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But now I've been to the EPA site and read the introduction. No, this is no Clinton holdover. Nor is it what the New York Times says it is. This report has been totally re-worked by Bush's people. Drudge's characterization of it, and the New York Times' as well -- if he is quoting them accurately -- is way off base.

Maybe I am way behind the curve here, but this is the first time that Drudge has pretty much lied (or quoted a lying source). I'm aware he sensationalizes for his Sunday show, but I wasn't aware he'd taken to lying.

I wasn't aware he'd taken to lying.

Drudge got used here, and he probably knows it by now. Somebody slipped him a few quotes from Andrew Revkin's piece in Monday's New York Times, and he ran with it like it was some big scoop. In fact the report has been sitting on the EPA web site for a week, where anybody could have read the whole thing.

The "breaking news," if there is any, is that the liberal activists who pose as the journalists in this country have finally gotten around to reading the damned thing, and have discovered that passages in it can be used to toot the horn for Global Warming, and attack a Republican administration at the same time. Being liberals, they will now do just that.

So the American public will now endure a few days of having every environmentalist wacko in the liberals' Rolodex trotted out, and handed ten minutes of fame with which to bash the Bush Administration.

I see the whole brouhahah as symptomatic of a media establishment that views its role as the promotion of an enlightented (i.e. their own) political agenda, rather than the reporting and dissemination of fact with which the American people might govern themselves.

Revkin's article in the Times is a perfect example of what happens when an ideological liberal grabs hold of a document that he can spin into an attack on a Republican President. Any equally-talented conservative writer could as easily spin the report into an attack on the Kyoto treaty. But there are no conservative writers in our news delivery system; everything in our major media is seen and reported from a liberal's perspective. This is what makes the news-and-information systems in this country so dangerous.

In time, the conservatives who do populate the op-ed space will get around to explaining what this report actually says, but by then all the good sound bites will belong to the liberals, and the public will have moved on. The liberal propaganda machine that poses as this country's journalism establishment will have scored another hit.

It's too bad that Drudge got sucked into helping them.