Reverend Manny and The Twilight Empire

One of the many reasons I hate the MSM (especially the American brand of it) is the myopic shortsightedness with which they “pick” the news.

For example, consider the following article from Al-Jazeera.

A leading climate scientist has warned that the earth is heating up faster than previous reports had indicated.

Chris Field, a member of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), says predicted global temperature rises of between 1.1C and 6.4C in the group’s 2007 report had been underestimated.

“We are basically looking now at a future climate that is beyond anything that we’ve considered seriously in climate policy,” he told a meeting of the the American Association for the Advancement of Science in Chicago on Saturday.

Btw, it’s not on ABC, NBC or CBS. I don’t see it on CNN or MSNBC either… I see it on the environmental news release thingy I subscribe too. I see it at ABC Australia. I see it in a Swedish newspaper and a Polish one. Ooo… I even see it in a British biofeul news site. But no on the America media… at least not yet.

Which only makes me loath over-educated under-thinking d’bags like George Will even more. First, here’s George Will’s pompous, assinine and ultimately incorrect op-ed piece in the Washington Post (btw, in the post-game, the WP says it doesn’t necessarily fact-check op-ed pieces… good thing Bill Kristol moved there). Here’s Matt Corley at ThinkProgress giving George Will’s piece a sweet-ass deconstruction. As it ACTUALLY turns out, Will lied about the facts, misquoting his original source (the ACRC).

In the Washington Post yesterday, conservative columnist George Will chastised Energy Secretary Stephen Chu for “doomsaying” about global warming, arguing that concerns about climate change are just “eco-pessimism.” As evidence to support his point, Will claimed that “according to the University of Illinois’ Arctic Climate Research Center, global sea ice levels now equal those of 1979.” But, as TPMmuckraker notes, the Arctic Climate Research Center (ACRC) quickly disputed Will’s claim… (quote follows)

Dude… I mean… this is really getting stupid now.

Picture the world as a really big room with 8 billion mofos in it. If one of us farts, maybe only the people next to them notice. If we build a farting factory, many people will smell it. If we build alot of farting factories, all of us will smell it. When our very way of life is based on farting factories we will run out of air and breath nothing but farts.

Is that what you really want? A world of farts?

Think Free or Die Stupid,

—Reverend Manny and the Twilight Empire