Liberals have accused Rush Limbaugh of saying something he never said (but which they have, and constantly) in order to do to him (i.e. question his patriotism) something they deny they would ever do, in order to accomplish something (effectively censoring the mainstream {i.e. new} media) that they’ve lusted after for the past twenty years.  But it’s hardly the first time, and it sure won’t be the last.

Wanna take another wade through the sewer?  Well, I did it for y’all anyway.

Remember when George W. Bush really was a “cowboy unilateralist”?  Boy, that seems like a long time ago.

The Sky’s Not Falling!

Al Gore has won the Nobel Peace Prize for junk science. This award comes to him shortly after a British judge ruled that Al Gore told a string of untruths in An Inconvenient Truth, and that children should be warned about these untruths before a teacher shows the documentary in the classroom.

Al Gore pleads in his new book, The Assault on Reason (which is more of an assault on the Bush Administration than it is about science), that “We must stop tolerating the rejection and distortion of science. We must insist on an end to the cynical use of pseudo-studies known to be false for the purpose of intentionally clouding the public’s ability to discern the truth.”

Perhaps Mr. Gore should follow his own advice.

Holly Fretwell agrees with Mr. Gore on the point about the need to stop tolerating the distortion of science. Holly is the author of “The Sky’s NOT Falling! Why It’s OK to Chill About Global Warming,” the alternative to Al Gore’s Inconvenient Truth, and Laurie David’s fear inducing global warming kid’s book, “Down to Earth Guide to Global Warming.”

Holly Fretwell is an adjunct professor at Montana State University, and a Research Fellow at the Property and Environment Research Center. No stranger to controversial issues, Professor Fretwell has consulted on timber export regulations in the Pacific Northwest and for the Center for International Trade in Forest Products. She has authored and co-authored numerous articles on natural resources issues, with a current emphasis on public lands management and educating students and teachers in environmental economics. Her articles have been published in both professional journals and the popular press, including the Wall Street Journal, Journal for Environmental Economics and Management, the Duke Environmental Law and Policy Forum, and Journal of Forestry.

Professor Fretwell is our guest tonight on a special Friday Night edition of Political Pistachio Radio at 10 PM Eastern Time, 7 PM Pacific. Call in to chime in at 646-652-2940. If you listen live, feel free to join the always jumping chatroom - or you can feel free to contact me during the show with your own questions on Yahoo Instant Messenger (ID: douglasvgibbs).

This special broadcast of Political Pistachio Radio will immediately follow the premier of CIR Radio, on which I will be a panel member. This show combines the talents of myself, Jenn of Jenn’s Jungle Republic Radio, Dave from My Point Radio, and Nikki Starr of Nicki Rocks the Politics. It will air live at 9 PM Eastern Time, 6 PM Pacific.

I see at the top of Hugh Hewitt’s site that Dean Barnett, whose material has been the meat on Double-H’s blogsopheric skeleton for the past year-plus, is departing for greener pastures (that have nothing to do with Al Gore’s Nobel BS prize).

Accordingly, and seeing as how, aside from which corner of the country we live in and which health problem afflicts us (hypertension rather than cistic fibrosis - comes from having children) and my complete absence of a “chowdah” accent (as any of my Blog Talk Radio listeners can attest), DB and I could be twin sons of different mothers, I feel not the slightest bit of sheepishness in making myself available to take his place as the Commodore’s loyal and verbose spear-carrier.

It’s a natural, Hugh. My baseball team will never conflict with yours (because mine sucks), we both detest the Pittsburgh Stealers (that’s not a typo, incidentally), and after Fred Thompson wraps up the GOP presidential nomination, both our oars will be pulling in the same direction. And if, you know, Mitt Romney’s “trampoline” strategy does pan out, I won’t have prohibitive difficulty falling into that line, either.

Heck, I won’t even bring up the name Harriet Miers.

Time to “make” another embryonic NRO columnist, Hugh. If you’ve got the time, I’ve got the keystrokes.

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