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The term "bully pulpit" stems from President Theodore Roosevelt's reference to the White House as a "bully pulpit," meaning a terrific platform from which to persuasively advocate an agenda. Roosevelt often used the word "bully" as an adjective meaning superb/wonderful. The Bully Pulpit features news, reasoned discourse, opinion and some humor.

Friday, October 13, 2006

Holocaust References

Fox News

A writer for Grist, an environmental magazine that in the past has featured interviews with Al Gore and Bill Moyers, is calling for war crimes trials against so-called climate change "deniers" who disagree with the theory that humans have caused global warming. David Roberts says: "when the impacts are really hitting us and we're in a full worldwide scramble to minimize the damage, we should have war crimes trials for these bastards — some sort of climate Nuremberg."

The Holocaust references drew criticism from Roger Pielke Jr. of the University of Colorado's Center for Science and Technology Policy Research — who says he believes in human-caused global warming. He said "this allusion is an affront to those who suffered and died in the Holocaust. This allusion has no place in the discourse on climate change."

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