Comments on: Lies, Damned Lies And The AP http://bluecrabboulevard.com/2007/04/07/lies-damned-lies-and-the-ap/ Summum nec metuas diem, nec optes - Marcus Valerius Martialis Thu, 19 Apr 2012 09:00:56 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.4 By: Maggie's Farm http://bluecrabboulevard.com/2007/04/07/lies-damned-lies-and-the-ap/comment-page-1/#comment-57460 Maggie's Farm Sun, 08 Apr 2007 21:30:15 +0000 http://bluecrabboulevard.com/2007/04/07/lies-damned-lies-and-the-ap/#comment-57460 <strong>Easter evening cocktail hour Links...</strong> 14 reasons to allow drinking on the job. S,C&AParkas at the Masters. I told y'all the next Ice Age was on the way.I was going to post the Powerline piece, but Blue Crab takes the subject of the AP's subtle propagandizing a bit further.Hotroddin... Easter evening cocktail hour Links…

14 reasons to allow drinking on the job. S,C&AParkas at the Masters. I told y’all the next Ice Age was on the way.I was going to post the Powerline piece, but Blue Crab takes the subject of the AP’s subtle propagandizing a bit further.Hotroddin…

]]> By: daveinboca http://bluecrabboulevard.com/2007/04/07/lies-damned-lies-and-the-ap/comment-page-1/#comment-57443 daveinboca Sun, 08 Apr 2007 05:32:06 +0000 http://bluecrabboulevard.com/2007/04/07/lies-damned-lies-and-the-ap/#comment-57443 The current hysteria is a symptom of <a href="http://drsanity.blogspot.com/2007/03/another-textbook-example-of.html" rel="nofollow">displacement,</a> a psychological mechanism that allows one to ignore real threats like Islamic terrorism, in order to focus on imaginary phantasms like Anthropogenic Global Warming. Part of the left's <a href="http://drsanity.blogspot.com/2005/11/lets-discuss-bush-derangement-syndrome.html" rel="nofollow">denial of reality,</a> a symptom of a larger <a href="http://www.drsanity.blogspot.com/" rel="nofollow">mass psychosis</a> infecting much of the American electorate. The current hysteria is a symptom of displacement, a psychological mechanism that allows one to ignore real threats like Islamic terrorism, in order to focus on imaginary phantasms like Anthropogenic Global Warming. Part of the left’s denial of reality, a symptom of a larger mass psychosis infecting much of the American electorate.

]]> By: feeblemind http://bluecrabboulevard.com/2007/04/07/lies-damned-lies-and-the-ap/comment-page-1/#comment-57429 feeblemind Sat, 07 Apr 2007 22:19:36 +0000 http://bluecrabboulevard.com/2007/04/07/lies-damned-lies-and-the-ap/#comment-57429 This style of reporting has been around for many years. In the political realm, quotes always come from "conservatives" or from the "extreme right". Adjectives like "liberal" and "far left" are never put in front of people people being quoted from the Left. As this type of reporting is de rigeur for the Press, I wonder what caused Powerline to pick on this article? I also wonder if the techniques typically used to tilt an article are taught in journalism school or are they picked up later on? This style of reporting has been around for many years. In the political realm, quotes always come from “conservatives” or from the “extreme right”. Adjectives like “liberal” and “far left” are never put in front of people people being quoted from the Left. As this type of reporting is de rigeur for the Press, I wonder what caused Powerline to pick on this article? I also wonder if the techniques typically used to tilt an article are taught in journalism school or are they picked up later on?

]]> By: TC@LeatherPenguin http://bluecrabboulevard.com/2007/04/07/lies-damned-lies-and-the-ap/comment-page-1/#comment-57422 TC@LeatherPenguin Sat, 07 Apr 2007 19:16:08 +0000 http://bluecrabboulevard.com/2007/04/07/lies-damned-lies-and-the-ap/#comment-57422 One of the things about the Goracle's dire warnings that always struck me as incredulous was the idea that bacuse of the globe running a temperature, there would be widespread drought. Now, <i>if </i>the earth warms up as he claims, and <i>if </i>this causes the polar caps to melt, doesn't that mean all that freshwater--the polar icecaps almost entirely consists of freshwater--then wouldn't that same fresh water be converted to vapor, which would rise into the atmosphere and increase cloud cover, which, at least this laymanbelieves, should lead to the Goracle's prediction of massively increased storm systems dumping more and heavier torrential freshwater rainfalls than the world has ever seen? One of the things about the Goracle’s dire warnings that always struck me as incredulous was the idea that bacuse of the globe running a temperature, there would be widespread drought.

Now, if the earth warms up as he claims, and if this causes the polar caps to melt, doesn’t that mean all that freshwater–the polar icecaps almost entirely consists of freshwater–then wouldn’t that same fresh water be converted to vapor, which would rise into the atmosphere and increase cloud cover, which, at least this laymanbelieves, should lead to the Goracle’s prediction of massively increased storm systems dumping more and heavier torrential freshwater rainfalls than the world has ever seen?

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