ABC News Intentionally Misleading Viewers with RFK-Obama Clean Coal Story
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ABC News Intentionally Misleading Viewers with RFK-Obama Clean Coal Story
Here is the first paragraph and a box on the left side of the page:
“Clean coal is a dirty lie,” says environmentalist Robert F. Kennedy Jr., who calls President Barack Obama and other politicians who commit taxpayer money to develop it “indentured servants” of the coal industry.
The reader is left with the distinct impression that Robert Kennedy Jr. called President Obama an indentured servant to the coal industry today. RFK has been calling politicians “indentured servants” for years. One problem: he didn’t actually say it about President Obama. Essentially, ABC pulled together a collection of old quotes and mashed them together out of context to create tension in their story.
Here’s RFK on July 7, 2007 at Live Earth:
Now we’ve all heard the oil industry, and the coal industry, and their indentured servants in the political process telling us that global climate stability is a luxury that can’t afford -that we have to choose now between economic prosperity on the one hand, and environmental protection on the other – and that is a false choice. In 100% of the situations, good economic policy is identical to good environmental policy.
And here he is on December 12th, 2008, referring to President Bush, testifying before the Select Committee on Energy Independence and Global Warming:
via ABC News Intentionally Misleading Viewers with RFK-Obama Clean Coal Story : EnviroKnow.
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