"We know how much the planet is going to warm. It is a small amount, and we can't do anything about it."ABC News bends ever so slightly toward the world the rest of us are living in with a slimy pseudo-admission of complicity and deceit by someone somewhere about global warming.
-Pat Michaels
It says "American attitudes about global warming are shifting, according to a new poll by ABC News".
As though American attitudes are something ABC only reports, not something they've worked hard to create.
As though most Americans get their news about global warming from some other unnamed, indescribable place that has nothing to do with the Bush government or compromised orifices of corporate intent like ABC.
It says "it has taken years for the public perception of the problem to catch up with the warnings". Then it gives top billing to a "skeptic" who's a paid hack and a shill for corporate interests.
It says "That lack of concern may have been just what big oil wanted."
It says "The vast majority of scientists have determined global warming to be a real threat. So why has it taken so long to convince Americans?"
As though "big oil" was over there skulking in the murky dark, and ABC News is over here with us, getting taken advantage of and lied at, too.
It says "Virginia's top climatologist doesn't buy it."
"The American people have just been bludgeoned with climate disaster stories for God knows how long," said the climatologist, Pat Michaels, "and they're just, they've got disaster fatigue."
That cute, humanizing, almost folksy real-speak stutter - he's just, he's fed up with this nonsense.
He's a man with a job to do.
For whom you might enquire, but not of ABC News, because they're working for the same bosses.
Deltoid consistently disassembles Pat Michaels with his own tools.
Pat Michaels is a senior fellow at the Cato Institute in addition to being Virginia's "top climatologist".
Cato "receives most of its financial support from entrepreneurs, securities and commodities traders, and corporations such as oil and gas companies, Federal Express, and Philip Morris that abhor government regulation" according to Source Watch.
Geoff Morrell wrote the story.
It positions the media in an implied neutrality in distinct contradiction to that mean old White House, which is being set up to take a hard fall.
What needs to be emphasized is that the media that now step away from the wreckage of the Bush Administration and its clouds of deceit created every last bit of it.
Bush was elected by the media, not the people.
The fact of global warming was hidden by the media at the bidding of the men who run the corporations that caused it
Liars like Pat Michaels were given a pulpit in the media while honest scientists were denied any public voice.
The lies haven't stopped yet.
