You may have heard a minor media sh%$storm about an OMB report that says that global warming is a farce, and that it will wreck the economy.<\/p>\n
Only the report is not a report, it’s just a collection of various opinions from other agencies that the OMB passes on without comment, and it’s just one comment.<\/p>\n
And the comment, it came from the Small Business Administration’s Office of Advocacy<\/a>, an office whose only<\/span> job is to lobby for small businesses, and which has no professional staff<\/span>, only political appointees.<\/p>\n In this case, the political appointee in question was Joseph Johnson, a former member of the Mercatus Center at George Mason University<\/a>, which is another right wing funded front<\/a>. See also here<\/a> if you can stomach a Glen Beck video.<\/p>\n Needless to say, this did not prevent the New York Times<\/span> from mindlessly echoing all the spin<\/a> (also here<\/a>), along with the rest of usual suspects.<\/p>\n Of course, it took a bunch of couple DFH*<\/sup> bloggers at The Atlantic<\/span> and Media Matters<\/span> about a half day to get to the bottom of this, but our main stream media?<\/p>\n Not so much.<\/p>\n *<\/sup>Dirty F%$#ing Hippy.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" You may have heard a minor media sh%$storm about an OMB report that says that global warming is a farce, and that it will wreck the economy. Only the report is not a report, it’s just a collection of various opinions from other agencies that the OMB passes on without comment, and it’s just one …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[973,1079,974,1064,982],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-192078","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-economy","category-environment","category-hack-journalism","category-media","category-stupid"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/192078"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=192078"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/192078\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=192078"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=192078"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=192078"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}