Heartland Documents: Whose Biases are Being Revealed Here? - Forbes
Postscript #2: If the strategy memo turns out to be fake as I believe it to be, I am starting the countdown now for the Dan-Rather-esque “fake but accurate” defense of the memo — ie, “Well, sure, the actual document was faked but we all know it represents what these deniers are really thinking.” This has become a mainstay of post-modern debate, where facts matter less than having the politically correct position.
..Update #1: Is Revkin himself seeking to win my fake-but-accurate race? When presented with the fact that he may have published a fake memo, Revkin wrote:looking back, it could well be something that was created as a way to assemble the core points in the batch of related docs.
It sounds like he is saying that while the memo is faked, it may have been someones attempt to summarize real Heartland documents. Fake but accurate! By the way, I don’t think he has any basis for this supposition, as no other documents have come to light with stuff like “we need to stop teachers from teaching science.”
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Isn't there a parallel here with the Danish Mo-cartoons? The imams from Denmark toured the ME stirring up Mo-rage amongst the Faithful; but the cartoons themselves were in fact so anodyne that they had to include a couple of unconnected (but much more offensive) cartoons in order that Danish embassies in the ME were raised to the correct high temperature.
Same here. The warmenist imams managed to get their hands on some HI material which to their disappintment turned out a little mild for their taste, so they jazzed it up. Similar results, too. Read Romm or Mother Jones. The warmy Faithful absolutely refuse to believe that the documents could be iffy, no matter the evidence. "Death to the infidels!", they howl.
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