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Bully Pulpit

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.

Thursday, October 11, 2007

Movie Protest

(Fox News) - A follow-up on a story we had a month ago about a truck driver in England who took that nation's education department to court over a requirement that Al Gore's global warming movie "An Inconvenient Truth" be shown to students.

A judge today ruled the film is "one-sided" and must be accompanied by balancing information. The judge cited nine scientific errors in the movie. Among them — claims that snows on Mount Kilimanjaro are melting from global warming — the judge says that cannot be proven. A suggestion that Hurricane Katrina was caused by global warming — for which the judge says there is insufficient evidence. And an allegation that polar bears had drowned due to disappearing Arctic ice — when in fact the cause apparently was a violent storm.

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