Aside from a few in passing remarks on Scooter Libby, I have not formally taken a position on Bush's use of Executive Clemency since it happened.  I have mostly been concerned with the media and political frenzy about it, particularly the hypocrisy of the Clintons.

I had a letter in the PI printed when I took the Editorial Board to task for the same sin:  Frenzied hypocrisy.  I was, I noted, not the only one to do so.

I was surprised to get a snail mail letter today, from an unidentified Seattle-ite taking me in turn to task.  See the actual letter to the left (Click for full size).

My anonymous friend has a good point, even if his target is misplaced.

Let's take a look, shall we?

Hey, Karl, old friend, if you're going to ask others to be fair, you ought to abide by the same standard yourself.

I typically ignore the writings of newspaper columnists in the pacific northwest, as they tend to be as predictable as they are boring.  Every once in awhile, though, a piece just cries out for a response.

So, for reference, I give you Joel Connelly, from the Seattle PI, and his piece "Deniers of Global Warming harm us".

Remember my post about CODE WORDS put forth from the left?  Well, DENIERS of Global Warming is replacing Sceptics.  Why? Read on…

From the outset, Mr. Conelly repeats that canard that "THE WORLD'S scientists near consensus on human causes of climate change".  Even if this statement were true, it is necessary to point out that not all the worlds scientists are Climatologists, or in any field remotely related to the the study of earths climate now, or in the past.  One might, in the Connelly world, take a Podiatrists view on a Brain Tumor as authoritative.