-enlarging central government. It was and is about adding to the ever-increasing list of do’s and don’ts that our government-masters dream up for us unwitting citizens for our own good.

If it were otherwise, and if all the proposed and looming legislation and treaties were in our best interests, then we should expect Obama to act accordingly and put the brakes on any negotiations until the latest scandal is settled.

To do anything else ignores the obvious…

Get ready world!! the Spin-O-Meter is ready to go to work!

We are going to see MAJOR LEAGUE spin and BIG TIME damage control of the “science” of global warming and of certain scientific reputations in the wake of the revelations of data rigging and scientific shenanigans that the recently-pilfered e-mails and files from the CRU in the UK have provided. Remember, there’s a lot at stake…trillions of potential dollars and Euros, so the global warming proponents aren’t going to go down without a fight…and a lot of help, sympathy and support from the like-minded mainstream media.

Also remember that a discredited global warming theory makes a LOT of “eminent” scientists and politicians look like morons! Oh yeah, and let’s not forget the culpability of the mainstream media, who bought this whole load of pseudo-scientific tripe hook, line and sinker without so much as a file folder’s-worth of skepticism and investigation.

Just check out this “story” from the AP that interviews a “key” scientist who cranks the scientific and political spin-o-meter to almost full scale:

Key scientist says politics behind stolen e-mails

Now, if I were born yesterday, I would normally assume that the title of this article referred to the duplicity and scheming of the climate “scientists” as revealed in the pilfered e-mails from the CRU. But, alas, the AP is not your typical “news” organization any more. This once fine news reporting agency is now a collection of “opinionizers,” and collectively they have revealed themselves over the past 5 or so years as ideologically corrupt an outfit as you will find in the media. So, the AP’s story doesn’t focus on the incendiary nature of the CRU e-mails and the worldwide political implications…no, no, no…they focus on the outrage of this “key” climate scientist, Kevin Trenberth, who by the way was one of the authors/respondents of the e-mails in question.

By his own words in those e-mails, Trenberth is shown to be less than reliable as a “key” and more importantly unbiased climate resource…and anything that the man now says should be regarded with skepticism until he and his cohorts at the CRU are investigated and either cleared or jailed.

So, good work AP! Fine investigative reporting. You’re certainly getting to the bottom of this scandal!

I say, let the games begin! Let’s see if (now what appear to be) corrupt “scientists” and politicians can explain and legally defend their way out of this mess to our collective satisfaction as taxpayers who have funded much of this foofarall. Let’s also see massive government investigations begin worldwide into these e-mails, and the allegations of collusion and data fixing that they seem to support. Let’s investigate all those involved, scientists and politicians alike…and let’s take a closer look at the AP for good measure!

I’ll tell you something, if I were in the shoes of a lot of prominent scientists and politicians right now, I’d be pushing the panic button!

Seriously, though, as a result of this brewing scandal, I think that President Obama should not even consider attending the now-tainted, upcoming global climate change summit in Denmark. If he negotiates anything that could or would throttle our economy down due to emission strictures now that the foundations of the global warming theory have been called into question, then he would do the citizens of the United States a great and damaging disservice. He would be negotiating treaties and promising actions be taken on a (what seems to now be) flawed set of assumptions.

But isn’t that what the present moral bankruptcy and political corruption in Washington DC are all about, anyways?