Posts Tagged ‘Birthers’

Trump Roast

All the money in the world can’t buy you an ounce of humility or self-deprecation. Via the NYT on last night’s White House Correspondent’s dinner last night, which is an annual roasting of the media, the President, and Beltway mores: As a hair-gelled, grimly unsmiling Mr. Trump sat at a nearby table “” a guest…Continue Reading…

Birthers and Climate Denial

Over at Dot Earth, Andy Revkin engages in some hippie punching. (I’m being facetious–that’s David Roberts’ favorite term for anyone who criticizes progressives on climate politics and policy.) Here’s Revkin making an equivalence between “Birthers” and a segment of the climate community that remains stuck in its own echo chamber: It’s easy to forget that…Continue Reading…