WH Barred Negroponte From Saying ‘Global’ And ‘Warming’ In Same Sentence

[Canuckistanian]

During today’s House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform hearing on the political manipulation of climate change science, Rep. Jim Cooper (D-TN) revealed the Bush administration has barred Director of National Intelligence John Negroponte from saying the phrase “global warming.”

Cooper said he recently attended a dinner party at which Negroponte was speaking, and “word slipped through the crowd he was not allowed to utter the words ‘global warming,’ at least not in the same sentence. Apparently, he was allowed to say the word ‘global’ in a separate sentence, and ‘warming’ in a separate sentence, but not together.”

~snip

"I thought this was a sad statement of the current condition of our scientific community when a very eminent statesman like John Negroponte would be so hamstrung by the administration that he would not be allowed to utter the two words in conjunction. I thought that was an indignity to Mr. Negroponte and a sad comment on the level of the Bush administration to so hamstring its talented and capable appointees."

http://thinkprogress.org/2007/01/30/negroponte-global-warming/

[peacetalksforall]

1. Man, that is triple micro managing. YEEEEE GODS they are

really working HARD! HARD I TELL YOU. REALLY HARD.

[NewJeffCT]

2. It's a sad day when John Negroponte is a voice of reason

within the Bush White House...

Isn't he the Central American Death Squad guy?

Wasn't he also recently re-assigned to State because the eminent Dr. Rice had proved to be so incompetent that they needed somebody who knew their ass from their elbow over there?

[peacetalksforall]

3. Yes, Head of Masscres in Central America (as I just added in

another thread about him not being able to say 'global warming' in the same sentence.

[gratuitous]

4. He was also in Iraq

And darn the luck, but a whole bunch of death squads popped up in Iraq, too, right after Negroponte was there. The guy just has the worst timing! Well, I suppose it's bad luck for the folks who are killed, but why doesn't anyone worry about how Mr. Negroponte might feel about this?