Riehl World View

Climate Change: BBC Didn't Hide The Story?

I could fault the BBC on climate change reporting forever, but given a growing blog meme suggesting that the BCC had the story and withheld it, that doesn't seem validated by the facts. h/t Instapundit.

The individual in question, Paul Hudson, is a BBC blogger and actually did a post questioning global warming. Now see his latest. It at least appears that what he is actually saying is, he was copied on some of the emails as a matter of correspondence. That doesn't mean he saw the whole data pile.

As you may know, some of the e-mails that were released last week directly involved me and one of my previous blogs, 'Whatever happened to global warming ?' These took the form of complaints about its content, and I was copied in to them at the time. Complaints and criticisms of output are an every day part of life, and as such were nothing out of the ordinary. However I felt that seeing there was an ongoing debate as to the authenticity of the hacked e-mails, I was duty bound to point out that as I had read the original e-mails, then at least these were authentic, although of course I cannot vouch for the authenticity of the others.

New York Times Comments On My Blog

Following up on an Instapundit item about the NY Times telling him to STFU in blog comments elsewhere, I put the IP into my own comment search feature. That IP has been here with the name franglosaxon.

Founding bloggers wasn't opening  for a bit but you can get the meat of the post here if Founding Bloggers is still over-loaded. It might be fine, now.

Courtesy of Franglosaxon, who tracks to the same IP and seems to have made some truly outlandish comments elsewhere.

franglosaxon Says:

OBAMA HASN’T EVEN RAISED TAXES YET YOU DUMB MOTHERFUCKERS

suddenly all these people are feeling persecuted by taxes. ’cause the money is all being handed out to black people by the black president. can we have more of them drowning their kids and trying to make it look like murder, plz?

There were six or seven on my site back in September/Oct - here's a few. They weren't as bad.

Sure, donors have never visited the White House before. Do you have any information that could put this into context, like the number of visitors now vs. under Reagan or Bush? No? Didn't think so. Just like to throw out the 'ol "Pimp-in-chief" moniker I guess. You suck.

Ooooh, Dick Gephardt did something in 1991 and therefore wingnuts are justified in being idiots today.

Great life program, wingtard.

Holy crap!You are telling me the same people who think Obama is a Kenyan Muslim Kommunist who was hatched from a dragon egg now don't trust Obama talking to their kids???

Deluded idiots continuing to espouse deluded distortions. Film at 11.

Update: More commentary plus video from Ed Driscoll at PJM here.

Why Does The Left Want Beck To Lead The Conservative Movement?

Don't pile on me. Just a link to Brian Mahoney at Radio Equalizer, who is always more than a fair man in his analysis. Some of his links and quotes are rather troubling. Given the liberal media's tendency to ignore, or impugn so many conservative personalities who have had great success, it is something of a puzzle while they seem so intent on propping Beck up. Is it only because he has prominent liberals handling his business and image? I wish I knew. But it has always been cause for alarm given how little I trust liberals and the liberal media. See both links if you haven't. I'm open to opposing views. That doesn't mean some of this isn't rather curious imo. They do love to set the Right up, just as they did with John McCain. Remember? He was the candidate the Left feared! Yeah, sure, how did that work out for us? feh!

More important is the state-run media's curious role in promoting Beck. Is it designed to install someone they see as highly vulnerable to oversee conservatives, leading to subsequent damage?

Lefties recognize Beck's unpredictable behavior and habit of making strange statements that serve the movement poorly, such as his assertion that McCain's presidency would have been worse for America than Obama's.

In addition, it is then relatively easy to use Beck's words to undermine Rush Limbaugh, Sean Hannity, Levin, Sarah Palin and others.

Another tactic: pitting other conservatives against Beck, accusing them of "jealousy" in relation to his "success".

Chris Matthews: It Must Have Been The Wine And The Music

Oh come on. Chris Matthews looks so hard up, he's probably been begging to be seduced for years. Crying date rape now is not an excuse in his case. Jaysus, the only reason for watching the guy at all is to see whose breasts he has on on any given night. And I still don't watch him. I'm more of a leg man, myself. He gave it up for Obama consensually. Now he doesn't want to carry the baby to term. That's so liberal. Stamp out promiscuity in media. No one enjoyed watching Matthews get laid by Obama anyway. You can get better porn on the Internet for free.

Chris Matthews appears to have lost that loving feeling for Barack Obama. 

On "The Chris Matthews Show" Sunday, the once smitten MSNBCer called some of Obama's recent mistakes "Carteresque":

Sarah Palin As Role Model

Jackie, the young woman from this MSDNC video, has written up her experience at Sarah Palin's book signing for "Going Rogue" on her blog.

When is the last time you can recall the liberal media asking a young female fan of any liberal female political figure a question about policy? Don't they always cite the politician as simply a role model? I can't recall them taking the conversation much beyond that level.

It really troubles me that what they are actually saying here is, obviously Sarah Palin is no role model for a young woman, or shouldn't be in their biased view. Don't think these people aren't seriously twisted up by their politics, folks. They most certainly are.

Where on earth do I begin? This all started as me, a young 17 year old American going to see a woman I admire and turned into this crazy event hah I’ll start at the very beginning.

ACORN: About That Journalistic Integrity Thing

Sad, but too bad, LA Times. Now, if it had been a conservative source, how many additional confirmations do you think they would have wanted? My guess is at least one solid one. Oh, but progressive Commie types? We know they never lie because they care so much!

Yeah, ... right.

In September, L.A. Times columnist James Rainey wrote a column in which he uncritically quoted ACORN worker Lavelle Stewart suggesting that she had turned Hannah Giles and James O’Keefe out of her office:

Media Got The Memo On Sarah Palin's Book

This relatively pathetic MSNBC video from a Palin book signing makes it obvious that the media got their talking points from the Democrats. And they're working them for all they're worth. Where's the policy, Sarah???

Give me a break. If conservatives talk policy, they say you have no vision. We lay out a general vision, well, where's the policy at? The MSNBC idiot even has to keep going back to her note cards to keep refreshing herself, that's how canned and uninteresting are the fan interactions they provide. She's lucky some bitter clinger's wife didn't just rap her on the snout.

To the extent a policy book is written by a candidate, or potential candidate, which we have no idea Palin is, or will become at some point, are written the year before an election. These media hacks can't all be this dumb. Surely it's just a hit by design. And as far as why she may have embraced the bail-out, as McCain did? Well, doh! That question is as dumb as the rest.

Tune in to MSDNC below. Nothing is more clear than that.

Sarah Palin Audio: Get A Life!

Audio from Mark Levin's interview with Sarah Palin. A very short clip of the Get a life quote below. Full interview here.

Updated: Andy Sullivan: Our Own Little Joseph Conrad

Update: More fun amid the madness via Ed Driscoll with additional links.

Good Lord, this is priceless. The Dish has gone silent. Shhhhhh.... Andy, the blogosphere's own little Joseph Conrad, steams along, deep into his own little heart of darkness to discover.... Dare we say it? "The horror! The horror!" 

Oh man. 'e's funally flipped 'is frickin' lid, mates. Wudnt'ya say?

ha ha ha What a freaking lunatic!!

Since the Dish has tried to be rigorous and careful in analyzing Palin's unhinged grip on reality from the very beginning - specifically her fantastic story of her fifth pregnancy - we feel it's vital that we grapple with this new data as fairly and as rigorously as possible. That takes time to get right. And it is so complicated we simply cannot focus on anything else.

Politico Defends Palin And Co-author Lynn Vincent

I sure hope Ben Smith doesn't lose his job over this one. ha! Actually, Ben has seemed to be a decent guy and straight shooter as far as the limited extent to which I've dealt with him behind the scenes. Good to see him step up here. He even gave Stacy McCain a link in an update to his piece at link above.

Blumenthal writes that the collaboration offers "the clearest window into her far-right politics." But -- having done my own profile of Vincent using many of the same data points a couple of months ago -- this seems both off target and missing something pretty basic about the version of Evangelical conservatism to which both Vincent and Palin belong.

The pastor of the San Diego megachurch Vincent attends (with Carrie Prejean, natch) is black. She's also spent most of the last few years on a pair of inspirational books about, basically, racial reconciliation in the friendship between a rich white art dealer and a homeless black drifter, the first of them a Times bestseller. More broadly, she hails from a (large) stream of Evangelicalism that puts racial reconciliation very high on the agenda.

Vincent is -- like Palin -- well to the right, as Blumenthal notes, on abortion; but the race card (in both cases) seems out of place.