Saturday, June 19, 2010
Crude Politics - WSJ.com
This articles title is spot on.
Everything you say to a political animal gets twisted, spun, manipulated, and contorted to a point that it no longer has the intended meaning.
Unfortunately, human nature doesn't expect that and those without experience find out the hard way...
Everything you say to a political animal gets twisted, spun, manipulated, and contorted to a point that it no longer has the intended meaning.
Unfortunately, human nature doesn't expect that and those without experience find out the hard way...
This Wall Street Journal opinion column points out a recent case:
"When President Obama last month announced his six-month deepwater moratorium, he pointed to an Interior Department report of new 'safety' recommendations. That report prominently noted that the recommendations it contained—including the six-month drilling ban—had been 'peer-reviewed' by 'experts identified by the National Academy of Engineering.' It also boasted that Interior 'consulted with a wide range' of other experts. The clear implication was that the nation's drilling brain trust agreed a moratorium was necessary.
As these columns reported last week, the opposite is true. In a scathing document, eight of the 'experts' the Administration listed in its report said their names had been 'used' to 'justify' a 'political decision.'" The draft they reviewed had not included a six-month drilling moratorium. The Administration added that provision only after it had secured sign-off. In their document, the eight forcefully rejected a moratorium, which they argued could prove more economically devastating than the oil spill itself and 'counterproductive' to 'safety.'"
