So Alec Baldwin was in the news for refusing to stop playing a video game on an airline and making a fussy scene. And yesterday he was in the news again for getting photographed by paparazzi and making a fussy scene. Now he’s wearing sheets over his head. Oh, and 54 year old Baldwin is marrying a 28 year old.
Grow. Up. Dude.
Don’t worry Capital One, I wasn’t interested in your credit card anyway.
After slamming Republican Presidential Nominee Mitt Romney with a deceptively edited video, MSNBC’s Andrea Mitchell was exposed by Soopermexican and the mocking across New Media began. In response, Mitchell made the following comment in her show today:
“We ran clips of Mitt Romney in Cornwall, Pennsylvania, talking about his trip to WaWa. Well, the RNC and the campaign both reached out to us saying that Romney had more to say about that visit — about federal bureaucracy and innovation in the private sector. We didn’t get a chance to play that, so here it is now.”
Didn’t get a chance. Didn’t get a chance!? Is that why she characterized the piece yesterday by calling it Romney’s “Supermarket scanner moment” in an obvious reference to Bush41?
Quoting Patterico for the takeaway:
When I first heard about this, I went through three stages of reaction:
- That deception is an outrage!
- Who cares if Romney didn’t know about WaWa whatever?
- This is all they got? We’re gonna win, aren’t we?
John Sexton at Breitbart concludes:
How would this story have gone today if not for one guy with a flip-cam waiting in the crowd there in Cornwall, PA so he could hand Romney his book on hemp (yes, really). All of the garbage the left piled up today would likely have gone unchallenged right through to the election if not for that video. But thanks to Les Stark (who shot the clip) and a conservative blogger, Sooper Mexican, who was paying attention to the media spin, we got the truth. Thanks to those two gentlemen, today was another win for the new media. Still, it makes you wonder how many times the left has gotten away with this sort of nonsense because we didn’t have the video or weren’t paying close enough attention to debunk their junk as it happened.
Fritz Vahrenholt, one of Germany’s earliest green energy investors, has written an article for the Telegraph explaining why he is no longer convinced that the IPCC has made an adequate case for catastrophic global warming:
For many years, I was an active supporter of the IPCC and its CO2 theory. Recent experience with the UN’s climate panel, however, forced me to reassess my position. In February 2010, I was invited as a reviewer for the IPCC report on renewable energy. I realised that the drafting of the report was done in anything but a scientific manner. The report was littered with errors and a member of Greenpeace edited the final version. These developments shocked me. I thought, if such things can happen in this report, then they might happen in other IPCC reports too.
Vahrenholt goes on to ask some very pertinent questions regarding CO2, models and predictions, feedback mechanisms, solar effect and more that he says calls consensus into question:
Rather than being largely settled, there are more and more open climate questions which need to be addressed in an impartial and open-minded way.
Sadly, however, he ignores the money and the politics – the very reason that “the Science is Settled” was coined as a phrase in the first place – and veers back into green territory recommending research into underestimated climate drivers, rational decarbonization, energy efficiency and renewables (He owns one of Europe’s largest renewable energy companies… just a coincidence, surely).
To Vahrenholt and like-minded adherents, Climate Change is akin to Socialism among Progressives. When their plans fail and their policies are proven wrong, it’s not Socialism that’s the problem, it’s the people implementing it who just weren’t up to the task. Similarly, it isn’t Global Warming theory itself that Vahrenholt is reconsidering, it’s the shaky science that doesn’t adequately support his desired conclusion.
Of course, you knew that.
“No longer can they be called objective journalists. They’re playing for the other side.” -Andrew Breitbart
MSNBC gleefully trotted out a doctored, edited slam on Mitt Romney. Dubbed “Wawagate,” it used his words out of context and removed clarifying remarks in a deliberate effort to make him sound out-of-touch.
And it would have worked.
Except someone in the crowd had a camera and released the uncut footage. In it, everyone can hear what Romney really said, and hear that he’s making a reasonable point. And everyone knows that the mainstream media is absolutely desperate to protect their President, no matter the cost.
My point, directed at the MSM, is simple:
I see you for what you are.
Takeaway: Going to any sort of political event? Take your video camera. Record everything.