Letters to the Editor
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More like a formula to get a gig on FOX News
Take an important issue on which there is a general consensus outside the crazies of the world.
Find a place where the liberals, correct on this issues, exaggerate, perhaps on the grounds of hyperbole, perhaps on the grounds of expediency and perhaps on the grounds that simplifying something for the general public will make the world a better place.
Talk up the one exaggeration.
Talk it up so that it fits into nice little soundbites.
Find yourself drinking coffee with Bill O'Reilly.
Here's my point: we're in a propaganda war. The other side is wrong, but very good at propaganda. Their wrongness can literally destroy the earth right now.
So when someone wants to make a name for himself by emphasizing the good-intentioned over-exaggeration of the left, I say, why?
When Katrina happened, a lot of people said a lot of silly things, but everyone basically new all the things Mooney is saying (and I assure you, Al Gore does, too). So what? Is it really better to give more ammo to the "heated scientific debates about global warming" (your sub-head, Salon, not mine) by talking about it? I say STFU.