Holocaust deniers they’ll tolerate, but…

In the opinion section of the Wall Street Journal today is a reprint of a letter from Senators Jay Rockefeller (D-WV) Olympia Snowe (?-ME) to Rex W. Tillerson, the CEO of ExxonMobile. According to the senators, ExxonMobile has damaged the stature of the United States in the world by supporting “global climate change skeptics”.

and those skeptics access to and influence on government policymakers, have made it increasingly difficult for the United States to demonstrate the moral clarity it needs across all facets of its diplomacy.

Don’t these two clowns have anything else to do than bother working Americans like Mr. Tillerson who happen to disagree with the Democrat party (and whatever party Ms. Snowe belongs to these days)?

I find it terribly troubling that two of the people whose sworn job it is to protect Americans’ freedom to speak as they please are telling Americans to stop disagreeing with them. Not only that, they “cc” a copy of their letter to the Wall Street Journal – like some terrorist manifesto warning to other corporations who dare disagree with their fantasies about global climate change.

ExxonMobil is not alone in jeopardizing the credibility and stature of the United States. Large corporations in related industries have joined ExxonMobil to provide significant and consistent financial support of this pseudo-scientific, non-peer reviewed echo chamber. The goal has not been to prevail in the scientific debate, but to obscure it.

Funny, but this letter appears to be an attempt at “obscurring” any opposing opinion to the views held by these two senators. And since when do they know pseudo-scientific when they see it? What sort of research have these two knuckleheads done in the field, other than listening to other blowhards wax endlessly about the coming doom and end of Man?

And I find no fewer than five times is the phrase “credibility and stature of the United States” used in this letter. I wonder if they think that withdrawing our troops from Iraq would have any effect on the credibility and stature of the United States.

Category: Politics