About this pro-global warming documentary DRUDGE is hyping today...

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which all the rw hack local radio guys and columnists will lazily be talking about this week.
http://www.lse.co.uk/ShowStory.asp?story=CZ434669U&news_headline=global_warming_is_lies_claims_documentary

It obviously made by a complete hack, has an agenda and is just weird:
In the past he's made other films attacking environmentalists and comparing them to the third reich:
http://www.gmwatch.org/profile1.asp?PrId=39

His film "Modified Truth" tried to argue that genetically altered mood was better for you than regular food. Hise films have also made the laughable claim that that silicone breast implants are notonly NOT bad for wonen, but have health benefits.

In short, he's an industry tool. Sort of the UK's answer to John Stossel.

However there is one difference in their methods. Rather than bring out familiar rightwing faces to back up his claims he relies on figures from fringe psuedo-communist groups like the Revolutonary Communist Party to make his case.

Kind of odd that Drudge and the Freepers in their never-ending quest to redbait the left are now attacking environmentalists with the help of a bunch of stalinist kooks.
The thread on freerepublic is ecstatic about the film. not a mention of its communist ties-but lots of hope that Rush will read the story on air tommorrow.

It's also hil;arious that this is the best they can come up with to offer a rebuttal to Gore's acclaimed and factually bulletproof film.

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1. more info on this charlatan, Durkin

GETTING YOUR SCIENCE FROM CHARLATANS
This man takes liberties with facts. He has no scientific background
George Monbiot, Guardian, Thursday March 16, 2000

In October 1998, a television producer named Martin Durkin took a proposal to the BBC's science series, Horizon. Silicone breast implants, he claimed, far from harming women, were in fact beneficial, reducing the risk of breast cancer. Horizon commissioned a researcher to find out whether or not his assertion was true.

After a thorough review, the researcher reported that Mr Durkin had ignored a powerful body of evidence contradicting his claims.

Martin Durkin withdrew his proposal. Instead of dropping it, however, he took it to Channel 4 and, astonishingly, sold it to their science series, Equinox. To help him make the programme, Durkin hired Najma Kazi, a highly respected TV researcher and producer who was previously a research biochemist. After two weeks she walked out. "It's not a joke to walk away from four or five months' work," she told me, "but my research was being ignored. The published research had been construed to give an impression that's not the case. I don't know how that programme got passed. The only consolation for me was that I'm really glad I didn't put my name to it."

more at:
http://www.gmwatch.org/p2temp2.asp?aid=38&page=1&op=2

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2. i think this film will be a talking point for the right tomorrow

so i'm kicking this just this once