Friday, July 20, 2012
Noted Climate Scientist Michael Mann Threatens Legal Action Against Far Right Scuzzbag With Fake English Accent Mark Steyn
The facebook entry is here, screen-capped below:
I'm not going to link to the defamatory stuff; it compares Mike Mann to Jerry Sandusky. You can find it through the link. Its about time somebody sued Mark Steyn. He's an evil shit, and his writings served as a philosophical foundation for mass murderer Anders Behring Breivik.
Steyn probably got legal advice before that, considering the way he put it.
ReplyDeleteBut legal is not the same as honest.
Steyn on Obama
the Obama campaign launched an attack on Romney’s attack on Obama’s attack on American business. First they showed Romney quoting Obama: “He said, ‘If you’ve got a business, you didn’t build that. Somebody else made that happen.’” And then the Obama team moved in for the kill: “The only problem? That’s not what he said.”
Indeed. What Obama actually said was:
“If you’ve got a business, you, you didn’t build that. [Interjection by fawning supporters: “Yeeaaaaah!”] “Somebody else made that happen.”
http://www.nationalreview.com/articles/310166/golden-gateway-dependency-mark-steyn?pg=2
Obama
[...]Let me tell you something—there are a whole bunch of hardworking people out there. If you were successful, somebody along the line gave you some help. There was a great teacher somewhere in your life. Somebody helped to create this unbelievable American system that we have that allowed you to thrive. Somebody invested in roads and bridges. If you’ve got a business—you didn’t build that. Somebody else made that happen. The Internet didn’t get invented on its own. Government research created the Internet so that all the companies could make money off the Internet. The point is, is that when we succeed, we succeed because of our individual initiative, but also because we do things together.
Adam Gopnik
What President Obama was saying was perfectly clear: the “that” in his statement refers to the bridges and roads and “this unbelievable American system.” He wasn’t, despite what one may have heard from Mitt Romney, saying that you didn’t build your own business. He was saying that your neighbors and ancestors helped. We drive on roads built for each by all.
http://www.newyorker.com/online/blogs/comment/2012/07/barack-mitt-and-adam-smith.html
I suspect you're right. Its pretty hard to get called for defamation in the U.S.
ReplyDeleteThanks for the link to Mann's facebook page, which one doesn't need a facebook account to read.
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