Bias, Anyone?

Dave Roberts notes that last night's CNN debate was the fourth such debate sponsored by a coal industry front group, and that, coincidentally enough, none of the four coal-funded debate broadcasts featured any questions about climate change. Your liberal media in action.

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I'm similarly surprised that Environmental Defense didn't receive any attention when they sponsored the Florida GOP debate in Boca Raton.

Posted by Chris B | February 1, 2008 4:16 PM

It is interesting that global warming/climate change apparently is not a Democratic issue...in Hollywood even.

Posted by Jimm | February 1, 2008 4:30 PM

Wednesday's GOP debate was sponsored by ABEC, if I remember right, and Janet Hook from the LA Times did ask a question about the Bush EPA rejecting California's greenhouse-gas regulations in that debate.

Posted by hilker | February 1, 2008 4:31 PM

So, did those questions pop up in the non-ABEC sponsored debates?

I confess to not noticing global warming's absence since so much time was spent on other substantiative issues with policy differences and fireworks potential...

Aren't global warming positions sort of a given at this point with the Dems?

Posted by Mr Furious | February 1, 2008 4:56 PM

If The Atlantic wants real debates, they could put on one of these for $10k or so, and get a far greater return in publicity. I suspect that The Atlantic doesn't want real debates, they just want them to be slanted their way.

Posted by TLB | February 1, 2008 5:14 PM

Wolf Blitzer alone has done more to damage the Presidential debates than any coal lobbyists ever could.

Posted by Shinyk | February 1, 2008 5:59 PM

Coal Lobbyists?

What about coal miners? What about people that depend on coal to keep from freezing their asses off as we speak?

Gliberals amaze me. One thing I admire about Hillary - one time she showed balls this campaign - was being unapologetic about accepting money from lobbyists. Trade associations and lobbies represent real people and industries and are no less "biased" than the press, academics, or bloggers.

No questions about global warmiing?, sheesh - no end to the mandacity of lefties.

I am not a lobbyist (have nothing to apologize for if I was) nor a Washingtonian type, but this unceasing need smear and degrade other people's motives to advance the left wing cause always disgusts me.

Posted by Jozef | February 1, 2008 7:08 PM

Jozef,

Say what you will about the bias of the left media's smear campaigns against lobbyists, etc -- the media isn't the issue here.

The point is that global climate is an important issue and that the coal industry's sponsorship might very well have something to do with that. And forget about whether or not the Coal Industry is a small group of old rich white men who are planning on squeezing the blood of the country's poor & minorities in order to make a larger profit for themselves -- again, whether true or not is beside the point -- either way, I want to hear what the candidates think about climate change. And I didn't get to do that on Thursday and that's sad.

Excuse the interruption - now you can feel free to continue on with your Leftist Media rah rah rah mendacity rah rah rah conspiracy rah rah rah lobbyists are also human rant.

Posted by Aeli | February 2, 2008 6:02 AM