WHAT EDITORS OK’D THIS? Politico, NYT Exploit Senator’s Death to Attack His Climate Change Views

NewsBusters ^ | 7/9/2024 | Joseph Vazquez

[JV3MRC]

The eco-fanatics at Politico and The New York Times exploited a Republican Senator’s death to grave-stomp over his climate change skepticism.

How many Politico reporters does it take to screw in a lightbulb? Who knows, but we do know it took four to write an insane, grave-stomping July 9 headline: “Former Sen. Jim Inhofe, who called climate change a 'hoax,' dead at 89.” The first paragraph of the piece was no better. In fact, it was about as cringeworthy as it gets. “Inhofe, the Oklahoma Republican who once brought a snowball onto the Senate floor as a brazen symbol of his denial of climate change, died on Tuesday. He was 89 years old.”

Compare Politico's treatment of Inhofe to its flowery 2019 obituary for Cuban communist dictator Fidel Castro and its priorities become clear: "Cuba’s Fidel Castro, who defied U.S. for 50 years, has died."

Politico's ghastly report on Inhofe begs the question why any editor(s) using their prefrontal cortexes would okay this for publication. Apparently, someone at Politico had some kind of epiphany because its asinine headline was changed soon after the piece was published.

But Politico wasn’t alone. The New York Times followed suit with its own outrageous attack against Inhofe’s climate views in a separate obituary. “James M. Inhofe, Senator Who Denied Climate Change, Dies at 89,” The Times’s boorish headline read. The Times smeared Inhofe in its first paragraph as “arguably Washington’s most prominent denier of the established science of human-generated climate change.”

[rktman]

Owwwwww! Snowball = “brazen symbol”. These assclowns are dispicable.

[Tell It Right]

The only “climate change” I’m concerned with is the political climate changing to be more communist.

[PeterPrinciple]

who called climate change a ‘hoax,’

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I wonder if this works more against them than for them.

The more people see that expression, the more they might get the message.

Just like, “Don’t push that button” you are going to push it.

[Jacquerie]

There is only one politician I slam as eagerly post-mortem as I did when he was alive.

That would be Ted Kennedy, the Pig of the Senate. Rest in hell.

The Slimes remains a putrid anti-American rag.

[Theodore R.]

Inhofe was originally a strong conservative but like so many “grew in office” as he lingered on.

[Nateman]

I celebrated after McCain died.

[Tymesup]

I wonder if either of the articles mentioned Inhofe’s heroism when he landed his plane safely after a propeller fell off, IIRC. I think Inhofe was neutered after that.