Dispelling Some FOG*
(*Friends of George)
On January 31 of this year, I posted on the shameful mugging of science going on at NASA. It turns out that the mugger himself was not exactly the champion of truth and exactitude he held himself out to be. From the NY Times editorial page:
The Bush administration long ago secured a special place in history for the audacity with which it manipulates science to suit its political ends. But it set a new standard of cynicism when it allowed NASA's leading authority on global warming to be mugged by a 24-year-old presidential appointee who, quite apart from having no training on that issue, had inflated his résumé.
...The administration has sought to influence the policy debate by muzzling the people who disagree with it or — as was the case with two major reports from the Environmental Protection Agency in 2002 and 2003 — editing out inconvenient truths or censoring them entirely.
In this case, the censor was George Deutsch, a functionary in NASA's public affairs office whose chief credential appears to have been his service with President Bush's re-election campaign and inaugural committee. On his résumé, Mr. Deutsch claimed a 2003 bachelor's degree in journalism from Texas A&M, but the university, alerted by a blogger, said that was not true. Mr. Deutsch has now resigned.
The shocker was not NASA's failure to vet Mr. Deutsch's credentials, but that this young politico with no qualifications was able to impose his ideology on other agency employees. At one point, he told a Web designer to add the word "theory" after every mention of the Big Bang. [Emphasis added]
While it is refreshing to see the NY Times note that Mr. Deutsch's padded resume was uncovered by a blogger, one wonders not only why NASA didn't "vet Mr. Deutsch's credentials," but also why the NY Times or any other paper of record didn't. Still, at least that inconvenient fact of no degree at all was uncovered.
Over the last year, the headlines have screamed of the incompetence of this regime, caused in most instances by the Emperor's appointment of total incompetents to various posts, from the head of FEMA, to MSHA, and now to NASA. All of these appointments were geared not just towards promoting the regime's agenda, but also to hide and obfuscate the truth.
Heckuva job, George: both of you.
On January 31 of this year, I posted on the shameful mugging of science going on at NASA. It turns out that the mugger himself was not exactly the champion of truth and exactitude he held himself out to be. From the NY Times editorial page:
The Bush administration long ago secured a special place in history for the audacity with which it manipulates science to suit its political ends. But it set a new standard of cynicism when it allowed NASA's leading authority on global warming to be mugged by a 24-year-old presidential appointee who, quite apart from having no training on that issue, had inflated his résumé.
...The administration has sought to influence the policy debate by muzzling the people who disagree with it or — as was the case with two major reports from the Environmental Protection Agency in 2002 and 2003 — editing out inconvenient truths or censoring them entirely.
In this case, the censor was George Deutsch, a functionary in NASA's public affairs office whose chief credential appears to have been his service with President Bush's re-election campaign and inaugural committee. On his résumé, Mr. Deutsch claimed a 2003 bachelor's degree in journalism from Texas A&M, but the university, alerted by a blogger, said that was not true. Mr. Deutsch has now resigned.
The shocker was not NASA's failure to vet Mr. Deutsch's credentials, but that this young politico with no qualifications was able to impose his ideology on other agency employees. At one point, he told a Web designer to add the word "theory" after every mention of the Big Bang. [Emphasis added]
While it is refreshing to see the NY Times note that Mr. Deutsch's padded resume was uncovered by a blogger, one wonders not only why NASA didn't "vet Mr. Deutsch's credentials," but also why the NY Times or any other paper of record didn't. Still, at least that inconvenient fact of no degree at all was uncovered.
Over the last year, the headlines have screamed of the incompetence of this regime, caused in most instances by the Emperor's appointment of total incompetents to various posts, from the head of FEMA, to MSHA, and now to NASA. All of these appointments were geared not just towards promoting the regime's agenda, but also to hide and obfuscate the truth.
Heckuva job, George: both of you.
posted by Diane at 4:04 AM
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