Bill Clinton on Global Warming
Lance on Feb 02 2008 at 4:44 pm | Filed under: Domestic Politics, Election 2008, Environment, Foreign affairs, Lance's Page, Media
Bill got a lot of heat over a video released by ABC News and an accompanying news story:
Former President Bill Clinton was in Denver, Colorado, stumping for his wife yesterday.
In a long, and interesting speech, he characterized what the U.S. and other industrialized nations need to do to combat global warming this way: “We just have to slow down our economy and cut back our greenhouse gas emissions ’cause we have to save the planet for our grandchildren.”
At a time that the nation is worried about a recession is that really the characterization his wife would want him making? “Slow down our economy”?
Of course, ABC has made a hash of this. From Iain Murray:
Sphere: Related ContentJonah, that video is actually (and again, I can’t believe I’m saying this) really unfair to Bill Clinton. The biter bit, you may say, but I don’t believe this sort of manipulation by the media is in any way helpful. The clip is out of context. What Clinton actually said was:
“And maybe America, and Europe, and Japan, and Canada — the rich counties — would say, ‘OK, we just have to slow down our economy and cut back our greenhouse gas emissions ’cause we have to save the planet for our grandchildren.’ We could do that. But if we did that, you know as well as I do, China and India and Indonesia and Vietnam and Mexico and Brazil and the Ukraine, and all the other countries will never agree to stay poor to save the planet for our grandchildren.”
The bold section is what ABC chose to highlight in that video, plucked from the middle of words that have the opposite meaning. That’s not good journalism in any sense.
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Which, I suppose, means that we should quit accusing the MSM of bias.
They just lie about everyone.
Wow, he was saying the exact opposite. Unbelievable.
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