January 08, 2004

THE WEIRD SCIENCE OF THE DEMOCRATS:

General Wesley Clark (The Exchange, 1/08/04, NHPR)

You can listen to the audio at the page above or C-SPAN is rebroadcasting the interview tomorrow. At any rate, if you skip to the 47 minute mark in the RealAudio, the General answers a question about energy policy and pollution and says something roughly as follows: over the years we've found that we set emission levels for every pollutant too high, and have had to lower them. Even if tests on mice never showed the substances to be cancer-causing, if you're exposed to them for forty to sixty years, some people do get cancer from them.

Obviously there are no science questions on the Rhodes Scholar applications.

Posted by Orrin Judd at January 8, 2004 07:00 PM
Comments

Can't stomach going through the interview, but would love to say whether Clark thought we have a dioxin crisis? (I already assume he thinks we have a mad cow one.) If so, we may have just roped Harry into the GOP fold.

Posted by: MG at January 8, 2004 08:24 PM

Harry's dislike for the administration, if any, comes from the right. W. is Islam's useful idiot.

Posted by: David Cohen at January 8, 2004 08:45 PM

You give me too little credit, MG.

I did not vote for any presidential candidate in 2000 but plan to vote for Bush this year, on the basis of his (inadequately rightwing) foreign policy.

Heard on the radio today a report than farm-raised salmon has a thousand times as much "cancer- causing pollutants" as wild. Of course, the pollutants turn out to be mainly dioxin and DDT, neither of which is as dangerous as bean sprouts.

Marx knows the current crop of Democrats make Gore look good, and he wasn't good enough to vote for.

Our editorial page editor gets occasional faxes from some rightwing group that analyses the "media." The one yesterday, which I threw away so cannot reference, counted how many minutes the network 6 o'clock news reports gave the various candidates. Clark was about 10-15% ahead of Dean, who was about double whoever was in third. Straw in the wind?

Posted by: Harry Eagar at January 8, 2004 08:57 PM

True for foreign policy, David.

I think Bush's domestic policy is a mixed bag. Vouchers are a bad idea but the Republic will survive them.

Posted by: Harry Eagar at January 8, 2004 11:16 PM
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