Morning Joe Guest Insists Climategate Scientists Are Being “Swiftboated” – With Video

December 4th, 2009 (14) Posted By Erik Wong.

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News Busters:

Fake but accurate rides again! The same lame defense Dan Rather used in Memogate has been trotted out on ClimateGate by Columbia Univ. Prof. Jeffrey Sachs.

Appearing on Morning Joe today, the author of Common Wealth [note play on words: your money is our money] alleged that the real victims in this scandal are . . . the number-fudging scientists. People are attempting to “Swiftboat” those poor CRU guys, sighed Sachs. For good measure, the good professor asserted that what the fudgesters did “is not a very big deal.”

JOE SCARBOROUGH: This ClimateGate issue, where you’ve got scientists connected with Gore–I guess they’re very important scientists in this field–that were apparently sending emails that made it look like they were playing with the numbers. Tell us: what’s your take on that? Because you’ve got the right and the left fighting each other and the rest of us are in the crossfire.

JEFFREY SACHS: This is pretty serious. Not what happened, but how it’s being responded to. Because this is really trying to Swiftboat science.

SCARBOROUGH: What happened is not important? These guys saying let’s juice the numbers?

SACHS: What happened is not a very big deal, no. And what happened is a tiny piece of a huge, global, independent scientific enterprise which has found for decades that we have a very serious environmental crisis.

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  • Sully

    ‘Yes. I think it’s possible to lie and still be considered an honest man.’
    - Dan Rather to Bill O’Reilly a few years ago

    That’s the Progressive and the ClimateChange truther mindset folks.

  • Mr. Standfast

    A much better opinion piece by Rex Murphy.

    http://network.nationalpost.com/np/blogs/fpcomment/archive/2009/12/04/canada-s-public-television-commentary-says-climategate-spells-end-of-global-warming.aspx

    The real science of CO2: Falsification Of The Atmospheric CO2 Greenhouse Effects Within The Frame Of Physics. at xxx.lanl.gov/…/0707.1161 download the pdf and read the summary on page 92-94.

  • DC

    YOU’RE GODDAMN RIGHT IT’S “SWIFTBOATING”….GET USED TO IT!

  • RexRedbone

    A Tiny bit of Information give me a fucking break

  • politicalfish

    One element undermines all the liberal defenses of the falsified baseline data. It is a fundamental tenant of the scientific method. Publicly release all collected data and reveal all calculations and equations utilized to reach the published conclusions. If they will not do this, then everything they say is 100% bullshit. All subsequent conclusions, research, policies, laws regulations, articles, theories, thesis, publications , etc. based on the underlying data are false. The notion of reproducibility is a necessary element of validity.

  • TerryTate

    So throwing out all of the data that doesn’t support your position is no big deal eh?

    I guess I’ll just tell that one to me credit card companies then when they call and ask me to pay my bills.

    What was that?

    You say I owe you some money?

    Oh no I don’t, that information you have isn’t valid.

    My records show that I am totally paid up.

    So sorry.

  • Nick1970

    :arrow: “Swiftboating”

    That’s the term the liberals used in 2004 to describe those who dared to expose the TRUTH about John Kerry. So, ironically, it DOES apply here, though NOT in the way the libs think it does.

    Stupid liberals never learn… :roll:

    • Nick1970

      Forgot to add: “Swiftboating” apparently means when someone mentions inconvenient truths about one of the libs’ people or pet causes.

  • mike3481

    Look at what I found, listen to Hillary dig her grave in the context of what’s happens in the last two weeks->

    “Clinton vs. Crichton …”

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gCP2IY3SRvY

    • http://www.kimberamerica.com/images/pistols/custom.jpg T-Bagg

      Listening to Hillary, I’m wondering if she even realized what she was saying.
      :beer:

    • mike3481

      I doubt it.

  • mike3481

    From NewsMax.com -> “Gore Should Give Back Oscar, Two Academy Members Say”

    http://www.newsmax.com/insidecover/Gore_Oscar_climate/2009/12/04/294502.html?s=al&promo_code=92B7-1

  • Tyler520

    Last time I checked, the Swiftboat movement was based on fact…so what’s the issue of “Swiftboating” the “Climategate” culprits?