Are we eating our own?
The French newspaper Le Monde recently profiled hokey stick purveyor Michael Mann, writing:
Lively and talkative, friendly, passionate about his research topic, the scientist Michael Mann is the most hated conservative in America… [Emphasis added]
But take a look at Mann’s political contributions for 2008-2010. They hardly amount to evidence of being a conservative.
No contributions could be found from Mann for the period 1990-2006.
LOL, just what I thought, but you wrote it well.
Hated,no; ridiculed, yes.
First and foremost Mann is an academic. It follows that he has about a 90% chance of being a Democrat and an 80% chance of being a liberal. That leave little room for being a Republican or Independent and virtually no chance of being a true conservative. He obviously believes in big government and the associated control and intrusion in our lives.
Correction. The text says: “Lively and talkative, friendly, passionate about his research topic, Michael Mann is the scientist most hated by conservative America.”
(In French: “Vif et volubile, sympathique, passionné par son thème de recherche, Michael Mann est le scientifique le plus haï de l’Amérique conservatrice.”)
“Perhaps they were trying to suggest that Mann is a conservationist?”
Or conversationist?
It may be a bad translation. Perhaps they were trying to suggest that Mann is a conservationist?
I suspect the French writer got “conservative” mixed up with “conservationist”.
I cannot begin to imagine what La Monde thinks is radical if Michael Mann is considered to be the most hated conservative. No way is Michael Mann a conservative. The watermelon activist is no conservative.
Perhaps he made ‘proxy’ contributions between 1990 and 2006?
It is all relative.
We’re talking about Le Monde, here.
In their eyes, Lenin was a conservative.
The human has not been born yet who stands to the left of Le Monde.