Right-Wing Conspiracy: Obama "Climate Czar" Is "Socialist"

Right-Wing Conspiracy: Obama "Climate Czar" Is "Socialist"

The right wing has discovered that Carol Browner, President-elect Barack Obama's new White House energy and environment adviser, was briefly a member of the Socialist International's Commission for a Sustainable World Society. The commission first convened in November 2007 to "articulate from the world of progressive politics a way forward to address global environmental concerns, climate change and the issues of governance required to deal with these common challenges" at 10 Downing Street, hosted by Prime Minister Gordon Brown, Leader of the British Labour Party.

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In a leap worthy of Stephen Colbert or Monty Python, the radical right wing is claiming these are signs that Barack Obama is going to transform the United States into a leftist dictatorship. The spread of this tale is interesting mostly as an examination of the interlocking web of conservative politics and corporate polluters:

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