Obama White House Not Challenging EPA; AP Gets It Wrong

Grist.org:

The AP has what looks like a blockbuster story today: "White House memo challenges EPA finding on warming." The Obama White House bashing the EPA process for regulating greenhouse gases! That's huge!

Only the AP got the story completely wrong.

Read the whole story: Grist.org

Comments

[dizmo4]

*sigh*

You know the Mainstream media is going to read the headline and run with the story, never bothering to check the facts behind it.

The idiocy of the MSM never fails to amaze me.

[care4mypeeps]

The Republicans are the Only one's who are naked here. They have been exposing their fannies
for years and finally people began to wake up and call attention to their naked rear ends for the rest of the world to see.

The lies the Republicans and their enablers tell are not missed by the American People who are free thinkers and don't look to others to provide the ananlysis to the Trickery the GOP continually participate in.

The APR and others who are in the tank for the GOP have tarnished their own image and have taken themselves out of contention of being an honest integrity filled organization free of bias and beholden to the truth.

[timezone]

Care, I agree that the American People are free to think for themselves, but let's be real, many don't bother to. Often, people DO believe everything they read, without bother to fact check further.

[BarryBonez]

That's why I watch MSNBC, if theyre not an honest, integrity-filled organization free of bias, then I don't know what is!

[CynAnne]

I agree, BarryBonez. And on the rare occasion there's a mistake or misquote, our MSNBC commentators (with the possible exception of Joe Scarboroug­h..what a prat he is) correct the mistake, on-air and as soon as possible. Compare that to the "Is Obama really a U.S. citizen?" bullsh*t Faux was STILL peddling on their 'program', and that was just a couple months ago - pathetic..­! ;) ...

[loki]

and the AP has been everywhere whining about people using their content without paying for it???
I guess it proves, you get what you pay for. Associated Phonies.

[bygollymissmolly]

What this proves is that President Obama is going to suffer for many years due to the Bush sycophants he buried in the government and from Republican obstructionism. Then there's also the right wing MSM that sees nothing wrong with extracting one paragraph or one sentence from a story, leaving out the rest. That one paragraph is damning towards Obama but the rest of the story is the context.

[Joseph Upton]

The american people aren't buying "man made global warming". So the white house wants to change the language and terms they use so they can better sell their falsehoods.

[VikingQuest]

I guess I don't buy the man made part either . . .

Climate change is real, the climate of this planet always changes regardless of people.

[bygollymissmolly]

Oh really?

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A survey we completed in March reveals that nearly eight in 10 voters believe global warming is either happening now or will happen in the future, with 53 percent seeing evidence that it is happening right now. Gallup uncovered similar attitudes, as 53 percent told them global warming has already begun, while just 16 percent are deniers, expecting it will never happe.
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http://thehill.com/mark-mellman/voters-act-on-global-warming-2009-05-12.html

[teacheng]

Well, we're barraged by all sorts of lies from the oil industry every day about it. So, it's not surprising that some are willfully ignorant, like you, or intentionally duplicitous, like any number of 'scientists' working for big business.

How many peer-reviewed articles have come out denying man-made global warming?

Zero.

But when the 'feelings' of people such as yourself, who has been lied to so often, are taken into account, then we have a problem. Of course, you also believe that you represent 'the american people' when in fact you are part of a dwindling minority of the same. I promise you that your grandchildren will despise you, the way we despise those who believed in the moral right to keep slaves, or burn witches, etc.

[sueno]

Who is the AP??
I thought this "press" died after the '80's-

[Shashi0224]

The AP has turned into a joke, like Fox. Their journalistic qualities disappeared sometime in the 90's.

[BarryBonez]

That's about the same time MSNBC and CNN rose to the throne of unbiased news agencies, right?

[reggieb]

Dina Cappiello has been reporting on environmental issues for years and is an award winning journalist. For her to get something SO WRONG makes you wonder - is this a case of LAZY journalism or was she helping along some Republican agenda like her co-worker Ron Fournier?

[Dynamohum]

AP is an official arm of the Republicant Party now. They have been tilting that way for years. They are NOT a credible news agency any longer. They haven't been for quite some time.

[StevieRae]

This is another clue of how "news" reporting in the future with the demise of more and more newspapers.

AP will survive by providing its unbiased, straightforward accounting of events to all the important blogs, like Arianna's and everyone will accept it as TRUTH and FACT.

[jennytaylia]

The AP is in the pocket of GOP supporters. They are a dinosaur due for extinction.

[Vermontah]

My Dad used to work for UPI, United Press International. For decades there were two competing "wire services," UPI and their arch-rival, AP. In my house, AP was mocked as a bunch of incompetent and probably corrupt hacks. Boo, AP.

Well, as often happens, the good guys lost, and UPI folded a number of years ago. But I've always hated AP, and when it came out last year that the CEO was actively supporting McCain, my hatred was vindicated. And now this.

Oh for the good ol' days when Rognons Flambée roamed the streets of Paris¡

[simplify]

Dont believe anything coming from AP. During the campaign they tried on several occasions to malign the Presidents campaign with falsehoods

[Dynamohum]

Oh, you mean Assinine Press? I have been on to their "politically motivated and overtoned" reporting of the "news" for years. They are biased and they do not report facts anymore. The by-lines they use are completely misleading and factually, a JOKE.

[BabblingBrooks]

The headline should have read "White House memo SHOULD challenge EPA finding on warming--if they were honest."

[Loompa]

Absolutely right, Babbling..­, The dishonesty of this Al Gore created scam of global warming is a total head shaker that so many sheeple would buy into this fraud. In 1970, it was global cooling as the problem and many govt scientists said then that 75-85% of all animal life would be extinct by the year 2000. Only Gore and his ilk would try to pull another pile of larceny like that, but it seems to be selling to the mindless and stupid, of which there seem to be many here.

[amcg50]

And your source is?

No peer reviewed Scientist agrees with you; only those who earn their income by trying to discredit it.

[Dynamohum]

Take your Ooompa and get the heck out of here.

[Buddy McCue]

Al Gore created this "scam?" I knew that Gore was smart and influential, but you would have me believe that he was able to fool the Environmental Protection Agency, NASA's Goddard Institute of Space Studies, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, the National Academy of Sciences, The Royal Society of the UK, the American Geophysical Union, American Meteorological Society, American Institute of Physics, National Center for Atmospheric Research, AND the Canadian Meteorological and Oceanographic Society?

Al Gore must have lots of spare time. He was also able to manipulate Brazil's Academia Brasiliera de Ciencias, the Royal Society of Canada, the Chinese Academy of Sciences, the French Academie des Sciences , the German Deutsche Akademie der Naturforscher Leopoldina, the Indian National Science Academy, Italy's Accademia dei Lincei ,the Science Council of Japan, the Russian Academy of Sciences?

I suppose then he proceeded to work his magic over the Australian Academy of Sciences, the Royal Flemish Academy of Belgium for Sciences and the Arts, the Royal Irish Academy, the Academy of Sciences of Malaysia, the Academy Council of the Royal Society of New Zealand, and the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences..­.

What a guy, this Al Gore. I think you have a higher opinion of him than I do.

[bygollymissmolly]

So, you really think that we can dump tons of pollutants into our atmosphere daily and it will have zero affect on our planet? All I can say is that you are a i d i o t.

[Buddy McCue]

Honest about what?

[bygollymissmolly]

Sorry cupcake. Seven out of ten Americans disagree with you.

http://thehill.com/mark-mellman/voters-act-on-global-warming-2009-05-12.html

[LittlePurpleUSA]

I'm shocked...