More Andrew Malcolm nonsense
December 04, 2009 10:00 am ET by Eric Boehlert
Laura Bush's former flak is en fuego today!
Take back Al Gore's Oscar, 2 Academy members demand in light of Climategate
Wow, Academy members, well at least 2, are really mad, and Malcolm dutifully treats their demands as news. But naturally as a proud member of the GOP Noise Machine, Malcolm leaves out any context about the absurd "demand."
For instance, exactly how many Academy members are there? The answer would help put the "2" in context, right? Well, there are more than 6,000 Academy members. In other words, approximately .05 percent of the Academy members want Gore to lose his Inconvenient Truth Oscar. But nonetheless, the Dem-hating Malcolm thinks the claim is news. (Hello Drudge link!)
And oh yeah, who are the "2"? One is (surprise!) a right-wing blogger, and the other guy has written for his pal's right-wing blog.
UPDATED: More serial mendacity from Malcolm. He claims the so-called "Climategate" emails were "leaked." Of course, they were stolen, not "leaked."
No, I'm talking about called stolen e-mails leaked, and trying to imply there is no illegal activity here. So, Mr. Malcom, in a hypothetical case, after I've broken into your home, and stolen and pawned all your electronics and your baseball card collection, I can simply claim your possessions were 'leaked' into my bank account, and there's nothing law enforcement can do about it? As I said, excellent news.
Leaked implies that an insider, fed up with the deception and motivated by moral duty, blew the whistle on his collegues. The narrative stage is set upon an act of bravery or heroism, especially if the hacker is ever caught. So the foundation of this email crusade has a nicer smell to it than the fart smell of "stolen"
BTW,
When are they going to demand Gore surrender his Nobel Prize?