We’ve been seeing a lot of the Holocaust smear lately.
Via Forbes:
Does the neighborhood bully have a right to cry foul when someone finally takes off his gloves and smacks the bully across the mouth? One should keep this question in mind when reflecting on the Heartland Institute’s global warming billboard featuring Unabomber Ted Kaczynski.
The Heartland Institute, for whom I am a senior fellow, did not seek my input prior to its decision to put up its Ted Kaczynski billboard. Had I been aware of the plans, I would have argued strongly against it. That being said, there have been some curious and hypocritical reactions to the billboard.
The professed outrage involves the implicit message that if you believe in global warming you share something in common with mass murderer Ted Kaczynski. Was the billboard a constructive means of calling attention to flaws in alarmist global warming theory? In my opinion, no. Did the billboard message arbitrarily lump honest and well-intentioned believers in a global warming crisis with hateful extremists in the movement? In my opinion, yes. […]
Less than a week before Heartland’s Ted Kaczynski billboard, Joe Romm of the Center for American Progress [led by former Obama adviser John Podesta] published an article comparing skeptics as a whole and me personally to Holocaust deniers. As somebody whose grandfather risked his life and caught a bullet fighting the Nazis in World War II, that is one of the most offensive, disgusting, incendiary attacks a person can make. The media gave Romm a pass on that comment before the Heartland billboard campaign occurred, and they have given him a pass on it since, even though I have pointed out Romm’s disgusting attack to several reporters during the past two weeks.
Note: CAP’s Joe Romm once blamed the Arab Spring protests in Egypt on global warming.