Post by robeiae on Jun 2, 2017 10:11:38 GMT -5
Washington Post’s Fake Conservative Blogger Hated The Paris Deal…Until Trump Agreed With Her
Well, that's a pretty clear and apparently consistent position, right? And yet...
Jeeze. That's a case study in flip-flopping hypocrisy.
If you want to see a case study in how blind anti-Trumpism corrupts the brain and renders an individual incapable of basic reason, look no further than Jennifer Rubin, the faux conservative blogger for the Washington Post. On Wednesday, following the publication of several news reports indicating that President Donald Trump planned to withdraw the U.S. from the toothless 2015 Paris global warming deal, Rubin declared that Trump’s move was a disaster, proof that he hated science, and ironclad evidence that he was far too stupid to be president...
“Trump’s pullout from the international accord would be a political act — one that signals solidarity with his climate-change denial, right-wing base that revels in scientific illiteracy,” Rubin declared. “Being a climate-change denier — which entails dogmatic opposition to the Paris agreement — is a dog whistle to the far right.”
“Trump’s pullout from the international accord would be a political act — one that signals solidarity with his climate-change denial, right-wing base that revels in scientific illiteracy,” Rubin declared. “Being a climate-change denier — which entails dogmatic opposition to the Paris agreement — is a dog whistle to the far right.”
In February of 2016, when the presidential campaign was in full swing–but before Trump had pledged to withdraw the U.S. from Obama’s Paris global warming deal–Rubin wrote an entire column slamming Obama’s “phony accomplishments,” including the 2015 climate deal. In that column, Rubin noted that “keen observers” recognized that a recent Supreme Court decision on environmental regulations proved “how ephemeral Obama’s Paris climate change deal is.”
Just a few months prior to that column, Rubin accused Obama of using the Paris climate deal to distract from his administration’s failure to contain the spread of radical Islamist terrorism across the globe.
“The president has no answer, so he goes to Paris to talk about climate change,” Rubin seethed.
Less than two weeks later, Rubin pointed to the Paris deal as proof positive that Obama and former Secretary of State John Kerry lived in a “fantasy world” where “a piece of paper”–the Paris deal–was a signature accomplishment “even if it achieves nothing.”
The same day, she characterized the deal as a “group wish” and “nonsense” because it lacked any enforcement mechanisms.
Three days later she wholeheartedly agreed with Sen. James Inhofe (R-Okla.), the U.S. Senate’s most outspoken opponent of job-killing global warming regulations, that the Paris climate change deal was “devoid of substance.”
Just a few months prior to that column, Rubin accused Obama of using the Paris climate deal to distract from his administration’s failure to contain the spread of radical Islamist terrorism across the globe.
“The president has no answer, so he goes to Paris to talk about climate change,” Rubin seethed.
Less than two weeks later, Rubin pointed to the Paris deal as proof positive that Obama and former Secretary of State John Kerry lived in a “fantasy world” where “a piece of paper”–the Paris deal–was a signature accomplishment “even if it achieves nothing.”
The same day, she characterized the deal as a “group wish” and “nonsense” because it lacked any enforcement mechanisms.
Three days later she wholeheartedly agreed with Sen. James Inhofe (R-Okla.), the U.S. Senate’s most outspoken opponent of job-killing global warming regulations, that the Paris climate change deal was “devoid of substance.”
Jeeze. That's a case study in flip-flopping hypocrisy.
