Bill Clinton gets it partially right on global warming
Here is what Bill Clinton said in a campaign speech in Denver:
At least he understands how these regulations will make us poorer.
"We just have to slow down our economy and cut back our greenhouse gas emissions 'cause we have to save the planet for our grandchildren."[Emphasis added]
At least he understands how these regulations will make us poorer.
Labels: Environment, GlobalWarming
posted by John Lott at 12:45 PM
1 Comments:
At NRO "The Corner" today:
Re: Slowdown [Iain Murray]
Jonah, that video is actually (and again, I can't believe I'm saying this) really unfair to Bill Clinton. The biter bit, you may say, but I don't believe this sort of manipulation by the media is in any way helpful. The clip is out of context. What Clinton actually said was:
And maybe America, and Europe, and Japan, and Canada — the rich counties — would say, 'OK, we just have to slow down our economy and cut back our greenhouse gas emissions 'cause we have to save the planet for our grandchildren.' We could do that. But if we did that, you know as well as I do, China and India and Indonesia and Vietnam and Mexico and Brazil and the Ukraine, and all the other countries will never agree to stay poor to save the planet for our grandchildren.
The bold section is what ABC chose to highlight in that video, plucked from the middle of words that have the opposite meaning. That's not good journalism in any sense.
01/31 12:12 PM
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