Lots of vituperative comments to Palin’s WaPo op-ed

by Fran Smith on December 10, 2009 · 1 comment

in Culture, Environment, Global Warming, Personal Liberty, Sanctimony

Sarah Palin’s op-ed in the Washington Post yesterday on ClimateGate and the Copenhagen conference has spawned a blizzard of comments from Post readers.  Almost 4,000 comments as of this morning.  Many of them – no friends of free speech — attack the newspaper for publishing Palin’s article at all. Huffington Post sycophants are similarly energized in their hatred for Palin and for free speech.  Their comments on a cross-posting of Palin’s article number 5,750. Here’s an example:

“someone like palin who does not even understand the difference between climate and weather should not be allowed to do the forecast on a local tv news station, let alone write an op-ed piece for a once respected newspaper like the washington post. . . .”

Interesting that instead of commenting on the substance of the article, detractors are more interested in ad hominems.  May sound familiar to skeptics of catastrophic global warming or the “deniers” as they’re often referred to.

William B. Smith December 11, 2009 at 10:57 am

Sara Palin read newspapers in detail, front to back page, when she

was a child. I would not be suprised to find that she knows more about weather and climate, and the difference, than those that critiqe her.

Bill Smith

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