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Still waiting for George Will's correction

February 17, 2009 3:42 pm ET by Eric Boehlert

The conservative columnist's stab at becoming a global warming denier has attracted lots of attention and ridicule this week. But perhaps more important than the guffaws is the question, where's the WashPost correction regarding the sizable factual error at the center of its writer's column?

As blogger Dan Kennedy noted:

Syndicated columnist George Will presents only one piece of evidence in his Sunday piece denying global warming — and he gets it wrong...What does it take for Will and/or the Washington Post to append a correction? As of 6:30 p.m., there was still nothing. Is it because his entire commentary looks ridiculous if he retracts the sole relevant factual nugget he included in his diatribe?

Good question. Is anybody at the Post listening?

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    • Author by mk3872 (February 17, 2009 4:23 pm ET)
         
      When you have agenda to push like the Opinions page @ WaPo and George Will do, what is that you have to correct? The false info is at the heart of man-made global warming denier's stories. So they cannot very well go back and retract or correct anything.
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    • Author by jflz201884 (February 18, 2009 11:09 am ET)
         
      Auto workers' $73 per hour, Obama's excessive inauguration expenses (3 times Bush's!), rewriting of FDR's lessening of the Great Depression, the $3 trillion stimulus figure, stimulus funds for ACORN, George Will's take on global warming -- why, these aren't mistakes or falsehoods. They are part of a "preferred narrative."

      It's conservatives' "new reality" -- the same Orwellian mindset that helps them write off Bush's eight years of radicalism as stewardship by a conservative president.

      Figure out what they're up to with the preferred narrative or new reality and you'll find fresh ambiguities to contend with.

      I doubt if anyone at The Post is listening to mere bloggers. Any correction or apology by Will probably will amount to no correction at all.

      Jerry Elsea
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    • Author by other paul (February 18, 2009 2:32 pm ET)
         

      What I found most amusing was that on the same day of Will's editorial the WaPo online had an article stating that the pace of global warming may actually be accelerating!  Maybe this is the WaPO's attempt at being fair and balanced.

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