Try this from the MRC (http://www.mediaresearch.org/realitycheck/2002/fax20020604.asp) in the FR posting at http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/694626/posts :
The networks had no problem hitting Bush from the left when he had a conservative position on global warming. But now that Bush?s EPA has joined with liberals who say climate change is real and is caused by human activity, none of the networks even hinted at the wide array of scientists who still reject that premise. Instead, ABC, CBS and NBC last night gave airtime to critics who expressed disappointment that the administration had not slid further into the extremist camp.NBC used loaded language to indicate that Team Bush was late in accepting the reality of the liberal view. ?For the first time, this White House acknowledges human activity is responsible for greenhouse gases, and the problem poses some threats to this country?s future,? NBC?s Tom Brokaw argued last night. ?A dramatic shift, the Bush administration concedes it is mostly a man-made problem from pollution,? correspondent Robert Hager echoed a few moments later.
Hager revealed that the EPA report included the view that warming could have positive repercussions, including lower heating bills and longer growing seasons, but CBS and ABC skipped over those inconvenient paragraphs. ABC?s Terry Moran said it painted ?the starkest picture yet? of the allegedly dire consequences of unchecked warming, while CBS?s Bill Plante predicted ?heat waves, widespread drought, rising sea levels and coastal erosion.?
Plante lamented the lack of tough new regulations: ?The report offers no new ideas beyond the President?s plan to reduce greenhouse gases over the next decade through market incentives. Instead, it calls for adapting to the changing climate.? Moran said the proposals amounted to telling Americans to ?get used to it....The President has proposed some tax incentives and other things to reduce the intensity of global emissions, but that?s not enough, say environmentalists.
NBC?s Hager showed Harvard University?s Michael McElroy who slammed Bush from the left: ?It?s like being an alcoholic. So now you finally have found out that you have a drinking problem, but you?re not prepared to give up the booze. You simply would like other people to do it for you.?
Baloney? If global warming wasn't a top tier item on voters minds up until now, just wait until the media gets through with their frenzy by the elections in November. GWB will rue the day he allowed this report to go out.
You are so naive.