So far to the left that MSNBC called it “the most crypto-radical line the president has ever uttered.”
Via NRO:
Does President Obama support the movement to press university endowments, city governments, and churches to divest themselves of fossil-fuel-company stocks? If so, Obama would be waging war on a lot more than just coal. He would be supporting a movement dedicated to destroying America’s entire conventional energy industry.
Obama inserted a supportive nod to the fossil-fuel divestment movement in his recent climate speech at Georgetown University. Yet he phrased his support for divestment in such a way as to avoid mainstream notice, while nonetheless telegraphing a clear endorsement to campus divestment activists. Here’s what Obama said: “Convince those in power to reduce our carbon pollution. Push your own communities to adopt smarter practices. Invest. Divest. Remind folks there’s no contradiction between a sound environment and strong economic growth.”
The New York Times caught the reference to the campus fossil-fuel divestment campaign. It also quoted MSNBC’s Chris Hayes calling Obama’s signal of support for the campus fossil-fuel divestment movement, “the most crypto-radical line the president has ever uttered.” The Times article gives plenty of evidence of the paper’s usual bias in favor of divestment.