Re: [asa] "We Just Have to Slow Down Our Economy" to Fight Global Warming

On Feb 1, 2008 12:54 PM, Janice Matchett <janmatch@earthlink.net> wrote:

> *
> Hee hee hee. * Talk about "jumping the shark"!!
>
> *"We Just Have to Slow Down Our Economy" to Fight Global Warming
> *ABC ^ | 1/31/08 | Jake Tapper
> http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1962560/posts
>

Yet another why the free republic never, never, never should be referenced.
I mean how much effort would it take to quote the original posting? Note
Jake Tapper's blog that is referenced above and you get the completely
opposite sense.

http://blogs.abcnews.com/politicalpunch/2008/01/bill-we-just-ha.html

The complete quote is there with the polar opposite sense from what was
going around the blogosphere:

"Everybody knows that global warming is real," Mr. C linton said, giving a
> shout-out to Al G ore's Nobel Peace Prize, "but we cannot solve it alone."
>
> "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 only way we can do this is if we get back in the world's
> fight against global warming and prove it is good economics that we will
> create more jobs to build a sustainable economy that saves the planet for
> our children and grandchildren. It is the only way it will work.
>
> "And guess what? The only places in the world today in rich countries
> where you have rising wages and declining inequality are places that have
> generated more jobs than rich countries because they made a commitment we
> didn't. They got serious about a clean, efficient, green, independent energy
> future… If you want that in America, if you want the millions of jobs that
> will come from it, if you would like to see a new energy trust fund to
> finance solar energy and wind energy and biomass and responsible bio-fuels
> and electric hybrid plug-in vehicles that will soon get 100 miles a gallon,
> if you want every facility in this country to be made maximally energy
> efficient that will create millions and millions and millions of jobs, vote
> for her. She'll give it to you. She's got the right energy plan."
>
>
That bastion of l iberalism the corner of the National Review Online said:

Re: Slowdown [Iain Murray]
>
> Jonah, that video is actually (and again, I can't believe I'm saying this)
> really unfair to Bill C linton. 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 C linton 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.
>

Andy Revkin has more commentary on the dot Earth blog:

http://tinyurl.com/yqmpmb*
*
Speaking of jumping the shark (for non-Americans see here:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jumping_the_shark) another Jake Tapper blog
posting where one of the talking heads is revving up the speed boat:

http://tinyurl.com/39hgp5

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Received on Mon Feb 4 12:51:07 2008