Colbert takes ThinkProgress’s word.
By on Jun 6th, 2007 at 10:50 am
Colbert takes ThinkProgress’s word.
On Monday, ThinkProgress noted that in 2006, NASA administrator Michael Griffin “quietly altered” the agency’s mission statement to remove any justification for fighting global warming. Last night, Stephen Colbert covered the topic and suggested that other federal agencies also make their mission statements more vague: “Come on, Environmental Protection Agency! You’ve got to make it more vague. Oh, and try losing ‘Environmental’ and ‘Protection.’” Watch it:
UPDATE: Michael Griffin has issued a lame apology for his comments.
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Good for Colbert and keep at it.
June 6th, 2007 at 10:54 amI wonder what Griffen is going to tell his grandkids.
Lying is part of life?
It’s just the way politics work?
I was a good solider for Bush?
June 6th, 2007 at 11:00 amColbert is always able to cut right to the heart of matters.
June 6th, 2007 at 11:01 amhe doesn’t have to tell his grandkids anything…he raised their parents. how moral can they be?
June 6th, 2007 at 11:05 amColbert IS America.
God Bless Colbert.
June 6th, 2007 at 11:08 amI liked the last (Michael Griffin) bit about assuming that our present climate situation is the optimal climactic situation.
One could assume he is therefore implying that a warmer world would be a better world….
Like, bigger and badder storms, faster and greater erosion, hotter and drier deserts, less land mass and loss of farmlands….
Oh, and of course, easier drilling for oil in the Arctic…. and hey, wait till Antarctica starts melting! Think of the oil and minerals we can dig up down there!
June 6th, 2007 at 11:09 amThis is the Chimpy Regime’s new Global Warming plan.
NASA will stop their satellite monitoring of global warming.
Since we no longer monitor it, it doesn’t exist anymore. /sarc
June 6th, 2007 at 11:09 amI wish my balls were as iron clad and hangy as Colbert’s.
June 6th, 2007 at 11:12 amKelso says: God Bless Colbert.
June 6th, 2007 at 11:12 amAmen.
His shows is perhaps one of the smartest political shows out there. When you compare him (or Stewart) to the mainstream press who’s job it is to be watchdogs, it’s depressing. Colbert has “the word” while the Today Show has…cooking segments.
June 6th, 2007 at 11:36 amIt’s really amazing how much the Liberal/Progressive blogs are read which means we should keep up the hard work of spreading the truth.
June 6th, 2007 at 12:12 pmif he’d only run for president…
June 6th, 2007 at 12:14 pmOh my goodness, I didn’t see this earlier and now I feel like doing cartwheels. At least Colbert doesn’t think I’m crazy! — Griffin’s colleagues most definitely overreacted. Look at the poor man — http://thenewsroom.com/ details/ 378679/ Science+and+Technology?c_id=je — he looks scared into submission. Aw.
June 8th, 2007 at 10:35 pm