The other Lott controversy: Michelle Malkin whacks pro-2nd Amendment author for self-aggrandizing

WorldNetDaily.com ^ | Wednesday, February 5, 2003 | Michelle Malkin

[Alamo-Girl]

Thanks for the heads up!

[Barnacle]

I wish I could agree with you. What we have here is not a mistake but an intentional effort to deceive for the sake of personal gain. What Malkin describes calls the entire study into question. If I had bought the book, I’d want my money back. I will never quote from it or reference it. This kind of blatant fraud discredits the whole work.

[lewislynn]

I was naive at the time. You are the hypocrite.

LOL!...Wholesale name calling.

You sit at a UN Agenda 21 roundtable to dictate UN policy, then use "(The environment is too complex and too important to be managed by politics.)" for your tag line and I'm the hypocrite?

You're right hypocrite isn't the right word, fraud would be a more fitting title for you.

[demosthenes the elder]

amphorous??? I was unaware the scientific community was related to the clay storage vessels of the classical era.
You meant amorphous (ay-mor-fus), perhaps? meaning: without shape or form.

[Carry_Okie]

You sit at a UN Agenda 21 roundtable to dictate UN policy, then use "(The environment is too complex and too important to be managed by politics.)" for your tag line and I'm the hypocrite?

In the very piece from which you quoted I wrote, "His purpose was to see rigorous science respected in policy. The final document, presented as "consensus," was rewritten in secret by non-participants, unwittingly serving the interests of a select group of developers, bureaucrats, and politicians. The plan was not only outrageously expensive, it was assured to be hugely destructive to local habitat. It was a fraud.

Dictate policy? Not a bit; and you chose to deliberately misrepresent my words out of your pathetic spite. I was there to try to put a stop to these environmental wackjobs ruining the local forests. I had no idea what the Agenda21 was when I was requested to attend by a friend of mine who was an advocate for the timber industry. I was successful enough that they had to go into a back room to kill it.

At the time, I knew no more about the UN than does any usual citizen. I believed that good laws and a government that actually helps people were a good thing. That was eight years ago. I have learned a great deal more since.

You're right hypocrite isn't the right word, fraud would be a more fitting title for you.

[Adder]

DOH![smacks forehead] Yeah, thats what I meant.(~~)<--chagrin

[Travis McGee]

I agree he is a target, but we must be truthful if any of his research was made up.

[Bonaparte]

As I said before, if there were other problems with the book, the gun grabbers would have found them by now and publicized them in every media outlet in the country.

This has not happend!

Why has it not happened?

There are several possibilities --

1. The anti-RBKAs decided to give Lott a break.

2. They and their thousands of friends in academia were too stupid to know how to check on Lott's facts, even with 4 years to do it.

3. They couldn't find anything else, after combing through it exhaustively.

So is it number 1, number 2, or number 3?

[Barnacle]

I don't know. Run that question past Malkin and give us a ping.

[Bonaparte]

Won't need to ask her, B. She already knows the answer. Just like I do.