Nothing like promoting the exchange of ideas. They certainly do not cut out any discussion of the issues, do they?
This is the new thing. The leftists are going to end the global warming debate by simply declaring that disagreement with them on the subject is illegitimate and thus null. Here's another example involving The World's Greatest Deliberative Body (TM):
Washington has no shortage of bullies, but even we can't quite believe an October 27 letter that Senators Jay Rockefeller and Olympia Snowe sent to ExxonMobil CEO Rex Tillerson. Its message: Start toeing the Senators' line on climate change, or else.
We reprint the full text of the letter here, so readers can see for themselves. But its essential point is that the two Senators believe global warming is a fact, and therefore all debate about the issue must stop and ExxonMobil should "end its dangerous support of the [global warming] 'deniers.' " Not only that, the company "should repudiate its climate change denial campaign and make public its funding history." And in extra penance for being "one of the world's largest carbon emitters," Exxon should spend that money on "global remediation efforts."
http://www.opinionjournal.com/editorial/feature.html?id=110009338