V-A-C-A-T-I-O-N! In the summer sun!

Well, sort of…

I’m taking a hiatus from the nightly “Conversation with Andrea on Blog Talk Radio” for the rest of the week. I’ll resume regular programming next Monday, June 18 when Christopher Horner joins me to discuss how last October, two liberal U.S. Senators, Jay Rockefeller and Olympia Snowe, sent a letter to ExxonMobil CEO Rex Tillerson.

The letter’s message: Start toeing the party line on “global warming” — or else.

Tom Winter, editor of Human Events wrote:

In recent years ExxonMobil has had the audacity to help fund organizations that question the so-called “scientific consensus” on man-made global warming.

That won’t do, said the senators. All debate about global warming must stop, and ExxonMobil should “end its dangerous support of the [global warming] ‘deniers.’” (Remind you of “Holocaust deniers”? It’s supposed to.)

But that wasn’t all. The senators further demanded that ExxonMobil do penance for its past support of the “climate change denial myth” by spending equivalent sums on “global remediation efforts.”

In other words, don’t just shut up. Pay up.

Of course, the Senators knew better than to make their threats explicit. So they slyly remarked how ExxonMobil’s “strategies” were “all-too reminiscent of those used by the tobacco industry for so many years.”

And you wouldn’t want government to do to you what it did to the tobacco companies, now would you, Mr. Tillerson?

Now, here’s the worst thing about this brazen effort to silence free speech. It worked.

That’s right. ExxonMobil has since announced that it is no longer funding the half-dozen or so organizations raising doubts about man-made global warming.

A conversation with Christopher Horner — author of the brand-new bestseller, The Politically Incorrect Guide to Global Warming, when I return to BTR on Monday.
Meanwhile, tune in to The Andrea Shea King Show this Sunday night at 9 ET on AM 580 WDBO. And of course, check here for updated posts. I’ll be blogging you…

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