She Reads Only Headlines
In yet another bit of sterling Internet journalism gone totally awry, Michelle has linked to a Guardian article titled:
Gore: Bush is ‘renegade rightwing extremist’
But here’s the actual quote:
“If you have a renegade band of rightwing extremists who get hold of power, the whole thing goes to the right.”
In other words,
Gore: Bush Administration is ‘a renegade band of rightwing extremists’
Sure. A case, even a snarky one like Michelle’s, could be made to counter the Dubya-as-Steve-Sailer claim, but it goes without saying that the administration has behaved like a renegade cabal, e.g. excessive use of signing statements, waging unprovoked wars, domestic spying, which all happen to be inline with extreme rightwing values. Hmmm.
At least Gore doesn’t need to get a novelist’s take on environmental science to feel like an expert.
