[Platt] As for censoring, the administration denies any such thing. But as you know, you can't prove a negative to anyone's satisfaction, especially to those who have an irrational rabid hatred of Bush.
[Arlo] Platt makes it sound as if its one "loons" word against a righteous and noble administration. Consider the following excerpt from a Guardian article following this: "In the survey of 1,600 government scientists by the Union of Concerned Scientists, 46% had been warned against using terms like global warming in speech or in their reports. The scientists interviewed were working at seven government agencies, from Nasa to the Environmental Protection Agency. Forty-three percent of respondents said their published work had been revised in ways that altered the meaning of scientific findings. Some 38% said they had direct knowledge of cases where scientific information on climate was stripped from websites and printed reports. "There were a very large number of edits that came at the 12th hour after all the earlier science people had signed off," said Mr Piltz, who eventually resigned from his job because of such pressure. In one such case, a White House appointee, Phil Cooney, demanded 400 last-minute changes which significantly changed the meaning and tone of the report." (The Guardian) This is hardly one man's word against the immoral act of the administration. But as always, Platt's eagerness to be a republican apologist is seconded only by his zeal to vilify and demonize "evil liberals". One wonders in what bizarro world would have Platt so readily apologizing for a Clinton adminstration accused by republicans of censoring scientific reports. Nay, should that have been the case, Platt would be flooding the textwaves with daily diatribes about the immoral and anti-freedom regime of the liberals seeking to censor the humble, truthful voices of conservatives. We would be treated to the Hannity soundbite du jour about the "radical left" and their "anti-freedom agenda" to "censor the truth" and "steal our liberty". And as for the so-boring soundbite "irrational rabid hatred of Bush", I suppose the only vindication of this stupidity is that it comes from someone who knows, as he spent eight years engaged in the most awful, rabid demonizing and hatred of Clinton. It takes one to know one, I suppose. Moq_Discuss mailing list Listinfo, Unsubscribing etc. http://lists.moqtalk.org/listinfo.cgi/moq_discuss-moqtalk.org Archives: http://lists.moqtalk.org/pipermail/moq_discuss-moqtalk.org/ http://moq.org.uk/pipermail/moq_discuss_archive/
