Thursday, April 19, 2007

Hot Air that Stinks

Is this for real?

Two paragraphs in the aforelinked article contains some of the most partisan, if subtle, editorializing I've seen yet from Canada's National Newspaper:

"Mr. Drummond's letter appears to be a political boon for the Tories, and a blow for the Liberals, as parties gird themselves for the possibility of an election campaign fought on hot-button issues such as Kyoto.

[Psychologists call this "reactance," and normal people call it reverse psychology: by stating uncertainty, you make you reader surer of the statement's truth.]

It will be difficult for the Liberals to attack Mr. Drummond, a senior Canadian economist whom political parties, including Mr. Dion's, have consulted over the years. He wasn't paid for this latest opinion, which the Tories solicited from him."

[Somehow, not paying for Drummond's very vested opinion makes it more valid?]

The Conservatives really must have no idea what they're going to do about Kyoto.

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