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The True High Crimes and Misdemeanors of Donald J. Trump

by Rebecca Gordon | October 16, 2019 - 7:06am | permalink

— from TomDispatch

What News Corp and Sky News chose to ignore in their Fox defence of Trump (ODT)

Recently a friend who follows the news a bit less obsessively than I do said, “I thought George W. Bush was bad, but it seems like Donald Trump is even worse. What do you think?”
“Well,” I replied, “in terms of causing death and destruction, I suspect Bush still has the edge.” In fact, the U.S.-led forever wars begun under the Bush administration have killed hundreds of thousands of people in Iraq and Afghanistan (almost half a million by one respected estimate). And those are only directly caused, violent deaths. Several times that many have reportedly died from hunger, illness, and infrastructure collapse.

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ABC'S OMISSIONS ON EMISSIONS

 COLUMN  ABC Media Watch host Paul Barry attacked me this week for quoting warmist Professor Andy Pitman saying "there is no link between climate change and drought". He said Pitman had since clarified that he'd omitted the word "direct". But Barry himself sneakily omitted half of Pitman's original quote ... which makes nonsense of that clarification. 

UPDATE: BARRY COWERS My column today showed Media Watch host Paul Barry omitted key quotes to claim I'd misrepresented the views of a global warming scientist who'd conceded there was no link between global warming and drought. Barry's response? That I omitted quotes, too. Here's my response to his pathetic and deceptive reply. UPDATE: Barry doesn't dare publish it.

Head whack-a-mole and centre of the unreasoned world in his own head Andrew Bolt is like Donal J Trump, who picks up on any dared criticism to amplify his own importance. Andrew Bolt politicises Science by selectively pouncing on the slightest inappropriate error and when it's corrected never acknowledges it unless forced to by the likes of Media Watch and Paul Barry. However, like Trump, it's then another opportunity for self-aggrandisement and attention-grabbing. There are far more important things going on in the world but none as crucial as Andrew Bolt. 

Pitman corrected his quote the one Bolt chooses to repeat here without correction in full of course. What Pitman meant to have said "there is no direct link between climate change and drought" but what Bolt also omitted was that there have been "indirect" ones which might determine their intensity.  Hasn't the same been said of hurricanes floods and tornadoes? Bolt keeps telling us there hasn't been an increase in numbers but avoids talking about their intensities. He can't explain why if fewer people are killed why insurance premiums keep escalating if according to him everything is on the improve.

However, let it be said this isn't the first scientist Bolt has used and abused by twisting their words NZ Professor Paul Kench studied data on Pacific Island Attols and has had his conclusions cut short and twisted by Bolt as well. Bolt never really turns to the peer-reviewed journals that science builds it's reputation and evidence on because they, unlike him, reveal the mega-consensus in the scientific world on the rapidly accelerating rate of climate change.  Bolt steers away from this world which magnifies just how emissions are the cause of anthropogenic climate change. He prefers the louder world of paid political influencing where exactness is the least of concerns. 

Is this the reply you'd expect from an adult sophisticated "intellectual" Bolt pretends to be or a child doing a Trump and making up excuses blaming others for his selectivity and overlooking a major trend that defeats his argument on variability yet again. 

Paul
Your email is pathetic. Deceptive. Ill-informed. And evasive.
So do you then admit you yourself omitted something very material? Then apologise and correct.
Your implied defence - that I omitted something, too - is pathetic.
First, pathetic even on your own terms - that two (alleged) wrongs make you right.
Second, I have several times quoted the entire passage. Look it up. I also quoted the full passage on my rebuttal on Sky News on Tuesday.
Third, there was nothing but consideration of a 390-word limit behind my not publishing the entirety of Pitman's comments in my column as well.
Fourth, the omission is obviously immaterial. That “trend” over 20 years signifies nothing about global warming. There was a historically anomalous wet period around the 1970s in particular, with rainfall since falling back again, but to levels still above what we saw in the first half of the century. That’s all.

Having frothed and spittled all over the place Bolt can't stop even telling Paul Barry he's calling in another gang member to unload on him an idiot equal Terry McCrann to back him up. A threat to intimidate Barry or posture before a witless audience?

Paul Barry

Bolt's reply ... 'Your email is pathetic. Deceptive. Ill-informed. And evasive.' Prepare for assault from Sky and Terry McCrann. #mediawatch #climateextremes

10:27 AM · Oct 17, 2019·TweetDeck

As you see, I have no embarrassment at all in publishing Barry's attempted gotcha of me.
In contrast, Paul Barry does not dare publish my response:
Weak. No confidence at all in his argument.
And totally, unprofessional. He makes a bogus attack on me yet does not publish my rebuttal.
And remember: Barry is paid by the ABC to operate like this. And we fund the ABC to be impartial, not a soapbox for climate hysterics.
Something is very broken here.

  Andrew Bolt really does have the childlike insecure temperament like trump.

As for data Bolt selectively doesn't use any global science in trending data but only Australian meteorological data note his graph. He continues repeating what has been said by global science that there is no direct evidence that warming causes droughts. But there is trending evidence which is macro and global of some 40 drought-afflicted areas looked at. The most extreme 30 ever seen have occurred recently when the planet was also experiencing the highest emission heat recorded.  That trending is not mentioned by Bolt who sticks selectively to local and Meteorology data while telling us he's as honest as driven snow a peeved and posturing Andrew Bolt also there to distract.

 

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LEBRON JAMES AND THE POWER OF A DICTATOR'S DOLLAR

James is a Black American living in Trumpland. Bolt and Trump are  White Supremacists, both promoting Trump as a winner. "LeBron James is just the latest flake" (Andrew Bolt)
"China has instead started the war already, with cyber warriors and the financial weapon of 1.4 billion Chinese" Seems he's saying Trump is losing and Bolt would be happy to see him "nuke" them. " This war is going brilliantly, too- — for China." Bolt's reality is certainly not one that sees Australia as a Pacific Nation is it 7000 + Kms away from either the UK or the USA? He'd rather it be another Murdoch/ GOP State

 The USA has 800 military bases outside of its borders. It's economy is Military dependant. China has only 1. Yet China is running a war according to Andrew Bolt because it's leading the world by the example of assistance and diplomacy. Cuba was always the first to run that sort of "war" of support. They came as teachers and doctors the first aid in crisis zones to help. What a shock to see Australia's hidden embarrassment and the treatment of its indigenous peoples. To find they were the world's worst assisted and by an OECD member. 

America is a nation of peace lovers leading with guns and threats like Trump telling Kim "I have the bigger button" and is being promoted as such by a Murdoch Corp of puppets. Andrew Bolt is one, who dreams he's Australia's, Sean Hannity. If only he could find another Tony Abbott to lift him. Who made him feel like Thomas the Tank "I think I can I think I can" but has since lost his radio presence, advertises a podcast that found an early grave after 5 weeks, has a blog that's little more than ad for the Herald Sun hunting for targets and commissions on subs and a Sky News hour that is produced for him and not by him.  It's autocued and instead of requiring him to be a reasoned thinker and debater all he does is repeat and read a monitor in a suit and once a week have an expensive whiskey with a like-minded mate. While calling Lebron James a "flake" because he's black ????