Eco-fanatics at Politico and The New York Times used the death of a Republican senator to hammer down his skepticism about climate change. [emphasis, links added]
How many Politico Do journalists need to screw in light bulbs? Who knows, but we do know that on July 9 it took four of us to write down a crazy, shocking headline: “Former Senator Jim Inhofe, who called climate change a 'hoax,' dies at 89.”
The first paragraph of this article isn’t much better. In fact, it's already daunting.
Inhofe, an Oklahoma Republican who brought a snowball to the Senate floor as a shameless symbol of climate change denial, died Tuesday. He is 89 years old.
Compare PoliticoInhofe’s treatment of Cuba’s communist dictator Fidel Castro and his priorities became clear in his glossy 2019 obituary for Cuba’s communist dictator Fidel Castro: “Cuba’s Fidel Castro, who resisted the United States for 50 years Tero has died.
PoliticoThe horrific report about Inhofe begs the question: why any editor using the prefrontal cortex would agree to publish this article.
Obviously, someone is Politico There was an epiphany of sorts, because shortly after this article was published, its silly title was changed.
but Politico He is not alone.
New York Times That was followed by a brazen attack on Inhofe's climate views in another obituary. “Climate change denier Senator James M. Inhofe dies at 89” eraThe crude title reads.
era Inhofe’s first paragraph smeared Inhofe as “arguably Washington’s most prominent denier of the established science of man-made climate change.”
unlike Politico, era All it takes is one author to paint himself as a bunch of flippant climate ignorants.
era, However, not realizing the madness of its title Politico This is indeed the case, and remains unchanged at the time of its article's publication.
Inhofe's former chief of staff Andrew Wheeler under fire Politico and era Their Totally disrespectful treatment Comments from former senator on MRC Business.
“It's a sad commentary on modern life when some people rush to speak ill of the dead. Even worse, if the so-called mainstream media, e.g. New York Timesand It's especially mean when they only have bad things to say about Republicans,” Wheeler said. [A user on Xitter noticed the discrepancy, too]
One of them was a member of the Ku Klux Klan, and the other left a young woman to die in his crashed car. A third at one point threw a snowball onto the Senate floor.
Guess which is which? pic.twitter.com/23QcyqiIvm
— Zach Parkinson (@AZachParkinson) July 9, 2024
Politico – despite changing the original crazy title – casts Inhofe as a comic book contamination villain who stems the tide of progress for Gaia's loyal followers:
Inhofe is one of the Republican Party's most outspoken critics of environmental regulation and climate change science, and during his tenure as chairman of the Senate Environment and Public Works Committee, he wielded enormous influence over environmental policy — and not just through his use of the gavel , and through his Trump administration, he trained staff who later held key positions at the EPA and worked to overturn those rules. in the title of a book about climate change.
Politico It’s the same publication that trumpets blocking the sun to save the planet from climate monstersso it’s no wonder it couldn’t resist destroying the late senator’s legacy, because He didn’t succumb to the media’s pagan climate gods.
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