Think Progress

A Case Of Classic SwiftBoating: How The Right-Wing Noise Machine Manufactured ‘Climategate’ - Wednesday, December 9th, 2009

In mid-November, thousands of emails from the University of East Anglia Climatic Research Unit webmail server — a top climate research center in the United Kingdom — were hacked and dumped on a Russian web server. Polluter-funded climate skeptics, along with their allies in conservative media and the Republican Party, sifted through the e-mails, and [...]

A $1,761 Postage Stamp: How The Glenn Beck Machine Constructed An Attack On Clean Energy Reform - Saturday, September 19th, 2009

Fox News host Glenn Beck, the new darling of the radical right, is part of a well-coordinated machine to block progressive reform. Yesterday, Beck fanned himself with a giant $1,761 postage stamp, claiming he had uncovered “outright lies” by a “spooky” White House. According to Beck, “buried” Treasury documents reveal that President Obama’s clean energy [...]

Beck Blames California Wildfires On The ‘Damn Environmentalists’ - Wednesday, October 24th, 2007

Last night, CNN Headline News host Glenn Beck blamed California’s massive wildfires on the “damn environmentalists” and their “bad environmental policies.” He also claimed that global warming has nothing to do with the situation, stating, “[I]f I hear global warming one more time, blood is going to shoot out of my eyes.”
To prove his points, [...]

Washington Times Provides Press Credentials to Right-Wing Lobbyist - Monday, December 12th, 2005

Chris Horner is counsel at the right-wing Competitive Enterprise Institute (CEI), which has received more than $1.3 million in funding from oil giant ExxonMobil. Horner “is also part of the Cooler Heads Coalition, “a group set up ‘to dispel the myth of global warming.’”
But when Horner attended last week’s U.N. Climate Change conference, he appeared [...]