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Just thought I’d share some info from the wingnut mailbag:
Senate Democrats have created a list of groups they intend to denounce (link is external) in floor speeches. These organizations’ crimes? They do not believe in the gospel of global warming:
Nineteen Senate Democrats will attack specific organizations in what they are calling a “web of denial,” according to a schedule of floor speeches circulated by Emily Enderle, a top environmental policy adviser to Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse (D., R.I.), who is spearheading the effort.
Internal emails about the effort obtained by the Free Beacon reveal a highly coordinated plan between members of Congress and environmental activist groups to fuel a public relations and legal offensive against fossil fuel companies and groups they support.
Enderle’s email also included graphics and suggested tweets to use “as guides as you craft digital content.”
According to her email, Whitehouse and his allies, including Senate Minority Leader Harry Reid (D., Nev.), have crafted a schedule for floor speeches on Monday and Tuesday that assigns each participating Senator at least one group to go after by name.
Most of the groups have already been targeted by state Democratic officials that have undertaken a coordinated legal campaign against oil giant ExxonMobil since last year.
Many were named in subpoenas sent to the company by state attorneys general as part of that effort.
Were Republicans doing this, the media would be apoplectic with cries of McCarthyism. They are, naturally, silent.
This sort of behavior comes from a dark place. Democrats are conducting dime store, even Orwellian, show trials.
Pretty sure “Orwellian” doesn’t mean what they think it means…
This is the kind of information right wingers get in their email boxes every day. It contains links to all the far right publications. I don’t know how many of them read it, but it’s the kind of thing they’ve been passing around forever — and now they have Facebook.
Hilariously, at the end of the post, they provide a link to a list of the various companies being persecuted and request that people support them. Yes, they are asking people to “support” Exxon-Mobile. I guess everyone should go out and fill up their gas tanks in solidarity or something. Or maybe send them a nice appreciation card thanking them for their service.
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