Daily Gut: Valerie Jarrett’s B.S.

So Valerie Jarrett was interviewed by CNN’s delightful Campbell Brown at something called “the Women’s Conference.” There Jarrett rags on Fox News for distortions, which is her word for “bringing up stuff that we wish you wouldn’t bring up.”

Now VJ could have listed some of these false statements, but instead she barked a lazy “of course they’re biased”– a statement you’d expect from a pierced Greenpeace volunteer, not a White House adviser.

But let’s focus on what she really said:

She claims America doesn’t have time for such “distortions.” Replace “distortions” with “debate,” and you’ve got the real truth. The administration wanted to push health care reform like a hot knife through butter, but the public wised up and said, “hold on there, pal.” Jarrett also said Americans should be allowed to reach their own judgment – which is odd since it was the Dems, not Fox News, who were trying to preempt the conversation. I mean, let’s not also forget their take on the global warming debate: the debate is over! But you can bet when the debate does start over the climate change bill –VJ will blame Fox News for preventing the debate!

By starting it!

You follow?

Cuz I sure don’t! (more…)

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Tags: Campbell Brown, CNN, Fox News, George Soros, Greenpeace
Posted Oct 28th 2009 at 12:44 pm in Daily Gut | 254470107 Commentshttp://bighollywood.breitbart.com/ggutfeld/2009/10/28/daily-gut-valerie-jarretts-b-s/Daily+Gut%3A+Valerie+Jarrett%27s+B.S.2009-10-28+19%3A44%3A30Greg+Gutfeld

‘NewsBusted’ 9/04/09 — Fake News from the Right

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Tags: C.I.A., Chris Matthews, Dick Cheney, DNC, Global warming
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Sen. Kerry Recycles Greenpeace’s Lie About Arctic Ice

Radical environmentalists love recycling so much that they recycle lies — and the lies are even bolder when reincarnated. Sen. John Kerry proved it this week when he recycled Greenpeace’s lie about an ice-free Arctic and said it will become a reality even sooner, by 2013. 

We exposed Greenpeace’s lie less than two weeks ago on our blog and on Big Hollywood, and forced the group to issue a rare “clarification.” Our piece and the companion video went viral. Even the pro-environment blog at the left-wing Guardian newspaper acknowledged that “Greenpeace will be bruised by this furor.” 

But none of that exposure kept Kerry, D-Mass., from repeating and amplifying the lie in a predictably hysterical op-ed about “catastrophic climate change” for the liberal Huffington Post. 

To justify his alarmism that global warming is a national security threat, Kerry parroted the tired and discredited claim about Arctic ice. “Scientists project that the Arctic will be ice-free in the summer of 2013,” he wrote. “Not in 2050, but four years from now.”  (more…)

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Tags: Gerd Leipold, Greenpeace, Guardian newspaper, Radical environmentalists
Posted Sep 2nd 2009 at 5:22 pm in Film, Politics | 216794111 Commentshttp://bighollywood.breitbart.com/amcelhinney/2009/09/02/sen-kerry-recycles-greenpeaces-lie-about-arctic-ice/Sen.+Kerry+Recycles+Greenpeace%27s+Lie+About+Arctic+Ice2009-09-03+00%3A22%3A21Phelim+McAleer+%26%2338%3B+Ann+McElhinney%E2%80%8F

Greenpeace Urges ‘Astroturfing’ to Counter Revelation of Lies

Greenpeace is scrambling to explain away an embarrassing admission by its outgoing executive director that the group exaggerated a statement about melting Arctic ice and  “emotionalizes” issues to sway public opinion.
 
On its blog, Greenpeace tried to cover-up the admission by executive director Gerd Leipold as the work of “the handful of global warming skeptics still standing.” 

Gerd Leipold

In an attempt to “astroturf” (create a false impression of a grassroots response to an issue), Greenpeace urged online followers to spread its cover-up “clarification” via social media tools like blogs, Twitter and Facebook.

Environmental and left-wing organizations often accuse conservative groups of astroturfing on contentious issues. (more…)

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Tags: arctic ice, astroturfing, BBC, Gerd Leipold, Global warming
Posted Aug 20th 2009 at 1:34 pm in Featured Story, Politics | 208842153 Commentshttp://bighollywood.breitbart.com/amcelhinney/2009/08/20/greenpeace-urges-astroturfing-to-counter-revelation-of-lies/Greenpeace+Urges+%27Astroturfing%27+to+Counter+Revelation+of+Lies2009-08-20+20%3A34%3A11Phelim+McAleer+%26%2338%3B+Ann+McElhinney%E2%80%8F

EXCLUSIVE: Lies Revealed — Greenpeace Leader Admits Arctic Ice Exaggeration

The outgoing leader of Greenpeace has admitted his organization’s recent claim that the Arctic Ice will disappear by 2030 was “a mistake.”  Greenpeace made the claim in a July 15 press release entitled “Urgent Action Needed As Arctic Ice Melts,” which said there will be an ice-free Arctic by 2030 because of global warming. 

Under close questioning by BBC reporter Stephen Sackur on the “Hardtalk” program, Gerd Leipold, the retiring leader of Greenpeace, said the claim was wrong. 

“I don’t think it will be melting by 2030. … That may have been a mistake,” he said.

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Sackur said the claim was inaccurate on two fronts, pointing out that the Arctic ice is a mass of 1.6 million square kilometers with a thickness of 3 km in the middle, and that it had survived much warmer periods in history than the present. 

The BBC reporter accused Leipold and Greenpeace of releasing “misleading information” and using “exaggeration and alarmism.”  (more…)

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Tags: arctic ice, environmentalism, Global warming, Greenpeace, Not Evil Just Wrong
Posted Aug 19th 2009 at 5:04 am in Featured Story, Politics | 207706223 Commentshttp://bighollywood.breitbart.com/amcelhinney/2009/08/19/exclusive-lies-revealed-greenpeace-leader-admits-arctic-ice-exaggeration/EXCLUSIVE%3A+Lies+Revealed+--+Greenpeace+Leader+Admits+Arctic+Ice+Exaggeration2009-08-19+12%3A04%3A20Phelim+McAleer+%26%2338%3B+Ann+McElhinney%E2%80%8F

What Would Walt Say?

“The picture got great reviews but let’s take a chance anyway.” That’s what I usually say to my wife when we’re planning a night out at the movies. Critics and I are not usually on the same page. But the Disney release called “Earth,” a compendium of brilliant nature footage cribbed from a BBC series, seemed irresistible, even though it got raves. True, there’d been quibbling about the corn-ball narration and the selection of stentorian-voiced James Earl Jones to deliver it, but the summation of the reviews was: don’t miss it.

Disney had taken miles of extraordinary footage from the long-running English nature series and condensed and shaped it into a story of sorts: mama polar bear and her cubs emerge out of hibernation in the arctic snow, with the adorable babies blinking at their first sight of the summer sun. She begins the task of teaching them to survive. Papa bear, meanwhile, or “dad” as he’s known in the narration, is off on the ice floe, trying to catch a seal for his dinner. But “global warming” is making this difficult to do as the ice is breaking up earlier than usual. Dad falls into the frigid water and begins swimming for his life. He swims and swims till he gets to Antarctica where there is an abundance of seals. But dad is too weak from all that swimming, can’t nab a seal, and lies down and dies. End of family. (more…)

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Tags: "The Story of Stuff", climate change, disney, earth, elephants
Posted May 13th 2009 at 12:48 pm in Entertainment, Featured Story, Politics, Reviews | 133542No Commentshttp://bighollywood.breitbart.com/obean/2009/05/13/earth/What+Would+Walt+Say%3F+2009-05-13+19%3A48%3A34Orson+Bean